1. Amelié [Yann Tiersen]
Accordions, typewriters and whimsy, oh my! Great variety of themes; you'll never find a richer or more atmospheric score... well, unless you look hard enough.

2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [John Williams]
It's magical! MAGICAL! EAT IT! LOADS OF MAGIC!

3. The Omen [Jerry Goldsmith]
Omenous.

4. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring [Howard Shore and Enya]
Soft and loud, exciting and scary, fantastic and epic.

5. Army of Darkness [Joseph LoDuca and Danny Elfman]
Terrific for the Danny Elfman-contributed "March of the Dead" track, but excellent for the main theme, which is both dark and manly. Grrr!

6. Donnie Darko [Michael Andrews]
Foreboding galore...

7. The Matrix [Don Davis]
A heaven of techno

8. Speed [Mark Mancina]
Bombastic and exciting, this score repeats its main themes to get the blood pumping and the adrenaline racing.

9. Ocean's Eleven [David Holmes]
Music to rob Las Vegas blind by

10. Life Is Beautiful [Nicola Piovani]
Italy, Nazis and World War II gets an upsweeping score. Gosh, it's swell.

11. When Harry Met Sally [Harry Connick Jr.]
Nostalgic for the olden days

12. Jaws [John Williams]
The fact that this scene starts playing in my head whenever I even step foot into a lake or ocean says a lot.

13. E.T. [John Williams]
It's moving, it's emotional, it's incredible.

14. American Beauty [Thomas Newman]
Xylophone delight... extremely trippy and sentimental, but darn if it isn't likable!

15. Back to the Future [Alan Silvestri]
The horns and percussion are indelibly etched into my memory... this score had such an important part of building up the excitement and tension in these flicks.

16. Psycho [Bernard Herrmann]
Quite possibly the most disturbing music ever put on film.

17. The Princess Bride [Mark Knopfler]
Synth fairy-tale tracks. Just as quirky as the movie.

18. Raising Arizona [Carter Burwell]
Good ol' boys and their good ol' tunes. Wait, wrong Cohen flick.

19. Goonies [David Grusin]
The in-your-face score that began this film is excitable and silly... good childhood memories.

20. Halloween [John Carpenter]
I could be in the middle of the Quad on a bright August afternoon and this music would still give me the chills. Just hearing it has me absolutely convinced I'm being watched.

21. The Shawshank Redemption [Thomas Newman]
Subtle and sad... just the kind of music you want for prison.

22. The Pink Panther [Henry Mancini]
This creeping, light-hearted score remains one of the most recognized in filmdom.

23. Sneakers [James Horner]
It's hard to describe this score... but it's good and definitely off-beat.

24. Exorcist [Jack Nitzsche]
The only horror movie music to ever win an Oscar.

25. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country [Cliff Eidelman]
From the dark and thrilling overture to the classic theme at the end, this is one of the best Trek soundtracks of all time.

26. Rocky [Bill Conti]
Still the greatest training montage music ever.

27. Glory [James Horner]
You know this theme, even if you haven't seen the movie. Choral voices lend their aid to a score that aptly sums up the confusion and scope of the Civil War.

28. Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones trilogy [John Williams]
Everybody! Ba da dum dummmm, ba da dummmmm. Ba da dum dummmmm, ba da dum dum dum.

29. Last of the Mohicans [Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman]
But first in musical taste!

30. The Sting [Scott Joplin and Marvin Hamlisch]
Redford and Newman's mix tape.

31. The Hunt for Red October [Basil Poledouris]
If nothing else, than for the Russian chorus chanting at the beginning

32. Beetlejuice [Danny Elfman]
My favorite Tim Burton movie. The subject and the music make it seem so morbid, but it's so damn funny!

33. Rain Man [Hans Zimmer]
Totally electric and 80s, in a "drive your car fast and watch the world go by" way.

34. Friday the 13th [Harry Manfredini]
There was a score past the "kiki mama" thing? Huh.

35. Chicken Run [Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell]
Possibly the best soundtrack to so prominently feature kazoos.

36. The Wizard of Oz [Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg]
"The wind began to switch, the house to pitch and suddenly the hinges started to unhitch. Just then, a witch! To satisfy an itch went flying on her broomstick thumbing for a hitch."

37. Requiem For A Dream [Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet]
A dark movie, but a superb soundtrack.

38. Batman [Danny Elfman]
Lots of bells! Nice, dark music to sit in a depressed state with.

39. Babes in Toyland [Victor Herbert]
The quintessential melodrama complete with fun, happy-clappy children's songs. I love it.

40. The Naked Gun [Ira Newborn]
I love the intro. And the rest of the movie sounds great as well.

41. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [John Williams]
Did you hear Dumbledore just died? I'm so upset I'm molting.

42. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [James Horner]
Appropriately regal and horn-blowing for space-nautical adventuring!

43. Jurassic Park [John Williams]
I love the theme from this movie and I love the scary-part music too.

44. Ghostbusters [Elmer Bernstein]
Very off-beat, catchy music that is somehow very fitting with the team, especially Venkman.

45. Schindler's List [John Williams and Itzhak Perlman]
Such beautiful, haunting music.

46. On Her Majesty's Secret Service [John Barry]
James Bond will, someday, save us all, and this is the music he'll do it by.

47. Star Wars trilogy [John Williams]
I especially like the Darth Vadar music. A friend of mine always started humming it in my sophomore year English class when the professor entered the room.

48. 2001: A Space Odyssey [various]
Can you say Sprach Zarathrustra three times fast?

49. Tombstone [Bruce Broughton]
This score is worth its salt if only for the "walk to the OK Corral" scene. Totally badass.