Thought it’d be nice to have a list post for a change
Dirty Harry
Emperor of the North
Charley Verrick
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
The Getaway
The Killer
Once a Thief
A Better Tomorrow 1,2 & 3
Coogan’s Bluff
Bubba Ho-Tep
Aliens
Thin Blue Line
Notes on a Scandal
Thief
Long Good Friday
The Great Escape (Elmer Bernstein)
Planet of the Apes (Jerry Goldsmith)
Zulu (John Barry)
Murder on the Orient Express (Richard Rodney Bennett)
The Italian Job (Quincey Jones)
Where Eagles Dare (Ron Goodwin)
The Alamo (Dimitri Tiomkin)
The Guns of Navarone (Tiomkin)
The Long Riders (Ry Cooder)
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (Burt Bacharach)
Jason and the Argonauts (Bernard Herrmann)
These are just a few of my favourites…there are many more which perfectly compliment the action or drama on screen…
in no particular order
THE FURY (john williams)
THE FUNHOUSE
LORD OF THE RINGS (howard shore)
DEAD RINGERS(howard shore)
THE FLY (cronenberg version) (howard shore)
EXODUS (ernest gold)
BATMAN (Danny elfman)
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (Danny elfman)
THE OMEN ( Jerry goldsmith)
PSYCHO (Bernard hermann)
SISTERS(bernard hermann)
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (bernard hermann)
THE VIKINGS
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
MAGIC
and many more i can’t think of at the moment
A few off the top of my head:
Assault on Precinct 13
Halloween (and 2)
The Fog
Escape from New York - all John Carpenter
The Wild Bunch (Jerry Goldsmith)
Shaft/Shaft’s Big Score (Isaac Hayes)
The Warriors - Barry De Vorzon
Vigilante - Jay Chattaway
Cross of Iron - Ernest Gold
Manhunter - various
Dirty Harry - Lalo Schifrin
Scanners - Howard Shore
Southern Comfort - Ry Cooder
Plus tons more that don’t immediately spring to mind.