Ennio Morricone

Composer, Music Department, Actor

Birthdate: Nov 10, 1928

Birthplace: Rome, Lazio, Italy

Died: Jul 6, 2020

A classmate of director Sergio Leone with whom he would form one of the great director/composer partnerships (right up there with Eisenstein & Prokofiev, Hitchcock & Herrmann, Fellini & Rota), Ennio Morricone studied at Rome's Santa Cecilia Conservatory, where he specialized in trumpet. His first film scores were relatively undistinguished, but he was hired by Leone for A Fistful of Dollars (1964) on the strength of some of his song arrangements. His score for that film, with its sparse arrangements, unorthodox instrumentation (bells, electric guitars, harmonicas, the distinctive twang of the jew's harp) and memorable tunes, revolutionized the way music would be used in Westerns, and it is hard to think of a post-Morricone Western score that doesn't in some way reflect his influence. Although his name will always be synonymous with the spaghetti Western, Morricone has also contributed to a huge range of other film genres: comedies, dramas, thrillers, horror films, romances, art movies, exploitation movies - making him one of the film world's most versatile artists. He has written nearly 400 film scores, so a brief summary is impossible, but his most memorable work includes the Leone films, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers (1966) , Roland Joffé's The Mission (1986), Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987) and Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso (1988), plus a rare example of sung opening credits for Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966).

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The Hateful Eight

(2015)

The Best Offer

(2013)

The Untouchables

(1987)

The Legend of 1900

(1998)

Ennio Morricone Movies

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2024 |
Revolver
Revolver
2024
1h 54m
Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
5.4
An ex-police officer embarks on a single-minded goal upon leaving jail, after serving a sentence for crimes committed under dubious circumstances.
2024 |
The Inheritance
The Inheritance
2024
1h 25m
Horror, Thriller
4.7
A billionaire on the eve of his 75th birthday, invites his estranged children back home out of fear that tonight someone or something is going to kill him. He puts each of their inheritances on the line, to make sure they'll help.
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2023 |
The Mission
The Mission
2023
PG-13
1h 43m
Animation, Biography, Documentary
6.4
26-year-old American missionary John Chau was killed as he attempted to make contact with an Indigenous group off the coast of India, one of the last communities on the planet still living in isolation.
2023 |
Escalation
Escalation
2023
NR
1h 29m
Action
A former police officer puts aside his differences with the force in order to track down his brother's murderer. He teams with a younger detective to bring the case home.
2021 |
Wolf
Wolf
2021
R
1h 39m
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
5.1
Young Jacob who suffers from zoanthropy believes he is a wolf and is committed to a mental asylum following an attack on his brother. There he meets and befriends the other patients and witnesses the brutal methods of treatment.
2021 |
Slalom
Slalom
2021
1h 32m
Drama, Sport
6.6
Under the guidance of a strict ex champion, a promising 15 year old girl trains as a professional skiing star.Will she be able to endure the physical and emotional pressures?
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2019 |
Money
Money
2019
1h 55m
Crime, Drama
6.1
Get caught up in the tale of a new stock broker who dreams of becoming rich. Those dreams make him susceptible to a stock market scam that threatens to get him in trouble.
2018 |
The Island
The Island
2018
2h 14m
Comedy, Drama
6.2
A cataclysmic event causes a man, who dreams of winning the lottery, to become stranded on an island with his co-workers.
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2018 |
Nana
Nana
2018
1h 40m
Documentary, History, War
7.5
The filmmaker retraces her grandmother's Auschwitz survival story and investigates how her life-long fight against intolerance can be passed on to new generations in the 21st century.
2018 |
Rampage
Rampage
2018
PG-13
1h 47m
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
6.1
When three different animals become infected with a dangerous pathogen, a primatologist and a geneticist team up to stop them from destroying Chicago.
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2018 |
The Great Silence
The Great Silence
2018
1h 45m
Drama, Western
7.7
A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.
2017 |
Bluebeard
Bluebeard
2017
1h 57m
Thriller
6.4
Dr. Seung-hoon sedates his landlord before medical check-up, when the old man begins telling him a convincing murder confession.
2015 |
The Hateful Eight
The Hateful Eight
2015
R
2h 48m
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
7.8
In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.
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1998 |
Lolita
Lolita
1998
R
2h 17m
Drama, Romance
6.8
An English professor falls for a minor, and has to face the consequences of his actions.
1990 |
The Witches
The Witches
1990
PG
1h 31m
Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
6.8
A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.
1990 |
Cinema Paradiso
Cinema Paradiso
1990
PG
2h 54m
Drama, Romance
8.5
Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.
1969 |
Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in the West
1969
PG-13
2h 46m
Drama, Western
8.5
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
1967 |
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1967
R
2h 58m
Adventure, Drama, Western
8.8
A bounty-hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
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1967 |
The Battle of Algiers
The Battle of Algiers
1967
2h 1m
Drama, War
8.1
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.