The best film scores are not merely an accompaniment to the images on screen; it is the sense that a film would be altered more fundamentally by changing its music than any other part of the script.
There are the themes indelibly etched, as easy to recall as any hit single – think Star Wars, Jurassic Park or Jaws – but the list below is concerned more with those eternally tethered to their visual partners, without which it feels you’d only have half a film.
