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• Modern Cinema

(1976 - 2013)

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(1930 - 1975)

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	Regular Cinematic Releases from 1976 to 2013

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	Title	Year	Composer(s)	FR	VR	VT	CT	RD	TR	Dates	Notes
•	Sabrina	1995	John Williams	**	3.23	498	8	\|\|	332	09/96 - 08/08
•	Safe House	2012	Ramin Djawadi	***	2.57	116	2	\|\|	1,435	03/12
•	Sahara	2005	Clint Mansell	****	3.40	224	4	\|\|	1,097	02/06
•	The Saint	1997	Graeme Revell	****	3.86	1,610	2	\|\|	172	05/97 - 10/06	all albums
•	Salt	2010	James Newton Howard	***	2.98	460	5	\|\|	1,167	07/10
•	Samantha	1992	Joel McNeely	**	2.70	54	0	\|	1,296	03/97 - 02/06
•	Saving Private Ryan	1998	John Williams	***	3.38	12,332	45	\|\|\|	34	07/98 - 03/08
•	Saw	2004	Charlie Clouser	*	2.04	138	2	\|\|	1,572	11/09
•	The Scarlet Letter	1995	John Barry	****	3.28	547	1	\|\|	264	10/96 - 08/08
•	Scent of a Woman	1992	Thomas Newman	****	3.04	94	0	\|\|	1,481	09/09
•	Schindler's List	1993	John Williams	*****	4.37	24,619	379	\|\|\|	4	09/96 - 08/06	multiple albums
•	The Score	2001	Howard Shore	***	3.26	546	14	\|\|	716	07/01 - 02/09
•	The Scorpion King	2002	John Debney	****	3.54	815	7	\|\|	372	07/02 - 01/09
•	Scream 3	2000	Marco Beltrami	***	3.35	1,607	0	\|\|	244	02/00 - 07/08
•	Scream 4	2011	Marco Beltrami	**	2.58	274	3	\|\|	1,369	04/11
•	Scrooged	1988	Danny Elfman	***	2.91	84	1	\|\|\|	1,643	12/11	limited
•	Seabiscuit	2003	Randy Newman	***	2.86	2,260	46	\|\|	304	07/03 - 03/09
•	Searching for Bobby Fischer	1993	James Horner	***	3.30	225	3	\|\|	715	06/98 - 11/11
•	Secondhand Lions	2003	Patrick Doyle	****	3.58	782	6	\|\|	538	11/03 - 03/09
•	The Secret Garden	1993	Zbigniew Preisner	****	3.18	67	2	\|\|	1,701	02/12
•	The Secret of N.I.M.H.	1982	Jerry Goldsmith	****	3.51	515	3	\|\|	666	06/03 - 03/09	all albums
•	Sense and Sensibility	1995	Patrick Doyle	****	3.45	506	5	\|\|	296	02/97 - 09/11
•	The Sentinel	2006	Christophe Beck	*	2.39	255	6	\|\|	930	04/06
•	Serenity	2005	David Newman	**	2.96	349	7	\|	967	11/05
•	Seven	1995	Howard Shore	**	2.68	103	1	\|\|	1,458	11/09	multiple albums
•	Seven Years in Tibet	1997	John Williams	****	3.92	2,042	3	\|\|	78	09/97 - 03/08
•	Sex and the City	2008	Aaron Zigman	***	2.70	50	0	\|\|	1,719	08/11
•	Sex and the City 2	2010	Aaron Zigman	***	2.64	44	1	\|\|	1,710	08/11
•	The Shadow	1994	Jerry Goldsmith	*****	3.90	2,600	11	\|\|\|\|	297	09/96 - 08/12	all albums
•	Shadow Conspiracy	1996	Bruce Broughton	***	2.89	154	0	\|	1,037	09/96 - 08/08
•	Shadow of the Vampire	2001	Dan Jones	**	2.97	405	9	\|\|	1,016	01/01 - 10/08
•	Shadowlands	1994	George Fenton	****	3.48	143	2	\|	846	04/97 - 06/06
•	The Shaggy Dog	2006	Alan Menken	****	3.20	181	0	\|\|	1,149	02/07
•	Shakespeare in Love	1998	Stephen Warbeck	****	3.86	5,364	5	\|\|	75	12/98 - 03/08
•	Shanghai Noon	2000	Randy Edelman	***	2.90	125	1	\|	1,137	09/03 - 04/09
•	The Shawshank Redemption	1994	Thomas Newman	****	3.95	2,715	5	\|\|	118	08/98 - 09/06
•	Sherlock Holmes	2009	Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe	***	3.08	1,138	9	\|\|\|	816	01/10
•	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows	2011	Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe	*	2.48	564	26	\|\|\|	968	12/11
•	Shine	1996	David Hirschfelder	***	2.96	158	1	\|	617	11/96 - 04/06
•	The Shipping News	2001	Christopher Young	****	3.00	544	3	\|\|\|	937	02/02 - 02/09
•	Shipwrecked	1991	Patrick Doyle	***	3.25	134	0	\|\|	735	03/98 - 11/11
•	Shrek	2001	John Powell, Harry Gregson-Williams	***	3.10	6,770	90	\|\|\|	85	12/01 - 01/09
•	Shrek 2	2004	Harry Gregson-Williams, Various	****	3.76	631	10	\|\|	717	01/05 - 10/11
•	Shrek Forever After	2010	Harry Gregson-Williams	****	3.08	567	1	\|\|	1,293	05/10
•	Shrek the Third	2007	Harry Gregson-Williams, Various	***	2.74	591	1	\|	785	06/07
•	Sideways	2004	Rolfe Kent	***	3.05	331	4	\|\|	875	01/05 - 10/11
•	Signs	2002	James Newton Howard	***	3.32	2,480	94	\|\|\|	402	09/02 - 02/09
•	The Silence of the Lambs	1991	Howard Shore	***	2.94	135	0	\|\|	1,464	11/09
•	Silver Linings Playbook	2012	Danny Elfman	**	2.58	107	1	\|\|	1,490	12/12
•	Silverado	1985	Bruce Broughton	*****	3.70	150	0	\|\|\|	1,509	05/10	all albums
•	Simone	2002	Carter Burwell	***	2.57	205	6	\|\|	970	09/02 - 02/09
•	Simpatico	1999	Stewart Copeland	**	2.34	158	0	\|	1,239	12/99 - 11/07
•	A Simple Plan	1998	Danny Elfman	**	2.59	1,038	0	\|\|	278	02/99 - 05/08
•	A Simple Twist of Fate	1994	Cliff Eidelman	***	3.21	244	0	\|	1,126	06/01 - 02/08
•	The Simpsons Movie	2007	Hans Zimmer, Various	***	2.95	300	2	\|\|	1,114	11/07
•	Sin City	2005	Robert Rodriguez, Graeme Revell, John Debney	****	3.05	746	44	\|\|\|	282	04/05 - 09/11
•	Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas	2003	Harry Gregson-Williams	*****	3.96	4,313	66	\|\|	208	06/03 - 03/09
•	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants	2005	Cliff Eidelman	***	3.24	258	2	\|	600	12/05
•	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2	2008	Rachel Portman	***	2.92	107	0	\|\|	1,597	09/09
•	Six Days, Seven Nights	1998	Randy Edelman	***	3.20	699	1	\|	252	06/98 - 03/07
•	Six Degrees of Separation	1993	Jerry Goldsmith	*	2.23	241	0	\|	536	07/98 - 09/08
•	The Sixth Sense	1999	James Newton Howard	***	3.50	4,749	3	\|\|	131	08/99 - 06/08
•	The Skeleton Key	2005	Edward Shearmur	**	2.45	153	2	\|	1,168	11/05
•	The Skulls	2000	Randy Edelman	***	3.02	1,150	0	\|	661	03/00 - 07/08
•	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow	2004	Edward Shearmur	****	3.58	1,242	43	\|\|\|	263	09/04 - 09/11
•	Skyfall	2012	Thomas Newman	***	2.77	699	16	\|\|\|\|	963	11/12
•	Skyline	2010	Matthew Margeson	**	2.57	242	3	\|\|	1,401	11/10
•	Sleepers	1996	John Williams	**	3.00	251	3	\|\|	602	10/96 - 11/11
•	Sleeping with the Enemy	1991	Jerry Goldsmith	****	3.91	975	1	\|\|	438	06/98 - 09/11	all albums
•	Sleepy Hollow	1999	Danny Elfman	****	4.02	7,953	6	\|\|\|	133	11/99 - 06/11	all albums
•	Slumdog Millionaire	2008	A.R. Rahman	***	2.20	1,143	4	\|\|\|	599	01/09
•	Small Soldiers	1998	Jerry Goldsmith	****	3.40	2,704	1	\|\|	132	07/98 - 03/08
•	Smilla's Sense of Snow	1997	Harry Gregson-Williams, Hans Zimmer	**	2.98	201	2	\|\|	713	03/97 - 09/11
•	The Smurfs	2011	Heitor Pereira	***	2.51	273	5	\|\|	1,392	08/11
•	Snake Eyes	1998	Ryuichi Sakamoto	**	2.67	213	1	\|	1,094	05/99 - 07/07
•	Snakes on a Plane	2006	Trevor Rabin	**	2.62	45	0	\|\|	1,697	08/11
•	Sneakers	1992	James Horner	****	3.43	455	2	\|\|	664	09/96 - 09/08
•	Snow Falling on Cedars	1999	James Newton Howard	****	3.47	1,149	6	\|	273	11/99 - 08/07
•	Snow Flower and the Secret Fan	2011	Rachel Portman	***	3.16	153	1	\|\|	1,488	08/11
•	Snow White & the Huntsman	2012	James Newton Howard	***	3.28	382	2	\|\|\|	1,201	06/12
•	The Social Network	2010	Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross	FRISBEE	2.43	1,859	60	\|\|\|	764	12/10	multiple albums
•	Solaris	2002	Cliff Martinez	**	3.02	263	0	\|\|	1,484	12/09 - 01/11	multiple albums
•	Soldier	1998	Joel McNeely	***	2.84	307	2	\|\|	685	11/98 - 04/07
•	Something to Talk About	1995	Hans Zimmer, Graham Preskett	***	2.90	59	5	\|\|	1,610	04/10
•	Something Wicked This Way Comes	1983	James Horner, Georges Delerue	Varied	3.15	149	4	\|\|\|\|	1,399	08/09 - 12/11	multiple albums
•	Something's Gotta Give	2003	Hans Zimmer, Heitor Pereira, Various	****	2.72	76	2	\|\|	1,531	04/10	bootleg
•	Somewhere in Time	1980	John Barry	****	3.54	134	0	\|\|	1,432	12/09	multiple albums
•	Sommersby	1993	Danny Elfman	*****	4.00	1,458	10	\|\|	487	09/96 - 09/08
•	Soul Surfer	2011	Marco Beltrami	*****	3.85	193	4	\|\|\|	1,384	07/11
•	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut	1999	Marc Shaiman, Trey Parker	***	2.82	14,183	78	\|\|\|	48	07/99 - 06/08
•	Space Battleship Yamato	2010	Naoki Sato	*****	3.94	453	4	\|\|\|\|	1,259	01/11	Japanese
•	SpaceCamp	1986	John Williams	***	3.14	367	4	\|\|	672	07/98 - 09/10	all albums
•	Spanglish	2004	Hans Zimmer	****	3.45	666	12	\|\|	669	01/05 - 10/11
•	The Specialist	1994	John Barry	****	3.38	175	1	\|\|	681	07/98 - 02/06
•	Species	1995	Christopher Young	***	2.96	274	5	\|\|	429	03/98 - 07/09	all albums
•	Speed	1994	Mark Mancina	***	3.07	307	12	\|\|	863	09/03 - 03/12	multiple albums
•	Speed 2: Cruise Control	1997	Mark Mancina	****	3.03	180	3	\|\|\|	1,521	07/10	limited
•	Speed Racer	2008	Michael Giacchino	***	2.87	285	1	\|\|	1,189	06/08
•	Sphere	1998	Elliot Goldenthal	**	2.50	599	3	\|\|	778	03/98 - 07/07
•	Spider-Man	2002	Danny Elfman	****	3.32	3,570	224	\|\|\|	102	06/02 - 01/09
•	Spider-Man 2	2004	Danny Elfman, Christopher Young, John Debney	****	3.47	2,105	113	\|\|\|\|	214	08/04 - 08/11
•	The Spiderwick Chronicles	2008	James Horner	****	3.42	768	19	\|\|\|	483	01/08
•	Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron	2002	Hans Zimmer, Steve Jablonsky, Various	**	3.34	3,077	136	\|\|\|	224	05/02 - 01/09
•	Spirited Away	2001	Joe Hisaishi	***	3.60	177	1	\|\|	1,474	11/09
•	The Spitfire Grill	1996	James Horner	*****	4.02	1,507	6	\|\|\|	376	09/96 - 08/08
•	Splash	1984	Lee Holdridge	****	3.59	482	0	\|\|	747	12/99 - 10/07	promotional
•	Spontaneous Human Combustion	1995	Geasje Palacek	*	2.13	63	2	\|\|	854	09/96 - 05/06	bootleg
•	Spy Game	2001	Harry Gregson-Williams	****	3.66	1,402	165	\|\|	205	11/01 - 01/09
•	Spy Kids	2001	John Debney, Danny Elfman, Harry Gregson-Williams, Various	***	2.93	1,856	12	\|\|\|	391	04/01 - 01/09
•	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams	2002	Robert Rodriguez, John Debney	***	2.84	453	6	\|\|	813	03/03 - 01/09
•	Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over	2003	Robert Rodriguez	**	2.58	221	2	\|\|	680	09/03 - 03/09
•	Squanto: A Warrior's Tale	1994	Joel McNeely	****	3.19	83	0	\|\|	1,622	09/11	limited
•	Standard Operating Procedure	2008	Danny Elfman	***	3.01	127	0	\|\|	1,547	09/09
•	Stanley & Iris	1990	John Williams	**	2.96	203	3	\|\|	899	06/98 - 11/11
•	Star Kid	1998	Nicholas Pike	***	2.68	151	0	\|	1,219	06/98 - 04/07
•	Star Trek	2009	Michael Giacchino	Varied	3.03	1,623	25	\|\|\|\|	502	05/09 - 06/10	all albums
•	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	1982	James Horner	*****	4.12	1,255	34	\|\|\|\|	323	06/03 - 07/09	all albums
•	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	1984	James Horner	***	3.15	627	18	\|\|\|	567	06/03 - 06/10	all albums
N	Star Trek Into Darkness	2013	Michael Giacchino	****	3.31	128	1	\|\|\|	1,714	06/13
•	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	1986	Leonard Rosenman	**	2.30	521	20	\|\|\|	801	06/03 - 01/12	all albums
•	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier	1989	Jerry Goldsmith	****	3.86	3,019	8	\|\|\|	148	08/97 - 05/12	all albums
•	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country	1991	Cliff Eidelman	*****	4.20	3,373	20	\|\|\|\|	88	12/96 - 03/12	all albums
•	Star Trek: First Contact	1996	Jerry Goldsmith, Joel Goldsmith	***	3.63	9,166	24	\|\|\|\|	43	12/96 - 05/12	multiple albums
R	Star Trek: Generations	1994	Dennis McCarthy	**	2.80	1,873	15	\|\|\|	313	02/99 - 03/13	all albums
•	Star Trek: Insurrection	1998	Jerry Goldsmith	****	3.78	3,949	29	\|\|\|\|	186	12/98 - 09/08	all albums
•	Star Trek: Nemesis	2002	Jerry Goldsmith	**	3.04	4,192	140	\|\|\|	137	12/02 - 12/08	all albums
•	Star Trek: The Motion Picture	1979	Jerry Goldsmith	*****	4.14	3,598	7	\|\|\|\|	119	01/99 - 09/12	all albums
•	Star Wars: A New Hope	1977	John Williams	*****	4.25	17,190	60	\|\|\|\|	3	01/97 - 08/11	all albums
•	Star Wars: Attack of the Clones	2002	John Williams	*****	4.09	29,077	866	\|\|\|\|\|	50	02/02 - 12/08	all albums
•	Star Wars: Return of the Jedi	1983	John Williams	*****	4.18	10,629	32	\|\|\|\|	25	03/97 - 09/11	all albums
•	Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith	2005	John Williams	****	4.07	19,865	527	\|\|\|\|\|	46	04/05 - 09/11
•	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	2008	Kevin Kiner	**	2.13	935	21	\|\|\|	777	08/08
•	Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back	1980	John Williams	*****	4.32	9,218	63	\|\|\|\|	35	01/97 - 09/11	all albums
•	Star Wars: The Phantom Menace	1999	John Williams	*****	4.27	43,774	121	\|\|\|\|\|	10	03/99 - 07/08	all albums
•	Stardust	2007	Ilan Eshkeri	****	3.56	173	0	\|\|	1,433	09/09
•	Stargate	1994	David Arnold	****	4.16	2,747	36	\|\|	234	09/96 - 12/06	all albums
•	Stars and Bars	1988	Elmer Bernstein	***	2.92	89	0	\|	1,197	06/97 - 05/06	limited
•	Starship Troopers	1997	Basil Poledouris	***	3.24	2,678	54	\|\|	203	11/97 - 03/08
•	The Statement	2003	Norman Corbeil	**	2.97	264	1	\|	1,260	01/04 - 04/09
•	Stay	2005	Asche and Spencer	*	2.14	212	4	\|	1,113	11/05
•	Stealth	2005	BT, Various	**	2.50	204	7	\|	1,119	12/05
•	Steel	1997	Mervyn Warren	**	2.34	65	3	\|\|	1,255	04/98 - 06/06	promotional
•	Stepmom	1998	John Williams	***	3.53	3,315	16	\|	160	12/98 - 07/07
•	The Stoning of Soraya M.	2008	John Debney	****	3.56	172	0	\|\|	1,454	06/09	limited
•	Sudden Death	1995	John Debney	**	2.65	213	1	\|	1,289	06/99 - 04/07
•	The Sum of All Fears	2002	Jerry Goldsmith	****	3.55	2,352	96	\|\|\|	316	06/02 - 02/09
•	Super 8	2011	Michael Giacchino	***	3.52	342	1	\|\|\|	1,275	07/11
•	Supergirl	1984	Jerry Goldsmith	***	3.39	169	1	\|\|	1,439	07/09	multiple albums
•	Superman	1978	John Williams	*****	4.19	3,851	39	\|\|\|\|	31	11/98 - 07/09	multiple albums
•	Superman Returns	2006	John Ottman	*****	3.99	1,670	94	\|\|\|	222	06/06
•	Surrogates	2009	Richard Marvin	***	2.71	107	0	\|\|	1,679	12/10
•	The Swarm	1978	Jerry Goldsmith	****	3.17	776	4	\|\|	1,042	02/03 - 03/09	limited
•	S.W.A.T.	2003	Elliot Goldenthal	***	2.31	930	56	\|\|\|	350	09/03 - 03/09
•	Sweet Home Alabama	2002	George Fenton	***	2.76	53	1	\|\|	1,705	01/12
•	Swept from the Sea	1997	John Barry	***	3.22	437	0	\|\|	675	11/97 - 12/06
•	Swing Kids	1993	James Horner	**	2.96	172	2	\|\|	551	06/98 - 11/11
•	Switchback	1997	Basil Poledouris	***	3.33	520	0	\|\|	1,106	10/00 - 07/08	limited
•	The Sword and the Sorcerer	1982	David Whitaker	***	3.14	345	3	\|\|	928	02/99 - 11/12	multiple albums
•	Sylvia	2003	Gabriel Yared	***	3.34	569	2	\|\|	910	11/03 - 03/09
•	Syriana	2005	Alexandre Desplat	**	2.71	532	7	\|	592	12/05

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