Film/TV with Good Orchestral Scores

KeyScourge

I've recently started to take notice of film's and TV show's scores/soundtracks and have bought a few scores on CD, but I'm trying to cast a wide net here, so I could do with some suggestions.

The scores I already have:
Lords of the Rings Trilgy (The Complete Recordings)
Transformers: The Score
Revenge of the Fallen: The Score
Doctor Who Series 1+2 OST
Doctor Who Series 3 OST
Doctor Who Series 4 OST

Dman

It really depends what your into but John Williams has lots of nice sound tracks to his name

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in Hollywood history, including Star Wars, Superman, Born on the Fourth of July, the first three Harry Potter movies and all but one of Steven Spielberg's feature films including the Indiana Jones series, Schindler's List, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Jaws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams

DeadlySherpa

Original star wars (IV-VI)
Fantasia (is that cheating?)
Jurassic Park
Braveheart
Pirates of the Carribean had some pretty good stuff, might wanna check out master and commander too.

ummm Lawrence of Arabia I think the score is good

KeyScourge

Pirates of the Carribean I like most stuff from. There's a few stinkers in there though. My favourite track ever from all 3 of those scores is "Parlay" from At World's End. Got such a heavy Western vibe to it. Oh! that reminds me, must investigate Ennio Morricone's music

John Matrix

KeyScourge wrote: »

must investigate Ennio Morricone's music

A thousand times this. Check out "The Mission" and of course, Good, Bad, Ugly and Once upon a time in the west

MetroidZoid

The Rocketeer, if for anything else just the main theme / opening titles.

Specifically on iTunes, it's "The Rocketeer: To the Rescue and End Titles" by the Cincinatti Pops Orchestra. So, not the origional recording per say, but close enough that it still elicits plenty of nostalgia every time I hear it.

matt has a problem

Look for the film "Man with a Movie Camera", by Dziga Vertov. It's an absolutely epic silent film, with a rather incredible score. The score has been redone/reimagined several times too, notably by The Cinematic Orchestra, who released an album version (titled the same as the movie is) of it which is excellent.

Mike Danger

The Music of Candyman - Candyman - Philip Glass
The Dark Knight - Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard
Princess Mononoke - Joe Hisaishi
Star Trek - Michael Giacchino
Sherlock Holmes - Patrick Gowers
The Fog of War - Philip Glass
Dune - Toto
The Last Emperor - Ryuichi Sakamoto, et al.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence - Ryuichi Sakamoto, et al.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - lots o' artists

(I went back and bolded the orchestral ones after I realized how much of a dope I am)

proXimity

Alexander Nevsky- It has a score by Prokofiev, one of greatest composers of the 20th century
Battlestar Galactica (New series)- Bear McCreary did a fantastic job on the soundtracks throughout the four seasons
Apollo 13- Unfortunately the soundtrack doesn't have all the orchestral stuff on it, but it's still good
Sunshine- Fantastic score

Really, though, if you're looking at orchestral movie scores, why not look at real orchestral music which frequently has much more depth than movie scores?