Film | Year | Director | Music used from: | Ref. |
The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D. W. Griffith | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [1] |
The Viking | 1928 | Roy William Neill | Parsifal, Flying Dutchman, Die Walküre | [2] |
Un Chien Andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | Tristan und Isolde | [3] |
L'Age d'Or | 1930 | Luis Buñuel | Tristan und Isolde | [3] |
Murder! | 1930 | Alfred Hitchcock | Tristan und Isolde | [1] |
City Streets | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | [2] |
A Farewell to Arms | 1932 | Frank Borzage | Tristan und Isolde | [4] |
The Scarlet Empress | 1934 | Josef von Sternberg | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [2] |
R.A.F. | 1935 | John Betts | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [5] |
Triumph of the Will | 1935 | Leni Riefenstahl | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, "Wach' auf" chorus, (act 3, scene 5) | [6] |
The Right to Live | 1935 | William Keighley | Tristan und Isolde | [2] |
The Lion Man | 1936 | John P. McCarthy | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [2] |
One Hundred Men and a Girl | 1937 | Henry Koster | Lohengrin, prelude to act 3 | [7] |
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars | 1938 | Frederick Stephani | Parsifal | [2] |
Escape | 1940 | Mervyn LeRoy | Tristan und Isolde ("Liebestod") | [8] |
The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charlie Chaplin | Lohengrin, prelude | [1][9] |
Red River Valley | 1941 | Joseph Kane | "Ride of the Valkyries", Rienzi | [2] |
Sullivan’s Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [2] |
Secret Mission | 1942 | Harold French | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | [8] |
Christmas Holiday | 1944 | Robert Siodmak | Tristan und Isolde (Liebestod) | [10] |
Humoresque | 1946 | Jean Negulesco | Tristan und Isolde, arranged by Franz Waxman. | [9] |
A Foreign Affair | 1948 | Billy Wilder | Lohengrin, overture | [11] |
Unfaithfully Yours | 1948 | Preston Sturges | Tannhäuser | [9] |
The Blue Gardenia | 1953 | Fritz Lang | "Tristan und Isolde" | [12] |
Abismos de pasión | 1954 | Luis Buñuel | Tristan und Isolde | [13] |
Magic Fire | 1955 | William Dieterle | Ring Cycle | [9] |
Love in the Afternoon | 1957 | Billy Wilder | Tristan und Isolde | [11] |
What's Opera, Doc? | 1957 | Chuck Jones | Ring Cycle, Tannhäuser, The Flying Dutchman | [1][9] |
8½ | 1963 | Federico Fellini | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [14] |
Sedmikrásky (Daisies) | 1966 | Věra Chytilová | Götterdämmerung | [15] |
Patriotism | 1966 | Yukio Mishima | Tristan und Isolde | [16] |
Mondo Trasho | 1969 | John Waters | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [14] |
Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King | 1972 | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Ring Cycle, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin | [17] |
Ludwig (film) | 1973 | Luchino Visconti | Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin | [18] |
Lisztomania | 1975 | Ken Russell | Rienzi, Ring Cycle | [19] |
Winifred Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried 1914–1975 | 1975 | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Ring Cycle | [20] |
Hitler: A Film from Germany | 1977 | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Ring Cycle | [21] |
That Obscure Object of Desire | 1977 | Luis Buñuel | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [22] |
The Boys from Brazil | 1978 | Franklin Schaffner | Siegfried Idyll | [23] |
Seven Beauties | 1975 | Lina Wertmüller | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [24] |
Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [1][9] |
Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | Das Rheingold | [25] |
The Blues Brothers | 1980 | John Landis | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [1][9] |
Excalibur | 1981 | John Boorman | Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde, Götterdämmerung | [1][9] |
Wagner | 1983 | Tony Palmer | Siegfried | [1] |
Détective | 1985 | Jean-Luc Godard | Rienzi | [26] |
Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov | Ride of the Valkyries | [27] |
The Running Man | 1987 | Paul Michael Glaser | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [28] |
Romeo + Juliet | 1996 | Baz Luhrmann | Tristan und Isolde, (Liebestod) | [1] |
24 Hour Party People | 2002 | Michael Winterbottom | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [29] |
Birth | 2004 | Jonathan Glazer | Die Walküre | [9] |
Jarhead | 2005 | Sam Mendes | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [30] |
The New World | 2006 | Terrence Malick | Das Rheingold | [1][9] |
Norbit | 2007 | Brian Robbins | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [1] |
Bronson | 2008 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Götterdämmerung, Das Rheingold | [31] |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 2008 | David Fincher | Tannhäuser, aria "Dich, teure Halle" | [32] |
Valkyrie | 2008 | Bryan Singer | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [33] |
Watchmen | 2009 | Zack Snyder | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [34] |
A Dangerous Method | 2011 | David Cronenberg | Siegfried, Die Walküre | [35] |
Melancholia | 2011 | Lars von Trier | Tristan und Isolde | [1][35] |
Rango | 2011 | Gore Verbinski | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [36] |
To the Wonder | 2012 | Terrence Malick | Parsifal, prelude | [37] |
Nymphomaniac | 2013 | Lars von Trier | Das Rheingold | [38] |
Florence Foster Jenkins | 2016 | Stephen Frears | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [39] |
Alien: Covenant | 2017 | Ridley Scott | Das Rheingold, Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla | [40] |
Promising Young Woman | 2020 | Emerald Fennell | Tristan und Isolde | [41] |
Sonic the Hedgehog | 2020 | Jeff Fowler | "Ride of the Valkyries" | |
Army of the Dead | 2021 | Zack Snyder | Götterdämmerung | [42] |
Wrath of Man | 2021 | Guy Ritchie | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [43] |
Army of Thieves | 2021 | Matthias Schweighöfer | Götterdämmerung, Das Rheingold, Ride of the Valkyries, Siegfried | [44] |
For All Mankind (Season 2 Episode 7) | 2021 | Ronald D. Moore | "Ride of the Valkyries" | [45] |
Tár | 2022 | Todd Field | Tannhäuser, overture | [46] |