# List of films using the music of Richard Wagner

The following is a sortable list of cinema films which have music by Richard Wagner in their soundtracks (other than films of Wagner's operas themselves). Casual references (and use of the Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin) are not included.

## Wagner music in films

| Film | Year | Director | Music used from: |
| The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | D. W. Griffith | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| The Viking | 1928 | Roy William Neill | Parsifal, Flying Dutchman, Die Walküre |
| Un Chien Andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | Tristan und Isolde |
| L'Age d'Or | 1930 | Luis Buñuel | Tristan und Isolde |
| Murder! | 1930 | Alfred Hitchcock | Tristan und Isolde |
| City Streets | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg |
| A Farewell to Arms | 1932 | Frank Borzage | Tristan und Isolde |
| The Scarlet Empress | 1934 | Josef von Sternberg | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| R.A.F. | 1935 | John Betts | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| Triumph of the Will | 1935 | Leni Riefenstahl | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, "Wach' auf" chorus, (act 3, scene 5) |
| The Right to Live | 1935 | William Keighley | Tristan und Isolde |
| The Lion Man | 1936 | John P. McCarthy | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| One Hundred Men and a Girl | 1937 | Henry Koster | Lohengrin, prelude to act 3 |
| Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars | 1938 | Frederick Stephani | Parsifal |
| Escape | 1940 | Mervyn LeRoy | Tristan und Isolde ("Liebestod") |
| The Great Dictator | 1940 | Charlie Chaplin | Lohengrin, prelude |
| Red River Valley | 1941 | Joseph Kane | "Ride of the Valkyries", Rienzi |
| Sullivan’s Travels | 1941 | Preston Sturges | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| Secret Mission | 1942 | Harold French | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg |
| Christmas Holiday | 1944 | Robert Siodmak | Tristan und Isolde (Liebestod) |
| Humoresque | 1946 | Jean Negulesco | Tristan und Isolde, arranged by Franz Waxman. |
| A Foreign Affair | 1948 | Billy Wilder | Lohengrin, overture |
| Unfaithfully Yours | 1948 | Preston Sturges | Tannhäuser |
| The Blue Gardenia | 1953 | Fritz Lang | "Tristan und Isolde" |
| Abismos de pasión | 1954 | Luis Buñuel | Tristan und Isolde |
| Magic Fire | 1955 | William Dieterle | Ring Cycle |
| Love in the Afternoon | 1957 | Billy Wilder | Tristan und Isolde |
| What's Opera, Doc? | 1957 | Chuck Jones | Ring Cycle, Tannhäuser, The Flying Dutchman |
| 8½ | 1963 | Federico Fellini | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| Sedmikrásky (Daisies) | 1966 | Věra Chytilová | Götterdämmerung |
| Patriotism | 1966 | Yukio Mishima | Tristan und Isolde |
| Mondo Trasho | 1969 | John Waters | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King | 1972 | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Ring Cycle, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin |
| Ludwig (film) | 1973 | Luchino Visconti | Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin |
| Lisztomania | 1975 | Ken Russell | Rienzi, Ring Cycle |
| Winifred Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried 1914–1975 | 1975 | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Ring Cycle |
| Hitler: A Film from Germany | 1977 | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Ring Cycle |
| That Obscure Object of Desire | 1977 | Luis Buñuel | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| The Boys from Brazil | 1978 | Franklin Schaffner | Siegfried Idyll |
| Seven Beauties | 1975 | Lina Wertmüller | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | Das Rheingold |
| The Blues Brothers | 1980 | John Landis | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| Excalibur | 1981 | John Boorman | Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde, Götterdämmerung |
| Wagner | 1983 | Tony Palmer | Siegfried |
| Détective | 1985 | Jean-Luc Godard | Rienzi |
| Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov | Ride of the Valkyries |
| The Running Man | 1987 | Paul Michael Glaser | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| Romeo + Juliet | 1996 | Baz Luhrmann | Tristan und Isolde, (Liebestod) |
| Scream (1996 film) | 1996 | Wes Craven | Ride of the Valkyries |
| 24 Hour Party People | 2002 | Michael Winterbottom | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| Birth | 2004 | Jonathan Glazer | Die Walküre |
| Jarhead | 2005 | Sam Mendes | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| The New World | 2006 | Terrence Malick | Das Rheingold |
| Norbit | 2007 | Brian Robbins | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| Waitress | 2007 | Adrienne Shelly | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| Bronson | 2008 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Götterdämmerung, Das Rheingold |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 2008 | David Fincher | Tannhäuser, aria "Dich, teure Halle" |
| Valkyrie | 2008 | Bryan Singer | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| Watchmen | 2009 | Zack Snyder | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| A Dangerous Method | 2011 | David Cronenberg | Siegfried, Die Walküre |
| Melancholia | 2011 | Lars von Trier | Tristan und Isolde |
| Rango | 2011 | Gore Verbinski | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| To the Wonder | 2012 | Terrence Malick | Parsifal, prelude |
| Nymphomaniac | 2013 | Lars von Trier | Das Rheingold |
| Florence Foster Jenkins | 2016 | Stephen Frears | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| Alien: Covenant | 2017 | Ridley Scott | Das Rheingold, Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla |
| Promising Young Woman | 2020 | Emerald Fennell | Tristan und Isolde |
| Sonic the Hedgehog | 2020 | Jeff Fowler | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| Army of the Dead | 2021 | Zack Snyder | Götterdämmerung |
| Wrath of Man | 2021 | Guy Ritchie | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| Army of Thieves | 2021 | Matthias Schweighöfer | Götterdämmerung, Das Rheingold, Ride of the Valkyries, Siegfried |
| For All Mankind (Season 2 Episode 7) | 2021 | Ronald D. Moore | "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| Tár | 2022 | Todd Field | Tannhäuser, overture |
| The Substance | 2024 | Coralie Fargeat | Tristan und Isolde |
| Maria (2024 film) | 2024 | Pablo Larraín | Parsifal, prelude |