Alexander Rybak  – Movie music

Alexander has told many times  about his interest for movies. Many of the songs and music Alexander has performed are from movies. A couple of them he has actually composed and performed in the movies himself 🙂 Below you’ll find an alphabetical list of these songs, and a link to the movie they appear in on Wikipedia. Some of the songs appear in several movies, and in those cases we have linked to the song itself on Wikipedia

To keep the list updated, we need your help. Comment below if you know about any other movie related songs or music he has already played so far or will play in the future. 

A big thanks to all of you who have helped with this list, especially May Elisabeth Nipen and Mónika Menyhért, who have done most of the work searching the Internet to find out which songs are connected to movies and the needed links. 🙂

And below the list you find the video-version – a medley with details of movies and the sound of Alexander’s performances.

Click on the song title to watch the video and the movie title to read about movie. 

• • 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton – theme song of the American comedy film with the same title
  • 500 Miles by the Scottish group Proclaimers – American comedy Benny & Joon
  • Abandoned –  original song in the Russian movie ‘Dozhivyom do ponedelnika’/ We’ll live till Monday
  • Ain’t That a Kick in the Head by Dean Martin –  “Ocean’s 11 ” – from 1960
  • All I Have to Do Is Dream by the Everly Brothers – Riding in Cars with Boys
  • Amazing grace  by David Arnold – theme song of the  Br.-Am. drama with the same title
  • Beyond The Sea by Charles Trenet – American romantic comedy “Every Girl Should Be Married”
  • Brown eyed girl by Van Morrison – appears in several movies 
  • Castle Made of Snow – Music by ?. Zatsepin, English lyrics by Alexander Rybak – Russian movie Kavkazskaya plennitsa / Caucasian Prisoner 
  • Caruso  by  Lucio Dalla – Scottish romantic drama “One More Kiss“
  • Clair de Lune by Claud Debussy – American movie “Ocean’s 11” from 2001
  • Do Ya Think I’m Sexy by Rod Stewart – American film “A Night at the Roxbury”
  • Edelweiss by Rodgers and Hammerstein – American musical drama film “The Sound of Music“
  • Embraceable You by George Gershwin – American musical-film “Girl Crazy”
  • Farewell, My Lovely – by Yeong Wook Ja – Korean thriller movie “Old Boy”
  • Fattig bonddräng by Georg Riedel – the Swedish children’s movie Emil i Lönneberga 
  • Fever by  Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell – appears in several movies
  • Fiddler on the Roof – musical comedy-drama film.  Alexander played the Fiddler in a Norwegian theater version in 2007 and he has therefore performed several of the songs.  Wikipedia
  • From Russia with Love by John Barry –James Bond movie with the same title
  • Gabriella’s Song by Stefan Nilsson, Py Bäckman – the Swedish film As It Is in Heaven 
  • Gethsemane by A.L. Webber from the film “Jesus Christ Superstar” 
  • He’s a Pirate by Klaus Badelt and Hans Zimmer – Disney movie “Pirates of the Caribbean“
  • His Eye Is on the Sparrowby Martin/Gabriel – American musical comedy “Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit”
  • I Asked The Ash  (‘Ja sprosil u Jasenja’) –  by Mikael Tariverdiev – Russian movie “Ironiya sud’by/The Irony of Fate
  • I Dovregubbens hall /In the hall of the Mountain King (with orchestra) by Edvard Grieg – Several movies of the Norwegian fantasy story “Per Gynt“
  • Into a Fantasy by Alexander Rybak – American animated movie “How To Train Your Dragon 2” 
  • I will by The Beatles – American movie “Love Affair”
  • I will survive – by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris – appears in several movies…
  • I will wait for you  by Michael Legrand–  “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”
  • Libertango by Astor Piazzolla – appears in several movies
  • Mamma Mia by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus – British-American-Swedish musical romantic comedy film
  • Misirlou/Pump It –  rock version by Dick Dale of the traditional Greek folk tune – from the movie „Pulp Fiction” 
  • My Heart Will Go On by James Horner and Will Jennings – American movie „Titanic”
  • Nostalgia by Alexander Rybak – “Yohan the Child Wanderer“
  • Pervym delom – samoloty!(First of all – the planes!)– Russian movie “Nebesny Tikhokod/ Heavenly Slug”
  • Pesnya pro Zajtsev (Song about hares) by Aleksandr Zatsepin – Russian movie “Brilliantovaya ruka/ The Diamond Arm” 
  • Roxanne by Craig Armstrong –American-Australian film musical „Moulin Rouge”
  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer by Johnny Marks – American animated musical film with the same title
  • Singing in the Rain by Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown – from the movie with the same title
  • Stary Klion (The Old Maple) – by Aleksandra Pakhmutova – Russian movie „Devchata/The Girls” 
  • Saterjentens Sondag by Ole Bull   – in the movie about Ole Bull “Himmelstormeren”
  • The Beauty and The Beast by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken – American Walt Disney animated fantasy with the same title
  • The Lady in Red by Chris de Burgh – appears in several movies
  • The Prayer – by Foster/Bayer Sager/Testa/Renis from the “Quest for Camelot” animated musical fantasy film
  • Without You  – originally written by the British rock group Badfinger – used in several films
  • YohanTheme  by Ragnar Bjerkreim – in “Yohan the Child Wanderer“
  • Ya ne veryu v chudesa (I Don’t Believe In Miracles) – by Arkadiy Ukupnik – Russian action movie “Chornaya Molniya/ Black Lightening” 
  • Your Song by Elton John – American film musical „Moulin Rouge”