Celebrating its 40th anniversary this past weekend, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders featured a theme song from the legendary Stevie Wonder along with its all-star cast.

Seemingly taking a page from Grindhouse, which opened a few years earlier in 2007, The Black Keys went full retro exploitation style for the 2011 music video for their song “Howlin’ For You” by making it a fake movie trailer starring Tricia Helfer.

After an electrifying live performance and a win for Best Original Song, it’s time to celebrate RRR’s joyfully over-the-top song “Naatu Naatu”, which accompanies one of the movie’s absurdly great dance sequences.

1993’s Sister Act 2: Back in Habit was full of music and alongside all the gospel and chorus music was the song “Never Should’ve Let You Go” from R&B group Hi-Five.

Originally released in 1974 by Carl Douglas, Cee Lo Green and Jack Black teamed up in 2008 for a partially rewritten cover of “Kung Fu Fighting” for the first Kung Fu Panda movie.

Featured on the soundtrack of the 2000 Nickelodeon movie Snow Day, the song “Another Dumb Blonde” was the biggest hit ever for Hawaiian singer Hoku.

One of the many contributions to the world of music and film from the late Burt Bacharach, who passed away last week, was “The Look of Love”, which was sung by Dusty Springfield and included on the soundtrack for 1967’s Casino Royale.

Easily one of the most unique aspects of the schlocky 80s horror movie Slaughterhouse Rock is the fact that Devo provided most of the soundtrack and “Mickey” singer Toni Basil co-starred.  Devo and Basil teamed up for the movie’s end credits song, “The Only One”. 

For his 1989 TV movie, LA Takedown, which later got remade as Heat, Michael Mann included Billy Idol’s “L.A. Woman” on the soundtrack and the song got a music video directed by David Fincher.

Considering 2002’s Gangs of New York dealt with Irish immigrants trying to survive after coming to America in the 19th century (along with engaging in gang warfare across New York City), it makes sense that the biggest Irish band in the world, U2, would contribute a song to the soundtrack, which they did with “The Hands That Built America”.

Coming off their debut 2003 album Tell All Your Friends, Taking Back Sunday’s “Cute Without the E (Cut from the Team)” paid homage to David Fincher’s Fight Club with its music video.