Cliff Martinez
Known for: Sound
Born: February 5, 1954
Place of birth: The Bronx, New York, USA
Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers, The Foreigner, and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Solaris, Contagion, and Traffic) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young).
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Filmography
51 movies · 6 TV shows, newest first
7.3
The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel
2026
7.4
Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn
2023
6.8
Copenhagen Cowboy
2023
6.3
Touch of Crude
2022
6.2
Kimi
2022
7.6
The Wilds
2020
7.4
Too Old to Die Young
2019NR
Cliff and Larry: Beginnings
2018
6.1
Hotel Artemis
2018
10.0
Ekspeditionen - På sporet af Vitus Bering
2018
6.8
Game Night
2018
6.9
Den of Thieves
2018
7.0
The Foreigner
2017
6.9
War Dogs
2016
6.5
The Neon Demon
2016
NR
The Secret Slaves of the Middle East
2016
6.4
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
2015
7.9
The Knick
2014
7.7
The Normal Heart
2014
6.3
Mea Culpa
2014
7.6
The Square
2013
5.8
Only God Forgives
2013
5.3
Spring Breakers
2013
6.2
The Company You Keep
20127.2
Golem
2012
6.3
Arbitrage
2012
7.2
NWR
2012
7.6
Drive
2011
6.7
Contagion
2011
7.2
The Lincoln Lawyer
2011
5.4
Severe Clear
2010
6.6
In the Beginning
2009
5.4
Spy(ies)
2009
4.5
Vice
2008
4.7
Stiletto
2008
6.1
First Snow
2006
5.3
Havoc
2005
7.0
Stan Ridgway's Holiday In Dirt
2005
6.8
Wicker Park
2004
6.1
Wonderland
2003
6.0
Solaris
2002
6.8
Narc
2002
7.1
Traffic
2000
6.5
The Limey
1999
5.1
Wicked
1998
7.6
The Fifth Element
1997
6.2
Schizopolis
1997
6.5
Gray's Anatomy
1996
5.7
The Underneath
1995
6.8
King of the Hill
1993
7.9
Red Hot Chili Peppers - What Hits!?
1992
4.1
Black Magic
1992
6.4
Kafka
1991
7.1
Pump Up the Volume
1990
7.0
sex, lies, and videotape
1989NR
Red Hot Chili Peppers: [1986] St. Louis, MO
1986
7.2
Pee-wee's Playhouse
1986