Great Movie Opening Credits Sequences

Georgy Girl (1966)

Female Trouble (1974)

Turns out the lyrics are the only original part of the song the music track is borrowed from a song called “Black Velvet Soul”.

Foxy Brown (1974)

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

The Killing of Sister George (1968)

Superman (1978):

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Urban Cowboy (1980)

Vertigo

Jackie Brown

R8

I could have sworn the song “Hello, Texas” was in the opening credits but I haven’t seen the movie since it came out. Also, Houston looked so tiny back then.

Il Buono, Il Brutto e Il Cattivo

Always had a sift spot for this one. WHERE'S THAT JOE BUCK??

Bond has alot of great ones but I think this one was the most beautiful

Flash (a-Ah) Gordon

Sorry wrong link

Easy glamour for Imitation of Life

Saturday Night Fever

Alien (1979)

It made space scary.

Glitch LONG before every other movie and TV series did glitch. Videodrome

Grease, Superman 1978, (both 1978 actually) the first year i was taken to the cinema...tho i was too young for Grease, untill VHS.

Jaws - The shark's first kill.

The Trouble With Angels

DEVIL (2010)

Honestly the most beautiful one and so incredibly ahead of it's time.

The original West Side Story.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World.

The opening credits to “Troop Beverly Hills” are the only good thing about the movie.

Disney’s “The North Avenue Irregulars” had a fun opening credits sequence which was not done in the Disney house style.

Ruthless People

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Auntie Mame

Manhattan - I saw it in a large theater with a wide screen and great sound. Spectacular

Super-dramatic and arresting--"Fahrenheit 451."

If only the whole movie were up to the level of the title sequence.

Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame. Is this an annual thread, though?

The Tender Trap

Walk on the Wild Side - the black cat was the best thing in the movie

Trying to play sheriff, r34?

Wait! Has no one said PSYCHO yet?

The Great Race

Star Wars.

The music. The opening crawl.

Watchmen

Casino Royale (1967)

The ominous chords instead of the usual Fox fanfare signifies something lusciously and deadly lurid .....

Catch Me if You Can

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977):

Actually, here is the complete main title sequence for Close Encounters:

Why bother, r47?

Arthur (1981):

Blood Simple (1984)

Perhaps, R48, but I always found that opening music very ominous for what was just a sci-fi film and not a horror flick.

from Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me, Deadly featuring Cloris Leachman in her film debut

The Return of the Pink Panther… a masterpiece by animator extraordinaire Richard Williams, who along with his team created over 6,000 drawings by hand to make the 4-minute long title sequence.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

I've always considered this the ultimate.

I always wondered if when the film had its first run many decades ago the ending got a big laugh.

The Age of Innocence, with that dark ominous for Gounod's "Faust," and the handwriting and lace patterns superimposed over the blossoming flowers as if to imprison them.

Lady & The Tramp

DEAD AGAIN

It gets so much exposition out of the way, in addition to being very tense : )

My favorite James Bond title sequence: the second Casino Royale

Another of my favorites and the designer and composer get no credit! Unless I blinked.

[quote] Lady & The Tramp

Oh, look--another Tramp thread.

Panic room

Thomas crown affair

Charade

Star Wars (1977):

[quote] Another of my favorites and the designer and composer get no credit! Unless I blinked.

Doesn't everyone know the composer? Camille Saint-Saens.

Planet of the Apes

Of course I know The Aquarium. Still Saint Saens should have gotten credit for his gorgeous music and like the title sequence in other films the individual/s should have been in the credits. And you think most people when the film was made and today know who Saint Saens is?

Chill out, r68. You're taking this as some sort of personal attack.

That was not an attack on you. It was responding to the fact that many people today neither know such music or its composer.

Charade

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

Flower Drum Song

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

The Women

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

I think Dracula qualifies.

Saint-Saëns and the title designer Daniel Perri both had to wait till the closing credits to get their due.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Breakfast At Tiffany's - pretty iconic.

Death Becomes Her

My Best Friend's Wedding

I remember my sister dragged me kicking and screaming to see it back in the day, but after the opening credits, I became invested in the movie.

Murder On the Orient Express has an opening sequence that uses headlines to address the backstory (like r58) but it’s immediately following the opening credits.

It’s an effective, ominous technique.

North by Northwest, great graphics by Saul Bass and score by Bernard Hermann.

Ordinary People

An Unmarried Woman

Saving Private Ryan. I mean, come on.

R74 there are no credits.

Napoleon Dynamite