Cast & creator
Cliff Martinez
Best known for The Fifth Element, War Dogs, Drive
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).
52
film credits
6
television credits
4
1986–2026 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (58)
Showing 58 of 58 credits
The Fifth Element
Additional Music
1997
War Dogs
Original Music Composer
2016
Drive
Original Music Composer
2011
The Knick
Original Music Composer
2014
The Wilds
Original Music Composer
2020
Den of Thieves
Original Music Composer
2018
Pee-wee's Playhouse
Music
1986
The Foreigner
Original Music Composer
2017
Too Old to Die Young
Original Music Composer
2019
Game Night
Original Music Composer
2018
Traffic
Original Music Composer
2000
The Neon Demon
Original Music Composer
2016
Contagion
Original Music Composer
2011
sex, lies, and videotape
Original Music Composer
1989
The Lincoln Lawyer
Original Music Composer
2011
Spring Breakers
Original Music Composer
2013
The Limey
Original Music Composer
1999
Hotel Artemis
Original Music Composer
2018
Arbitrage
Original Music Composer
2012
The Company You Keep
Original Music Composer
2012
Wicker Park
Original Music Composer
2004
Solaris
Original Music Composer
2002
Only God Forgives
Original Music Composer
2013
Havoc
Original Music Composer
2005
Pump Up the Volume
Original Music Composer
1990
Copenhagen Cowboy
Original Music Composer
2023
Kimi
Original Music Composer
2022
Wonderland
Original Music Composer
2003
The Normal Heart
Original Music Composer
2014
King of the Hill
Original Music Composer
1993
Narc
Original Music Composer
2002
The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel
Self - Drummer, 1983-1986 (archive footage)
2026
The Underneath
Original Music Composer
1995
Wicked
Original Music Composer
1998
Mea Culpa
Original Music Composer
2014
Stiletto
Original Music Composer
2008Red Hot Chili Peppers: [1986] St. Louis, MO
Drums
1986
Kafka
Original Music Composer
1991
First Snow
Original Music Composer
2006
NWR
Additional Music
2012
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Music
2015
Vice
Original Music Composer
2008
Schizopolis
Original Music Composer
1997
Gray's Anatomy
Original Music Composer
1996
Severe Clear
Music
2010
Ekspeditionen - På sporet af Vitus Bering
Original Music Composer
2018
Spy(ies)
Original Music Composer
2009
The Square
Songs
2013
Stan Ridgway's Holiday In Dirt
Music
2005
In the Beginning
Original Music Composer
2009
Red Hot Chili Peppers - What Hits!?
Self
1992
Touch of Crude
Music
2022
Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn
Original Music Composer
2023
Black Magic
Music
1992Black Magic
Original Music Composer
1992Cliff and Larry: Beginnings
Self
2018Golem
Music
2012
The Secret Slaves of the Middle East
Music
2016