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Most compelling vocal you discovered in a movie?

I love music and find myself drawn to all sorts, most kinds of jazz, opera (except Wagner, which I have seen performed), rock, pop, world, etc. The radio, TV, concerts are obvious places to discover new tunes. How about the movies? Is there a song so wrenchingly beautiful that you discovered while watching a movie that you sat around to see the credits and then rushed off to buy it? For me the most recent tune was "When I Dream" by Carol Kidd in the highly recommended South-North Korea espionage drama "Shiri." The song is wonderful and fits the movie just so. If you haven't seen this, I urge you to find it somewhere. It was the highest grossing film in Korean history and while it is explosive, the character development and underpinnings of the motivations provide some nice food for thought.
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Once I was watching a movie "Professional" with Jean Reno and Gary Oldman.
I wasn't impressed in general from this movie but the only thing I loved was the final song of Sting during the credits playback. I believe that everyone knows that song and I knew it too some time before this movie, but without full understanding of lyrics since English isn't my first language.
That day this song broke me through and I've memorised almost all lyrics from that listening!
Another movie that worth listening songs IMO is Natural Born Killers where Leonard Cohen has a bunch of musical credits.
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