
David Majzlin
David Majzlin is an Emmy® and two-time Telly Award-winning composer and music producer known for his emotionally rich scores, clever songwriting, and unique collaborations with filmmakers and artists around the world. His score for Bel Canto (directed by Oscar nominee Paul Weitz, starring Oscar winner Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe) featured five-time Grammy Award-winning soprano Renée Fleming and his work on Sins of My Father (HBO - Nicolas Entel, director.) received an Emmy nomination alongside Didi Gutman of the band Brazilian Girls. He has worked with a wide array of visionary directors including MacArthur Fellow Christina Ibarra (Las Marthas), Peabody Award-winner Robert Rooy (Deej), Pulitzer Prize-winner David Turnley (Shenandoah), and Nancy Buirski on HBO's multiple-Emmy-winning The Loving Story. He has also had a number of collaborations over the years with director Jordan Horowitz on Painless (Nichols finalist), Lalito 10 (Emmy win), Jack and Sam (IDA Shortlist - Sarah Silverman, Julianna Margulies, EPs), and multiple Award-winner, Angel of Nanjing, which was featured twice in Elle Magazine's list of "Films Guaranteed to Make You Cry." He also scored Breaking The Silence for Academy Award-nominated director, Lorena Muñoz (I'm Gilda) which was in the Netflix top 10 for several weeks. Other notable and unique projects include works for Amazon's Golden Globe-winning series Mozart in the Jungle (Sony Classical), Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (MGM), The Joneses (Starring Demi Moore and David Duchovny), Sunshine Cleaning (starring Emily Blunt and Amy Adams), and Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer (starring Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor). His versatility can be heard in hundreds of film and television projects spanning multiple genres. An accomplished songwriter and music producer, Majzlin blends a cinematic style with contemporary sensibilities. He is a three-time Hollywood Independent Music Award nominee, a three-time finalist in the Great American Song Contest, and a finalist in the International Songwriting Competition. Majzlin has also collaborated with a diverse range of artists across genres - from celebrated film composers Benjamin Wallfisch (Hidden Figures, The Invisible Man) and Paul Cantelon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) to music icons such as Lou Reed and punk legend Harley Flanagan (Cro-Mags). In the theater world, Majzlin collaborated with Tony Award-winner Michael Aronov (Oslo, The Americans) on his sold-out one-man show Manigma, he served as music producer for a number of seasons with New York City's Rude Mechanicals Theater Company, including the first original rock musical adaptation of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale starring Omar Metwally (The Affair, Mr. Robot). His score for Beautiful Monsters, commissioned by Helios Dance Company (Laura Gorenstein Miller, choreographer), premiered to a packed Royce Hall and he has collaborated on a number of works with choreographer Sasha Spielvogel of Labyrinth Dance Company, NYC). An avid film enthusiast with a love of acting and process, Majzlin has lent his expertise on sets by coaching actors portraying musicians in films such as The Music Never Stopped (starring J.K. Simmons and Julia Ormond) and Greetings from Tim Buckley (starring Imogen Poots and Penn Badgley) to help deliver authentic musical performances and he is active in many educational aspects of the film music community. He has designed and taught cross-disciplinary courses for composers, music producers, and filmmakers at institutions such as New York Film Academy, UCLA Extension, and Brooklyn College and was a selected writer for the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop and several Society of Composers & Lyricist Sync Sessions (Nashville, Los Angeles).
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Biography from IMDb.
- Composer
- 14 on MovieCove · 21 credits in all
What are David Majzlin's films like?
Across their 14 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Society.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 13
Light 2 · Serious 6 · Dark 5
Grounded 13 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 3 · Charged 8 · Intense 2
Steady 3 · Shifting 10 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 12 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 11 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 4 · Engaged 7 · Full focus 2
Easy watch 2 · Affecting 6 · Heavy 5
A split, not a type: Resolved 7 · Open-ended 4 · Ambiguous 2
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet11
- Ambiguous1
- Cyclical1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch David Majzlin's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 12 of their 14 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (10).
- The Loving Story (2011) · composer · free
- Fresh (2009) · composer · free
- Pecados de mi padre (2009) · composer · free
- Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos (2024) · composer · free
- Althea (2014) · writer, composer · free
- Jonah (2023) · composer · free
- A Bird of the Air (2011) · composer · free
- Painless (2017) · composer · free
- Bel Canto (2018) · composer · free
- Doubting Thomas (2018) · composer · free
Subscription and free streaming for David Majzlin's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
21 credits, 14 with a MovieCove page.
Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Jonah(2023)
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films
Jack and Sam (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

Epic Yellowstone(2019)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
Bel Canto(2018)
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all films
Doubting Thomas(2018)
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films
Deej (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

Painless(2017)
Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all films
Angel of Nanjing(2015)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Catching the Sun(2015)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Althea(2014)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
Las Marthas (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Herb & Dorothy 50x50 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

The Loving Story(2011)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
A Bird of the Air(2011)
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films
Asylum Seekers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

Herb & Dorothy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

Fresh(2009)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

Pecados de mi padre(2009)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
Career shape
A full career of 13 titles from 2009 to 2023.

Biggest box office
Bel Canto (2018)

Highest rated
The Loving Story (2011)

Most popular right now
Bel Canto (2018)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do David Majzlin's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 73rd percentile, the median of all 13; across their 13 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 77th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up6
- 50th to 74th5
- 25th to 49th3
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 14 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Crowd Pleaser7
- Mixed6
Reviewers score the sound and music 54/100 in their films, across 6 reviewed titles; fans 61, detractors 33. The element that speaks to their work as a composer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does David Majzlin work with?
People who share at least 2 of David Majzlin's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Rex Miller shares the most, 3.
Directors
- Rex MillerShared titles: Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos (2024), Althea (2014), The Loving Story (2011)See all 3 shared titles with Rex Miller

- Jordan Matthew HorowitzShared titles: Painless (2017), Angel of Nanjing (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Jordan Matthew Horowitz

Editors
- Elisabeth Haviland JamesShared titles: Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos (2024), Althea (2014), The Loving Story (2011)See all 3 shared titles with Elisabeth Haviland James
Producers
- Ivan EntelShared titles: Breaking the Silence: The Maria Soledad Case (2024), Pecados de mi padre (2009)See all 2 shared titles with Ivan Entel
- Derek BrittShared titles: Althea (2014), The Loving Story (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Derek Britt

- Nancy BuirskiShared titles: Althea (2014), The Loving Story (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Nancy Buirski

Mixed roles
- Sabine HoffmanShared titles: Catching the Sun (2015), A Bird of the Air (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Sabine Hoffman

