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Ethan Rose

Composer

Ethan Rose is an artist and composer who has written original scores and contributed music to numerous dramatic and documentary films. Several pieces of music from his first full length album, Ceiling Songs, were featured in Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park (2007). In the ensuing decades Rose has composed music for a number of award-winning films including Urszula Antoniak's Nothing Personal (2009) and Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up (2022). Alongside his musical work, Rose creates and exhibits sound-art installations and runs Parallel, a sound-focused design studio.

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Biography from TMDB.

Works as
Composer
Titles
6 on MovieCove · 10 credits in all
Links
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Known for

TMDB popularity, last 156 days to Oct 27Down 23% in 30 days

What are Ethan Rose's films like?

Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.

Themes

share of theme weight
Self
36%
Bonds
29%
Society
28%
Power
6%
Purpose3 titles, browse their movies with this themeIsolation2 titles, browse their movies with this themeRomantic love2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 6 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Serious: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their serious movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

A split, not a type: Light 4 · Serious 0 · Dark 2

Stylized: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their stylized movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

A split, not a type: Grounded 3 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 1

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 2 · Charged 2 · Intense 2

Steady: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their steady movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 3 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 0

Straight-faced: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their straight-faced movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 5 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0

Slow burn: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their slow burn movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 6 · Even-paced 0 · Relentless 0

Engaged: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their engaged movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 1 · Engaged 4 · Full focus 1

Open-ended: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their open-ended movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 1 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 2

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Melancholic
4
Contemplative
4
Tense
4
Bittersweet
1
Romantic
1
Other
1

How their films linger

Unsettling2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHaunting2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteBittersweet2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHopeful2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end

  • Bittersweet3
  • Tragic1
  • Ambiguous2

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 Ethan Rose's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 2 of their 6 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Subscription and free streaming for Ethan Rose'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

10 credits, 6 with a MovieCove page.

  • Palm (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    Composer

  • Allen Sunshine(2024)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films

  • Showing Up(2022)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films

  • An Unsatisfying Metaphor (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Sound

  • Magic Mountains(2020)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films

  • Missed Days (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Composer

  • Nude Area(2014)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all films

  • Code Blue(2011)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films

  • Wild Horses (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)

    Composer

  • Nothing Personal(2009)

    Composer

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films

Career shape

A full career of 9 titles from 2009 to 2026.

Biggest box office

Showing Up (2022)

$1.3M worldwide

Highest rated

Allen Sunshine (2024)

Midcredits 87th

Most popular right now

Showing Up (2022)

By role

only this rolewith another role
Music8 of 9: 8 only music, 0 with another role · typical Midcredits score61stOther crew1 of 9: 1 only other crew, 0 with another role

By decade

2000s1 · crew2010s3 · crew2020s5 · crew

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 Ethan Rose's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 46th percentile, the median of all 6; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 49th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

49thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 6

Approval · how many liked their films

42ndpercentile
Typical film, the median of 6

Reach · how many have seen their films

53rdpercentile
Typical film, the median of 6

Midcredits score across 6 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up2
  • 50th to 74th1
  • 25th to 49th1
  • Below 25th2

Shape of the crowd

4 of their 6 titles are Mixed.

  • Crowd Pleaser2
  • Mixed4

Most divisive · composer

Nude Area (2014)

62nd percentile spread · 38% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · composer

Allen Sunshine (2024)

Midcredits 87th · 92% liked

Reviewers score the sound and music 61/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 77, detractors 30. 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.

Is Ethan Rose's work okay for kids?

Across a limited sample of up to 3 MovieCove titles with content scores.

Their medianMedian of all films
Sex & Nudity3 titlesmedian 58 · moderateMedian of all films: 32

Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.

Who does Ethan Rose work with?

People who share at least 2 of Ethan Rose's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Urszula Antoniak shares the most, 4.

Directors

Editors

Producers