The Amateur soundtrack guide: A complete list of the music in the Rami Malek thriller

The Amateur is a James Hawes-directed vigilante spy film that came out on April 11, 2025. It is an adaptation of the eponymous 1981 novel, and the screenplay was written by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli.

Here's the official synopsis:

When his supervisors at the CIA refuse to take action after his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a decoder takes matters into his own hands.

We will be listing the soundtrack of the film and all the songs that are featured in it throughout different scenes to evoke different emotions. Let us proceed!

A complete song list of The Amateur Soundtrack

The music of The Amateur is composed by Volker Bertelmann. Besides the score, the film also features several songs that have been placed according to the scene's ambience. Below is a list of all of them:

In the Sky
Finnish Waters
CCTV Footage
Decryption
Bugging a CIA Officer Is Treason
Heller’s Waltz
Training & Searching
Stalking Gretchen
Henderson Is Headed Your Way
Those Operations Were Illegal
The Amateur Opening
Nadezhda
Where to Find Horst Schiller
Mourning
Too Big of a Stench
Club Chase
Backdoor Exit
Enjoy That Pasta
What’s Wrong
Missing Sarah
To Turkey
Ouvrez La Porte

More about The Amateur

The Amateur is produced by Rami Malek, Hutch Parker, Dan Wilson, and Joel B. Michaels. It was released by 20th Century Studios on April 11, 2025.

Here's a list of its cast members:

Rami Malek as Charles Heller aka Charlie
Rachel Brosnahan as Sarah Heller
Laurence Fishburne as Robert Henderson aka Hendo
Caitríona Balfe as Inquiline/Davies
Holt McCallany as CIA Deputy Director Alex Moore
Michael Stuhlbarg as Horst Schiller
Julianne Nicholson as CIA Director Samantha O'Brien
Danny Sapani as Caleb Horowitz
Adrian Martinez as Carlos
Jon Bernthal as Jackson O'Brien/The Bear
Adrian Martinez as Carlos
Barbara Probst as Gretchen Frank
Marc Rissmann as Mishka Blazhic
Henry Garrett as the Chief of Staff
Joseph Millson as Ellish
Alice Hewkin as Ali Park
Takehiro Hira as The Professor

Director James Hawes gave an interview to Collider where he answered why he wanted to tell this story. He said,

"It was the sort of film I'd like to go and see. I love the genre, as you will gather. But also, there is a rare combination here, or at least rare more recently, where you get all the thrills and spills, and scope of the espionage genre, and an international adventure, but you have a very clear character arc at the middle of it all and at the heart of it all. So there was something to do with character in those tense, intense settings that felt like it had promise, like it had possibility."

He also spoke about maintaining the pace of the film by making it engaging but not very fast.

"One of the most important things a director can do is to respond to the material as they shoot it, as the actors breathe life into it in front of you. To feel what the scene-to-scene rhythm and the music of the whole is going to be, and we did that in this. So I felt there were moments where I wanted to spend more time with Charlie Heller in his grief."

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