Danny Boyle’s 2000 thriller movie The Beach is all about so-called paradise and tropical bliss – and it has a soundtrack to match.

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Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tilda Swinton, the film is an adaptation of Alex Garland’s novel about a young man called Richard who follows a strange map to the most remote corners of Thailand to find what is rumoured to be a utopic beach.

The film is as famous for its soundtrack as it is for its beautiful filming locations – so which songs feature in the movie?

Find out below…

Snakeblood by Leftfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeL8OuE48WA

Pure Shores by All Saints

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVNdTXEJv1A

Porcelain by Moby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13EifDb4GYs

Voices by Dario G

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjBujv4c000

8 Ball by Underworld

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3ZJy-yQTtI

Spinning Away by Sugar Ray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEVykU5PCeU

Return of Django by Asian Dub Foundation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvFgaBr6Dj8

On Your Own (Crouch End Broadway Mix) by Blur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcLm6GGEpIQ

Yeke Yeke by Mory Kanté

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIUD1Z3pU1g

Woozy by Faithless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8m68wL9hYw

Richard, It’s Business as Usual by Barry Adamson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQZAMEPah_E

Brutal by New Order

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed7dMj76CHU

Lonely Soul by U.N.K.L.E. feat Richard Ashcroft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pwCgBhvck8

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Beached by Orbital & Angelo Badalamenti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op2G_FTy6TY

Authors

Ellie HarrisonWriter, RadioTimes.com

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