
Cliff Martinez
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- February 5, 1954
- Birthplace
- The Bronx, New York, USA
Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers, The Foreigner, and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Solaris, Contagion, and Traffic) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young).
Filmography

The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel 2026
as Self - Drummer, 1983-1986 (archive footage)

Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn 2023
Original Music Composer

Touch of Crude 2022
Music

Kimi 2022
Original Music Composer
- Cliff and Larry: Beginnings
Cliff and Larry: Beginnings 2018
as Self

Hotel Artemis 2018
Original Music Composer

Game Night 2018
Original Music Composer

Den of Thieves 2018
Original Music Composer

The Foreigner 2017
Original Music Composer

War Dogs 2016
Original Music Composer

The Neon Demon 2016
Original Music Composer

The Secret Slaves of the Middle East 2016
Music

My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn 2015
Music

The Normal Heart 2014
Original Music Composer

Mea Culpa 2014
Original Music Composer

The Square 2013
Songs

Only God Forgives 2013
Original Music Composer

Spring Breakers 2013
Original Music Composer

The Company You Keep 2012
Original Music Composer
- Golem
Golem 2012
Music

Arbitrage 2012
Original Music Composer

NWR 2012
Additional Music

Drive 2011
Original Music Composer

Contagion 2011
Original Music Composer

The Lincoln Lawyer 2011
Original Music Composer

Severe Clear 2010
Music

In the Beginning 2009
Original Music Composer

Spy(ies) 2009
Original Music Composer

Vice 2008
Original Music Composer

Stiletto 2008
Original Music Composer

First Snow 2006
Original Music Composer

Havoc 2005
Original Music Composer

Stan Ridgway's Holiday In Dirt 2005
Music

Wicker Park 2004
Original Music Composer

Wonderland 2003
Original Music Composer

Solaris 2002
Original Music Composer

Narc 2002
Original Music Composer

Traffic 2000
Original Music Composer

The Limey 1999
Original Music Composer

Wicked 1998
Original Music Composer

The Fifth Element 1997
Additional Music

Schizopolis 1997
Original Music Composer

Gray's Anatomy 1996
Original Music Composer

The Underneath 1995
Original Music Composer

King of the Hill 1993
Original Music Composer

Red Hot Chili Peppers - What Hits!? 1992
as Self

Black Magic 1992
Music, Original Music Composer

Kafka 1991
Original Music Composer

Pump Up the Volume 1990
Original Music Composer

sex, lies, and videotape 1989
Original Music Composer
- Red Hot Chili Peppers: [1986] St. Louis, MO
Red Hot Chili Peppers: [1986] St. Louis, MO 1986
as Drums
Credits from TMDB.