Wojciech Kilar is one of my absolute favorite film composers of all time. He has been active mostly in his native Polish cinema, but he has done a few bigger budget movies as well, such as Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Truman Show, The Ninth Gate and The Pianist.
What is intriguing in his style is his use of extremely simple and to-the-point motifs. In that respect, it resembles Hitchcock's "court composer" Bernard Herrmann. They both invent little ideas upon which they expand. And repeate.
This is Kilar going a bit Debussy and Ravel, the very beautiful and melancholic "Walc" from the film The Promised Land (1974):
My favorite Kilar is from one of my favorite movies The Ninth Gate (1999). He really is a master of dark colors, and suits Polanski's style extremely fittingly. Together they create pure, original and masterful cinematic expression. While the superb Corso's Theme takes us through the story with different orchestrational variations, the opening title music always gives me goose bumps with it's chromaticism and minor chords:
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