FEARLESS uses the opening movement, as have many films. (Just last year one of the Movie Score Media releases - CHASING GHOSTS - featured a 'lift' of the first movement called 'Interogation for Violin and Orchestra'.)
I can't think of anything that has brought to mind the second movement in a film, but it is ringing a bell somewhere in my cranium.
I have to agree with the praise here for this piece. While I can't listen to this work that often, because it drains me so much, I do believe it is a masterpiece and have no problem admitting it moves me to tears. It captures agonizing despair like few musical works I'm aware of in my life.
Thankfully it hasn't been exploited to the degree that Barber's ADAGIO has, and I've still only seen it used in FEARLESS - where it really works magnificently against that final, breathtaking scene.
If you really want to have a wonderfully depressing evening, give this a back-to-back listen fellow Polish composer Wojciech Kilar's far more varied but equally harrowing ANGELUS. Keep a bottle of Prozac nearby!
I believe the first film, background music, use of the symphony was in the 1985 French movie, "Police" -- and at that time the classical label, Erato, released the entire symphony as a "soundtrack" LP (still my favorite recording of the piece):
