Through a comparative study of several films with a contemplative narrative context such as Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998), a score-matrix that marked a clear evolution in Zimmerian aesthetics, Hannibal (Ridley Scott, 2001), The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard, 2006) “the most sophisticated synthesis of the influences of minimalism” (Berthomieu 2013, p. 698), to scores that Hans Zimmer composed for Christopher Nolan as Inception (2010) and Interstellar (2014), this article shows how Zimmer manages to impose a new musical trend in Hollywood by integrating a pared-down writing impregnated notably by the minimalism of Arvo Pärt to loops developed by synthesizers or electronic sounds: if tributes to works of Arvo Pärt are appropriate to highligh inner torment or dark meditation, Zimmer also takes up more general principles of this form of minimalism – often an immutable and infinitely repeated oscillation around a minor perfect chord – almost systematically mixed with this creative energy of hybrid timbres, to create another temporality bringing a form of ineluctable to the image while maintaining empathy and discreet synchronism as supports for the action (The Thin Red Line, Batman Begins, The Da Vinci Code, Inception). The fifth – alone, in ostinato or repeated on a motif –, which is the quintessence of the Zimmerian tintinnabuli (beyond the perfect Pärtian agreement), emphasizes the suspended moment (The Thin Red Line, Hannibal, Interstellar), while a form of radicalization of this minimalism which sometimes goes as far as the negation of any melody, replaced by a single note, becoming abstract texture, or by a diatonic cluster in blend mode (The Da Vinci Code, Interstellar), evokes despair, death, or nothingness. Far from being a “world” which “is reduced to the emptiness of a present without a dream” (Berthomieu 2004, p. 75), Zimmer’s electro-minimalist and contemplative writing, marked by a strong narrative coherence, is connected to the aesthetic program of the films for which it is intended.