The Best Cinematography of All Time

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The most beautiful films ever shot. Masterclasses in light, composition and camera movement.

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The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life

2011 · 2h 19m · Movie

The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.

PG-13
7.3
2
In the Mood for Love

In the Mood for Love

2000 · 1h 38m · Movie

Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.

PG
8.7
3
Roma

Roma

2018 · 2h 15m · Movie

A year in the life of an upper-middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.

R
8.0
4
Days of Heaven

Days of Heaven

1978 · 1h 34m · Movie

A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.

PG
8.1
5
Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon

1975 · 3h 5m · Movie

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

PG
8.6
6
Hero

Hero

2002 · 1h 34m · Movie

A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.

PG-13
7.9
7
Ran

Ran

1985 · 2h 40m · Movie

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

R
8.7
8
Come and See

Come and See

1985 · 2h 22m · Movie

After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Not Rated
9.0
9
Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

2019 · 2h 2m · Movie

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

R
8.7
10
Dune: Part One

Dune: Part One

2021 · 2h 35m · Movie

Paul Atreides arrives on Arrakis after his father accepts the stewardship of the dangerous planet. However, chaos ensues after a betrayal as forces clash to control melange, a precious resource.

PG-13
7.8
11
Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

1962 · 3h 47m · Movie

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

PG
8.6
12
2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey

1968 · 2h 29m · Movie

When a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins.

G
8.4
13
Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049

2017 · 2h 44m · Movie

Young Blade Runner K's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.

R
8.2
14
1917

1917

2019 · 1h 59m · Movie

April 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.

R
8.2
15
The Revenant

The Revenant

2015 · 2h 36m · Movie

A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.

R
7.9
16
Dune: Part Two

Dune: Part Two

2024 · 2h 46m · Movie

Paul Atreides unites with the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible fu...

PG-13
8.7
17
The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014 · 1h 39m · Movie

A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.

R
8.3
18
Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max: Fury Road

2015 · 2h 0m · Movie

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshipper and a drifter named Max.

R
8.3
19
Sicario

Sicario

2015 · 2h 1m · Movie

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

R
7.9
20
Nomadland

Nomadland

2021 · 1h 47m · Movie

A woman in her sixties, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

R
7.5
21
The New World

The New World

2005 · 2h 15m · Movie

The story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas.

PG-13
7.1
22
There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood

2007 · 2h 38m · Movie

A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.

R
8.7
23
Samsara

Samsara

2011 · 1h 42m · Movie

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.

PG-13
8.4
24
Baraka

Baraka

1992 · 1h 36m · Movie

A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.

Not Rated
8.6
25
Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels

1995 · 1h 39m · Movie

This Hong Kong-set crime drama follows the lives of a hitman, hoping to get out of the business, and his elusive female partner.

Not Rated
8.3
26
Chungking Express

Chungking Express

1994 · 1h 42m · Movie

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents.

PG-13
8.5
27
Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now

1979 · 2h 27m · Movie

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

R
8.6
28
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2007 · 2h 40m · Movie

Robert Ford, who has idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the resurgent gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

R
7.8
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Skyfall

Skyfall

2012 · 2h 23m · Movie

James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

PG-13
7.9
30
Blade Runner

Blade Runner

1982 · 1h 57m · Movie

A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

R
8.2
31
Children of Men

Children of Men

2006 · 1h 49m · Movie

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have somehow become infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.

R
8.3
32
Gravity

Gravity

2013 · 1h 31m · Movie

Dr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.

PG-13
7.3
33
The Fall

The Fall

2006 · 1h 57m · Movie

In 1920s Los Angeles, a bedridden patient in a hospital captivates a young girl with a fantastic tale of heroes, myths, and villains on a desert island.

R
8.3
34
House of Flying Daggers

House of Flying Daggers

2004 · 1h 59m · Movie

A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.

PG-13
7.5
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Kwaidan

Kwaidan

1965 · 3h 3m · Movie

A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.

Not Rated
8.3
36
Melancholia

Melancholia

2011 · 2h 15m · Movie

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

R
7.4