i love cinematography more than i love my own family so here’s a list of 50 incredibly beautiful movies!! some of them are fantastic, some are so bad the cinematography barely redeems them, but they’re all worth watching. i tried to find the most high-quality streaming links available, but if you have a problem with shitty video quality you should probably just rent the dvd like a law-abiding citizen. (director of photography’s name in parenthesis)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Geoffrey Unsworth)
- Amelie (Bruno Delbonnel)
- American Beauty (Conrad Hall)
- Antiviral (Karim Hussain)
- The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford (Roger Deakins)
- Black Swan (Matthew Libatique)
- Blade Runner (Jordan Cronenweth)
- Brother, Where Art Thou? (Roger Deakins)
- Capote (Adam Kimmelote)
- Children of Men (Emmanuel Lubezki)
- Citizen Kane (Gregg Toland)
- Days of Heaven (Néstor Almendros, Haskell Wexler)
- Double Indemnity (John F. Seitz)
- Drive (Newton Thomas Sigel)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Ellen Kuras)
- The Fall (2006) (Colin Watkinson)
- Fargo (Roger Deakins)
- The Game (Harris Savides)
- The Godfather (Gordon Willis)
- Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)
- Hunger (Sean Bobbitt)
- Inception (Wally Pfister)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (Bruno Delbonnel)
- Lawrence of Arabia (F.A. Young)
- Life of Pi (Claudio Miranda)
- Lost in Translation (Lance Acord)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (Dion Beebe)
- The Mirror (Georgi Rerberg)
- Moonrise Kingdom (Robert Yeoman)
- No Country For Old Men (Roger Deakins)
- Nostalghia (Giuseppe Lanci)
- Only God Forgives (Larry Smith)
- Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Navarro)
- Rear Window (Robert Burks)
- Samsara (Ron Fricke)
- Schindler’s List (Janusz Kamiński)
- Se7en (Darius Khondji)
- The Shawshank Redemption (Roger Deakins)
- The Shining (John Alcott)
- Skyfall (Roger Deakins)
- Slumdog Millionaire (Anthony Dod Mantle)
- The Social Network (Jeff Cronenweth)
- Taxi Driver (Michael Chapman)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Janusz Kamiński)
- There Will Be Blood (Robert Elswit)
- The Third Man (Robert Krasker)
- The Tree of Life (Emmanuel Lubezki)
- True Grit (2010) (Roger Deakins)
- The Wrestler (Maryse Alberti)
- Zodiac (Harris Savides)