Movies by Lists - Most Beautiful And Visually Stunning Movies (55 [56]) 
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| 2001 A Space Odyssey The Monoliths push humanity to reach for the stars; after their discovery in Africa generations ago, the mysterious objects lead mankind on an awesome journey to Jupiter, with the help of H.A.L. 9000: the world's greatest supercomput | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Adventure, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (642.5K votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
| AmelieAmélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love. | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Comedy, Romance | 8.3 (735.1K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Apocalypse NowA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god. | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Drama, Mystery, War | 8.4 (641.8K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, TheRobert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader. | 2007 | Andrew Dominik | Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Western | 7.5 (177K votes) | 160 | 20211228 |
| Barry LyndonAn Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Adventure, Drama, History, War | 8.1 (161.6K votes) | 185 | 20211228 |
| BirdmanA washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production. | 2014 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Comedy, Drama | 7.7 (610.3K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Blade RunnerA blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator. | 1982 | Ridley Scott (*) | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8.1 (738.2K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Blade Runner 2049Young 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. | 2017 | Denis Villeneuve (*) | Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8.0 (524.5K votes) | 164 | 20211228 |
| Children of MenIn 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.9 (487.1K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Citizen KaneFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'. | 1941 | Orson Welles (*) | Drama, Mystery | 8.3 (429.4K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Conformist, TheA weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident. | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci (*) | Drama | 8.0 (29.5K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Days of HeavenA 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. | 1978 | Terrence Malick (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (56.5K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| DriveAn action drama about a mysterious Hollywood stuntman and mechanic who moonlights as a getaway driver, and finds himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbor. | 2011 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Action, Drama | 7.8 (607.6K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Eyes Wide ShutA Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing. | 1999 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (325.6K votes) | 159 | 20211228 |
| Fall, TheIn a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story of five mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid | 2006 | Tarsem Singh | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 7.9 (110.7K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Fellowship of the RingA meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron. | 2001 | Peter Jackson (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 8.8 (1.8M votes) | 178 | 20211228 |
| Finding NemoAfter his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home. | 2003 | Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family | 8.1 (1M votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Fountian, TheAs a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi. | 2006 | Darren Aronofsky (*) | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (238.1K votes) | 97 | 20220723 |
| Godfather Part I, TheThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty in postwar New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son. | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Crime, Drama | 9.2 (1.7M votes) | 175 | 20211228 |
| Grand Budapest Hotel, TheA 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. | 2014 | Wes Anderson (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 8.1 (766K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Hero [Ying.xiong]A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors. | 2002 | Yimou Zhang (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, History | 7.9 (179.1K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| In the Mood for LoveTwo 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. | 2000 | Kar-Wai Wong | Drama, Romance | 8.1 (141.4K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| InceptionA thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster. | 2010 | Christopher Nolan (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8.8 (2.2M votes) | 148 | 20211228 |
| Jurassic ParkA pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose. | 1993 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8.1 (929.6K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| La La LandWhile navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future. | 2016 | Damien Chazelle (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance | 8.0 (552.7K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Lawrence of ArabiaThe 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. | 1962 | David Lean (*) | Adventure, Biography, Drama, War | 8.3 (284.5K votes) | 228 | 20211228 |
| Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, TheWith a plan to exact revenge on a mythical shark that killed his partner, Oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son. | 2004 | Wes Anderson (*) | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (191.8K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Lighthouse, TheTwo lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. | 2019 | Robert Eggers (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | 7.4 (192.3K votes) | 109 | 20220315 |
| Mad Max Fury RoadIn 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 worshiper, and a drifter named Max. | 2015 | George Miller (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8.1 (949.9K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| ManhattanThe life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress. | 1979 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (137.9K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Master, TheA Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by the Cause and its charismatic leader. | 2012 | Paul Thomas Anderson (*) | Drama | 7.1 (173.6K votes) | 138 | 20220822 |
| MetropolisIn a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. | 1927 | Fritz Lang (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (169.6K votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
| Mirror, The [Zerkalo]A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation. | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.1 (44.6K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Night of the HunterA religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. | 1955 | Charles Laughton (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 8.0 (87K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Once Upon a Time in AmericaA former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life. | 1984 | Sergio Leone (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.3 (337.4K votes) | 229 | 20211228 |
| Once Upon a Time in The WestA mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad. | 1968 | Sergio Leone (*) | Western | 8.5 (319.7K votes) | 165 | 20211228 |
| Only God ForgivesJulian, a drug-smuggler thriving in Bangkok's criminal underworld, sees his life get even more complicated when his mother compels him to find and kill whoever is responsible for his brother's recent death. | 2013 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.7 (111K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Raging BullThe life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it. | 1980 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Biography, Drama, Sport | 8.2 (341.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Raise the Red LanternA young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household. | 1991 | Yimou Zhang (*) | Drama, History, Romance | 8.1 (31.7K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| RanIn 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. | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Action, Drama, War | 8.2 (121.7K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
| Revenant, TheA 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. | 2015 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Western | 8.0 (762.8K votes) | 156 | 20211228 |
| Road to PerditionA mob enforcer's son in 1930s Illinois witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge. | 2002 | Sam Mendes | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (260.7K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Russian Ark [Russkiy kovcheg]A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years. | 2002 | Aleksandr Sokurov (*) | Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery | 7.4 (20.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Saving Private RyanFollowing the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. | 1998 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Drama, War | 8.6 (1.3M votes) | 169 | 20211228 |
| Searchers, TheAn American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm. | 1956 | John Ford (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.9 (86.6K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Shining, TheA family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future. | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Drama, Horror | 8.4 (968K votes) | 146 | 20211228 |
| SicarioAn 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. | 2015 | Denis Villeneuve (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (407.6K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Sin CityAn exploration of the dark and miserable Basin City and three of its residents, all of whom are caught up in violent corruption. | 2005 | Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez | Crime, Thriller | 8.0 (755.6K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| SunshineA team of international astronauts are sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057. | 2007 | Danny Boyle (*) | Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.2 (244.3K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Third Man, ThePulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. | 1949 | Carol Reed (*) | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (167.7K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Tree of Life, TheThe story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings. | 2011 | Terrence Malick (*) | Drama, Fantasy | 6.8 (173.9K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| VertigoA former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed. | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 8.3 (389.4K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| WatchmenIn 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it. | 2009 | Zack Snyder | Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (533.3K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
| What Dreams May ComeChris Nielsen dies in an accident, and enters Heaven. But when he discovers that his beloved wife Annie has killed herself out of grief over the loss, he embarks on an afterlife adventure to reunite with her. | 1998 | Vincent Ward | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.0 (107K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Wizard of Oz, TheYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishe | 1939 | Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 8.0 (384.7K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Samsara | 2011 | Ron Fricke | Documentary, Music | 8.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |