15 incredibly beautiful films that you can admire endlessly

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Lifehacker has compiled a selection for those who appreciate films not only with a famously twisted plot, but also with a beautiful visual range.

1. Train to Darjeeling

• Drama, comedy, adventure.
• USA, 2007.
• Duration: 92 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 2.

Any of Wes Anderson's films could be in this collection, but we recommend this one for you - very warm, summer and inspiring to travel. Perfect symmetry, rich color palette and well-developed details - there are all the ingredients that make Anderson's films so recognizable.

This is a story about three brothers who have not spoken to each other for a whole year. To strengthen the weakened family ties and restore relationships, the elder brother invites everyone on an incredible trip to colorful India in search of spiritual enlightenment. All this time, the brothers quarrel, reconcile and remember the past.

The films The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Aquatic Life are also highly recommended.

2. Foam days

• Fantasy, melodrama, drama.
• France, Belgium, 2013.
• Duration: 125 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 5.

This mesmerizing film by Michel Gondry was based on a novel by French writer Boris Vian. This is one of those rare cases when the film adaptation is not worse, and even in some ways better than the book.

An amazing, touching and incredibly sad love story of Knee, who lacks simple human happiness, and Chloe, a girl in whose lungs a water lily grows. The heroes fall in love, fly on dates on pink clouds, play the alcoholic piano and rejoice in the sun, which has settled right on the ceiling of their apartment.

In addition to his unique visual style, Gondri has one more trick: he is a real master of inventing all sorts of unusual things. What are the memory erasure machines in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the car bed from Pecan Pie, or the charming handcrafted decorations from The Science of Sleep. However, in Foam of Days, the director surpasses himself. See for yourself, it's worth seeing.

3. Mirror mask

• Fantasy, adventure.
• USA, UK, 2005.
• Duration: 101 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 0.

The eponymous film adaptation of the surreal story by Neil Gaiman, which literally draws viewers into its strange and bizarre world. In many ways, this aftertaste remains due to the incredibly phantasmagoric characters: there are sphinx cats that feed on books, air fishes, robotic clocks, mysterious spider eyes and spinning giants. And also - the most beautiful masks, just like at the Venetian carnivals. If Salvador Dali's paintings suddenly became a film, then definitely this one.

The plot of the film is as follows: the bizarre fantasies of Helen, the daughter of circus performers, who cannot find harmony with herself and the world around her, suddenly come true. The world of Light and Darkness, invented by the girl, is suspiciously similar to her real life. To save her seriously ill mother, Helen is forced to solve many mysteries and defeat the Dark Queen.

4. Crimson Peak

• Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, Drama.
• USA, Canada, 2015.
• Duration: 120 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 6.

“Crimson Peak is my most beautiful film,” says director Guillermo del Toro. And this is actually the case. The costumes of the characters look so stylish, as if they were taken from some photo shoot for Vogue magazine, and the scenery seems to have been transferred from some old aristocratic estate. Each frame is beautiful, precisely calibrated and perfected.

The film was created according to all the canons of gothic melodrama: there are ghosts, an old mansion, and the frightening presence of some terrible secret. Edith, who is madly in love with her fiancé Thomas, drops everything and moves to his estate, about which there is a bad reputation. Frightening rustles, incomprehensible prohibitions and strange visions make the girl think that the locals do not in vain avoid her new home.

Guillermo del Toro also has another mesmerizingly beautiful painting "Pan's Labyrinth", which is also worth seeing.

5. Outland

• Fantasy, drama, comedy, adventure.
• USA, South Africa, India, 2006.
• Duration: 117 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 9.

Indian director Tarsem Singh, although not very famous, but without his "Outland" is rarely at least some collection of beautiful films. The picture itself was filmed in 26 different parts of the world with minimal use of special effects.

Stuntman Roy, who was admitted to the hospital after an unsuccessful stunt, dreams of committing suicide. At the hospital, he meets another patient - a little girl Alexandria, for whom he begins to compose a fairy tale about five brave heroes traveling the world in search of an insidious villain.

6. La La Land

• Musical, drama, melodrama, comedy.
• USA, Hong Kong, 2016.
• Duration: 128 minutes
• IMDb: 8, 2.

This vibrant and magical musical was nominated in 14 nominations at the 89th Academy Awards for a reason. The visual component of the film is mesmerizing, and lovers of the classics can easily find in it many references to old Hollywood tapes.

An impossibly romantic love story of a talented pianist who dreams of opening his own jazz club, and a young girl who is struggling to become an actress. At first, it seems to lovers that they will be together forever, but life and the success that suddenly fell on their heads make their own adjustments to their uneasy relationship.

7. Carol

• Drama, melodrama.
• UK, USA, Australia, 2015.
• Duration: 118 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 2.

A screen version of Patricia Highsmith's acclaimed novel The Price of Salt, filmed with incredible taste. Vintage outfits, stunning architecture, a festive New York vibe and impeccable 1950s styling is a real visual feast.

The story of the friendship that arose between the young saleswoman Teresa and the wealthy lady Carol and gradually grew into something more.

8. The tree of life

• Fantasy, drama.
• USA, 2010.
• Duration: 139 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 8.

An atmospheric and beautiful film by screenwriter and director Terrence Malick, whose idea he has been thinking about for almost 30 years.

A film about the eternal problems of fathers and children, questions of the universe and the most important aspects of life. This is the story of an ordinary American family in which parents hold completely opposite views on raising their child Jack. As he grows up a little and is faced with harsh reality, problems from childhood make themselves felt.

9. The Great Gatsby

• Drama, melodrama.
• USA, Australia, 2013.
• Duration: 143 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 3.

A dazzling, elegant and sparkling film adaptation of the novel by the American writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald. If you want to plunge into the atmosphere of reckless and luxurious parties of the 20s of the last century, then be sure to pay attention to this film.

The fateful meeting of the young writer Nick Carraway and the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby becomes the starting point for the development of amazing events that influenced a huge number of people associated with them. This is a sad, but believable and instructive love story, which then you will want to revisit more than once.

10. The incredible life of Walter Mitty

• Adventure, melodrama, drama.
• USA, UK, 2013.
• Duration: 114 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 3.

Attention: after this film, the desire to give up everything and leave to travel around picturesque Iceland intensifies a hundred times! We recommend that you look right before your vacation or if you are pretty tired of the usual view outside the window.

Walter Mitty is an ordinary office worker who is not very respected and appreciated by his colleagues. He is modest, a little squeezed, completely invisible and constantly hovers somewhere in the clouds. But one day something so important happens that Walter decides to completely change his life and sets off on a journey full of dangers across the incredibly beautiful Iceland.

11. Only lovers will survive

• Fantasy, thriller, drama.
• Germany, UK, France, 2013.
• Duration: 118 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 3.

A sophisticated film with a mysterious atmosphere and incredibly beautiful actors.

According to Jim Jarmusch, this is a "crypto-vampire love story", filmed according to his own script. Adam is a talented musician who doesn't really like to leave the house. Eve is his poetry-loving wife. They are not ordinary people, but the most real vampires who one day stop supplying blood.

12. Neon demon

• Horror, thriller.
• France, Denmark, USA, 2016.
• Duration: 118 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 3.

This is a beautiful, but not the most enjoyable and rather violent film. It will not appeal to those who believe that films should be made only about the good. But on the other hand, it will appeal to those who are ready for shock and provocation. The film is stylishly shot and resembles pictures of glossy magazines.

The provincial Jesse, who has dreamed of becoming a supermodel since childhood, immediately after leaving school goes to Los Angeles to make her dream come true. After a while, she succeeds, but she does not even suspect how cruel the modeling business is and how strong the envy of competitors is.

13. Long live Caesar

• Comedy, detective.
• UK, USA, Japan, 2016.
• Duration: 106 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 3.

This film is doubly good: firstly, it is a comedy from the incomparable Coen brothers, and secondly, this comedy is also pleasing to the eye. Artists and screenwriters incredibly accurately recreate the atmosphere of a Hollywood film studio of the 1930s-1950s in all its glory.

An important event at the Capital Pictures studio: they are shooting a film that has every chance of becoming a sensation and the main premiere of the year. In the midst of filming, a strange thing happens: no one knows where the actor playing the main role disappears. After some time, it becomes clear that he was taken hostage by the mysterious organization "Future", which demands a ransom.

14. Mad Max: Fury Road

• Action, science fiction, adventure.
• Australia, USA, 2015.
• Duration: 120 minutes
• IMDb: 8, 1.

Desert landscapes, catchy stunts, a real fleet of unusual cars and impressive special effects make this picture one of the best about the post-apocalypse.

A cult film about the adventures of Max Rokatanski, wandering all alone across a scorched planet. Mercenaries from the Citadel manage to capture him, from which he tries with all his might to escape.

15. Sweet Francis

• Drama, melodrama, comedy.
• USA, Brazil, 2012.
• Duration: 86 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 4.

Stylish black and white comedy by Noah Baumbach. The film is very rich, distinctive and emotional, even though there is no color. If right now you do not have enough lightness and carelessness, then we recommend watching it.

Frances Halladay is a young New Yorker who really wants to become a dancer, but has absolutely no ability. However, this does not bother her in any way, because the main thing is to believe in your own strengths and not give up on your plans.