What do you think are the most beautiful films?

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Hey what a great thread! Thank you for creating it. The question: what is the most beautiful film is perhaps my favourite with regards to the history of cinema, philosophy and art of film. Usually Jean Vigo's L'Atalante gets the credit and F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is a popular choice as well. Here's a few films that I truly consider as beautiful; films that are so well made I'd like to cry, films that touch, teach and change people, films with such emotional scales one can't help but be uplifted. Spellbinding, enchanting and life-enhancing experiences.

1. La Double vie de Veronique (1991) by Krysztof Kieslowski
2. L'Atalante (1934) by Jean Vigo
3. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) by F.W. Murnau
4. Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993) by Krzysztof Kieslowski
5. Ugetsu monogatari (1953) by Kenji Mizoguchi
6. Akahige (Red Beard, 1965) by Akira Kurosawa
7. Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) by Krzysztof Kieslowski
8. Trois couleurs: Blanc (1994) by Krzysztof Kieslowski
9. Le notti bianche (White Nights, 1957) by Luchino Visconti
10. Tokyo monogatari (Tokyo Story, 1953) by Yasujiro Ozu



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I really thought Rachel Getting Married was beautiful. It took a special place from my heart.
Also I didn't see anyone mentioning Mike Leigh, I only saw two of his films, Happy-Go-Lucky and Another Year, but I put them there with the most beautiful films.

trying to have some contemporary films with your guy's lists lol

I must say, Fellini is worth mentioning. His films, along with Xavier Dolan's, are the only films that really make me feel in the presence of true beauty. And Lost in Translation. Three Colours Blue, 8 1/2, Jai Tue Ma Mere, and Lost in Translation, those are the four films I'd take with me to the next life.

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Bicycle Thieves (1948) Vittorio De Sica
Ikiru (1952) Akira Kurosawa
The 400 Blows (1959) François Truffaut
La Dolce Vita (1960) Federico Fellini
Jim and Jules (1962) François Truffaut
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick
Walkabout (1971) Nicolas Roeg
Solaris (1972) Andrei Tarkovsky
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) Victor Erice
Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese
Stalker (1979) Andrei Tarkovsky
Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola
Fanny and Alexander (1982) Ingmar Bergman
Ran (1985) Akira Kurosawa
Blue Velvet (1986) David Lynch
My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Hayao Miyazaki
Monsieur Hire (1989) Patrice Leconte
The Double Life of Veronique (1991) Krzysztof Kieslowski
Three Colors: Blue, White, Red (1993-1994) Krzysztof Kieslowski
Breaking the Waves (1996) Lars Von Trier
American Beauty (1999) Sam Mendes
Magnolia (1999) Paul Thomas Anderson
Yi Yi (2000) Edward Yang
Mulholland Dr. (2001) David Lynch
Lost in Translation (2003) Sofia Coppola
2046 (2004) Wong Kar-wai
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Guillermo Del Toro
The Master (2012) Paul Thomas Anderson
"Before" Trilogy (1995-2013) Richard Linklater

...but those are just a few that happened to cross my mind

I am surprised no one has mentioned "A Bittersweet Life". That movie is pure poetry, and the OST is among the best I have ever heard in a movie.

As for Kieslowski, he was a very special director indeed. Very few other movies engage the viewer like Kieslowski's.

My list for "the most beautiful movies" would be as follows, more or less:

-The Double Life of Veronique
-The Trilogy of Colors (by Kieslowski as well)
-A Short Film About Love (Kieslowski too...)
-A Bittersweet Life
-The Virgin Spring
-Fanny and Alexander
-The Cat Returns (猫の恩返し Neko no Ongaeshi (By Ghibli)
-Ponyo (By Ghibli)
-Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (probably among the most beautiful movies I have ever watched).

And can't think of anymore for now!

Kudos to the creator of this topic!

Waking Life, Boyhood
Coraline
My Uncle Antoine
Harold and Maude
Wings of Desire
and of course The Double Life of Veronique

anyone know any similar films to the ones I've mentioned, let me know ;)

The most beautiful films to me would also tend to be the films that I consider to be my favorite in general. But if I focus solely on beauty, the order changes, and movies that I love more for story (such as The Third Man, Touch of Evil, and The Lives of Others) than for cinematography or sound tend to drop some spots. But anyway, just focusing on beauty, I'd say:

Mulholland Dr. - David Lynch

Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola

Werckmeister Harmonies - Béla Tarr

Spring Breakers - Harmony Korine

The Little Mermaid - Ron Clements, John Musker

Diva - Jean-Jacques Beineix

F for Fake - Orson Welles

3-iron - Ki-duk Kim

Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn

Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock

Crimson Gold - Jafar Panahi

Pale Flower - Masahiro Shinoda

Belle de Jour - Luis Buñuel

Tess - Roman Polanski

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Michel Gondry

Chinatown - Roman Polanski

Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock

I'm sure I'm forgetting some of my favorites, but perhaps they'll be covered in the lists of others. As for The Double Life of Veronique, it's a little early to say, since I just saw it for the first time. Probably I would put it towards the bottom of this list. The opera scene with Weronika was stunningly beautiful, but I was somewhat sad that--for me, at least--none of the scenes in the rest of the movie quite approached that height. In any event, I'll have to give it another viewing before I can decide.