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Ten Most Beautiful Movies ever made


Kubrick takes the honors:

1. Barry Lyndon (1975)
2. 2001 (1968)
3. The Godfather Part II (1974)
4. The Mission (1986)
5. Once Upon a Time in America (1983)
6. The Shining (1980)
7. Days of Heaven (1978)
8. Witness (1985)
9. Raging Bull (1980)
10. Manhattan (1979)

Runners Up: Apocalypse Now, Once Upon a Time in the West, Full Metal Jacket, Heat, Magnolia

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1. Barry Lyndon (1975)
2. Days of Heaven (1978)
3. The Conformist (1970)
4. Apocalypse Now (1979)
5. The Shining (1980)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
7. The Leopard (1963)
8. The Godfather Part II (1974)
9. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
10. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)


This list could contain 1000 other films. Above are the ones that come to mind first. So hard to say.



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The fact that you're missing films like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) is a huge mistake on your part.

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Add on:

Dolores Claiborne
The Tree of Life
The New World


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1. 2001 A Space Odyssey
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. Barry Lyndon
4. Once Upon A Time in The West
5. Apocalypse Now
6. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
7. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
8. Raging Bull
9. 8 1/2
10. AVATAR!!! (nah JK just trolling)

Real Number 10 is: Solaris (Tarkovsky version not the *beep* Soderbergh joke)

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1. Apocalypse Now (1979)
2. 2001 (1968)
3. Barry Lyndon (1975)
4. Eraserhead (1977)
5. The Seventh Seal (1957)
6. No Country for Old Men (2007)
7. Casino (1995)
8. The Red Shoes
9. Night of the Hunter (1955)
10. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly


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Quite boring selections all around. My list has some genuinely visually outstanding movies:

http://www.imdb.com/list/NZJMl0AcsaY/

My own favs? I'd include 2001, Soy Cuba, Le samourai, Diva, Once Upon a Time in the West, Barry Lyndon...

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In no particular order:
Barry Lyndon
The Tree of Life
The Thin Red Line
The Fall
Amélie
Vertigo
In the Mood for Love
2001: A Space Odyssey
Suspiria
Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance

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Your list is superb!

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not gunna post a top 10 because it would just be repetitive i think. but really, no one posted "the new world"? thats my number 1 . followed by this or any of kubricks/malicks work. but there are many, its hard to say.

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Is this a post about most beautiful movies made? Then how is it that no one mentioned "Out of Africa"?

I agree with most of what's been said in this thread, except Heat. I hate that movie, and besides, even if I didn't, were is the beauty in that?

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Without Order and in Sole Consideration of Visuals:
Barry Lyndon
Faust
The Fountain
Drive
Days of Heaven
Vertigo
The Wizard of Oz
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Blade Runner
The Last of the Mohicans
Lost in Translation
2001: A Space Odyssey
Lawrence of Arabia

HONORABLE MENTIONS (some of unconventional beauty)
Gone with the Wind
Jurassic Park
L.A. Confidential
Ran
Stop Making Sense
Black Swan
Brick
Total Recall (1990)
Dead Man
Let the Right One In
Apocalypse Now
The Shining
Blue Velvet
Requiem for a Dream
Kill Bill, Vol. 1
The Thing
2046
Alien
Sin City

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