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Order of Merit: Cinematography

All the films I consider "best cinematography" worthy over time. There are no nominations or limits, just a threshold of "that good". I started tracking in late 2021 so this only includes films I've watched or re-watched since then.

  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • The Brutalist
  • Train Dreams
  • The Clock
  • The Killer
  • Sinners
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 2
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Thief
  • Anora
  • Jesus Christ Superstar
  • Princess Mononoke
  • All We Imagine as Light
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  • True Stories
  • I Saw the TV Glow
  • Titanic
  • The Wild Robot
  • The Hunger
  • Harakiri
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • Unbreakable
  • The Taste of Things
  • Limbo
  • The Boy and the Heron
  • Cure
  • The Parallax View
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
  • Streets of Fire
  • The Searchers
  • The Informer
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  • Vampire Hunter D
  • Chinatown
  • Challengers
  • Stop Making Sense
  • West Side Story
  • Collateral
  • The Fan
  • Mission: Impossible
  • Dune: Part Two
  • The Abyss
  • Dune
  • Farewell My Concubine
  • Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
  • Pickup on South Street
  • Evil Does Not Exist
  • Rouge
  • Crimson Tide
  • Enemy of the State
  • Fargo
  • The Stranger
  • The First Slam Dunk
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • The Boy Friend
  • Redline
  • You Will Die at Twenty
  • Raging Bull
  • Blue Giant
  • The Long Day Closes
  • Lost Highway
  • Son of the White Mare
  • Orlando
  • THX 1138
  • The Third Man
  • Perfect Days
  • Oppenheimer
  • The Long Goodbye
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Godland
  • The Sea and Poison
  • Double Indemnity
  • Hangover Square
  • Columbus
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  • Swallowtail Butterfly
  • To Sleep So as to Dream
  • Munich
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • JFK
  • Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
  • Hereditary
  • They Cloned Tyrone
  • Asteroid City
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  • Bonnie and Clyde
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • Flashdance
  • A Visitor to a Museum
  • Scarface
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • The Scarlet Empress
  • John Wick: Chapter 4
  • I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
  • Dishonored
  • Shanghai Express
  • Forty Guns
  • Babylon
  • Barry Lyndon
  • Gladiator