Top 10 Most Beautiful Non-CGI Films
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Great list but Blade Runner could have been #1 esay
i tried to start watching 2001 space oddysey. The most dull and boring 45 mins i spent behind a screen.
the fact that no Mario Bava or Dario Argento films are on here is kinda dumb.
I thought there should be at least one Coen brothers movie in the list…No country for old men, Fargo, and maybe Inside Llewyn Davis…
Ten commandments
A Little princess.
Tree of life sucks my BIG d?!# !!!!!
Sahara desert? I think you mean Arabian desert
Where is 1946 beauty and the beast? That needs to be here.
The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Children of Med.
The exorcit.
The physician.
The Shining.
Labyrinth.
The neverending story.
A clockwork Orange.
Spirited Away.
all three insidious movies.
12 angry men
fantastic beasts and where to find them
Other films with more harsh aesthetics are Bringing out the dead and contagion. Both films have beauty in their themes and their exploration of the human condition.
American Beauty took me through the love of my life after i had to break it up.
Lost In Translation is beautiful tho, everywhere Bob and Charlotte is beautiful looking
Ayee–the narrator goofs! The desert in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA is not the Sahara! That's in North Africa! Lawrence was in wilderness areas of Asia including Wadi Rum in Jordan and the Nefud Desert in Saudi Arabia–and the movie was filmed in Jordan, too!
THE NUN'S STORY (1959) was a beautiful depiction of cloistered life as well as of one nun's experience as a nurse in a mental asylum and most spectacularly in Africa. No CGI then–real location shooting!
Barry Lyndon should have been on the list.
Great gastby
Mad Max
Nice. I also like The Mission (plus it has one of the most beautiful scores as well). And what about Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Maybe it has too much cgi for this list? I put those 2 above a few on this list.
In The Mood For Love was an honorable mention?! Fuck you guys.
Most of these movies were made before CGI was invented.
American Beauty should have been higher
blade runner………….the best!!!
Jet Li's Hero?
Hero (2002) should have been in here somewhere.
Barry Lyndon was the best. All natural light. Tree Of Life and American Beauty second and third.
How the heck did Wes Anderson not get on this list?????????
"Strings" really need to be on this list!!!!
It took 10 years to make, the sunset and everything is painted by hand, and the way they work those wooden doll marionettes is unbelievable!!
Oh, and I recommend the original danish voices!!
Schindlers List should've been top 5. Take out Blade Runner
Where is Mad Max??
"Days of Heaven" is unusually beautiful for the lack of trickery– set in the hard times early 20th century midwest among wandering migrant farmhands, no fancy technology, just natural light and framing like a Wyeth painting from almost every point of view.
"Blade Runner" and "Tree of Life" will be my favorites (and "Blade Runner" has been for many years before its second life as a cult fave) … Douglas Trumbull should be honored for all he's done for movies over the years, with a separate award other than Oscars.
07:11 – The vastness of the Sahara desert? Come on, WatchMojo, do you ever verify your research or are you just particularly ignorant of geography? "Lawrence of Arabia" is set in the Arabian desert and coincidentally also was shot there, in Jordan.
Pretty much every Terrence Malick and Stanley Kubrick movie could make this list.
I'm somewhat disappointed in the omission of ”Last of the Mohicans". The cinematography was breathtakingly beautiful.
You should do a non CGI Horror movies list.
8 1/2
Hellboy 2