Rave Reviews Releases Ranking of The 50 Most Beautiful Movies

Rave Reviews, the innovative site that publishes entertaining guides and rankings based on advanced data-driven analysis, has published its ranking of the "50 Most Beautiful Movies." The ranking is available here!

The movies featured in the ranking represent almost a century of cinema, spanning from "Nosferatu" (released in 1922) to "Coco" (released in 2017). The list includes films from a wide variety of genres and from numerous countries, including Japan, France, and Italy as well as the United States.

The author of the ranking, Gabe Sealey-Morris, chose to include only one film per director. "I wanted to create a kind of cross-section of cinematic history," Sealey-Morris said. "There are, of course, some big names that tend to dominate 'top movie' lists, like Kubrick and Hitchcock and Scorsese. So while those directors do appear on the ranking, I also made a point of looking for movies and directors that don't always get the recognition that they deserve."

The methodology for the 50 Most Beautiful Movies ranking included a combination of objective and subjective factors. The objective factors included IMDb scores and Rotten Tomatoes scores. For the subjective factors, Sealey-Morris took into account Visual Appeal, Technical Innovation, Music Integration, and Production Design and Costuming.

The full list of winners includes:

La Belle et la Bete (The Criterion Collection, New York, NY)

2001: A Space Odyssey (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Beverly Hills, CA)

The Grapes of Wrath (Twentieth Century Fox, Los Angeles, CA)

Coco (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Burbank, CA)

Playtime (Carlotta Films, Paris, France)

Fantasia (Walt Disney Productions, Burbank, CA)

Koyaanisqatsi (Image Entertainment, Chatsworth, CA)

Days of Heaven (Paramount Pictures, Los Angeles, CA)

Russian Ark (Artificial Eye, London, England)

The Godfather (Paramount Pictures, Los Angeles, CA)

Ran (Orion Classics, Beverly Hills, CA)

Mad Max: Fury Road (Warner Bros., Burbank, CA)

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Warner Bros., Burbank, CA)

Nosferatu (Films sans Frontières, Paris, France)

Fantastic Mr. FOX (Twentieth Century Fox, Los Angeles, CA)

8 ½ (Embassy Pictures, New South Wales, Australia)

Waking Life (Fox Searchlight Pictures, Los Angeles, CA)

Once Upon a Time in the West (Paramount Pictures, Los Angeles, CA)

Stop Making Sense (Madman Entertainment, East Melbourne, Australia)

Vertigo (Paramount Pictures, Los Angeles, CA)

Wings of Desire (Orion Classics, Beverly Hills, CA)

The Secret of Kells (Gkids, New York, NY)

Kwaidan (Toho Company, Tokyo, Japan)

Schindler's List (Universal Pictures, Universal City, CA)

The Company of Wolves (ITV DVD, London, England)

Metropolis (Paramount Pictures, Los Angeles, CA)

Moulin Rouge! (Twentieth Century Fox, Los Angeles, CA)

Moonlight (A24, New York, NY)

In the Mood for Love (Fortissimo Films, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Rivers and Tides (Roxie Releasing, San Francisco, CA)

The Last Temptation of Christ (Universal Pictures, Universal City, CA)

The Matrix (Warner Bros., Burbank, CA)

The Last Picture Show (Columbia Pictures Corporation, Culver City, CA)

Chinatown (Paramount Pictures, Los Angeles, CA)

The Fog of War (Sony Pictures Classics, New York, NY)

The Night of the Hunter (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Beverly Hills, CA)

Topsy-Turvy (The Criterion Collection, New York, NY)

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Films sans Frontières, Paris, France)

Black Narcissus (Universal Pictures, Universal City, CA)

Cleo from 5 to 7 (The Criterion Collection, New York, NY)

A Touch of Zen (Janus Films, New York, NY)

Frida (Miramax, Los Angeles, CA)

Chimes at Midnight (Films sans Frontières, Paris, France)

Killer of Sheep (Oscilloscope, New York, NY)

The Silence Trilogy: Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, and The Silence (Janus Films, New York, NY)

Daughters of the Dust (Kino International, New York, NY)

Belladonna of Sadness (Arbelos Films, Los Angeles, CA)

George Washington (Janus Films, New York, NY)

Fata Morgana (Anchor Bay Entertainment, Troy, MI)

A Field in England (Drafthouse Films, Austin, TX)

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