10 Movies Every Photographer Must Watch

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Photography and cinematography are two completely different and yet extremely similar art forms. There is so much that one can learn from the other, and apply it to produce more eye-pleasing and better output. What is to be included in a frame and what is to be excluded, it all depends on the eye behind the camera; and these are the eyes which produce the best and worst of pictures. Here are 10 movies which every photographer should watch, because every frame in these movies has been composed as a perfect picture.

1. Rashomon (1950)

Cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa, Rashomon is a crime drama and one of Akira Kurosawa’s masterpieces. The film revolves around a murdered samurai and the different and contradicting stories which each of the witness has to say about the murder.

2. Blow Up (1966)

Cinematography by Carlo Di Palma, Blow Up is a thriller story of a fashion photographer who unintentionally captures a murder and notices it only when he starts to develop the negatives.

3. A Passage to India (1984)

Cinematography by Ernest Day, A Passage To India is a travel drama film which fills the viewer with the colorful and contrasting pictures of India under the British rule.

4. Schindler’s List (1993)

Cinematography by Janusz Kaminski, Schindler’s List is a biography of the German businessman Oskar Schindler. Although it is a modern film, it has been entirely shot in black and white in order to produce a perfect feel of the time in which the movie is held.

5. Titanic (1997)

Cinematography by Russel Carpenter, Titanic is a romantic tragedy of Jack and Rose whose love blossoms during their journey on the grand ship, and eventually becomes an epic love story.