Movies with exceptional cinematography?
Seconds
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Cleopatra is probably the best cinematography ever made.
There are many other great examples out there, too many to mention.
I love the cinematography in "Seconds." It's not for everyone -- I'll grant you that -- but it worked for me. The whole movie has a very kafkaesque feel -- our aging main character is suffocated by the drabness of routine, thinks he can escape, only to discover himself trapped in an existence even more empty and confining than before -- and the cinematography, employing fish eye lens, POV shots, over-the-shoulder shots, hand-held close-ups, Dutch angles, and more, instead of coming across as gimmicky, captures this nightmarish feeling sublimely; it makes the audience every bit as disoriented, paranoid, and alienated as Wilson is.
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