Which movies have the best scenery?

The Grand Budapest Hotel!! Every shot is a feast for the eyes.

"Days of Heaven" directed by Terrence Malick - just gorgeous visually

"The Sound of Music"

"Song of Norway" - a least visually

I enjoyed the Motorcycle Diaries.

I watched Room with a View for the umpteenth time this weekend and it wins for me.

R4 such a stunning film! Is there a HD version out there somewhere?

Lawrence of Arabia

A Passage to India

Doctor Zhivago

If you're in the mood for adventure, Jungle (with Daniel Radcliffe) has nice jungle and river scenery.

John Boorman's Excalibur and the Emerald Forest

[quote] If you're in the mood for adventure

I think I'm quite ready for another adventure.

Dersu Uzala - It's based on a memoir by a Tsarist-era Russian army officer sent to Siberia on a mapping expedition who is guided by a Goldie hunter with whom he becomes great friends. A Japanese-Soviet production directed by Kurosawa. Look for a showing of a clean print. Some of it is breathtaking and it's a great story to boot.

If you like haunting and spare desertscapes and the Southwest, Nomadland is a recent addition for scenery that does some of the heavy lifting for the movie.

King Kong (2005)

I love those Kraut 1950s Heimatfilme. The acting is usually atrocious, storylines silly beyond belief, but the Alpine countryside looks spectacular in garish Agfacolor. That genre also helped to inspire The Sound of Music.

Brokeback Mountain; Barry Lyndon; Out of Africa; Doctor Zhivago

Momma Mia bitches!

R15 I do like that part with the dock and the flipper boys dancing with the violent waves splashing up and the hillside on the way to the wedding, but other than that I don’t recall much more being that interesting?

For R5 - Criterion has released a Blu Ray of A Room with a View. Not sure if it's streaming anywhere. But agree that it's just a perfect film on pretty much every front - music, photography, acting. Merchant Ivory's greatest achievement.

Also second R2 with Days of Heaven - the story and acting are somewhat erratic (Sam Shepard at least seems period-appropriate, Richard Gere definitely does not) but it's honestly one of the most gorgeous looking films ever made. Every shot could be framed.

Hannibal - The Opera Scene.

The Age of Innocence

The Leopard

Purple Noon

Zazie dans le metro

Juliet of the Spirits

Roma (the incredible ocean sequence near the end)

Apocalypto.

Hitchcock's THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY. - dark humor that takes place during a sun-filled autumn in the Vermont countryside. The fall foliage and the beautiful scenery around the village, as well as Bernard Herrmann's light-filled score, all set an idyllic tone.

Midsommar.

To Catch a Thief.

But international espion movies have great scenery. James Bond for example.

Not a perfect film, but The Sheltering Sky is gorgeous. I wish it would get a Blu-Ray release in North America.

Ryan's Daughter

Terrible film with spectacular scenery.

r9, that's some of the worst aging makeup since the 1960s.

It's not a movie, but the current remake of "All Creatures Great and Small" has absolutely gorgeous scenery, and it's a very enjoyable 7-part series (more to come eventually).

Manhattan La Dolce Vita John Boorman films of the 80's, The Emerald Forrest and Excalibur Tron and Tron Legacy for the outrageous, unique designs and cityscapes Blade Runner 2049

Under the Tuscan sun

sense and sensibility.

Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson version) Filmed in English Country Side

The Talented Mr. Ripley (DLfave Matt Damon: Filmed in Italy

Lord of the Rings: Filmed in New Zealand.

A River Runs Through It.

The Blue Lagoon

- Samsara (is considered as one of the most beautifully filmed movies, but isn't really a movie)

- The Fall

- Brokeback Mountain

The Mission

Plus a beautiful soundtrack by Ennio Morricone.

Seven Years in Tibet. Duh.

Out of Africa

Sound of Music opening sequence

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

To Catch a Thief

Another David Lean film: Summertime, set in gorgeous 1950s Venice. Even the throngs of tourists look good.

Barry Lyndon

The Comfort of Strangers. Great location shooting in Venice.

Call Me By Your Name

Brokeback Mountain.

The Talented Mr Ripley

The Sheltering Sky

Into the Wild

A Passage to India

Chasing Ice

A River Runs Through It (1992).

The Last of the Mohicans (1992).

Summer Lovers (1982).

We highly recommend the “Out In Africa” series.

Lord of the Rings

The Bear (1988) - the Dolomites The Leopard (1963) - lush interiors Fanny & Alexander (1982) - more lush interiors Happy Together (1997) - Iguazu Falls

Goddamn my formatting to hell.

If you can get over DiCaprio wearing a grizzly bear suit, The Revenant.

Anything from Malick

The Secret Garden (1993) if you are into English moors and gardens.

The Horse Whisperer

Far From Heaven

Some others not yet mentioned:

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Gladiator

The English Patient

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

As others have said, pretty much anything directed by either Terrence Malick or David Lean

All those movies filmed on Kaua’i: “South Pacific,” “Donavan’s Reef,” and “The Descendants.” Even “Pagan Love Song.”

Seeing “South Pacific” through the years made me want to move there.

And I did.

"Summer Lovers (1982)."

Summer Lovers is beautiful to look at. I watch it every year or so, even though it's otherwise pretty dreadful.

Out of Africa, The Mission, Howards End

Last of the Mohicans

A Thousand Pieces of Gold

Is Oceans 12 the one in Europe? That one.

A Million Little Pieces (and one big one)

It’s hard to beat the travelogue appeal of many of the Bond films. In my opinion these in particular have fairly smart scripts combined with great cinematography that really transports you to the locations.

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE - England, Turkey, Venice

THUNDERBALL - England, France, glamorous 1960s Bahamas

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE - Japan

OCTOPUSSY - Germany, India

Someone mentioned Terrence Mallick. I just watched "Badlands" yesterday. I didn't like the movie that much but the scenery because of the photography is beautiful.

The film overall is a bore, but there's some great sweeping vistas in "This is Cinerama".

Out of Africa is the first to spring to mind. The stunning scenery coupled with the sublime score and cinematography makes for a religious cinematic experience. I was only a kid when it came out but I saw it two years ago in Imax and it was amazaing.

Oldie, Leave Her To Heaven (1945). Breathtaking Technicolor at various places in AZ and NM.

"Can't Help Singing" starring Deanna Durbin, looking beautiful in her only color film, is maybe the first time the Grand Canyon and other National Parks were shown in color in a major motion picture, plus the musical score is by Jerome Kern and E.Y. Harburg. Leading man Robert Paige is quite purty too.

"The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" has scenes of the quaint streets of Edinburgh...."Babe" showed much pastoral beauty (I think it was filmed in New Zealand)..."Lawrence of Arabia" showed the beauty of the desert..."The Talented Mr. Ripley" made me to long see Italy for myself, and "A River Runs Through It" made me put 'going fly fishing in Montana on my bucket list.

Ondine

(Shot on Ireland coast)

The “Lord of the Rings” films directed by Peter Jackson. Shot in New Zealand - Jackson said several locations in the film were thought to be CGI but are actual stunning places in New Zealand.

On the opposite of the spectrum: “Black Narcissus” from Powell and Pressburger have eye-popping vistas of India that were all painted and filmed in London studios!

I was going to immediately say Barry Lyndon, but on second thought I realized the film's visual beauty comes from its interior scenes.

For scenery, I'll have to go with what several have said above: The LoTR trilogy.

I"m going to get shit for this, but Sleepless in Seattle

Also Lost in America

"Peyton Place"---I love Camden, Maine!

"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"---The French Riviera, especially Nice and Villefranche!

"Zeffirelli's 'Romeo and Juliet'"---Tuscany! (Also, "Under the Tuscan Sun.")

"If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium"---Whirlwind Europe with Ian McShane!

"The World of Henry Orient"---NYC when it was livable.

And baby, don't hurt me, but many Hallmark movies have fabulous settings! E.g.:

"Mix Up in the Mediterranean"---Malta!

"Christmas in Rome."

"Paris, Wine, and Romance."

"Love, Romance, and Chocolate"---Bruges!

Agreed, r27! Similar to the scenery in the PBS "Sanditon" (though the latter also has the coast).

‘The revolt of Mamie stover’ is stunningly filmed in Hawaii.

So happy to see “Days of Heaven” mentioned so often here. I love that one.

Also “The Fall”. The film with Lee Pace. Gorgeous.

Pride and Prejudice, 2005

“The Thin Red Line” has beautiful nature and landscape scenery although juxtaposed to warfare. Deep.

Thomas Vinterberg's 2015 "Far from the Madding Crowd" had gorgeous Dorset as its setting (filmed mostly in Dorset.) As a film interpretation of Thomas Hardy's novel, it's reasonably good, and neither is Matthias Schoenaerts so bad to spend two hours with.

Raise the Red Lantern…actually many Zhang Yimou films.

Female Trouble

Sailor in the Wild

My Life in Ruins

[quote] "Mix Up in the Mediterranean"---Malta!

"Christmas in Rome."

"Paris, Wine, and Romance."

"Love, Romance, and Chocolate"---Bruges!

God they sound dreadful!

In Bruges (Belgium)

Daisy Miller

Wind River

Legends of the Fall (Alberta & British Columbia), Roxanne (British Columbia).

Brokeback mountain (Alberta)

The friends of Eddie coyle has beautiful scenes of autumnal Boston. I was not expecting so much beauty from this film.

There are a lot of beautiful movies listed here, but I am another that thinks nothing beats 'Days of Heaven' visually.

All credit due Néstor Almendros, the cinematographer.

You have to go way back for this one, but The Quiet Man, with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara has breathtaking Irish scenery.

A Room with a View

Even without sunshine ‘the king of Marvin gardens’ has some wonderful shots of Atlantic city and the promenade.