Artful Costumes

By: halfaci​g

Fashionable Alienation or just fashionable? Here are 133 essential films for the costume lover.

Some notable films in each category:
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Ghost World
Gummo
Lost in Translation
Three Times
Black Swan* Rodarte
I am Love* most outfits by Jil Sander
Otto; Up with Dead People * Rick Owens

60’s, 70’s, 80’s
Blow-up
8 1/2
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
A Single Man* Tom Ford
Control
Cabaret
3 Women
Annie Hall
Last Year at Marienbad* Woman’s wardrobe by Coco Chanel
The Cook, the Thief, the Wife & Her Lover* Jean-Paul Gaultier

Past Perfect
Orlando
Reine Margot
Marie Antoinette
Amadeus
Ran
The Piano
Caravaggio
Innocence
Valerie’s Week of Wonder
Funny Face* Hubert Givenchy
My Fair Lady* Hubert Givenchy
Bright Star
Barry Lyndon
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Last Mistress
Frida

Future/Otherwordly
Blade Runner
The Fifth Element* Jean-Paul Gaultier
The Fall
The Holy Mountain
Black Narcissus
Clockwork Orange
Barbarella
Dune
Metropolis
Dolls* Yohji Yamamoto
Donkey Skin
Juliet of the Spirits
Atrocity Exhibition
Spirits of the Dead
Salome, 1923
El Topo
Sweet Movie
Satyricon
Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom
Cremaster 2 and 3

*Indicates costumes by a major fashion designer.

• 01
  Blade Runner
  Ridley Scott
• 02
  The Fifth Element
  Luc Besson
• 03
  The Fall
  Tarsem Singh
• 04
  The Cell
  Tarsem Singh
• 05
  The Holy Mountain
  Alejandro Jodorowsky
• 06
  2046
  Wong Kar-wai
• 07
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 08
  Paris Is Burning
  Jennie Livingston
• 09
  Black Swan
  Darren Aronofsky
• 10
  8½
  Federico Fellini
• 11
  Kamikaze Girls
  Tetsuya Nakashima
• 12
  Memories of Matsuko
  Tetsuya Nakashima
• 13
  Ghost World
  Terry Zwigoff
• 14
  Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
  Sergei Parajanov
• 15
  Black Narcissus
  Michael Powell
• 16
  Orlando
  Sally Potter
• 17
  Marie Antoinette
  Sofia Coppola
• 18
  The Leopard
  Luchino Visconti
• 19
  Death in Venice
  Luchino Visconti
• 20
  Edward II
  Derek Jarman
• 21
  Cries and Whispers
  Ingmar Bergman
• 22
  Picnic at Hanging Rock
  Peter Weir
• 23
  The House of Mirth
  Terence Davies
• 24
  The Last Mistress
  Catherine Breillat
• 25
  The Man Who Cried
  Sally Potter
• 26
  Meek's Cutoff
  Kelly Reichardt
• 27
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Stanley Kubrick
• 28
  Cracks
  Jordan Scott
• 29
  3 Women
  Robert Altman
• 30
  Girl with a Pearl Earring
  Peter Webber
• 31
  Annie Hall
  Woody Allen
• 32
  The Women
  George Cukor
• 33
  The Hours
  Stephen Daldry
• 34
  Frida
  Julie Taymor
• 35
  Bluebeard
  Catherine Breillat
• 36
  Velvet Goldmine
  Todd Haynes
• 37
  The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
  Stephan Elliott
• 38
  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  Jacques Demy
• 39
  Grey Gardens
  Albert Maysles
• 40
  Cabaret
  Bob Fosse
• 41
  Elizabeth: The Golden Age
  Shekhar Kapur
• 42
  Funny Face
  Stanley Donen
• 43
  The Great Gatsby
  Jack Clayton
• 44
  Phantom of the Paradise
  Brian De Palma
• 45
  Barbarella
  Roger Vadim
• 46
  Kika
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 47
  Memoirs of a Geisha
  Rob Marshall
• 48
  A Clockwork Orange
  Stanley Kubrick
• 49
  Dune
  David Lynch
• 50
  Metropolis
  Fritz Lang
• 51
  Dolls
  Takeshi Kitano
• 52
  Pan's Labyrinth
  Guillermo del Toro
• 53
  Donkey Skin
  Jacques Demy
• 54
  Juliet of the Spirits
  Federico Fellini
• 55
  The Atrocity Exhibition
  Jonathan Weiss
• 56
  The Red Shoes
  Michael Powell
• 57
  Spirits of the Dead
  Federico Fellini
• 58
  Salomé
  Charles Bryant
• 59
  The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
  Terry Gilliam
• 60
  El Topo
  Alejandro Jodorowsky
• 61
  Labyrinth
  Jim Henson
• 62
  Sweet Movie
  Dušan Makavejev
• 63
  Cremaster 2
  Matthew Barney
• 64
  Cremaster 3
  Matthew Barney
• 65
  The Royal Tenenbaums
  Wes Anderson
• 66
  Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  John Cameron Mitchell
• 67
  Desperately Seeking Susan
  Susan Seidelman
• 68
  Almost Famous
  Cameron Crowe
• 69
  Beetle Juice
  Tim Burton
• 70
  The Brothers Bloom
  Rian Johnson
• 71
  Christiane F.
  Uli Edel
• 72
  Otto; or, Up with Dead People
  Bruce LaBruce
• 73
  I Am Love
  Luca Guadagnino
• 74
  Three Times
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 75
  Lost in Translation
  Sofia Coppola
• 76
  Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
  Kim Ki-duk
• 77
  Paris, Texas
  Wim Wenders
• 78
  8 Women
  François Ozon
• 79
  Kids
  Larry Clark
• 80
  Gummo
  Harmony Korine
• 81
  The Runaways
  Floria Sigismondi
• 82
  Electroma
  Thomas Bangalter
• 83
  Urgh! A Music War
  Derek Burbidge
• 84
  The Man Who Fell to Earth
  Nicolas Roeg
• 85
  New York Stories
  Woody Allen
• 86
  Boogie Nights
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 87
  Running with Scissors
  Ryan Murphy
• 88
  Safe
  Todd Haynes
• 89
  The Talented Mr. Ripley
  Anthony Minghella
• 90
  Rear Window
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 91
  Elizabeth
  Shekhar Kapur
• 92
  Evita
  Alan Parker
• 93
  My Fair Lady
  George Cukor
• 94
  Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
  Brad Silberling
• 95
  Queen Margot
  Patrice Chéreau
• 96
  Beauty and the Beast
  Jean Cocteau
• 97
  Blow-Up
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 98
  Amadeus
  Miloš Forman
• 99
  Control
  Anton Corbijn
• 100
  Last Year at Marienbad
  Alain Resnais
• 101
  The Decameron
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 102
  Satyricon
  Federico Fellini
• 103
  Arabian Nights
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 104
  Ran
  Akira Kurosawa
• 105
  The Piano
  Jane Campion
• 106
  The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  Peter Greenaway
• 107
  Shanghai Triad
  Zhang Yimou
• 108
  Caravaggio
  Derek Jarman
• 109
  Contempt
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 110
  Innocence
  Lucile Hadzihalilovic
• 111
  The 10th Victim
  Elio Petri
• 112
  La dolce vita
  Federico Fellini
• 113
  Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
  William Klein
• 114
  Catch Me If You Can
  Steven Spielberg
• 115
  The Red Balloon
  Albert Lamorisse
• 116
  CQ
  Roman Coppola
• 117
  The Color of Pomegranates
  Sergei Parajanov
• 118
  The Conformist
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 119
  Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
  Jaromil Jireš
• 120
  Down with Love
  Peyton Reed
• 121
  Lolita
  Adrian Lyne
• 122
  Lawrence of Arabia
  David Lean
• 123
  The Last Emperor
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 124
  House of Flying Daggers
  Zhang Yimou
• 125
  A Single Man
  Tom Ford
• 126
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 127
  Bright Star
  Jane Campion
• 128
  The Devils
  Ken Russell
• 129
  Mon oncle
  Jacques Tati
• 130
  Daisies
  Věra Chytilová
• 131
  Count Dracula
  Jesús Franco
• 132
  Barry Lyndon
  Stanley Kubrick
• 133
  Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 134
  Me Without You
  Sandra Goldbacher
• 135
  Chéri
  Stephen Frears
• 136
  Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
  Bharat Nalluri