Maximalist film or maximalist cinema is related to the art and philosophy of maximalism, a reaction against minimalism.

Notable filmmakers

This type of film includes the likes of directors:

• Bill Gunn^[1]
• Tyler Perry^[2]
• Spike Lee^[3]
• Wong Kar-wai^[3]
• Wes Anderson^[3]
• Jane Campion^[3]
• David Lynch^[3]
• Michael Bay^[4][5][6][7]
• Zack Snyder^[8][9][10]
• Julie Taymor^[11]
• Sofia Coppola^[12]
• Tony Scott^[13][14]
• Paul W. S. Anderson^[15]
• Terry Gilliam^[16]
• Paul Verhoeven^[17]
• Federico Fellini^[18]
• Pedro Almodovar^[19]
• Edgar Wright^[20]
• Sam Raimi^[21]
• King Vidor^[22]
• Oliver Stone^[23]
• Steven Spielberg^[24][25]
• Alejandro G. Inarritu^[26]
• Quentin Tarantino^[27][28]
• S. S. Rajamouli^[29][30]
• Josef von Sternberg^[31]
• Max Ophüls^[32]
• Orson Welles^[32]
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder^[32]
• Tim Burton^[33]
• The team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger^[34]
• John Woo^[35]
• Genndy Tartakovsky (Hotel Transylvania)^[36]
• Masaaki Yuasa^[37]
• Xavier Dolan^[38]
• Paul Thomas Anderson^[39]
• Baz Luhrmann^[40][41]
• Danny Boyle^[42]
• Guy Ritchie^[42]
• James Cameron^[43]
• Joachim Trier^[44]
• Park Chan-wook^[45]

List of notable maximalist films

• Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
• Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
• Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927)
• Fantasia (James Algar, 1940)
• The Greatest Show on Earth (Cecil B. DeMille, 1952)
• Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, 1952)
• Lola Montes (Max Ophuls, 1955)
• Artists & Models (Frank Tashlin, 1956)
• The Flicker (Tony Conrad, 1965)
• Daisies (Vera Chytilova, 1966)
• War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1966)
• Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967)
• Weekend (Jean-Luc Goddard, 1967)
• Fellini Satyricon (Federico Fellini, 1969)
• Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969)
• Salomè (Carmelo Bene, 1972)
• The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
• Zardoz (John Boorman, 1974)
• New York, New York (Martin Scorsese, 1977)
• Sorcerer (William Friedkin, 1977)
• Piranha (Joe Dante, 1978)
• The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980)
• Xanadu (Robert Greenwald, 1980)
• The Apple (Menahem Golan, 1980)
• American Pop (Ralph Bakshi, 1981)
• Escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981)
• Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981)
• Amadeus (Miloš Forman, 1984)
• The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg, 1985)
• Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
• On the Silver Globe (Andrzej Żuławski, 1988)
• Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
• Prospero's Books (Peter Greenaway, 1991)
• Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)
• Casino (Martin Scorsese, 1995)
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (Beeban Kidron, 1995)
• Waterworld (Kevin Reynolds, 1995)
• Seven Servants (Daryush Shokof, 1996)
• Titanic (James Cameron, 1997)
• Armageddon (Michael Bay, 1998)
• Titus (Julie Taymor, 1999)
• Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000)
• Charlie's Angels (McG, 2000)
• Moulin Rogue (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
• The Matrix Reloaded (The Wachowskis, 2003)
• The Matrix Revolutions (The Wachowskis, 2003)
• Man on Fire (Tony Scott, 2004)
• The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis, 2004)
• Speed Racer (The Wachowskis, 2008)
• A Town Called Panic (Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, 2009)
• Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)
• The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, (Terry Gilliam, 2009)
• The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg, 2011)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Michael Bay, 2011)
• The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, 2013)
• Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German, 2013)
• Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2014)
• Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro G. Inarritu, 2014)
• De Palma (Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, 2015)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
• Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, 2017)
• Mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017)
• American Made (Doug Liman, 2017)
• I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie, 2017)
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman, 2018)
• Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino, 2018)
• Fahrenheit 11/9 (Michael Moore, 2018)
• The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019)
• The Croods: A New Age (Joel Crawford, 2020)
• Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, 2020)
• Tenet (Christopher Nolan, 2020)
• Army of the Dead (Zack Snyder, 2021)
• Belle (Mamoru Hosoda, 2021)
• Encanto (Byron Howard and Jared Bush, 2021)
• House of Gucci (Ridley Scott, 2021)
• In the Heights (Jon M. Chu, 2021)
• Jungle Cruise (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2021)
• The Last Duel (Ridley Scott, 2021)
• The Mitchells vs. the Machines (Mike Rianda, 2021)
• Babylon (Damien Chazelle, 2022)
• Blonde (Andrew Dominik, 2022)
• Elvis (Baz Luhrmann, 2022)
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniels, 2022)
• Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen, 2022)
• RRR (S. S. Rajamouli, 2022)
• Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski, 2022)
• The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Tom Gormican, 2022)
• White Noise (Noah Baumbach, 2022)

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