Maximalist film

Last updated August 02, 2025

Maximalist film or maximalist cinema is related to the art and philosophy of maximalism.

Background

In the arts, maximalism, a reaction against minimalism, is an aesthetic of excess.^[1] The philosophy can be summarized as "more is more", contrasting with the minimalist motto "less is more".

Notable filmmakers

Many directors have been described as maximalists:

King Hu ^[2]
Shaw Brothers ^[3]
Daniels ^[4]
Ringo Lam ^[5]
Bill Gunn ^[6]
Tarsem Singh ^[7]
Tyler Perry ^[8]
Michael Bay ^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]
Zack Snyder ^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]
Julie Taymor ^[17]
Emerald Fennell ^[18]
Sofia Coppola ^[19]
Tony Scott ^[20]^[21]
Ridley Scott ^[22]
Paul W. S. Anderson ^[23]
Terry Gilliam ^[24]
Paul Verhoeven ^[25]
Federico Fellini ^[26]
Paolo Sorrentino ^[27]
Pedro Almodovar ^[28]^[29]
Edgar Wright ^[30]
Sam Raimi ^[31]
King Vidor ^[32]
Oliver Stone ^[33]
Steven Spielberg ^[34]^[35]
Alejandro G. Inarritu ^[36]
Quentin Tarantino ^[37]^[38]
S. S. Rajamouli ^[39]^[40]
Youssef Chahine ^[41]
Josef von Sternberg ^[42]
Max Ophüls ^[43]
Orson Welles ^[43]
Christopher Nolan ^[44]^[45]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder ^[43]
Tim Burton ^[46]
Guy Maddin ^[47]
The team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ^[48]
John Woo ^[49]
Genndy Tartakovsky ( Hotel Transylvania )^[50]
Masaaki Yuasa ^[51]^[52]
Xavier Dolan ^[53]
Francis Ford Coppola ^[54]
Martin Scorsese ^[54]
Sergio Leone ^[54]
Paul Thomas Anderson ^[55]^[56]^[57]^[54]
John Cassavetes ^[57]
Baz Luhrmann ^[58]^[59]
Danny Boyle ^[60]
Guy Ritchie ^[60]
James Cameron ^[61]
Joachim Trier ^[62]
Park Chan-wook ^[63]
Gaspar Noé ^[64]

List of notable maximalist films

20th century

Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)^[65]
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)^[66]
Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927)
Fantasia (James Algar, 1940)
Wild Flower (Emilio Fernández, 1943)
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)^[67]
Mother India (Mehboob Khan, 1957)^[68]
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)
The Music Lovers (Ken Russel, 1970)^[69]
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jireš, 1970)^[70]
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (Ken Jacobs, 1970)
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)^[71]
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)^[72]
The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980)^[73]
Xanadu (Robert Greenwald, 1980)
The Apple (Menahem Golan, 1980)^[74]
American Pop (Ralph Bakshi, 1981)^[75]
Escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981)^[76]
Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981)
Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)^[57]
Amadeus (Miloš Forman, 1984)
The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg, 1985)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
On the Silver Globe (Andrzej Żuławski, 1988)
Batman (Tim Burton, 1989)^[77]
Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
Prospero's Books (Peter Greenaway, 1991)
Tribulation 99 (Craig Baldwin, 1991)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)^[78]
The Heroic Trio (Johnnie To, 1993)^[79]
Shadowlands (Richard Attenborough, 1993)
Casino (Martin Scorsese, 1995)
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (Beeban Kidron, 1995)^[80]
Waterworld (Kevin Reynolds, 1995)
The Rock (Michael Bay, 1996)
Con Air (Simon West, 1997)
Titanic (James Cameron, 1997)
Armageddon (Michael Bay, 1998)
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
Titus (Julie Taymor, 1999)

21st century

Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000)
Charlie's Angels (McG, 2000)
Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)^[81]^[82]
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)^[57]
The Matrix Reloaded (The Wachowskis, 2003)
The Matrix Revolutions (The Wachowskis, 2003)
The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich, 2004)
Man on Fire (Tony Scott, 2004)
The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis, 2004)^[83]
Speed Racer (The Wachowskis, 2008)
A Town Called Panic (Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, 2009)^[75]
Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus , (Terry Gilliam, 2009)
Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer, 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)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro G. Inarritu, 2014)^[84]
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2014)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer, 2014)^[85]
De Palma (Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, 2015)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)^[86]
Mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017)^[87]
American Made (Doug Liman, 2017)
I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie, 2017)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018)
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)^[88]
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)^[89]
House of Gucci (Ridley Scott, 2021)
In the Heights (Jon M. Chu, 2021)^[90]
Jungle Cruise (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2021)^[91]
The Last Duel (Ridley Scott, 2021)
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (Mike Rianda, 2021)
Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron, 2022)
Babylon (Damien Chazelle, 2022)
Blonde (Andrew Dominik, 2022)^[92]
Elvis (Baz Luhrmann, 2022)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniels, 2022)
Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen, 2022)^[93]
RRR (S. S. Rajamouli, 2022)
Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski, 2022)
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Tom Gormican, 2022)^[94]
White Noise (Noah Baumbach, 2022)^[95]
Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)^[96]
Beau is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)^[97]
The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki, 2023)^[98]
Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023)^[99]
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé (Beyoncé, 2023)^[100]
Saltburn (Emerald Fennell, 2023)^[101]
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson, 2023)
The Sweet East (Sean Price Williams, 2023)^[102]
Abigail (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, 2024)^[103]
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, 2024)^[54]
Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard, 2024)^[104]
The Fall Guy (David Leitch, 2024)^[16]^[105]
MaXXXine (Ti West, 2024)^[106]
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, 2024)^[107]
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024)
Sinners (Ryan Coogler, 2025)

References

External links

Minimalism and Maximalism: The 42nd New York Film Festival - Senses of Cinema

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