28 Minimalist Movie Posters

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  • I am so excited for this post, I love movies and I love movie posters. I love walking into a theatre and checking out all the new upcoming movie posters. I will admit movie posters have become more of a mainstream promotional tool for the actors. There is less design and meaning to a poster these days – posters feature the main actor with some sort of explosion or montage of supporting actors.

    I have recently become a huge fan of redesign minimalist movie posters that are simple symbols from a movie. The posters below are movies that are somewhat popular, or have some sort of following. The artists usually design these posters because they love the movie, and there is a specific message or symbol that represents that title. The posters convey a message so perfectly that make these art pieces clever, subtle and awesome.

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    • July 7, 2010 at 10:13 am

      Awesome post! So many cool posters to see, I could easily have every one of these hanging on my wall!

      Nowadays film posters are far too blown out and as you mentioned constantly featuring the actors in a giant advertisement, isn’t a single theme/idea or story good enough to represent on a poster anymore?

      Thanks for this post… as a huge film fan this is a great collection to check out!

    • July 7, 2010 at 12:46 pm

      These posters are awesome! Thanks for sharing. I love the simplicity and use of texture.

    • July 7, 2010 at 9:52 pm

      Love these posters – I suspect that all of them only make sense after you’ve seen the actual film and get the visual references!

    • July 8, 2010 at 2:02 am

      All these posters looks fantastic. Very simple and creatively designed.

    • July 8, 2010 at 3:59 am

      A brilliant collection of movie posters here. As you and others have said it does make a nice change to see a movie poster that breaks away from the norm, one that actually provokes thought, and can hold the viewers attention without using explosions, a badly staged montage of the cast or partial nudity. The simple nature of the posters forces the viewer to look further into it to find the true meaning behind it. A particular favourite of mine is the ‘Jurassic park’ poster. It is amazing how such a small image of a glass holding rippled water can provoke a whole host of thoughts and memories.
      Well done on a great post.

    • July 8, 2010 at 4:28 am

      These are really fun simplistic film poster that you can only relate to if you have seen the film.

    • July 8, 2010 at 9:45 am

      The Star Wars poster is particularly geeky :)

    • July 8, 2010 at 10:01 am

      Thanks everyone for the great comments – I wonder if it would be fun to do another post with todays crap posters – it might be funny…

      If anyone has any other posters to share – please upload them to our flickr group or put a url here…

    • July 8, 2010 at 10:38 am

      These posters are nice.I particularly like the “up”one.

    • July 9, 2010 at 5:19 pm

      Titanic FTW

    • July 12, 2010 at 8:25 am

      Wow, these posters are awesome!! So many Great representations of iconic films!

      Thanks a lot for sharing.

    • July 12, 2010 at 10:04 pm

      This is a lifetime supply of awesomeness..

    • July 12, 2010 at 11:04 pm

      magnificent posters ! Thanks for sharing

    • July 13, 2010 at 11:50 am

      I particularly like the ones from Pulp Fiction, Jurassic Park and Home Alone.
      Check out my collection of photo montages:
      http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Dont-Fuck-with-History/443154

    • July 13, 2010 at 12:09 pm

      i especially liked the shawshank redemption and titanic. I too think that having watched the movies adds to greater understanding, still they all communicate well. Brilliant!

    • July 14, 2010 at 9:20 am

      I don’t get the one from Independence day… Someone?

    • July 14, 2010 at 11:28 pm

      thanks Chad for this very interesting collection of minimalist movie posters – the essence is more important. Often one finds that these posters make sense only if one has seen the movie or is aware of the plot.
      but nevertheless a very good exercise in meaning making and symbolism.

      I personally love the one for ‘titanic’.
      cheers

    • July 15, 2010 at 11:28 am

      MitchMontoya – In the movie Will Smith always smokes a cigar after a mission is over, he smokes one after he captures an alient – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiywbKSlvi4

      and then at the end of the movie – Jeff Goldblum and Smith smoke their cigars when they think they might die…

    • July 19, 2010 at 2:24 am

      great inspiring, my fav one is TITANIC,,,, i think i sholud some of the movies which i dint see to understand the poster , y u used the particular thing, many poster i got it… only some , .. wil watch those soon..
      keep up the work

    • July 21, 2010 at 4:41 am

      These rock! Plain and simple — all brilliant — even if you HAVEN’T seen the films, they are still wonderfully simple, but incredibly effective works of art. Beauty in simplicity in it’s purest form! I have become such a proponent of this style, liking the ideas so much – aside from being a film freak – that I started my own pet projects. Check out some the new stuff here >> http://tinyurl.com/2ccvogh

      CHEERS!

    • July 27, 2010 at 5:02 pm

      Please release high res versions of these so I can print them for our office. These are amazing!

    • November 24, 2010 at 1:30 pm

      where can i buy them?

    • January 5, 2011 at 9:40 am

      are these actual posters? i remember back to the future poster was not like this.

    • February 3, 2011 at 12:45 pm

      I’m totally thrilled by simple and abstract movie posters and your collection is a manifestation for this passion!

      My favourite ones are from Graphic Nothing and Pedro Vidotto. But I think that there are much more posters that should be promoted so what do you think about a second series?

      You even helped me writing a post on my own blog. I selected two posters of this collection and analised the style of them: http://momentanaufnahme.patlkli.org/2011/02/03/weil-das-leben-schwer-genug-ist-minimalistische-filmplakate-im-fokus/

      Keep on rockingg!

    • March 3, 2011 at 11:31 pm

      Interesting and creative examples.

    • March 18, 2011 at 6:07 am

      thanks Chad for this very interesting collection of minimalist movie posters – the essence is more important. Often one finds that these posters make sense only if one has seen the movie or is aware of the plot.
      but nevertheless a very good exercise in meaning making and symbolism.

    • March 24, 2011 at 10:36 am

      I love minimalist movie art. I love also, how there is a challenge to be original. Break away from the cliche. I feel that when you do that the poster will inspire the veiwer to remember their personal experience of the FILM not the symbol.
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    • March 30, 2011 at 1:19 am

      Nice collection!
      I’m working on something similar… feel free to check it out! ;) http://www.behance.net/gallery/Readymade-movie-posters/1182323

    • April 16, 2011 at 12:36 pm

      what is the meaning of the Full Metal Jacket poster?

    • April 21, 2011 at 1:04 am

      @jake remember the jelly donut?

    • July 2, 2011 at 10:30 am

      fantastic poster..all are very creatively design..!

    • July 6, 2011 at 4:44 am

      All these work so well, straight to the point.

      Here is my version.

      http://concretecaveman.deviantart.com/art/Big-Fish-216922449

    • July 23, 2011 at 7:56 am

      I love minimalistic style, everything is very simple but in the same time brilliant!

    • August 4, 2011 at 2:20 pm

      i really like the minimalistic approch to each one. i am also working on similar stuff, but i just have one query that if us making these posters and if plan to sell as print, will production houses or original right holdes of film have problem with that?

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