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->''"And those sweeping shots of New Zealand. Fuck yeah! I'm gonna vacation there!"''
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''' discussing the ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''
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* Probably the earliest example of this is the [[http://longislandarcheology.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/annex-griffith-d-w-intolerance_02.jpg staggering Babylon set]] that [[Creator/DWGriffith D.W. Griffith]] built for his silent epic ''Film/{{Intolerance}}''.
* The first two "Aliens" films in particular are super lavish in their attention to set detail that makes the sets look like real locations in many instances.
* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' is so completely packed with it from start to finish that the saturated colors and imagery of the alien environment actually outplays everything else.
** One of the few movies that some people like solely because of this.
** The UsefulNotes/BluRay release even had the tagline "The movie Blu Ray was ''made'' for!"
* ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' gives us shots of the exquisitely designed first class areas of the ship. (And jaw-dropping scenes of the same gorgeous rooms being obliterated)
* ''Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus'' is essentially a movie of Creator/TerryGilliam's wildest scenes imaginable. Pretty.
* ''Film/SDarko'' has ridiculously good Scenery Porn for an otherwise terrible movie.
* ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''
* ''Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact'' made excellent use of the ''Voyager'' probes' photographic record of the Jovian system.
* Same with Creator/StanleyKubrick's ''Film/BarryLyndon''.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPriscillaQueenOfTheDesert'' is full of Scenery Porn describing the three protagonists' trip towards Alice Springs. Guilty also of CostumePorn, with both during the climb to Kings Canyon.
* ''Film/BigGame'' has several long, beautiful establishing shots of Finnish (actually [[CaliforniaDoubling Bavarian]]) mountains.
* ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm'': Nothing ''but'' Scenery Porn. The magical woods were the best part (possibly only good part) of the whole thing.
* ''Film/BramStokersDracula''. Studio interiors of VictorianLondon, especially the rose-filled garden, bathed in rich colours and looked really... fantastic. Great CostumePorn, too.
* Film/HammerHorror, namely their Gothic films has sumptuously lush and dazzlingly clean London and Transylvania.
* ''Film/CastAway'': There was considerable Scenery Porn in this Creator/TomHanks vehicle. The film spends a lot of time focusing on how isolated his character is, trapped on the island -- hence there is much time for the camera to celebrate the landscape. Most of the views looking out to sea are CGI-enhanced: the location itself was in the middle of a chain of islands all visible from the beach.
* ''Film/FieldOfDreams'': The producers went out of their way to ensure the most beautiful shots, by building the actual field on two adjoining properties to allow for uninhibited sunset shots, and sometimes breaking a single scene up over several days to ensure "Magic Hour" effects everytime, and also by changing the story's setting from Iowa City to the more picturesque Dubuque County.
* ''Film/AmazingGraceAndChuck'': The majestic vistas of Montana get more than a few lingering shots and make for a beautiful backdrop to many scenes. Notably, though the story takes place over the course of a year, it always seems to be a beautifully sunny, summer day.
* ''Film/CurseOfTheGoldenFlower'' is an indoor example which mostly takes place in an opulent Chinese castle overflowing with intricate ornamentation. The film extends the detail to CostumePorn as well.
** This is true of many Chinese historical dramas on film and TV. A feast for the eyes, you needn't understand the language or what's going on.
* Creator/TerrenceMalick ostensibly built his career on Scenery Porn. His movies may either be brilliant explorations of the scope and depth of man's existence or boring as box of rocks. However, no one can doubt the sheer awe-inspiring beauty of his films. See:
** ''Film/{{Badlands}}''
** ''Film/DaysOfHeaven''
** ''Film/TheThinRedLine''
** ''Film/TheTreeOfLife''
* ''Film/TheFall'', where every frame of the movie could be hung in an art gallery, though most of this is due to being filmed all over the world, rather than set design. In fact, scenery porn seems to be director Tarsem Singh's specialty, considering how much his previous film ''Film/TheCell'' has it. Judging from the trailers, his next film, ''Immortals'', will also have it in abundance.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''. The films are sometimes described as "the best advert the UsefulNotes/NewZealand Tourist Board ever had".
** This is directly mocked in ''Music/FlightOfTheConchords''. The band's manager is a New Zealand tourism board employee, and his office is full of travel ad posters referencing ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''.
** From the trailer and publicity photos, it seems that the prequel to LOTR, ''Film/TheHobbit'', will follow in its footsteps in showing the beautiful landscape of New Zealand.
*** The higher film speed it’s being shot in (48 fps instead of 24) is supposed to enhance this even more and give it an incredibly beautiful and fantastic look.
** Many of the sets show an equally incredible attention to detail. Same with props and costumes. Several of the actors commented on how their outfits were less costume and more "real" clothes. The set/prop/costume makers achieved this by manufacturing their projects as real items, rather than simply to look good on screen.
*** This gave Jackson more freedom to change shots during shooting. Théoden's sword-tapping run before the Rohirrim's charge at Minas Tirith was an improvisation made on the day that wouldn't have worked if the swords had been made of balsa wood.
* In a surprise move, ''Film/{{Eragon}}'' forewent the casting of New Zealand and went with dark horse Hungary in a move lauded by critics. [[CaptainObvious Hungary has mountains.]]
* ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' movies, again filmed in New Zealand. There's a reason films from New Zealand use this trope though. The Narnia films also had scenes shot in the Czech Republic and elsewhere.
* Ditto the much older ''Film/{{Willow}}'' (itself heavily based off ''Literature/TheHobbit'') and every fantasy epic since ''[=LotR=]''.
* ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' spends a ''lot'' of time on Scenery Porn, to show off the jazzy new SFX and the sleek, new model of the CoolShip. The theatrical version is especially gratuitous with the Scenery Porn because the film actually wasn't finished when it was released to theaters, so the special effects shots were just edited in without being trimmed down at all. The director's cut tones it down a little (but not entirely).
* ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' features a gorgeous shot of a Vulcan temple high in the mountains towards the end of the movie. The establishing shots inside the temple may fall under this trope as well.
* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'':
** There's an absolutely ''huge'' amount of background detail in every shot of Earth, fleshing out the culture, the civilian lifestyle, and generally showing how the world has evolved.
** A few of the bar scenes make hilariously great references to 1960s culture, however, giving a nod to the era in which ''Star Trek'' was born (and from which much of ''TOS'''s set design was drawn).
** We get to see a lot more of the internal workings of the ''Enterprise'', including Sickbay and Engineering.
* ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' has the ''beyond'' awesome interior of Starbase ''Yorktown''. This is what the future should look like.
* ''Film/TheShining'' begins with a long sequence of a car driving through mountains, because mountains are cool, apparently. This is used to illustrate the seclusion of the hotel, a major PlotPoint. It's also this trope in its darkest form, since paired with the soundtrack and the weightless gliding of the camera, it sets a rather ominous mood.
* Creator/RidleyScott loves rich visuals.
** ''Film/BladeRunner'': There are many slow pan shots of scenery and buildings. It is hauntingly beautiful. It is high tech. It would [[CrapsackWorld suck big time]] to be there.
** ''Film/{{Legend 1985}}'' has scenery that, combined with Jerry Goldsmith's Ravel-inspired score, might make you feel woozy with sugar overdose...
** Scott specifically [[PlayingAgainstType did a romantic comedy]], ''Film/AGoodYear'', to shoot near his home in the French Riviera. The movie is divisive, but the scenery is so beautiful you can't blame Scott.
* ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''. ''Three solid minutes'' of beautiful shots of the Austrian mountains, with pretty, birdlike instrumentals in the background, has got to be the ''definitive'' example of Scenery Porn.
* Gus Van Sant's ''Film/{{Gerry}}'' is nothing but Scenery Porn.
* ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'': This movie exists solely to show cold green corridors, the molten surface of the sun and alternate between them. Add some epic music and please ignore the characters. We did.
* In this vein, ''Film/UnderTheTuscanSun'' mainly exists to make yuppies think that Tuscany is very, very pretty.
* Creator/GeorgeLucas certainly knows how to impress with his wide pans over alien landscapes in ''Franchise/StarWars''. The Otoh Gunga in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', Cloud City in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', the Death Star, the Order 66 scene in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', and Coruscant in general in the {{prequel}}s are good examples that show where he truly excels. (Although the Cloud City Scenery Porn in [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack ESB]] wasn't really his, Lucas having very little involvement with [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Episode V]] compared with the other movies, in the Special Editions where he had a lot more input that sequence was extended.)
* The parts of the ''Film/JamesBond'' films that aren't FanService or StuffBlowingUp fall into this category a lot of the time. Examples:
** The footage of Istanbul in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''.
** The drive through France and Switzerland in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. Interestingly enough, the book had a version of this as well.
** The spectacular aerial footage of Japan in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''.
** The Swiss Alps in ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''.
*** The Italian Alps in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''.
** The islands of Greece in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''
** The train ride into Montenegro in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''. Which is not in fact [[TelevisionGeography Montenegro]].
** The view of the UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco Bay in ''Film/AViewToAKill''. The film's end credits were a MoneyShot of the Golden Gate Bridge ([[MonumentalBattle where the final battle took place]]).
** ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' is brimming with beautiful scenery, amplified by the great cinematography of Roger Deakins.
* The David Niven movie of ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' -- including long scenes of the heroes ballooning through the Alps, long parades, and a flamenco dance in Madrid that lasted at least 5 minutes -- and that one was while TheHero was supposed to be in a big hurry!
** This movie is just one of many from the 1950s-1960s that indulged in this. At the time, the advent of television was pulling enough people from movie theaters that gimmicks like widescreen photography were put into play, and filmmakers needed to fill that space somehow...
** All of Creator/JulesVerne's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyages_Extraordinaires Les Voyages Extraordinaires]]'' are like this, and therefore each corresponding [[TheFilmOfTheBook film]] tends to follow suit.
* ''Film/TheSearchers'' is full of this.
** TheWestern genre in general is prone to this, ranging from John Ford's films (of which ''The Searchers'' was just one of many) to NewOldWest variants like ''Film/BrokebackMountain''.
*** ''Film/TrueGrit'' is chock-full of this -- big, sweeping shots of beautiful Western scenery.
** ''Film/{{Shane}}'', with its spectacular Technicolor shots of Wyoming's Jackson Hole region.
** ''Film/DancesWithWolves'' is half made of this trope.
** ''Film/TheProposition'', although the landscape in question is the barren [[LandDownUnder Australian outback]]. Still beautiful, in its own way.
** Generally, any film shot outdoors in the American West, the [[LandDownUnder Australian Outback]], or New Zealand, will almost inevitably make use of the scenery for at least ''one'' establishing shot.
** Even the comic Western ''Film/ShanghaiNoon'' is beautiful to look at, with lots of extraneous shots of snow-capped mountains, streams, deserts, plains, etc.
* For all the Scenery Porn of John Ford's Westerns (thanks to Monument Valley), his non-Westerns such as ''Film/HowGreenWasMyValley'' and ''Film/TheQuietMan'' provide tons of it as well.
* The films of Creator/DavidLean (especially ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'' and ''Film/DoctorZhivago'') are textbook examples of this trope.
* Any Creator/TerryGilliam film fits this trope. In fact, one reason the other members of Creator/MontyPython eventually chose Terry Jones to direct the troupe's films was their belief that Gilliam was more concerned with cinematography and set design than with creating comedy.
* Used gratuitously in ''Film/MammaMia''.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfMiloAndOtis'' is filled with shots of gorgeous farmland, [[color:blue:water]]falls and forests, nicely complemented by adorable puppies and kittens.
* Creator/TimBurton's films are full of this, with his ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' [[Film/BatmanReturns films]] and it's Gothic stylings a particularly good example.
* Creator/JoelSchumacher's entries in that series qualify as well, but are far more bright, garish, heavily-produced, and just plain campy, albeit with far more expansion on the overall cityscape and more of a reliance on abstract structural anatomy, as opposed to Burton's 'less is more' approach of vintage film noir-style cityscapes mixed with gothic architecture. For all intents an purposes, Schumacher's Batverse is Batman-meets-Creator/BazLuhrmann or Rob Marshall, and is designed more like a Broadway stage play than a major motion picture.
* Creator/ChristopherNolan's ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' may have a more realistic look to them, but Nolan manages to make Gotham look beautiful in its own way, including the IMAX shots of Gotham and Hong Kong (as well as Bruce's yacht), which are ''gorgeous''.
** ''Film/{{Inception}}'' should be called, Scenery Porn: The Motion Picture.
* ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' is jam-packed with this.
* ''Film/VanHelsing'' had so much eye candy it outshone many of the movie's [[strike: actors]] flaws.
** And so did "Film/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime", shot in the dazzling mountains and deserts of Southern Morocco.
* ''Film/WhatDreamsMayCome'''s title alone suggests how much of the movie is spent just showing off CGI vistas of the afterlife. From a mountain range made out of paint, to angels flying around classical cities perched on cliffs flowing with [[color:blue:water]]falls, to a bleak hell filled with giant shipwrecks and littered with crawling bodies. Justified since in that movie's mythos, Heaven is whatever you imagine it to be, and to Creator/RobinWilliams' character that means living in his wife's beautiful landscape paintings.
* ''Film/SupermanReturns'' and ''Film/{{Hulk}}'' both fell short of the expectations of the two's franchise. However, both movies had an amazing sequence of showing off the two titanically powerful characters in very eye catching scenes (Hulk hopping around in the American Southwest desert and the Lois/Superman flight sequence). Then there's the opening titles.
* ''Film/RussianArk'', a single take film encompassing thirty three rooms of the impossibly gorgeous Hermitage Museum, is arguably ''100%'' Scenery Porn. It also reaches similar heights of art Porn, history Porn, and [[GorgeousPeriodDress costume Porn]].
* Creator/TheCoenBrothers do this in almost all of their movies in order to establish the era and area their movie is taking place in, but it's especially notable in ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' and ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen''.
* Used copiously in ''Film/TheAssassinationOfJesseJamesByTheCowardRobertFord''. They spent half the runtime just on the breathtaking establishing shots.
* ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood''. The scenery was the next biggest character after Daniel Plainview, even after Day-Lewis [[LargeHam ingested mass quantities of it]].
* One of the many attributes of an Creator/AlfredHitchcock film. He liked to make sure you knew that this was a real place, putting emphasis on noteworthy landmarks or monuments.
* The ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'' series, especially the second movie (''[[Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy The Golden Army]]''). The Troll Market scene in particular is beautifully done, looking like a peek into a filled-out and populated magical world.
* ''Every'' movie produced and directed by Creator/GuillermoDelToro. Another example is ''El laberinto del fauno'' (''Film/PansLabyrinth'').
* {{Wuxia}} examples: ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon'', ''Film/{{Hero}}'', ''Film/HouseOfFlyingDaggers''...
** The latter two were made by the visionary (pun intended) director Creator/ZhangYimou, for whom Scenery Porn is a SignatureStyle. He can get breathtaking vistas out of a movie about four concubines that takes place exclusively in a single house (''Film/RaiseTheRedLantern'').
* Walerian Borowczyck, whose softcore erotic films tend towards this trope. A good example is the short film ''La Marée'' (''The Tide''), from ''Immoral Tales'', which features two young cousins taking a cycle ride to a white-cliffed beach in northern France.
* The ''Emmanuelle'' series of films also frequently mix softcore porn with Scenery Porn.
* The ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' movie adaptation takes this to a ridiculous level, for no real reason except, perhaps, to seem "romantic": sweeping shots of mountains, fields of flowers, huge [[color:blue:water]]falls. Too bad Forks, Washington looks NOTHING like the movie (and books) claims it does.
* The road trip sequence at the end of ''Film/{{Elizabethtown}}'' qualifies and is designed specifically to be gorgeous by the love interest so it will keep the protagonist's mind off his depression.
* Creator/AkiraKurosawa was a master of this trope. Try seeing ''Film/{{Ran}}'' and not falling in love with the amazing beautiful landscapes of Mount Aso (where most of the movie was shot).
* Several scenes in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', particularly the intro to Beaumonde, were shot to emphasize the beauty (or, in the case of Miranda, the surrealism) of the environments.
* ''Film/HardCandy'' was directed by David Slade, who had primarily done music videos in the past. It shows; even though almost all of the movie takes place in a few rooms, it ''looks'' absolutely stunning, with saturated colors and narrow focus-planes.
* ''Film/InBruges'', thanks to the filmmakers' ability to use the rarely-filmed city as the actual shooting location.
* The [[Film/{{Koyaanisqatsi}} Qatsi]] trilogy and Baraka are mostly Scenery Porn and SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic, although there's a good bit of shots of people without much interesting scenery behind them as well.
* ''Film/JurassicPark'' and ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' have lots of long shots showing off Kauai's mountains, jungles, and plains. [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome And then dinosaurs were added]] and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar history was made]].
* ''Renegade'' (a.k.a. ''Blueberry'') features a great deal of breathtaking panoramas often shot from sweeping helicopters.
* Every single shot of Creator/BernardoBertolucci's ''Film/TheConformist''.
* The extended shots of Chicago in ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff''.
** A joke in the ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' magazine parody of ''Bueller'' had it that one of the places "Fearless Buller" and his entourage went that day was the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, to pick up a check for making the movie into one long travelogue of Chicago.
* Any film by Creator/WongKarWai, another Chinese director for whom Scenery Porn (and stuff verging on the real) is a SignatureStyle. Some of his best Scenery Porn:
** ''Days of Being Wild'' -- ''Film/RebelWithoutACause'' for the Hong Kong set.
** ''Film/ChungkingExpress''
** ''Ashes of Time'' -- Wuxia flick with arthaus sensibilities.
** ''2046'' -- so long-delayed that the GallowsHumor of the production crew was the film [[{{Irony}} would be completed in 2046]].
* Creator/MichaelBay, for all his StrictlyFormula, has admitted as such that around an hour into every movie he makes, there's a dramatic slow-motion sequence. These, as well as some other parts of his movies, often have ''awesome'' scenery.
* ''Film/DeadMansShoes'' has a lot of this, with grand sweeping shots of the beautiful countryside of the Peak District in north-central England standing in harsh contrast with the dark events of the film, an effect which WordOfGod confirms is intentional.
* ''Film/MaryPoppins'' had a very inviting London. And ''not a single frame of it'' is the real thing.
* ''Film/YoungEinstein'' has some impressive Australian scenery in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaOVeKvrEX4 this segment]] (and [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic great music]] to go with it).
* While not generally considered the best of the series, ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster'' and ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'' are visually ''by far'' the most stunning.
* Creator/DavidLynch's ''Film/{{Dune}}''.
* ''Film/TheFountain''. Throughout the film, you find it hard to pay attention to the astronaut's story because you're gawking at the visuals. Then, at the end, the conquistador [[spoiler:reaches the tree]] and you're treated to an even ''more'' arresting vista.
* The documentary ''Winged Migrations'' consists almost entirely of birds, Scenery Porn, and [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic the most gorgeous music they could find]]. Also in the bird-watching genre; the icy landscapes in ''Film/MarchOfThePenguins'' are bewitching (if not quite inviting.)
* The movies ''[[Film/ManonDesSources Jean de Florette]]'' and {{sequel}} ''Film/ManonDesSources'' take place in the backcountry of Provence, France, and showcases scene after scene of beautiful countryside. Even the village is wonderfully old-fashioned. Since their release, the movies have greatly helped bring tourists to the surrounding region.
* Martial-art action movie ''Film/TheForbiddenKingdom'' contains absolutely beautiful panoramic shots of China, a mixture of realistic, and fantasy-based.
* Nancy Meyers' films often are full of Scenery Porn. ''Film/TheHoliday'' uses shots of a house in LA and a cottage to compensate for the woefully awful story.
* ''Giant'', which begins with wide sweeping shots of the green Maryland countryside which then contrasts with the beautiful desolation of Texas.
* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'': First five minutes in Munchkinland showing off the art direction.
* SlasherMovie ''Film/JustBeforeDawn'' has lots of beautiful shots of the Oregon forests and mountainside.
* ''Literature/{{Solaris}}''
** Stephen Soderbergh's 2002 version isn't a great film, but it is worth watching for the panning shots of the eponymous planet's surreal oceans, coupled with Cliff Martinez's beautiful soundtrack.
** The original 1972 film was one of the most expensive films to come out of the Soviet Union, and as a result, it is about 30% artistic montage. There is a beautiful sequence filmed of a man driving down a highway (filmed in Tokyo) that goes on for a solid five minutes, with no dialogue.
* Rob Marshall's ''Film/MemoirsOfAGeisha'' is a beautiful example and one for CostumePorn. Although the filming took place in California, it was still a breathtaking choice to portray still-traditional Kyoto, Japan. All the cinematography was breathtaking and almost made up for the fact that it was kind of a mediocre film anyway.
* Unlike many other conservationist documentaries, the French movie ''Oceans'' skips the statistics and goes straight to outrageously beautiful views of marine life, shot from impossible angles, with very little narrative.
* ''Film/EvesBayou'' includes many a sweeping panoramic shot of the eponymous swamp.
* ''Film/LettersToJuliet'' has been described as an advert for the Tuscan tourist board.
* ''Film/TheBirdPeopleInChina'' showcases some of China's beautiful mountain scenery.
* ''Film/NickAndNorahsInfinitePlaylist'' does this to the BigApplesauce.
* ''Film/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' has this all the time. It's absolutely gorgeous.
* ''Film/TheDuellists'' has some of the most beautiful naturally captured vistas and scenery shots ever caught on film.
* ''Film/Suspiria1977'' is absolutely beautiful. Reds, blues, greens, you name it. It's a candy fest for the eyes.
* Establishing shots in ''Northfork''.
* ''Film/ALonelyPlaceToDie'' shows just how beautiful, yet dangerous, the Scottish Highlands are.
* ''Film/{{Baraka}}'' is a non-narrative film which contains nothing but Scenery Porn. It could be compared with the earier ''Film/{{Koyaanisqatsi}}'' and ''Film/{{Powaqqatsi}}'', but it was shot on Todd-AO 70mm, giving vastly better picture quality than 35mm. It was the first film ever to be scanned at ''8k'' resolution for UsefulNotes/BluRay (8,192 horizontal pixels)[[note]] 4k is equivalent to 35mm quality, and some UsefulNotes/BluRay movies are scanned at 2k, which is only slightly better quality than HD[[/note]], and boy, does it show!
* Starting with ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' the ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies have shot many of Hogwarts' exteriors at gorgeous Scottish locations. In ''Deathly Hallows Part One'' where [[FreudianTrio Harry, Ron, and Hermione]] are on the run, they camp out at beautiful spots all over Great Britain.
** In ''Order of the Phoenix'', there are many shots of the Ministry of Magic atrium, which gets wrecked at the end of the film.
* ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'' and its SpiritualSuccessor ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' both have intensely detailed fantasy worlds; since both also qualify as StarringSpecialEffects (specifically puppets) and were made before [=CGI=] was commonplace, the sets are that much more of a logistical and aesthetic triumph.
* The Indonesian film ''Denias, Senandung di Atas Awan'' is filled with beautiful shot of the landscapes of Irian Jaya (Papua) including the snow covered [[http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t287/rilham2/puncakJaya.jpg Jayawijaya mountains]]. In one scene, we are treated to all of it from sweeping helicopters, truly breathtaking.
* The eco movie ''Home'' is essentially 90 minutes of high octane Scenery Porn to make sure you sit through the lecture.
* The 1980s' ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' tried to ape Frazetta as much as possible. Nearly every scene is based on one of his paintings.
* ''Film/DonJuanDeMarco'': Every sexual escapade the title character (Creator/JohnnyDepp) describes takes place in a beautiful locale; a picturesque Mexican village, a richly adorned palace, an idyllic tropical island. (And Johnny himself is easy on the eyes.)
* ''Never Cry Wolf'': ''Loads'' of gorgeous Alaskan landscapes. For that matter, you'll be hard-pressed to find anything filmed in Alaska/ the Yukon that doesn't qualify for this trope.
* ''Film/{{Thor}}'': Asgard may be completely computer-generated, but it is absolutely stunning. Jotunheim is also SceneryGorn.
* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' uses many of the same stylistic choices as ''Thor'', allowing for some truly gorgeous space-scapes. A couple shots seem like they're trying to duplicate Jack Kirby himself's drawing style.
* ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}''
* ''Silk'' (2007): filmed in Japan and Italy and containing many sweeping establishing shots of places all around the world as the main character travels from Europe to Asia to fetch silkworms.
* Almost any UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} romance film. Seriously, you can turn the sound off and just watch.
* ''Film/ValhallaRising'' has notable amounts of Scenery Porn--long shots of the Scottish highlands [[spoiler: and Eastern Canada]] with little dialogue.
* ''Film/VerticalLimit'' is set on K2 and was filmed on several mountains around the world, and makes full use of it. The beauty of the scenery almost makes the human suffering even more jarring.
* As the title suggests, the romantic comedy ''A Walk in the Clouds'' is arguably nothing but this. Even the scene of the vineyards burning is gorgeous.
* Also used extensively in ''Film/TheBeach'', especially the scenes at the eponymous beach (which is the real beach at the Thai island Koh Phi Phi.)
* ''Film/TheLastOfTheMohicans'', with North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains standing in for upstate New York, and looking so gorgeous that they upstage Madeleine Stowe and Daniel Day Lewis with hair extensions, which is not easy. Assisted by much SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic and [[CostumePorn many loincloths]].
* ''Franchise/UltraSeries''
** The Land of Light, Nebula M78 in ''Film/MegaMonsterBattleUltraGalaxyLegends''.
** The sequel, ''Film/UltramanZeroTheRevengeOfBelial'' is also filled with scenery porn.
* ''Film/AmericanGraffiti''. The combination of the cameras used to film it, the classic cars, neon street signs, and time period architecture all make for a very nice nostalgic visual treat.
* ''Film/{{Amelie}}'' is very well known for its distinct visual style.
* The Bollywood film ''Ek Tha Tiger'', with gorgeous shots of Ireland, Turkey, and Cuba, and brief clips of about half-a-dozen other beautiful cities as well.
* ''Film/WhenInRome''
* Creator/WesAnderson's films are almost always recognizable by the rich, vivid sets. Each movie can be condensed into one colour scheme. A shining example is ''Film/TheDarjeelingLimited'', in which three brothers travel on a train across India. Almost any frame from the movie is beautiful enough to potentially be used as a desktop background.
* Any Nicholas Sparks movie is bound to featuring numerous lovely shots of North Carolina.
* But the few bits of untouched scenery we do see in ''Film/{{Oblivion 2013}}'' [[spoiler:such as Jack's hideaway]] are beautiful.
* When ''Film/RedCliff'' is not lovingly showing every grain of dust during the fluorishing clashes of thousand-man armies, it's giving sweeping shots of Southern China.
* ''Film/AfterEarth'' : When not being attacked by the extremely dangerous fauna, the landscapes of Earth are absolutely breathtaking.
** Nova Prime is richly designed, particularly after building the human settlements.
* ''Film/TheMaster'' was the first narrative film in sixteen years to be shot in 65mm (and the first in fifteen years to run in 70mm), which allows the film's settings to be shown off with amazing clarity (even on a smaller screen) and scope. This trope is most notable in the film's motorcycle sequence.
* Vincente Minnelli films often contain examples of scenery porn, especially the ones filmed in Technicolor. The ballet sequence in ''Film/AnAmericanInParis'' and ''Film/{{Gigi}}'' with actual shots of Paris.
* ''Literature/WarHorse'' is set mostly in the English countryside and Creator/StevenSpielberg definitely makes sure to show the location off in the film (Spielberg even called it the most beautiful place he'd ever shot a film).
* The Chocolate Room in ''[[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory]]'' without a doubt.
** Taken UpToEleven in [[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory the second film adaptation]].
* Creator/AndreiTarkovsky was undeniably a master of this trope:
** The 1983 movie ''Nostalghia'' plays this trope straight, albeit with a twist: The masterful cinematography makes the lavish Tuscan scenery look haunting and otherwordly, albeit sometimes in a pretty frightening manner and the most bleak looking indoors set can best be compared to a moving oil painting.
** 1979's ''Stalker'' effortlessly blends this trope with elaborated SceneryGorn.
* ''Film/{{Elysium}}'' itself. It looks absolutely ''gorgeous''.
* While a lot of negative things could be said about ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', the design for the Necromonger sets, blending Main/ArtDeco and Baroque inspired styles in an undeniably original manner, is indeed quite the looker.
* {{Enforced|Trope}} in ''Film/SummerLovers.'' It was filmed in UsefulNotes/{{Greece}}, and MANY of the settings were used BECAUSE of their attractiveness.
* ''Film/AnotherTimeAnotherPlace'' was shot on the Black Isle in Aberdeenshire and it definitely makes the most of its setting.
* ''Film/MonsoonWedding'' is colourful and filled with beautiful shots of wedding decorations and flowers, and the scenery of India. The outside of the house is verdant with strings of marigolds.
* ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'': Perhaps it ''is'' shite being Scottish, but damn if the highlands aren't gucking forgeous.
* In ''Film/TheWolfman2010'', there's countless gorgeous shots of the English country side coupled with the elaborate sets and props.
* The shots of the loch and mountains in ''Film/WhatWeDidOnOurHoliday'' really show off the Scottish Highlands
* In ''Film/ExMachina'', Nathan's estate is built in a beautiful valley, and the audience is regularly gratified by a shot of the landscape.
* In ''Film/JupiterAscending'', all the scenery is taken to an absurd degrees of detail, ranging from the insides of even the cruisers and motorbikes, to the individual planets and the starships.
* ''{{Film/Interstellar}}'' blends real-world location photography, highly detailed miniature and full-scale models, and spectacular CG space backgrounds to create a hauntingly beautiful atmosphere throughout. Any scene with the film's famous black hole in it is particularly beautiful.
* The 2015 adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' takes advantage of filming in Scotland, with many shots spent just highlighting the gorgeous landscape.
* ''Captain From Castile'' has some simply gorgeous Technicolor shots of Mexico's natural scenery.
* ''Film/DollarsTrilogy'' gives us the rugged beauty of Almeria, Spain.
* ''Film/TheJungleBook2016''[='=]s visual effects were done by many of the same people who worked on ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' (including its VFX director Rob Legato), and it shows. Apart from the performance of Neel Sethi (Mowgli), nearly ''everything'' in the film is computer-generated: the jungle, the animals, the water, the fire, the list goes on. But you'd never know it from looking at the film: it's all incredibly realistic. The animators have ShownTheirWork in creating the animals, and manage to animate their speech without descending into the UncannyValley (with the arguable exception of Creator/ScarlettJohansson's snake character Kaa, a OneSceneWonder). And the jungle is every bit as beautiful as you'd want it to be. This film is one of the finest examples of this trope to be released in ''years'', if not ever.
* ''Film/K2SirenOfTheHimalayas'': K2 is situated among some of the most spectacular vistas in the world, and the cameras just love it.
* ''Film/WarCraft2016'' has created a [[https://imgur.com/Fe2fK6V beautiful rendition]] of the human city of Stormwind, and the movie delights in showing us wide shots of it.
* ''Film/{{Help}}'': The film does ''look'' good, with lush scenery from the Alps, the Bahamas, and Stonehenge.
* ''Film/{{Napoleon}}'': Napoleon's ride through the Corsican countryside, and most of the Triptych sequence.
* Logan and Lucy's journey from Portland to Jacksonville in ''Film/CanyonPassage'' seems designed to showcase as much of Oregon's marvelous wilderness as possible.
* In addition to ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'''s stunning action setpieces, it is filled from start to finish with absolutely breathtaking scenery and vistas, despite the fact that it's almost all a post-apocalyptic desert.
* ''Film/HappyTogether'': A rather unique case in that Buenos Aires isn't depicted glamorously - the characters spend most of the film broke or near-broke so the events of the film largely take place in the working class barrios. That said, everything is shot beautifully and romantically. Played much more straightforwardly with the shots of the Iguazu Falls.
* ''Film/DesHommesEtDesDieux'' makes sure to show the beautiful landscape around the monastery.
* ''Film/BeyondThePyramidsLegendOfTheWhiteLion'' spends a lot of its middle and middle-to-final on showcasing the African (ie, Kenyan and Tanzanian, but not identified as such and, you know, part of another world) landscape and wildlife.
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* The ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'' series, especially the second movie (''[[Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy The Golden Army]]''). The Troll Market scene in particular is beautifully done, looking like a peek into a filled-out and populated magical world.

** ''TheNewWorld''

* Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy uses many of the same stylistic choices as ''Thor'', allowing for some truly gorgeous space-scapes. A couple shots seem like they're trying to duplicate Jack Kirby himself's drawing style.

* Vincente Minnelli films often contain examples of scenery porn, especially the ones filmed in Technicolor. The ballet sequence in ''Film/AnAmericanInParis'' and ''{{Gigi}}'' with actual shots of Paris.

* The shots of the loch and mountains in Film/WhatWeDidOnOurHoliday really show off the Scottish Highlands
* The gorgeous Caribbean island scenery is lampshaded by Vince Vaughn's character in ''Film/CouplesRetreat''. "It's like a frickin' screensaver!"

* TheDollarsTrilogy gives us the rugged beauty of Almeria, Spain.

** From the trailer and publicity photos, it seems that the prequel to LOTR, ''Film/TheHobbit'', will pretty much follow in its footsteps in showing the beautiful landscape of New Zealand.

* Gus Van Sant's ''Film/{{Gerry}}'' is pretty much nothing but Scenery Porn.

* Creator/GeorgeLucas certainly knows how to impress with his wide pans over alien landscapes in ''Franchise/StarWars''. The Otoh Gunga in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', Cloud City in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', the Death Star, the entire Order 66 scene in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', and Coruscant in general in the {{prequel}}s are good examples that show where he truly excels. (Although the Cloud City Scenery Porn in [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack ESB]] wasn't really his, Lucas having very little involvement with [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Episode V]] compared with the other movies, in the Special Editions where he had a lot more input that sequence was extended.)

** The view of the UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco Bay in ''Film/AViewToAKill''. The film's end credits were basically a MoneyShot of the Golden Gate Bridge ([[MonumentalBattle where the final battle took place]]).

* Just about any Creator/TerryGilliam film fits this trope. In fact, one reason the other members of Creator/MontyPython eventually chose Terry Jones to direct the troupe's films was their belief that Gilliam was more concerned with cinematography and set design than with creating comedy.

* Creator/TimBurton's films are full of this, with his ''Film/{{Batman}}'' films and it's Gothic stylings a particularly good example.
* Creator/JoelSchumacher's entries in that series qualify as well, but are far more bright, garish, heavily-produced, and just plain campy, albeit with far more expansion on the overall cityscape and more of a reliance on abstract structural anatomy, as opposed to Burton's 'less is more' approach of vintage film noir-style cityscapes mixed with gothic architecture. For all intents an purposes, Schumacher's Batverse is basically Batman-meets-Creator/BazLuhrmann or Rob Marshall, and is designed more like a Broadway stage play than a major motion picture.
* Creator/ChristopherNolan's ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga'' may have a more realistic look to them, but Nolan manages to make Gotham look beautiful in its own way, including the IMAX shots of Gotham and Hong Kong (as well as Bruce's yacht), which are ''gorgeous''.
** Hell, ''Film/{{Inception}}'' should be called, Scenery Porn: The Motion Picture.

* ''Film/SupermanReturns'' and ''Film/{{Hulk}}'' both fell short of the expectations of the two's franchise. However, both movies had an amazing sequence of showing off the two titanically powerful characters in very eye catching scenes (Hulk hopping around in the American Southwest desert and the Lois/Superman flight sequence). Not to mention the opening titles.

* Basically ''every'' movie produced and directed by Creator/GuillermoDelToro. Another example is ''El laberinto del fauno'' (''Film/PansLabyrinth'').

* The road trip sequence at the end of ''Film/{{Elizabethtown}}'' qualifies and is pretty much designed specifically to be gorgeous by the love interest so it will keep the protagonist's mind off his depression.

* Pretty much any film by Creator/WongKarWai, another Chinese director for whom Scenery Porn (and stuff verging on the real) is a SignatureStyle. Some of his best Scenery Porn:

* ''Film/YoungEinstein'' has some impressive Australian scenery in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaOVeKvrEX4 this segment]] (not to mention [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic great music]] to go with it).

* ''Film/TheFountain''. Throughout the entire film, you find it hard to pay attention to the astronaut's story because you're gawking at the visuals. Then, at the end, the conquistador [[spoiler:reaches the tree]] and you're treated to an even ''more'' arresting vista.

* ''Film/{{Baraka}}'' is a non-narrative film which contains nothing but Scenery Porn. It could be compared with the earier ''Film/{{Koyaanisqatsi}}'' and ''Film/{{Powaqqatsi}}'', but it was shot entirely on Todd-AO 70mm, giving vastly better picture quality than 35mm. It was the first film ever to be scanned at ''8k'' resolution for UsefulNotes/BluRay (8,192 horizontal pixels)[[note]] 4k is equivalent to 35mm quality, and some UsefulNotes/BluRay movies are scanned at 2k, which is only slightly better quality than HD[[/note]], and boy, does it show!

* The eco movie ''Home'' is essentially 90 minutes of high octane Scenery Porn to make sure you sit through the entire lecture.

* ''Film/DonJuanDeMarco'': Every sexual escapade the title character (Creator/JohnnyDepp) describes takes place in a beautiful locale; a picturesque Mexican village, a richly adorned palace, an idyllic tropical island. (And of course Johnny himself is easy on the eyes.)

** The 1983 movie ''Nostalghia'' plays this trope pretty much straight, albeit with a twist: The masterful cinematography makes the lavish Tuscan scenery look haunting and otherwordly, albeit sometimes in a pretty frightening manner and even the most bleak looking indoors set can best be compared to a moving oil painting.

* The entirety of ''Film/MonsoonWedding'' is colourful and filled with beautiful shots of wedding decorations and flowers, and the scenery of India. The outside of the house is verdant with strings of marigolds.

* ''Film/{{Suspiria}}'' is absolutely beautiful. Reds, blues, greens, you name it. It's a candy fest for the eyes.

* The [[Film/{{Koyaanisqatsi}} Qatsi]] trilogy and Baraka are mostly Scenery Porn and AwesomeMusic, although there's a good bit of shots of people without much interesting scenery behind them as well.

* ''Film/YoungEinstein'' has some impressive Australian scenery in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaOVeKvrEX4 this segment]] (not to mention [[AwesomeMusic great music]] to go with it).

* ''Film/TheLastOfTheMohicans'', with North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains standing in for upstate New York, and looking so gorgeous that they upstage Madeleine Stowe and Daniel Day Lewis with hair extensions, which is not easy. Assisted by much AwesomeMusic and [[CostumePorn many loincloths]].

* Creator/AkiraKurosawa is a master of this trope. Try seeing ''Film/{{Ran}}'' and not falling in love with the amazing beautiful landscapes of Mount Aso (where most of the movie was shot).

* Rob Marshall's ''MemoirsOfAGeisha'' is a beautiful example and one for CostumePorn. Although the filming took place in California, it was still a breathtaking choice to portray still-traditional Kyoto, Japan. All the cinematography was breathtaking and almost made up for the fact that it was kind of a mediocre film anyway.

* Creator/TheCoenBrothers do this in almost all of their movies in order to establish the era and area their movie is taking place in, but it's especially notable in ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' and ''NoCountryForOldMen''.

* In addition to ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'''s stunning action setpieces, it is filled from start to finish with absolutely breathtaking scenery and vistas, despite the fact that it's almost all a desert.

** Scott specifically [[PlayingAgainstType did a romantic comedy]], ''A Good Year'', to shoot near his home in the French Riviera. The movie is divisive, but the scenery is so beautiful you can't blame Scott.

* ''HardCandy'' was directed by David Slade, who had primarily done music videos in the past. It shows; even though almost all of the movie takes place in a few rooms, it ''looks'' absolutely stunning, with saturated colors and narrow focus-planes.

* ''{{Amelie}}'' is very well known for its distinct visual style.

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* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'':
** There's an absolutely ''huge'' amount of background detail in every shot of Earth, fleshing out the culture, the civilian lifestyle, and generally showing how the world has evolved.
** A few of the bar scenes make hilariously great references to 1960s culture, however, giving a nod to the era in which ''Star Trek'' was born (and from which much of ''TOS'''s set design was drawn).
** We get to see a lot more of the internal workings of the ''Enterprise'', including Sickbay and Engineering.

* Creator/JoelSchumacher's entries in that series qualify as well, but are far more bright, garish, heavily-produced, and just plain campy, albeit with far more expansion on the overall cityscape and more of a reliance on abstract structural anatomy, as opposed to Burton's 'less is more' approach of vintage film noir-style cityscapes mixed with gothic architecture

* Creator/JoelSchumacher's entries in that series attempted this but were too garish and implausible for their own good.

* ''Film/AliceInWonderland'' is jam-packed with this.

* Creator/WesAnderson's films are almost always recognizable by the rich, vivid sets. Each movie can be condensed into one colour scheme. A shining example is TheDarjeelingLimited, in which three brothers travel on a train across India. Almost any frame from the movie is beautiful enough to potentially be used as a desktop background.

* The gorgeous Caribbean island scenery is lampshaded by Vince Vaughn's character in ''CouplesRetreat''. "It's like a frickin' screensaver!"