The 10 Most Fashionable Movies
by chrissy_13 | created - 25 Dec 2010 | updated - 25 Dec 2010 | PublicThis list does not prescribe to anything official. This is only based on my own judgment on style, elegance and art and is limited to the range of movies I have only seen.
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1. Factory Girl (2006)
R | 90 min | Biography, Drama
Based on the rise and fall of socialite Edie Sedgwick, concentrating on her relationships with Andy Warhol and a folk singer.
Director: George Hickenlooper | Stars: Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon
Votes: 22,337 | Gross: $1.66M
A movie based on the rise and fall of Edith Minturn Sedgwick, the most controversial socialite of the 60s. Also most noted for being one of Andy Warhol's ''superstars''.
2. Funny Face (1957)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair
Votes: 33,034
The crafts of legendary photographer Richard Avedon and fashion icon Audrey Hepburn combine.
3. Marie Antoinette (2006)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 14 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, Steve Coogan
Votes: 121,958 | Gross: $15.96M
Sofia Coppola's film adaptation of Antonia Fraser's book on the life of France's most iconic queen, and her expensive tastes.
4. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Votes: 236,544
A story of a former Hollywood goddess whose star, unfortunately, has faded. Her grief, dismay and failure to accept the truth made this movie most fashionably tragic.
5. Some Like It Hot (1959)
Passed | 121 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft
Votes: 283,652 | Gross: $25.00M
Marilyn Monroe shows off her luscious beauty and voluptuous body in sexy, sequined dresses.
6. The Duchess (2008)
PG-13 | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was revered for her extravagant political and personal life.
Director: Saul Dibb | Stars: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 87,308 | Gross: $13.82M
Based on the extravagant life of Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire. Won the Best Achievement in Costume Design during the Academy Awards 2009.
7. Gone with the Wind (1939)
Passed | 238 min | Drama, Romance, War
A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil
Votes: 334,431 | Gross: $198.68M
Scarlette O'hara is a beautiful Southern belle caught in the middle of the American Civil War. Clad in pretty dresses and massive hats, she is determined to live through despite everything.
8. Grey Gardens (1975)
PG | 95 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Meet a mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, reclusive cousins of Jackie O., managing to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, NY, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot.
Directors: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer | Stars: Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale, Brooks Hyers
Votes: 15,295 | Gross: $0.03M
A docu-drama on Jacki O's elite relatives hitting rock bottom. Little Edie shows the world that true glamor never fades.
9. Great Expectations (1998)
R | 111 min | Drama, Romance
Modernization of Charles Dickens' classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York City pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper
Votes: 56,932 | Gross: $26.33M
A film adaptation of a Charles Dickens classic. Gwyneth Paltrow (Estella) and Anne Bancroft (the jilted Ms. Dinsmoor) give out the most mysterious style and glamor.
10.
Independent Lens (1999– )
Episode:
Imelda
(2003)
Unrated | 103 min | Documentary
A "beyond the shoes" documentary on the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos.
Director: Ramona S. Diaz | Stars: Imelda Marcos, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Imee Marcos, Fe Bautista
Votes: 251
A documentary showing what we need to know about the infamous Imelda Marcos, aside from owning more than 300 pairs of shoes. The beautiful and eccentric Imelda who loves to "see only beautiful things" was ironically the first lady of poverty-stricken Philippines.
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