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Shaun of the Dead

2004

Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead gave South London the zombie apocalypse it secretly deserved, and its poster captures this completely — Shaun in his suburban non-heroic posture, cricket bat in hand, entirely unprepared. The wry, understated cool of a British comedy that also happens to genuinely love the genre it is simultaneously dismantling. The coolest British horror-comedy poster ever designed, confirmed at 98types.

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A Clockwork Orange

1971

Philip Castle's A Clockwork Orange poster is one of the great pieces of graphic confrontation in cinema history — Alex DeLarge in his pyramid of eyes, the outthrust knife-hand, the whole composition designed to disturb before you have read a word. Kubrick banned the film from UK release for 27 years; the poster was the only image British audiences had of it, which made it the most discussed film image in British culture for three decades. Subversive, sinister, absolutely cool.

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28 Days Later

2002

The 28 Days Later poster is the definitive British post-apocalyptic image: Cillian Murphy alone on an empty Waterloo Bridge, the deserted London skyline behind him, the silence made visible. The entire film's premise — an ordinary person in an extraordinary catastrophe, in a recognisably British landscape — is communicated before a word of synopsis. The coolest British horror poster of the 21st century.

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Psycho

1960

Alfred Hitchcock was British, and Saul Bass's Psycho poster is the greatest work of poster design in British cinema's directorial canon. The fragmented typography, the monochrome figure, the whole composition communicating psychological shattering before a frame of the film is shown. Cool in the original, pre-diluted sense of the word: utterly controlled, utterly composed, utterly devastating.

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The Favourite

2018

Yorgos Lanthimos's The Favourite is the most viciously funny British period film ever made — a poison-pen letter to the 18th century written in the language of contemporary psychological warfare. Olivia Colman won the Academy Award for Best Actress. The poster is as sharp as the film: baroque, strange, immediately communicating that this is not a polite heritage drama.

Back to Black

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Sam Taylor-Johnson's Amy Winehouse biopic is British cinema engaging with British music culture at the most iconic level — the Camden girl who became one of the greatest vocalists of her generation. The Back to Black poster is the coolest British music biopic image of 2024: immediately, unmistakably Amy.

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Hot Fuzz

2007

Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz transplants the buddy-cop action movie to a Somerset village and in doing so creates a film that is simultaneously the best action parody and the most affectionate portrait of British village life ever committed to celluloid. The poster is as precisely calibrated as the film's genre play: cool enough to mean it, funny enough to not care.

Harry Potter

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The Harry Potter franchise is the most significant British cultural export of the 21st century — eight films, a generation of readers who grew up with them, and poster imagery that became inseparable from childhood for an entire global generation. Hogwarts, the golden snitch, the wands. No other British franchise has achieved anything close.

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Skyfall

2012

Sam Mendes's Skyfall is the finest James Bond film ever made and its poster is the coolest the franchise has produced: Daniel Craig's silhouette against a burning Skyfall estate, the quintessential British spy elegance rendered in the palette of destruction. James Bond is British cinema's defining genre export and Skyfall is the genre at its absolute peak.

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Billy Elliot

2000

Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot is the definitive British underdog film — a miner's son in County Durham who wants to be a ballet dancer during the 1984 miners' strike, a combination so specifically British and so universally resonant that it won three Academy Award nominations and launched three successful theatrical adaptations. The poster captures the leap: the boy airborne, the pit village behind him.

Poor Things

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Poor Things won the Golden Lion at Venice and Emma Stone's Academy Award for Best Actress — the most visually distinguished British production of 2023. Lanthimos's Victorian-steampunk feminist fable is as visually extraordinary as anything in British cinema's recent history. The poster imagery captures a film that refuses to be categorised by anything except its own extraordinary visual logic.

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Fleabag

2016

Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag is the defining British television work of its decade — a one-woman comedy about grief, desire and the specific exhaustion of being a sentient woman in contemporary London that broke the fourth wall so completely it reinvented what television monologue could be. Won six Emmy Awards. The coolest British TV poster of the 2010s.

The Office

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Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's The Office invented the modern mockumentary format and created David Brent — the most studied portrayal of misplaced self-belief in British television history. The Office is listed among the greatest television programmes ever made by virtually every critical poll. Its poster imagery captures the specific beige horror of the Slough trading estate office with absolute accuracy.

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Black Mirror

2011

Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror is the most internationally successful British television anthology since The Twilight Zone — a series of technology-horror fables whose best episodes (The National Anthem, Fifteen Million Merits, San Junipero) are among the finest pieces of British television writing of the century. The poster imagery is as uncomfortable as the series intends.

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Notting Hill

1999

Roger Michell's Notting Hill is the quintessential British romantic comedy — Hugh Grant at his most specifically Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts at her most specifically Julia Roberts, the Portobello Road market in every shot. The film that made Notting Hill an internationally recognised neighbourhood. Cool in the way that effortless British charm is always cool: by appearing not to try.

Four Weddings and a Funeral

1994

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Richard Curtis and Mike Newell's Four Weddings and a Funeral established the template for the British romantic comedy and launched Hugh Grant as an international star simultaneously. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The poster is the definitive British romcom image: dressed-up, slightly flustered, entirely charming.

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

1998

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Guy Ritchie's Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is the coolest British crime film of the 1990s — fast-talking, visually inventive, entirely committed to the specific swagger of East London criminal culture. The poster is as sharp as the film's editing: attitude compressed into a single image, all attitude.

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Snatch

2000

Snatch is Lock Stock amplified: more characters, more storylines, more visual invention, Brad Pitt speaking unintelligible Pikey. The coolest British ensemble crime comedy ever made and the film that convinced Hollywood that Guy Ritchie had a style worth investing in.

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The Full Monty

1997

Peter Cattaneo's The Full Monty is the quintessential 1990s British social comedy — six unemployed Sheffield steel workers becoming male strippers, the bleakness of de-industrialisation transformed into something warm, funny and genuinely moving. One of the highest-grossing British films ever made. Its poster is six ordinary men deciding to do something extraordinary.

Baby Reindeer

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Richard Gadd's Baby Reindeer is the most discussed British television event of 2024 — a semi-autobiographical one-man show about stalking and trauma that became a Netflix global phenomenon. Won seven Emmy Awards. The coolest British TV poster of 2024: uncomfortable, compelling, impossible to look away from.

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Bridgerton

2020

Shonda Rhimes's Bridgerton is the most successful British period drama of the streaming era — a Regency romance with contemporary music, diverse casting and visual sumptuousness that made it Netflix's most-watched series at its debut. The poster imagery is the Regency aesthetic reclaimed for 2020: all gold, pastel and absolute confidence.

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Cult & Classic Cool — All-Time Iconic Film Posters

Nos. 23–38 · Pulp Fiction · The Godfather · The Shining · Twin Peaks · The coolest cult film posters of all time

Pulp Fiction

1994

The Pulp Fiction poster is the coolest piece of film marketing in cinema history — Uma Thurman's Mia Wallace on a bed with a cigarette and a pulp paperback, the composition directly quoting 1940s crime magazine covers. Tarantino's visual knowledge compressed into a single image. The most requested cult film poster at 98types. The definition of cool wall art.

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The Godfather

1972

S. Neil Fujita's Godfather puppet hand against absolute black is the coolest minimalist movie poster ever designed — a single image that says everything about power, control and the invisible strings of organised crime. No faces. No guns. Nothing except the hand and the darkness. The coolest crime film poster in cinema history.

Goodfellas

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Three faces in a moral triangle — Liotta, De Niro, Pesci — the Goodfellas poster communicates the entire film's character study in composition and expression alone. Bold, cinematic, dark. The coolest Scorsese poster and the one that most directly captures what it feels like to be inside the film's energy.

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Casablanca

1942

Bill Gold's Casablanca poster defined the visual language of Hollywood romantic cool for the next fifty years. Bogart and Bergman luminous against atmosphere, the composition perfectly balanced. The vintage cool film poster that everything since has been in conversation with.

The Shining

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The Shining's most famous poster image — Jack Torrance's face through the broken door, grin stretched beyond comfort — is the coolest horror image in cinema history. It communicates a specific kind of madness that was always there, waiting. The poster that makes every home cinema room immediately more interesting.

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The King of Comedy

1982

Martin Scorsese's most prescient film about celebrity culture and pathological fame-seeking feels more relevant in 2026 than 1982. Todd Phillips cited it as the primary reference for Joker (2019). The King of Comedy poster is the cult Scorsese print for the person who knows their Scorsese well enough to go past Goodfellas.

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Alien

1979

A cracking alien egg against absolute black. No monster, no character, only suggestion and the most effective tagline in cinema history. The coolest science fiction poster ever designed — a masterpiece of minimalist terror. Ridley Scott's Alien changed cinema permanently; its poster changed poster design permanently.

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Inception

2010

Paris folding back on itself — the city's geometry obeying dream logic. Nolan's Inception poster is the coolest minimalist science fiction poster of the 21st century: pure visual argument that the film is doing something nobody has done before. The architecture of dreams made graphic.

Twin Peaks

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David Lynch's Twin Peaks is the most influential television programme ever made and the 98types Twin Peaks poster brings the log lady, the diner and the Black Lodge to your wall. The coolest cult TV print in the collection — the one that tells visitors immediately what kind of person lives here.

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Halloween

1978

Robert Gleason's Halloween pumpkin-and-knife-hand design is the coolest minimalist horror poster ever made — Michael Myers entirely absent from his own film's poster, his presence communicated only through a carved pumpkin and a single gloved hand. The slasher genre's defining image.

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The Thing

1982

Drew Struzan designed The Thing poster in 24 hours knowing almost nothing about the film — and produced one of the coolest horror prints ever made. The figure illuminated from below, possibly human or possibly not. That ambiguity is the film's entire terror proposition compressed into a single graphic image.

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Scream

1996

Wes Craven's Scream established the Ghostface mask as the defining horror icon of the 1990s — white, expressionless, shaped like Munch's The Scream in latex. The coolest horror-comedy poster of the decade: a film that knew exactly what it was and used that knowledge to be more frightening than films that didn't.

Friday the 13th

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Friday the 13th created the slasher visual vocabulary that defined 1980s horror: the hockey mask, the machete, the summer camp. The poster is as direct as the genre it invented — cool in the way that total commitment to a single idea is always cool.

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Saw

2004

James Wan's Saw introduced torture horror to mainstream cinema with a spiral symbol and a darkness that the poster communicates completely. One of the most successful horror franchises in cinema history began with this single, uncompromising image.

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Joker

2019

Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck descending a flight of stairs in his clown makeup — a dance that is equal parts triumph and tragedy. The Joker poster is the coolest superhero-adjacent film image of the 2010s: no capes, no explosions, just a man who has decided to stop pretending. Palme d'Or winner. Academy Award for Best Actor.

Joker: Folie a Deux

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Todd Phillips's Joker sequel brought Lady Gaga into the universe as Harley Quinn — one of the most daring 2024 productions and one of the most visually striking. The Folie a Deux poster is confirmed at 98types: the most recent addition to the Joker poster collection.

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Design Icons — Posters as Graphic Art

Nos. 39–52 · Vertigo · Jaws · Blade Runner · Star Wars · The coolest poster designs in cinema history

Vertigo

1958

Saul Bass used mathematical Lissajous spirals to recreate vertigo itself as a graphic experience. No character, no scene — only the feeling of falling translated into pure geometry. Empire called it the greatest film poster ever designed. The coolest piece of graphic art ever produced for a film, by some distance.

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Jaws

1975

Roger Kastel's Jaws poster — the great white rising toward the unsuspecting swimmer, white space used with extraordinary boldness — was voted the greatest film poster of all time by Empire readers. Cool in the way that total visual confidence is always cool: one image that says everything.

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Blade Runner

1982

John Alvin's Blade Runner poster is perfect neo-noir graphic design — Harrison Ford in the rain, a cigarette curling smoke, the vast dystopian Los Angeles behind him. The poster that invented the visual language of cyberpunk and remains the coolest science fiction poster ever designed.

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Star Wars: A New Hope

1977

Tom Jung's Star Wars poster arranged light against dark around the lightsaber's cross motif — the coolest space opera poster ever made for the franchise that created space opera as a mainstream genre. The most famous film poster in cinema history.

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2001: A Space Odyssey

1968

Stanley Kubrick's 2001 is the most graphically ambitious poster in science fiction — attempting to represent the entire arc of human consciousness from prehistoric bone to transcendent rebirth in a single composed image. Cool in the way that total artistic ambition is always cool, even when it exceeds its reach.

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Apocalypse Now

1979

Bob Peak's Apocalypse Now poster is the coolest war film poster ever designed — Brando's enormous bald head fading into a shimmering sun, helicopters flying with a bug-like unreality. Hypnotic, confusing, and matching the film's psychological texture completely.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

1984

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Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street invented dream horror and its poster made Freddy Krueger an icon before anyone had seen the film. The striped sweater, the blade-fingered glove, that fedora — a visual identity so distinctive it was instantly imitable and never bettered.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's

1961

Audrey Hepburn in her black Givenchy dress and cigarette holder — the Breakfast at Tiffany's poster is the coolest vintage glamour image in cinema history. Holly Golightly is the original cool girl: sophisticated, free-spirited, impossible to pin down. The vintage film poster that defined an aesthetic for decades.

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Back to the Future

1985

Drew Struzan's Back to the Future poster captures breathless adventure in a single image — Marty checking his watch as the DeLorean blurs past. The coolest 80s adventure film poster and one of Drew Struzan's finest works. Recognised worldwide as one of cinema's most immediately legible images.

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Ghostbusters

1984

The Ghostbusters no-ghost logo became one of the most reproduced pieces of graphic design ever created for a film — cool enough that the film's title is secondary to the image. The 98types Ghostbusters poster features the theme as actual sheet music: the cool film print that doubles as genuine music wall art.

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Ghostbusters 2016

2016

Paul Feig's all-female Ghostbusters reboot brought Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and Leslie Jones to the franchise. The 98types Ghostbusters 2016 poster is confirmed in stock — the contemporary companion to the 1984 original.

Oppenheimer

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Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer poster is designed in a modern, minimalist, cinematic style — the visual weight of the atomic age compressed into a cool, restrained image. Seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. The 98types Oppenheimer print is confirmed in stock from £3.

Gladiator II

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Ridley Scott's Gladiator II returns the Roman arena to the screen with Paul Mescal — the coolest new epic of 2024. The poster nails the appeal of the sequel: sweaty, dusty, confident. The 98types Gladiator II print is confirmed in stock.

Superman 2025

The new DC Superman film launches a reimagined franchise in 2025 with poster imagery that stakes its visual claim early. The 98types Superman 2025 poster is confirmed in stock — the newest superhero addition to the collection. From £3.

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Cool Musical Cinema — Film Posters that Dance

Nos. 53–62 · Dirty Dancing · Rocky Horror · Grease · La La Land · The coolest musical and feel-good film posters

Dirty Dancing

1987

Patrick Swayze lifting Jennifer Grey against a sunset — the lift, the most iconic dance move in film history. "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." The Dirty Dancing poster is the coolest musical film image of the 1980s. The 98types print features the Oscar-winning song (I've Had) The Time of My Life as sheet music wall art.

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Grease

1978

The highest-grossing movie musical of all time and the poster to match — Travolta and Newton-John in their Rydell High costumes, the visual shorthand for an entire era of American cool as imagined through British nostalgia. The 98types Grease print features You're the One That I Want as lyric wall art.

Rocky Horror Picture Show

1975

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been showing at midnight screenings for fifty years. Tim Curry's Dr. Frank-N-Furter is the defining figure of cult cool: exuberant, transgressive, entirely comfortable with what it is. The coolest cult musical poster in cinema history.

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La La Land

2016

Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone dancing against a twilight Los Angeles skyline — the most romantic image of 21st-century cinema. La La Land received 14 Academy Award nominations. The 98types City of Stars print features the Oscar-winning song as lyric wall art.

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The Sound of Music

1965

Julie Andrews on a hillside in Austria, arms outstretched — the universal image of joy and freedom in musical cinema. The Sound of Music won five Academy Awards including Best Picture. The most recognisable musical film image in cinema history.

Wicked

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The 2024 Wicked film adaptation is the most anticipated musical in years — Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda. The green-and-pink palette is the most recognisable musical visual identity of 2024. The 98types Wicked poster is confirmed in stock from £3.

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Titanic

1997

Jack and Rose at the bow of the Titanic, arms outstretched into the Atlantic air — the most iconic romantic image in cinema history. The 98types Titanic print features My Heart Will Go On as lyric wall art. Eleven Academy Awards including Best Picture.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

1993

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Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas — Jack Skellington's elongated silhouette against the moon — is one of the most recognisable images in stop-motion animation history. The coolest Tim Burton poster and the one most likely to be on a wall in twenty years regardless of what else changes.

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Encanto

2021

"We Don't Talk About Bruno" became the first Disney song since 1995 to reach No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The 98types Encanto print features Dos Oruguitas — the film's most emotionally devastating song — as museum-quality lyric wall art.

Home Alone

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Macaulay Culkin's Kevin McCallister — palms to cheeks, mouth open in a scream — became a universal gesture as well as a film image. Home Alone is one of the most purely joyful Christmas film posters ever made: immediately funny, immediately recognisable, irreplaceable.

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Cool Anime & Animation — From Akira to Ghibli

Nos. 63–72 · Akira · Spirited Away · Perfect Blue · The coolest anime and animation posters ever made

Akira

1988

Kaneda's red motorcycle sliding through Neo-Tokyo's rain-slicked streets — one of the most influential pieces of animation design ever made. Akira established that anime could be as artistically serious as any live-action film. The coolest anime poster and one of the coolest posters of any kind.

Spirited Away

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Spirited Away won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and the Golden Bear at Berlin — the only animated film to have won both. Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made in any format. The coolest Ghibli poster and one of the greatest animation posters in cinema history.

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My Neighbor Totoro

1988

The Totoro at the bus stop in the rain is so recognisable it serves as Studio Ghibli's company logo. Communicates everything about Miyazaki's worldview in a single image. The coolest animated mascot in cinema history and the most universally beloved Ghibli poster.

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Perfect Blue

1997

Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue directly influenced Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan — a psychological thriller about the dissolution of identity between performance and self. The coolest psychological anime poster and one of the most unsettling images in the 98types collection.

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Pom Poko

1994

Isao Takahata's Pom Poko is the most ecological film in the Ghibli catalogue and the one that most surprises people who discover it. The coolest Ghibli poster that most visitors to a gallery wall ask about first.

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Whisper of the Heart

1995

The gentlest film in the Ghibli catalogue — a coming-of-age story about a girl discovering her love of writing. Yoshifumi Kondo's only directorial feature is among Ghibli's most purely lovely: cool in the way that quiet certainty is always cool.

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Clueless

1995

Amy Heckerling's Clueless is one of the most quotable films ever made and one of the coolest 90s film posters — Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz, the most confidently aesthetic protagonist in 1990s cinema. As if.

A Minecraft Movie

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The Minecraft Movie brings the world's most played game to the big screen with Jason Momoa and Jack Black. The 98types A Minecraft Movie poster is confirmed in stock — the coolest gaming-to-cinema crossover print of 2025. From £3.

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The full 98types Studio Ghibli and anime collection covers the complete range of classic and contemporary Japanese animation — from Hayao Miyazaki's pastoral warmth to Satoshi Kon's psychological complexity. The coolest anime poster collection in the UK.

The Conjuring: Last Rites

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The Conjuring: Last Rites brings the Warren paranormal investigation franchise into 2025 — the most recent horror addition to the 98types confirmed collection. Available now from £3. The coolest new horror poster of the year.

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Cool Crime & Prestige Drama

Nos. 73–84 · Casablanca · Goodfellas · Parasite · No Country for Old Men · Cool crime and prestige film posters

Casablanca

1942

The coolest golden-age Hollywood poster and the one that defined the visual language of romantic cool for the next fifty years. Bogart and Bergman luminous against atmosphere, Bill Gold's composition perfectly balanced. The vintage cool print that belongs in every serious film collection.

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Psycho

1960

A second placement for Psycho — because the cool of Saul Bass's fragmented typography deserves the acknowledgement. The print that communicates psychological shattering through letterforms alone. One of the most copied poster designs in history and still the most effective.

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The Godfather

1972

A second placement for the Godfather because the coolness of the puppet hand against absolute black is worth revisiting in the crime context. The most restrained poster for the most authoritative crime film ever made. The print that says more about the person who chose it than any other film poster in the collection.

Goodfellas

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A second placement for Goodfellas in the crime context — the poster that captures the dark glamour of the mob world with a boldness and confidence that matches the film's own energy. The coolest Scorsese crime print.

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Inception

2010

A second placement for Inception in the drama and visual design context — Paris folding back on itself as the coolest modern science fiction poster and the one that most clearly announces a film doing something nobody has attempted before.

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The Favourite

2018

A second placement for The Favourite in the prestige drama context — Yorgos Lanthimos's most viciously cool British film and the one that demonstrated that period drama could be as confrontational as any contemporary thriller.

Poor Things

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Poor Things won the Golden Lion at Venice and Emma Stone's Academy Award — the most visually extraordinary British film of 2023. Its Victorian-steampunk visual design makes it the coolest feminist fable of the decade.

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No Country for Old Men

2007

The Coen Brothers' masterpiece introduced Anton Chigurh as one of the coolest (in the most frightening sense) villains in cinema history. The poster's West Texas desolation matches the film's moral severity.

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Parasite

2019

The first non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Parasite's poster communicates class stratification through the geometry of space — below and above, seen and unseen — with a precision that is as cool as the film's own design intelligence.

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Fight Club

1999

A bar of soap in the foreground of a Brad Pitt-Edward Norton close-up — the Fight Club poster says nothing about the story and everything about the tone. The coolest minimalist crime-adjacent film poster of the 1990s.

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Joker

2019

A third placement for Joker — in the crime and drama context — because the staircase poster image of Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck dancing is simply the coolest superhero-adjacent film image of the 2010s and deserves to be noted in every relevant category.

Oppenheimer

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A second placement for Oppenheimer in the prestige drama context — because the cool of a film that made a three-hour biographical drama about nuclear physics into the highest-grossing original film of 2023 deserves the additional acknowledgement.

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The Coolest Horror Movie Posters

Nos. 85–90 · Alien · Halloween · Scream · Friday the 13th · The horror posters that defined the genre

Alien

1979

A second placement for Alien — the coolest horror-sci-fi crossover poster and one of the most effective marketing solutions ever designed for an invisible threat. The cracking egg is cooler than any monster.

The Shining

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A second placement for The Shining — in the pure horror context — because the face through the broken door is the coolest horror image in cinema history and belongs in both the cult and horror sections.

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Scream

1996

A second placement for Scream — the coolest meta-horror poster and the one that established the decade's defining horror icon. Ghost-face: the mask that proved horror could be clever.

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Halloween

1978

A second placement for Halloween — in the pure horror context — the coolest minimalist slasher poster and the one that proved you could create terror with a pumpkin and a hand.

Friday the 13th

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A second placement for Friday the 13th — in the pure horror context — the poster that created the visual vocabulary the slasher genre used for the next decade.

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Saw

2004

A second placement for Saw — in the pure horror context — one of the most successful horror franchises in history began with this single, uncompromising poster image.

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Everything Everywhere All at Once

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Contemporary Cool — 2019–2025

Nos. 91–100 · Everything Everywhere · Barbie · Dune · Anora · The coolest film posters of the current decade

2022

A247 OscarsMultiverseMichelle Yeoh

The Daniels' multiverse epic won seven Academy Awards — an extraordinary achievement for a $14.3 million film. Its poster imagery captures the joyful maximalism of a film that cannot be described but only experienced. The coolest A24 poster and the most original Best Picture winner of the 2020s.

Poor Things

Emma StoneYorgos LanthimosGolden LionFeminist Fable

A second placement for Poor Things in the contemporary context — the most visually distinctive Best Picture winner in years and the coolest feminist fable of the decade. Emma Stone's Academy Award. The Golden Lion at Venice.

Barbie

Greta GerwigMargot RobbieCultural PhenomenonAll-Pink

Greta Gerwig's Barbie became the highest-grossing film of 2023 and the most culturally discussed film of its year. The all-pink visual identity became the defining aesthetic moment of 2023. A film poster that functioned as a cultural conversation in itself.

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Dune: Part One

2021

Denis Villeneuve's Dune is the finest science fiction epic since Blade Runner. Its poster imagery — the vast desert dunes of Arrakis, the enormous scale of the sandworms — captures a world-building ambition matched only by the original Frank Herbert novels. The coolest modern sci-fi poster.

BritishYorgos LanthimosOlivia ColmanDark Comedy

The Favourite

2018

A third placement for The Favourite — in the contemporary cool context — the finest and most deliberately strange British period film of the 2010s. The coolest British film of its year and the one most likely to be discovered and loved in a decade's time.

Anora

Palme d'Or 2024Best Picture 2025Sean BakerIndependent

Sean Baker's Anora won the Palme d'Or at Cannes 2024 and the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 2025 ceremony. Mikey Madison's lead performance is the finest debut of recent years. The coolest independent American film of 2024.

Back to Black

Amy Winehouse2024BritishCamden

Sam Taylor-Johnson's Amy Winehouse biopic is British cinema engaging with British music culture at the most significant level — the Camden girl who became one of the greatest vocalists of her generation. The 98types Back to Black poster is confirmed in stock. From £3.

Wicked

Musical2024Ariana GrandeCynthia Erivo

A second placement for Wicked 2024 — the most anticipated musical of 2024 and one of the most immediately recognisable posters of the year. Green and pink. Committed. The coolest musical film visual identity of the 2020s so far.

Superman 2025

James Gunn's new Superman launches a reimagined DC universe in 2025. The 98types Superman 2025 poster is confirmed in stock — the newest superhero film addition to the collection, available from £3.

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FAQ — Coolest Movie Posters & British Film Wall Art UK

What is the coolest movie poster ever made?

Critical consensus puts the following among the coolest film posters ever made: Trainspotting (cool Britannia at its peak), Pulp Fiction (Uma Thurman's pulp magazine aesthetic), Vertigo (Saul Bass's Lissajous spirals), Blade Runner (neo-noir cyberpunk), Akira (anime's founding graphic statement) and Psycho (Saul Bass's fragmented typography). All available at 98types from £3.

What are the coolest British movie posters?

The coolest British film posters are: Trainspotting (the definitive British cool film poster), Shaun of the Dead (British horror-comedy at its finest), A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick's most confrontational image), 28 Days Later (the coolest post-apocalyptic British image), Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock and Saul Bass's graphic masterpiece) and The Favourite (the coolest British period film of the 2010s). All available at 98types from £3 in the British Movies & TV collection.

Where can I buy British movie posters in the UK?

The 98types British Movies & TV collection contains confirmed prints from the full British cinema canon — from classic Hitchcock to contemporary British television including Fleabag, The Office, Black Mirror, Bridgerton and more. All prints are on 260gsm museum-grade satin paper with archive pigment inks. From £3. Buy 3 get 1 free. Same-day dispatch before 3pm from Market Hall, Camden Lock Place, London NW1 8AL. Also available to buy in person at Camden Market, where 98types has been trading for 14+ years.

What is the difference between a cool movie poster and a great movie poster?

A great movie poster serves the film — it communicates the film's premise, genre and tone accurately and memorably. A cool movie poster does something more: it communicates the film's attitude. The Pulp Fiction poster does not tell you what happens in the film. It tells you how the film feels, what world it belongs to, what kind of person made it. The Trainspotting poster does not describe heroin addiction in Edinburgh. It tells you that this film has the confidence to show you something you have never seen before and the style to make you want to see it. Cool is attitude compressed into a single image.

Is the Shaun of the Dead poster available at 98types?

Yes — the 98types Shaun of the Dead poster is a confirmed bestseller in the British Movies & TV collection. Available in A6, A5, A4 and A3 with the framed mount option also available. From £3. Same-day dispatch before 3pm. Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead is the finest British horror-comedy ever made and its poster is one of the coolest British film images in the 98types collection.

What size movie poster is coolest for a home cinema or living room?

For a home cinema or living room statement, A3 (30x42cm) is the most impactful single poster size — large enough to anchor the wall, proportionate enough to not overwhelm a domestic space. For a gallery wall of film posters, A4 (20x30cm) is the most popular companion size. The coolest home cinema gallery wall combines one A3 anchor (the film you are most committed to: Godfather, Pulp Fiction, The Shining) with two A4 companions (the films that define your taste) and one A5 detail (the cult pick that tells the whole story). Buy 3 get 1 free at 98types — four posters from £9.

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