Dr. Zhivago’s ”ice-palace” (1965, dir. David Lean) (via)

The Third Man (1949, dir. Carol Reed)

Robert Mitchum & Shelley Winters in Night of the Hunter (1955, dir. Charles Laughton)

The Haunting (1963, dir. Robert Wise)

 A Generation (1955, dir. Andrzej Wajda)

Fun decorating ideas for whimsical rich people via L’anticristo (1974, dir. Alberto de Martino)

 Metropolis (1927, dir. Fritz Lang)

“This film marks the beginning of an intensive interplay between cinema and architecture. In its most grandiose moments the two fuse to become cinematic architecture, an independent art form.”

-Wolfgang Jacobsen, Metropolis: A Cinematic Laboratory for Modern Architecture   

Monica Vitti in L’avventura (1960, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)

Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931, dir. Tod Browning) Art direction by Charles D. Hall

Brigitte Helm in L’Argent/Money (1928, dir. Marcel L’Herbier)

Better Homes & Gardens: Dream Evil Labs edition -Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931, dir. Rouben Mamoulian)

Photographer: Gordon Head

The “living sculpture” of the Beast’s enchanted castle in Beauty and the Beast (1946, dir. Jean Cocteau)

Dracula’s Brides in production still from Dracula (1931, Tod Browning) Art direction by Charles D. Hall