Top 10 Decor Inspiration Films

The cinema has always been a great source for inspiration for decor ideas. From futuristic visions to historical recreations to complete fantasy, the movies are often our visual muse, inspiring us to create our homes to embody what we see ourselves to be and hope to become. And even more importantly, the movies sometime open our eyes to bold, daring, or just plain wild decor possibilities we might have never considered until cinema's charms have convinced us otherwise.

Below, in no particular order, are ten of my favourite films which wowed and wooed me with their decor/design. Feel free to throw in your two cents of which films have inspired your interior design sense.

Amelie

In The Mood for Love

Contempt

The Party

The Doom Generation

2001 - A Space Odyssey

Survive Style 5+

Far From Heaven

Mon Oncle

A Clockwork Orange

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As Good as it Gets
Sex & the City
PS I love you
My Fair Lady

O and can't forget the Chateau in A Good Year
O and the Villa in Under the Tuscan Sun

So lame, but, probably Hugh Grant's apt in About A Boy.

ok, don't yell at me, but harry potter. how about sabrina...

forgetting Fellini films was a serious oversight, Juliet of the Spirits.
Satyricon, for color inspiration, especially.

"Jules" (Demi Moore) pink 80's pad in "About Last NIght"
The nursery in Peter Pan (always loved those huge windows)
"Iona's" (Annie Potts) apartment in "Pretty in Pink"
Henry Hill's Girlfriend's apratment in "Good Fellas"
Brenda's (first) house in "Six Feet Under"
Marie Antoinette's Summer House in Sofia Coppola's version
"Ray's" (Steve Martin) LA house in "Shopgirl"
The grand apartment of Tom and Nicole in "Eyes Wide Shut"
The Brooklyn brownstone in "The Squid and the Whale"

Christian Bale's apartment in "American Psycho"
Robert Downey Jr's house in "Ironman"

what, no James Bond films?
Diamonds are Forever, forever, baby.

Meg Ryan's apartment in You've Got Mail
Diane Keaton's beach house in Something's Gotta Give
The Notebook house
Forrest Gump's house

Glad to see others mentioning the underrated Down with Love, which I found immensely enjoyable. Mildred Pierce is a hoot from a design perspective, as is another Crawford chestnut, the original version of The Women (just the glass bathtub alone merits a mention). 9 1/2 Weeks was certainly a showcase of cool '80s design.

Genre films have been responsible for a lot of cutting edge design, as the inclusion of Kubrick's two science fiction films in the top ten list goes to show. The Bond films probably deserve special mention - You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever, The Spy Who Loved Me and finally Moonraker were the best of the bunch (after that they just repeat themselves).

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is also amazingly well-designed, I think - from the icy caves of Hoth to Yoda's glowing, organic swamp hut to the soaring art deco cloud city of Bespin the film certainly covers more of a range than most. As with the Bond films, subsequent Star Wars flicks have mostly borrowed from those design cues.

They put in Doom Generation over Nowhere. Definately put in Nowhere or Splendor. Two other Gregg Araki movies with better interiors.
Pee-Wee Herman's house in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Royal Tenenbaum's House
Amelie was spot on
Auntie Mame's Apartment
So I Married an Axe Murderer made me want to move to San Francisco
The Party was a great pad
Red Room in Fire Walk With me.
Every interior (and exterior) in Toys (with Joan Cusack)
Of course Beetlejuice after the Deetzs moved in and the Neither World.
Lucky Number Slevin great use of wall paper
5th Element best use of a small space I can think of.

Clint Eastwood's character's bachelor 'pad' in "Play Misty For Me"

i appreciate this thread so much! ((((the incredibles)))) also try cartoon network's Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends. it's beautiful, every frame is a masterpiece. i LOVE the house.

Auntie Mame
Pink Panther (The Original - for Princess Dalah's Ski Chalet)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (for the interiors at Piz Gloria)
Casino Royale (The Original - for Vesper Lynd/Ursula Andress' apartment with the sunken living room)
How to Marry a Millionaire
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (For the studio interiors of the "Ile de Paris")
Last Voyage (For the real interiors of the "Ile de France"
The Great Gatzby (For the walk-in closet)
The Philadelphia Story
Pillow Talk
War of the Roses (If you don't mind seeing a beautiful home demolished in 30 minutes flat)
Mr & Mrs Smith (Ditto)
Sabrina (Both of them)
Ice Storm
Mommy Dearest
Funny Face
Brideshead Revisited (More fabulous ocean liner interiors)

Good! I was hoping to see A Clockwork Orange on this list.

There are also interesting pieces of interiors in Jean-Pierre Melville's movies such as ''Le Samurai'', ''Le Cercle Rouge'', ''Un Flic'' and ''Le deuxième Souffle''.