Best Dressed: the Movies and Shows with the Best Wardrobe for Your Outfit Inspiration

Lavish dresses, elaborate details and styles that live to this day, that is an epic list of movies and shows where actors and actresses show off their costumes for about 100 minutes straight in each movie. Feel free to pause the scenes to admire the outfit. Or even take pictures of the shots and add it to your stash of outfit ideas.

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The Crown

Olivia Colman, Tobias Menzies, Marion Bailey
2016

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

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8.7 IMDB
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Downton Abbey

Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery
Catherine Morshead, Minkie Spiro
2010

A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.

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8.7 IMDB
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Victoria

Jenna Coleman, Tom Hughes, Nell Hudson
Jim Loach
2016

The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public image and become “grandmother of Europe”.

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8.2 IMDB
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The Grand Budapest Hotel

Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F. Murray Abraham
Wes Anderson
2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

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8.1 IMDB
5

Little Women

Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson
Greta Gerwig
2019

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

7.9 IMDB
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The Artist

Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman
Michel Hazanavicius
2011

Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.

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7.9 IMDB
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Moulin Rouge!

Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo
Baz Luhrmann
2001

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.

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7.6 IMDB
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Phantom Thread

Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville
Paul Thomas Anderson
2017

Renowned British dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock comes across Alma, a young, strong-willed woman, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover.

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7.5 IMDB
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The Aviator

Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale
Martin Scorsese
2004

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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7.5 IMDB
10

Memoirs of a Geisha

Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Youki Kudoh
Rob Marshall
2005

A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

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7.4 IMDB
11

The Young Victoria

Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany
Jean-Marc Vallée
2009

As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life.

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7.3 IMDB
12

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Eddie Redmayne, Colin Farrell, Katherine Waterston
David Yates
2016

In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.

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7.3 IMDB
13

Black Panther

Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong\'o
Ryan Coogler
2018

King T'Challa returns home from America to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantel to join with girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.

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7.3 IMDB
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The Great Gatsby

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan
Baz Luhrmann
2013

An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

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7.2 IMDB
15

Chicago

Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifah
Rob Marshall
2002

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

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7.1 IMDB
16

The Duchess

Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling
Saul Dibb
2008

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

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6.9 IMDB
17

The Devil Wears Prada

Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt
David Frankel
2006

Andy moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss is extremely demanding, cruel and won't let her succeed if she doesn't fit into the high class elegant look of their magazine.

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6.9 IMDB
18

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush
Shekhar Kapur
2007

When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, she and her shrewd adviser must act to safeguard to the lives of her people.

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6.8 IMDB
19

Anna Karenina

Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Joe Wright
2012

Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.

6.6 IMDB
20

Marie Antoinette

Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis
Sofia Coppola
2006

The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

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6.4 IMDB
21

Alice in Wonderland

Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway
Tim Burton
2010

Alice, an unpretentious and individual 19-year-old, is betrothed to a dunce of an English nobleman. At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage and falls down a hole in the garden after spotting an unusual rabbit. Arriving in a strange and surreal place called 'Underland,' she finds herself in a world that resembles the nightmares she had as a child, filled with talking animals, villainous queens and knights, and frumious bandersnatches. Alice realizes that she is there for a reason – to conquer the horrific Jabberwocky and restore the rightful queen to her throne.

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6.4 IMDB