The following is a list of films filmed using the VistaVision process for the majority of their runtime.
Films are live-action color features except where noted.
Films shot in VistaVision 1954–61: Original Film Year Studio Notes Ref. Paramount Presents VistaVision 1954 Paramount 19-minute promo film VistaVision Visits Norway Short film White Christmas First VistaVision release 3 Ring Circus An Alligator Named Daisy 1955 Rank Artists and Models Paramount The Desperate Hours First B&W film shot in VistaVision Doctor at Sea Rank The Far Horizons Paramount The Girl Rush Hell's Island Lucy Gallant Richard III London Films The Rose Tattoo Paramount Black & white Run for Cover The Seven Little Foys Simon and Laura Rank Strategic Air Command Paramount To Catch a Thief The Trouble with Harry VistaVision Visits Hawaii Short film VistaVision Visits Japan VistaVision Visits Mexico VistaVision Visits Spain VistaVision Visits Sun Trails We're No Angels You're Never Too Young Anything Goes 1956 The Battle of the River Plate Rank The Birds and the Bees Paramount The Black Tent Rank The Court Jester Paramount Away All Boats Universal Pictures High Society Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer House of Secrets Rank The Searchers Warner Bros. Hollywood or Bust Paramount The Leather Saint Black & white The Man Who Knew Too Much The Mountain Pardners The Proud and Profane Black & white The Rainmaker The Scarlet Hour Black & white The Search for Bridey Murphy The Spanish Gardener Rank The Ten Commandments Paramount That Certain Feeling Three Violent People The Vagabond King VistaVision Visits Austria Short film VistaVision Visits Gibralter VistaVision Visits Panama War and Peace Beau James 1957 The Buster Keaton Story Black & white The Pride and the Passion United Artists The Delicate Delinquent Paramount Black & white The Devil's Hairpin Doctor at Large Rank Fear Strikes Out Paramount Black & white Funny Face Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Hear Me Good Black & white Hell Drivers Rank Ill Met by Moonlight The Joker Is Wild Paramount The Lonely Man Loving You Omar Khayyam The Sad Sack Black & white Short Cut to Hell Spanish Affair The Tin Star Black & white Wild Is the Wind Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot Short produced for Colonial Williamsburg Another Time, Another Place 1958 Black & white The Big Money Rank The Black Orchid Paramount Black & white The Buccaneer Desire Under the Elms Black & white The Geisha Boy Hot Spell Black & white Houseboat King Creole Black & white Maracaibo The Matchmaker Black & white Rock-a-Bye Baby St. Louis Blues Black & white Teacher's Pet Vertigo But Not for Me 1959 Black & white The Five Pennies The Jayhawkers! Last Train from Gun Hill Li'l Abner North by Northwest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer That Kind of Woman Paramount Black & white The Trap Heller in Pink Tights 1960 It Started in Naples One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Last classic Hollywood VistaVision release 2024–present: Revival Film Year Studio Notes Ref. The Brutalist 2024 A24 Selected portions and wide shots filmed with Beaucam One Battle After Another 2025 Warner Bros. Pictures Beaucam used as primary camera for “somewhere between 70 and 80 percent” of the film Bugonia Focus Features Wilcam and Beaucam used as primary cameras; “shot 95 percent” on VistaVision Digger 2026 Warner Bros. Pictures Beaucam used for select sequences Narnia: The Magician's Nephew 2027 Netflix VistaVision used for Narnia scenes; first streaming service film to use VistaVision cameras. Remain Warner Bros. Pictures Beaucam used for select sequences
Films using or processed in VistaVision Starting in the 1970s, several films made using or processed in VistaVision format for visual effects and partially modified works or minor scenes only.
Star Wars (1977) Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mamo (1978) Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Caveman (1981) The Fox and the Hound (1981) Tron (1982) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Return of the Jedi (1983) The NeverEnding Story (1984) Back to the Future (1985) Aliens (1986) RoboCop (1987) Moonwalker (1988) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (approximately 80 percent of the entire movie shot on Vistavision)https://theasc.com/articles/who-framed-roger-rabbit Back to the Future Part II (1989) The Abyss (1989) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Back to the Future Part III (1990) Die Hard 2 (1990) Dances with Wolves (1990) Newsies (1992) Jurassic Park (1993) Speed (1994) Forrest Gump (1994) True Lies (1994) Apollo 13 (1995) Jumanji (1995) The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) Twister (1996) The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) Contact (1997) Men in Black (1997) Meet Joe Black (1998) Gladiator (2000) The Perfect Storm (2000) Pearl Harbor (2001) The Mummy Returns (2001) Jurassic Park III (2001) Spider-Man (2002) Men in Black II (2002) A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) Spider-Man 2 (2004) Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005) Flightplan (2005) Spider-Man 3 (2007) The Dark Knight (2008) Blindness (2008) Inception (2010) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011) The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Captain Phillips (2013) Interstellar (2014) Spectre (2015) First Man (2018) Tenet (2020) Jurassic World Dominion (2022) White Noise (2022) Poor Things (2023) Chapter 51 (2025) Wuthering Heights (2026) Mascotland (TBA)https://www.uninflected.com/post/why-we-re-shooting-mascotland-on-the-only-silent-vistavision-camera-in-the-world
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