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Film posters are critical aspects of the movie world since they're used as ads for certain motion pictures. The majority of them are created to relay useful information to potential customers and have info like the movie's opening date, tag line, and photographs of the main actors. Interesting movie posters that look like art exist too, these pieces are famous for favoring eye pleasing images and unique themes over generic photographs and data.

In a lot of cases, the designer or creator of vintage movie posters is not publicly known but there are a couple of artists who happen to be fairly well known among the film industry for their interesting pieces. Reynold Brown was an extremely well known poster illustrator in the mid 40s and 50s. His posters were probably best known for their interesting mix of minimalism and vintage imagery. His ad for the movie The Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, arguably his most popular piece, is one of the most sought after movie posters there is.

The poster which was released for the film Walk the Line in 2005 is an example of another favorite among fans. It was designed by Shepard Fairey, the contemporary graphic artist behind President Obama's iconic campaign posters, and featured a simple image, flushed with warm colors of Johnny Cash, the subject of the movie. It could be mistaken for a piece of art and can easily be appreciated by someone who has never even seen the film.

Grindhouse, the action-packed horror flick from Quentin Tarantino, was meant to feel and look like an old low budget picture from the fifties and its poster was able to perfectly capture that. The piece is a genuine work of art, featuring eye popping text and vintage graphics. One of them was made with fake creases over it, so it would give off the impression that it had recently been unfolded.

People who are interested in obtaining awesome movie posters that look like art would probably be very pleased with almost all of them designed before the 1960s. Older theatrical posters tended to be either drawn or painted, due to computer graphic programs being unavailable.

They also tend to wonderful examples of minimalism, which helps allow them to be appreciated on their own rather than as extensions of the movies they are advertising.

A great example of this is the promotional ad for Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, The Birds. In it, a big bird feather is featured in the middle with the film's title listed inside it in thick black letters. On either side of the feather is not a thing but a plain deep red backdrop. The director's films were slightly famous for having ads with minimal themes. His late fifties work, Vertigo had a simple spiral design in front of a simple backdrop which was nearly the same color of rich red.

In some cases, the theater in which a movie is showing is permitted to design and use their own version of its poster. This was the case in early 2001 with the remake of Planet of the Apes. When the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas showed the motion picture, it used a now iconic version of the poster designed by the business itself.