List of films with high frame rates

This is a list of films with high frame rates. Only films with a native (without motion interpolation) shooting and projection frame rate of 48 or higher, for all or some of its scenes, are included, as are films that received an official post-conversion using technologies such as TrueCut Motion. This is at least double the 24 frames per second (fps) standard used in Hollywood.[1] Several of these films also have versions which are converted and projected at 24 fps.

Films

The following list is sorted by release year. There are only 2 films in 4K 60 fps on Blu-ray.

Year	Title	Director	Language	FPS	Notes	Ref.
1978	Night of Dreams	Douglas Trumbull	English	60	Showscan	[2]
1983	New Magic					[3]
1992	Momentum	Colin Low, Tony Ianzelo		48	IMAX HD	[4]
1994	Hoop Dreams	Steve James		60	Shot on interlaced 60 fps Betacam. Shown in cinemas in 24 fps. Original 60 fps presentation restored with the 20th anniversary restoration.
1997	Titanic	James Cameron		48	Partially converted with TrueCut Motion, limited release February 10, 2023.	[5][6]
1998	Festen	Thomas Vinterberg	Danish, English	50	Shot on digital video in interlaced 50 fps. Shown in cinemas in 24 fps. The original 50 fps presentation is not in any home video release.
	Love & Pop	Hideaki Anno	Japanese	60	Shot on digital video in interlaced 60 fps, with some scenes shot on 35 mm movie film in 24 fps. Shown in cinemas in 24 fps and in interlaced 60 fps with 24 fps segments on DVD and Blu-ray.
1999	The Blair Witch Project	Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez	English		Shot on Hi8 in interlaced 60 fps, with some scenes shot on 16 mm film in 24 fps. Shown in cinemas, DVD, and Blu-ray in 24 fps. The 2024 remastered Blu-ray from second sight is presented in interlaced 60 fps with 24 fps segments.
2001	Soarin' Over California	Rick Rothschild	English	48	IMAX HD, Disney California Adventure ride	[7][8]
2006	Inland Empire	David Lynch	English, Polish	60	Shot on digital video in interlaced 60 fps. Shown in cinemas in 24 fps. The original 60 fps presentation is not in any home video release.
2009	Avatar	James Cameron	English	48	Partially converted with TrueCut Motion, released September 23, 2022. The HFR presentation is available on Apple Vision Pro.	[5][9]
2012	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Peter Jackson				[10][11]
2013	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug					[12][11]
	FlyOver Canada	Rick Rothschild		60	4K, Canada Place ride	[7][8]
2014	Lucid Dreams of Gabriel	Sasha A. Schriber		48	Short film	[13]
	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	Peter Jackson				[14][11]
2016	Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk	Ang Lee		120	DVD and Blu-ray rendered at 24 fps. Blu-ray 4K UHD rendered at 60 fps.	[15][11][16]
	Meridian	Curtis Clark		60	Short film	[17][11]
	Wings over Washington	Brent Young			Flying Theater Attraction, filmed in 5K at 60fps	[18][19]
2017	Flamenco	Demetri Portelli		120 3D / 192 2D	Short film, projected at 24 & 60 fps after RealD TrueMotion processing	[20][21]
2017	Sleep Has Her House	Scott Barley	English, No dialogue	60	Shot on iPhone 6 Plus digital video at 60 fps, and converted to 24 fps for projection. Blu-ray rendered at 24 fps.	[22]
2018	Aquarela	Victor Kossakovsky	Russian, English, Spanish	96	Documentary, projected at 48 fps	[23][24]
	Hometown	Bao Dejun	Chinese	48	First short film produced in China with 8K 48 fps	[25]
2019	Gemini Man	Ang Lee	English	120	DVD and Blu-ray rendered at 24 fps. Blu-ray 4K UHD rendered at 60 fps.	[26][27]
2022	Avatar: The Way of Water	James Cameron		48	Shot entirely at 48 fps. 24 fps scenes achieved by doubling frames. The HFR presentation is available on Apple Vision Pro.	[28]
2023	The Last Heretic / El Ultimo Hereje	Daniel de la Vega	Spanish		First Latin American movie shot in HFR.
	HERONICS: Part 1	Sidharth S Nair	English		Shot on 24fps. Extended cut to be released on 48fps by frame interpolation.
2024	Argylle	Matthew Vaughn
	Kung Fu Panda 4	Mike Mitchell			First fully-animated theatrical feature to be rendered in HFR.
	Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire	Adam Wingard
	The Wild Robot	Chris Sanders
	Sonic the Hedgehog 3	Jeff Fowler		Shot on 48fps, but it is unknown how it'll be released.		[29]
2025	Animal Farm	Andy Serkis		HFR	Upcoming film	[30]

See also

• Digital Cinema Package

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