Welcome to 20th Century Movie Posters

Our main passion rather obviously is 20th century movie posters, these posters are from a time when poster artists illustrated evocative scenes to entice us in to the cinema. Often without having seen the movie themselves and sometimes working from only a few stills they created some of the most iconic movie artwork that today instantly transports us back to those times. All of our posters are cinema used original posters, we do not sell reproductions of any kind. Posters are either Folded as was the case for the majority of posters as they were delivered to the cinemas folded inside the film reels, Rolled which for older posters is much rarer, or Linen Backed which is a process where the poster is mounted on to a conservation linen backing to strengthen and get rid of any imperfections, these poster are rolled.

Our inventory runs from the 1940’s onwards and takes in all genre’s of films. We mainly stock British quad posters (30” x40”) but also have one sheets (27” x 41”) and other sizes from around the world, if the artwork is interesting we’ll stock it.

Whether you collect posters or would just like an original poster as a statement piece for your home we hope we have something for you. You can search by Artist, Era or Film Genre to browse our collection or email us your request and we’ll try our best to help.

As all of our posters are original cinema posters they will have varying condition issues, we grade our posters honestly and provide a condition report for each one, we will highlight any tears/creases/pin holes/etc and we’re happy to provide extra photos on request. Please satisfy yourself that you are happy with the condition of a poster before buying.

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