The best movies shot on phones

As our smartphone camera hardware and software have improved, more creative opportunities have been made accessible for aspiring filmmakers. Sure, Hollywood still has the budget for things you can’t do with a phone, like extravagant CGI effects and animation. But if you have a relatively simple story to tell, pretty much all you need nowadays is a good phone camera and location to shoot your movie.

Even before smartphones could shoot in 4K, professional filmmakers have been experimenting with using phones for cinematography to prove what is possible with the device in your pocket. Here’s our list of the best movies shot on phones to date. The list includes feature-length and short films shot on iOS and Android devices, but they are all part of the same filmmaking revolution.

LATEST ARTICLE

See Our Latest

Blog Posts

admin April 29th, 2026

We’ve spent the past two years making AI agents capable. They can query your databases, summarize your documents, route your […]

admin April 29th, 2026

Kafka Connector V4 defaults to schematized ingestion, where each JSON key maps to its own table column. This is more […]

admin April 29th, 2026

From technical workflows to guided collaboration At the center of this evolution is a shift in how people interact with […]