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An auction website that sells thousands of movie posters.

The Internet Movie Poster Awards has thousands of movie posters. You can't search by genre, but you can search by year, actor, or designer.

Most movies in IMDB are accompanied by an image of the movie poster. With the advance search you can select a genre and browse by that genre. Take note that sometimes the image provided is not the original movie poster. For example, if you look at Night of the Hunter the image shown is the cover from the Criterion Collection DVD release. However, if you click on the image you are able to browse through other images and often the original movie posters are included therein.

A movie poster gallery in New York City that collects and sells original movie posters. You can browse/search by director, actor, and artist as well as genre. They have some unique genre categories like "Bikers and Hot rods".

Has over 2000 movie posters.

Information about the 'best films' from different genres, created by Tim Dirks.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Oscars) has put together an online database of over 6,500 items, including movie posters. You can do a keyword search and limit the results to "posters."

Try searching "motion picture posters" or "film posters". You can also add the genre such as "horror" or "gangster".

A huge online collection drawing on materials from different libraries across the country.

The Los Angeles Public Library has a small collection of old Hollywood movie posters.

Mostly useful if you are looking for North Korean Propaganda or Chinese Cultural Revolution movie posters.

A collection of Polish film posters organized by artist name.