Burn After Reading

The library of film,
one beautiful shot at a time.

ShotDeck is the largest collection of fully searchable high-definition movie images in the world.

Hello directors, cinematographers, designers, ad folks, film students, and visual artists! You’ve just discovered your new secret weapon, the best collaborative professional tool for bringing your vision to life - from pitch to prep to post.

INSPIRATION • RESEARCH • REFERENCE • DISCOVERY • EDUCATION

1,978,863 shots / 9,199 titles / unlimited inspiration

What Is ShotDeck?

ShotDeck has become a critical part of our creative process and is exponentially enhancing our ability to communicate our vision to our team. We're literally using it right now to prep our next movie!

JOE & ANTHONY - THE RUSSO BROTHERS

Directors - Avengers: End Game / Infinity War

Build a Deck and Share It

You can build “decks” of your favorite images and share them instantly with your team. Get all your collaborators on the same page, let the images speak for themselves, and express your vision clearly with ShotDeck.

Discover New Films and Artists

ShotDeck’s unique design provides you with an organic discovery experience. Of course you’ll find the images you came for, but our huge database of keywords will take you on unexpected journeys finding related images, films, and filmmakers you didn’t know existed!

Meticulous Tagging

We’ve hand-tagged every image in over 30 categories with more than 50 keywords. Essential info like the crew, genre, cameras, lenses, framing, lighting, color, composition, locations, and even emotion on the actor’s face. So start searching for anything, you’ll find it here.

Built By Filmakers

Our founder, Oscar-nominated cinematographer/director Lawrence Sher, created ShotDeck for one simple reason: He needed it and it didn’t exist. A quick, efficient way of finding reference images to communicate vision. So our team of industry veterans built this tool from scratch with the utility and design that filmmakers want. ShotDeck will deliver the images you need, save you time, and inspire you.

Easy Streaming Access

Interested in watching a film you discover on ShotDeck? Easy. Thanks to our integration with ReelGood, you can watch any film on the site with the click of a button through your favorite streaming service.

2001: A Space Odyssey

What People Are Saying

From its inception we’ve used ShotDeck and it’s been vital on every project since. On Joker, all the key creatives had accounts so we could share references and inspirational shots all through prep so we were always on the same page.

TODD PHILLIPS

Director - Joker, Hangover Trilogy, Old School