Movie colour palettes

Thieves Like Us poster

Thieves Like Us (1974) colour palette

Directed by Robert Altman · Shot by Jean Boffety

Thieves Like Us (1974), shot by Jean Boffety, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 55 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#332f2b), covering 15.6% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.735 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.183 — more saturated than 18% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.387 — brighter than 31% of ranked films

Measured across 55 frames. See the frames on the Thieves Like Us page →

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