AI Movie Poster Generator
The easiest free AI movie poster maker and creator. Enter your movie title and logline, and generate a unique poster in seconds.
How to Make a Movie Poster with AI in 3 Steps
Enter your movie title
Choose a title that captures the essence of your film and sets the tone for the poster.
Describe your movie
Describe your movie's plot in one or two sentences to give the AI context for the visual.
Pick a genre and style
Pick a genre and poster style to guide the visual direction and artistic treatment.
Create Movie Posters with Any Actor or Photo
Pick from famous actors or upload your own photos. The AI movie poster generator blends the character's likeness into the poster composition, so your poster features the exact cast you have in mind.
Upload any photo to create a personalized movie poster from your own image.
Generate Posters in Various Styles
Our AI movie poster maker can generate posters in various styles to match your vision. It works with movies, anime, cartoons, and more. Here's an example of how the same movie concept can be visualized in different styles:
Cinematic
Photorealistic style with detailed textures and lighting, perfect for dramatic and intense movies.
Anime
Vibrant, stylized artwork inspired by Japanese animation, ideal for action-packed or fantastical stories.
3D Animation
Pixar-inspired poster style, perfect for family-friendly animated features.
2D Animation
Hand-drawn style posters with bold, colorful designs and exaggerated features, in the style of Disney or Pixar animated movies, ideal for animated comedies and family-friendly cartoons.
Generate Multiple Movie Posters & Pick the Best One
Our movie poster creator generates multiple variants so you can pick the best one. Explore different visual interpretations of your film concept and choose the perfect poster that captures your vision.
Watch How It Works
See how to create stunning AI movie posters in minutes with Melies.
Tips for Stunning AI-Generated Movie Posters
Maximize your results with these expert suggestions:
Title
Craft a catchy, memorable movie title
Logline
Write a concise, intriguing logline that captures your story's essence and describes what the movie is about
Genre
Choose the genre that best represents your film's style and tone
Sample Prompts for AI Movie Posters
Use these prompts as a starting point. Paste them into the generator and customize the title, cast, and setting to make the poster your own.
Action & Thriller
A lone detective stands on a rain-soaked rooftop, city lights reflected in the puddles below, holding a case file as a helicopter searchlight sweeps the skyline.
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Two rival spies face each other across a shattered mirror in an abandoned train station, each holding a weapon, steam rising from the tracks behind them.
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A firefighter carries a child through a collapsing building, flames and debris falling around them, silhouetted against an orange sky.
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Sci-Fi & Fantasy
An astronaut floats above a crumbling space station, Earth's glow reflected in her visor, debris and stars stretching into the void behind her.
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A young wizard stands at the gates of a floating crystal city, ancient runes glowing in the air, a dragon circling the tallest tower in the distance.
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A time traveler steps through a glowing portal in a 1920s speakeasy, one foot in the past and one in a neon-lit future cityscape.
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Horror & Suspense
A family dinner table set for five, but only four chairs are occupied. The fifth plate is untouched, a single candle casting long shadows on the empty seat.
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A woman looks into a foggy bathroom mirror and sees a different face staring back, cracked glass distorting the reflection into something inhuman.
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An abandoned carnival at night, a single ferris wheel still turning slowly, its lights flickering, with a silhouette of a child standing alone at the entrance.
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Drama & Romance
Two dancers frozen mid-performance on an empty stage, a single spotlight illuminating them as torn letters and old photographs drift down from above.
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A soldier and a nurse share a quiet moment on a war-torn balcony, a sunset painting the sky gold and red, a distant city in ruins behind them.
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An elderly couple sits on a park bench, autumn leaves swirling around them, holding the same umbrella they held in a faded photograph beside them.
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Anime & Animation
A high school student discovers a glowing portal hidden behind the school library's oldest bookshelf, cherry blossom petals drifting through the gateway into another world.
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A young mech pilot stands before her damaged robot on a cliff overlooking the ocean, wind in her hair, the sun setting behind a distant fleet of enemy ships.
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Vintage & Retro
A 1970s detective in a brown leather jacket leans against a muscle car under a neon motel sign, cigarette smoke curling up into a starry desert sky.
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A black-and-white noir poster of a femme fatale standing under a streetlight, her shadow stretching impossibly long into a dark alley, rain glistening on the cobblestones.
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Free AI Movie Poster Maker
Sign up and get 50 free credits to start creating movie posters. No credit card required. Just enter a movie title, a brief description, and pick your genre and poster style.
Frequently Asked Questions
Melies: Your AI-Powered Filmmaking Studio
Melies is more than a movie poster maker and generator. It's your complete AI filmmaking studio. Beyond poster creation, Melies offers tools for every stage of film production: AI image generation, video generation, upscaling, thumbnail creation, and background removal. Whether you're making movies, anime, cartoons, or any other visual media, Melies provides the tools to bring your vision to life. Start with a free movie poster and discover the full platform.
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