Quality movie types, in cameras?

i'm going to list a couple of movies to the question i'm tryin to get at:

City of the lost children
Pan Labyrinth
(any Documentaries)-such as
Zoo-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_(film)

and this movie had a "quality" i liked
No body knows
http://www.infilm.com.au/reviews/nobodyk...

okay basically
scifi/cult
thirller-horror
documentary-Indie
drama


what i want to know is if anyone has seen these movies, docs,etc how do they get the type of quality they do in the movies, and if it's not called quality, then what is it called that's my question.

just think of like, the lighing and colors,etc but altogther WHAT IS THAT SPECIFICALLY CALLED?

If I understand your question, the color and lighting of a film are part of the cinematography and are the responsibility of the cinematographer or director of photography. In a movie like City of Lost Children, set design also plays a big role in determining the look of the film, and the director will work with the art director and cinematographer together to create a certain look.

In traditional film-making, the color balance is established by the use of filters over the camera lens and/or the lights, and can be further adjusted after shooting by varying the development process, or printing a copy of the film through color filters. The post-production color adjustments are called color timing or color grading.

These days, many movies are using digital color timing. The film is digitized, edited as you would video, and then the edited digital movie is printed back onto film for distribution.