Rating of the best films of all time. World classics of cinema

Cinematography is little more than a hundred years. However, this phenomenon of art has become so firmly embedded in our lives that it seems that it has always been with us. If you are disappointed with the novelties of the big screen, you are tired of megablockbusters and want to touch the masterpieces of world classics, take a look at the rating of the best films of all time. These works are out of time, outside politics, outside countries and continents. They want to watch and revise.

10. "2001: The Space Odyssey" (1968)

The cult film directed by Stanley Kubrick is rightfully considered one of the most grandiose works of the 20th century. Many spectators, including professionals, note that they are ready to watch and revise this sci-fi picture countless times. The world classics of cinema can not do without tapes in which the vital questions of being are asked, where the main characters are trying to find out why they came to this world and what their significance in the universe is. What uncharted secrets and discoveries to be solved by a man during a journey of a lifetime. In this film, there are many amazing visual effects that transform what you see on the screen into a hallucination. Even in our days the film "2001: The Space Odyssey", shot almost half a century ago, will not get lost on the background of modern mind-blowing special effects.

9. "Citizen Kane" (1941)

Brilliant films are perceived equally enthusiastically on any continent, just as they do not have a time frame. The picture of director Orson Welles "Citizen Kane" was filmed in 1941. However, even today the work of the world classics of cinema will give odds to many famously twisted plots of thrillers. Sometimes moviegoers get the impression that the best is already filmed. The film's fantasy series is still unexpected and sometimes scandalous. If you have not seen this picture, we strongly recommend that you view it. "Citizen Kane" is a film of a flip-flop, where the culmination opens to the viewer at the very beginning. Then the life of a dying newspaper tycoon, who dropped a strange word, starts to take his steps back. The audience will have to learn the riddle of the last word of the hero and get acquainted with the ups and downs of his busy journey. The world classics of cinema would be incomplete without this masterpiece.

8. "Taxi Driver" (1976)

This film was shot forty years ago. Some contemporaries coolly took the narrative, which contained numerous scenes of violence. It's now, after four decades of viewers already do not surprise. However, since then, no one has ever taken off the life of New York nightlife so vividly and sarcastically. The rating of the best films of all time can not do without the work of the cult director of the dramatic crime thriller Martin Scorsese "Taxi Driver". The early work of the master is simple and painfully understandable. She tells of a veteran of the Vietnam War, suffering from insomnia. In order to somehow tear myself away from the memories, Travis decides to get a job at a local taxicab. Now he is witnessing daily gloomy events. This nightmare is real, there are no monstrous monsters in it. A masterpiece would not have been possible without a carefully written script, an ingenious camera work and the talent of actor Robert de Niro.

7. "8 and a half" (1963)

We could not ignore the Italian master of cinema, the director Federico Fellini, and the actor Marcello Mastroianni. The viewer is fascinated by such pictures, he can not take his eyes off the screen, even if at times he does not understand what is happening there. Brilliant films make them consider ideal, in terms of content, form and content. And only revising the picture for the tenth time, the viewer can detect some flaw. In this film, many innovative techniques. Filmed in the style of art-house, it is considered the apotheosis of the great Italian director.

6. The Mirror (1974)

The commemorative jury of the Cannes Film Festival, the Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky has in his record many cinematic masterpieces. However, in our rating of the best films of all time, the tape "Mirror" with an amazing cast of actors such as Margarita Terekhova, Oleg Yankovsky, Innokenty Smoktunovsky and others entered. The protagonist is tormented by obsessive fears about the loss of love of each member of his family. He is forced to turn to his own children's experiences for help. The whole film is impregnated with warm nostalgia, filled with clear symbols and images, supplemented by the poems of Andrei Tarkovsky. This masterpiece really takes for living, penetrating into the very depths of the human soul.

5. "Vertigo" (1958)

The list of films of all time would be incomplete without the works of the recognized genre of the genre of "horror" Alfred Hitchcock. The brilliant actor James Stewart played in the movie "Vertigo" retired detective, suffering from a pathological fear of heights. By chance, he is assigned to watch over a woman obsessed with the idea of suicide. This film does not need to say much. The viewer is immersed in an indescribable atmosphere, where every frame is of great importance. From viewing it is impossible to come off.

4. "The Godfather" (1972)

A cult film, shot by the then beginning his creative career, Francis Ford Coppola, has long been fragmented into quotes and has a whole army of fans around the world. The list of films of the world classics of cinematography is replenished with a real crime drama about the famous New York mafia clan. Let's pay tribute not only to the brilliant cast under the leadership of Marlon Brando, but also an ideally tailored scenario and an amazing atmosphere. The plot twists and turns absorbed all the values that exist in society.

3. The Green Mile (1999)

By the works of Stephen King, many good films have been shot. The best adaptation of the author is considered to be the "Green Mile". Historical films carry us not only in the Middle Ages, but also at a later time. The action takes place in the prison "Cold Mountain" in 1935, the inhabitants of which are condemned to death prisoners. Many viewers claim that they never shed so many tears in their lives while watching the picture. In any case, the narrative, directed by Frank Darabont, will not leave anyone indifferent.

2. Schindler's List (1993)

War films are not always permeated with the spirit of death, but they always cause tears. In the conditions of the apocalypse, people sacrifice everything that can be done for the sake of freedom and salvation of innocent hostages of circumstances. This is Oscar Schindler, a major industrialist who led a rampant life before the war. The cruel realities forced him to reconsider his life priorities and turned him into a real humanist and savior of the Jews. This is one of the best films shot by Steven Spielberg.

1. "Escape from Shawshank" (1994)

The rating of the best films of all time is rightfully crowned by another work by Frank Darabont, "Escape from Shawshank." Every spectator must look at this tape at least once. Accused of double murder, the banker faces in prison with arbitrariness and lawlessness. However, the circumstances did not break the main character. Sentenced to life imprisonment Andy Dufrain, remains a man, infects his positive fellow inmates and secretly develops a plan for a daring escape. With the final credits of the audience expects an emotional cleansing.