Top 10 films, according to 358 directors

Some films are remembered for a long time, and over time we want to review them again, while others we turn off, yawning from boredom. What is the reason? Maybe, after all, the fact that films shot by professionals will never let you get bored? After all, in the films that we remember, there is always some idea, a mystery … something that distinguishes them from others.

In this selection, you will learn about the ten best and brilliant films, according to such famous directors as Quentin Tarantino, Woody Allen, Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese and others.

10 Bicycle Thieves – Vittorio de Sica | 1948

Rome. Years after the war. Antonio is unemployed, but he miraculously manages to find a job. The joy is that to work in the company you need a bicycle, and the man just has it. It makes it much easier to send letters.

But on the very first day of work, someone steals a bicycle from Antonio. A man fears for his future – without a job he will become homeless. But he won’t give up just like that!

Antonio decides to find the thief on his own and get his vehicle back. He takes his little son Bruno with him and, in search of a bicycle, decides to go around every house, every nook and cranny … Will the heroes manage to find the thief and return the bike?

9. Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky | 1974

This movie needs to be seen by everyone. We are adults, but we were all children once. The protagonist tries to remember those impressions from childhood that are deeply embedded in him. He believes that “digging” in the past, namely in childhood memories, you can find an excuse for your previous experiences.

The hero of the film is afraid of losing the love of his loved ones and feels how every day more and more separates them … It is childhood that is our foundation, some events are imprinted on us and do not go anywhere. From childhood, you need to look for the reasons for your actions and experiences.

8. Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock | 1958

Scotty develops a panicky fear of heights, so he quits his job. But he does not find himself unemployed for long – an old acquaintance hires Scotty to keep an eye on his wife. According to him, she is not herself.

Former detective, Scotty Ferguson, reluctantly accepts the assignment. He watches Madeleine, and she really behaves strangely – she regularly looks at portraits of her great-grandmother, who committed suicide, goes to her grave and copies her way of collecting her hair.

Once Madeleine threw herself into a deep strait, but Scotty managed to save her, continuing to spy at the request of his friend. He brought the crazy lady to his home and immediately called his friend, Gavin. From a telephone conversation, he learned that Carlotta was killed when she was only 26 years old, the same age as Madeleine …

7. The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola | 1972

The film tells the story of the Sicilian mafia – the Corleone family. Don Vito Corleone – the head of the family, marries his dear daughter. Parallel to this, another important event happens – his son named Michael returns from the war, but does not want to run the family business with his father.

Don Corleone does not change his rules and continues to do business as before, but there are people who want to change the rules … The head of the family is being attacked, and now he cannot take care of his family, besides, their lives are in danger. In this case, Don Corleone’s son, Michael, cannot afford to be left out…

6. Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola | 1979

The film is based on a true story about the Vietnam War. Any war means losses, suffering and pain… And while the rulers are dividing the lands, wars become hell for ordinary civilians.

The inhabitants of a small settlement were afraid that a real beast had come to their lands – a colonel who had lost everything human … He was so drunk on his power that he turned the life of all people living in this territory into a nightmare. The higher military authorities found out about this and ordered the destruction of the heartless colonel by sending a special agent there.

5. Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese | 1976

Travis Bickle fought in the bloody Vietnam War. Military events are long in the past, now he lives in New York, suffers from insomnia and loneliness, works as a taxi driver.

He has a job, but the man is lost in this world. Looking at the world, he sees only the negative sides, believing that humanity is rotten. While delivering customers, he listens to the stories they tell him from their lives. Travis concludes that everything that happens to them is their punishment.

A man driven to despair decides to act… It all starts with a robbery of a store – he becomes an accidental witness to this incident and, at the same time, the robber’s executioner.

From that moment on, his life will turn upside down, he will become a people’s avenger and end the life of some “dirty” people in the city.

4. 8 and a half – Federico Fellini | 1963

The film “8 and a half” is a symbiosis of reality and Guido Anselmi’s imagination. Guido is experiencing a crisis of creativity, so he decides to turn inward, remembering his childhood, trying to make his imagination more lively.

This film is an uninterrupted intellectual landscape, search, wandering, crisis, confusion of fantasy… And, of course, there are women in the film! They surround the protagonist, love him, although sometimes the idyll is destroyed and something has to be done with the resulting rebellion – for example, suppress him with a whip.

3. Citizen Kane – Orson Welles | 1941

An abandoned and aged tycoon named Charles Foster Kane dies, but manages to utter the last word: “Rosebud”, which means rosebud in translation. The death of a magnate does not leave society indifferent.

Citizen Kane got rich quite by accident, for the sake of getting wide publicity, he could even almost provoke a world war … Who is Kane really and what does his last word mean? A group of journalists intends to find out about this.

2. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick | 1968

This film can compete only with the Star Wars film. The story tells about a group of astronauts, whose team includes: Dave Bowman, Frank Poole, and someone else – an onboard computer.

In 2001, a team of astronauts made a space expedition on the S. S. Discovery spacecraft. Their task is to explore a previously unexplored region of the galaxy, and then return to Earth and tell the world what they have found.

In the course of their mission, various secrets are revealed to them. To answer the exciting questions of mankind, the team will have to work intellectually, to apply all their strength and abilities.

1. Tokyo Tale by Yasujiro Ozu | 1953

An elderly couple is heading to Tokyo. They are going to visit their son, who is a successful doctor, and their daughter has her own beauty salon. But the children have their own worries and do not have time to be with their parents, so they send them to the resort.

After the couple has been at the resort, the couple return to Tokyo. It turns out that only the widow of another son, whom the couple met, was able to give the elderly what they lack so much – love and attention.