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Top 10 included top movies by audience rating. These films collected more votes and sympathy not only from the public, but also from film critics. Many of the films have won prestigious film awards, are adaptations of works of art or are based on real events.
10 Knocking on the sky | 1997
“Knockin ‘on Heaven” (1997) opens the rating of the best films according to the results of the audience voting. In one ward, fate brings together two terminally ill men who have a long list of unfulfilled desires. Thinking about this, they decide on a desperate act and head to meet their dreams. The heroes escape from the hospital and steal a car, in which they discover a fortune. In captivity, they become robbers, and criminals and the police begin to pursue them. But nothing will stop men, because they don’t have much time left to make their dreams come true.
9. Life is beautiful | 1997
Italian tragicomedy “Life is Beautiful” (1997) – winner of three awards “Oscar”. Included in the top ten films according to viewers. The film describes the events of 1939, when the main character, the cheerful Jew Guido, accidentally meets a school teacher Dora on his way and immediately falls in love with her. Soon they get married and have a son. Young spouses open their own small shop. They are happily married, they have everything for a carefree existence. But the war comes, and all Jews are sent to the concentration camp. Life presents a loving family with one of the most difficult and terrible trials in life. But no matter what, life is beautiful…
8. Fight club | 1999
On the eighth line among the best films according to the audience is a crime thriller “Fight club” (1999). Fate brings together two completely different men – the charismatic Tyler Durden and the unlucky, bored clerk. Tyler is sure that only weaklings are engaged in self-improvement, and strong personalities are engaged in self-destruction. Together they found a secret “Fight Club”, where any man can take his soul and engage in massacre.
7. Leon | 1994
french thriller “Leon” (1994) is ranked seventh in the rating of the best films according to the audience. Leon is a professional killer who does not know what compassion and love are. But everything changes when a neighbor girl Matilda suddenly appears in his life, whom the killers deprive of the people dearest to her – her parents. She comes to Leon and asks him to teach him everything he knows in order to avenge the death of his relatives. The mercenary succumbs to the persuasion of the girl and leaves her to live with him. For the first time in his life, Leon begins to experience feelings he does not know. But his hands are up to the elbows in blood, which does not give him the right to be happy in this life …
6. Home | 2010
Fantastic thriller “Start” (2010) ranked sixth in the list of the best films according to the results of voting by viewers. In 2011, the film was awarded four Oscar statuettes and many other prestigious film awards. The protagonist of the picture Cobb is a brilliant and very unusual thief: he steals valuable secrets from the human subconscious. But his incredible abilities do not bring him happiness and deprive him of everything that is dearest. Fate gives Cobb a second chance to make things right. He must do the impossible and instead of stealing the idea, do the opposite: implement it …
5. 1+1 | 2011 year
On the fifth line according to the results of the vote of viewers was an artistic picture «1+1» (2011), based on real events. Millionaire Philip after an accident remains a cripple, chained forever to a wheelchair. He decides to hire a man as his assistant who could serve him. By the will of fate, a black Driss, who does not want to work at all, ends up in the house of a wealthy aristocrat. He is only interested in the allowance from the labor exchange, and all he needs from the rich man is to get a refusal. But Philip is of a different opinion. He hires a black man to help him. At first, two completely different men cannot find mutual understanding in any way and always quarrel. They do not even notice how a real male friendship begins to emerge between them, which will radically change their lives for the better.
4. Schindler’s List | 1993
“Schindler’s list” (1993) is the fourth best film by moviegoers. The film is based on real events and based on the novel Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Kienilli. This is the story of the German businessman Oskar Schindler, who saves more than a thousand Jews during World War II. The film was an incredible success and earned seven Oscar statuettes, as well as three Golden Globe awards.
3. Forrest Gump | 1994
“Forrest Gump” (1994) opens the top three films according to viewers. The film has won six Oscars. The narration in the film is conducted on behalf of the main character, the weak-minded and harmless man Forrest Gump. He tells a fictional story about his amazing life. In his imagination, Forrest becomes a successful businessman, banker, or even a front-line hero. In everything he is waiting for incredible success. He is in love with a girl with whom he was friends in childhood, but she reciprocates very late …
2. Green Mile | 1999
“Green Mile” (1999) took second place in the rating of the best films, based on the votes of television viewers. The film is an adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name. This is the story of Paul Edgecomb, who tells a friend at the nursing home about his work at Cold Mountain Death Row. The man worked there as a warden and carried out the death sentence. But one day, a very unusual, huge Negro named John Kofi, who is accused of the brutal murder of two girls, gets into the walls of the prison. By the will of fate, Paul has to get to know this strange black man better. The prisoner turns out to be the owner of an incredible gift: he is a soothsayer and saves people from diseases. John cures the warden of an illness that has been poisoning his life for several years. Paul learns the life story of this giant who looks like an adult child. He reveals the secret that Kofi did not commit that terrible crime. Risking his reputation, Paul wants to help the black man escape, but he does not want to return to a world full of cruelty and violence…
1. The Shawshank Redemption | 1994
“The Shawshank Redemption” (1994) leads the rating of the best films according to the audience. The protagonist of the film, Andy Dufresne, who has everything one can dream of in this life, suddenly loses everything and ends up in the dock. He is accused of murdering his wife and her lover. Andy ends up in one of the harshest prisons, from where no one has yet managed to escape alive. But the main character is not used to giving in to difficulties and decides to break out of the cruel, gloomy walls at any cost. He plots an incredible and ingenious escape plan. The film was based on the book of the same name by Stephen King and was nominated seven times for an Oscar.