Some films are remembered by us for a long time, and eventually we want to revisit them again, while we turn off others, yawning from boredom. What is the reason? Maybe, after all, is the fact that films made by professionals will never let you get bored? Indeed, in the films that we remember, there is always some kind of idea, a riddle ... something that sets them apart 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. The years after the war. Antonio is unemployed, but he miraculously manages to find work. The joy is that a bicycle is required to work in a company, but a man has one. Using it is much easier to deliver letters.
But on the first working day, someone steals a bicycle from Antonio. A man fears for his future - without work, he will become homeless. But he will never give up just like that!
Antonio decides to independently find the thief and regain the vehicle. He takes Bruno's little son with him and, in search of a bicycle, decides to go around every house, every back street ... Will the heroes be able to find the thief and return the bicycle?
9. The Mirror - Andrey Tarkovsky | 1974
Everyone needs to watch this film. We are adults, but everyone was once a child. The main character tries to recall those impressions from childhood that were deeply embedded in him. He believes that "delving" in the past, namely in childhood memories, you can find an excuse for your past experiences.
The hero of the film feels the loss of love of his loved ones and feels how he shares them more and more every day ... It is childhood that is our foundation, some events are imprinted in us and do not go anywhere. From childhood, you need to look for the reasons for your actions and feelings.
8. Dizziness - Alfred Hitchcock | 1958
Scotti develops a panicky fear of heights, so he quits his job. But he does not find himself unemployed for long - an old friend hires Scotty to keep an eye on his wife. According to him, she is not in herself.
The former detective, Scotty Ferguson, reluctantly agrees to the assignment. He watches over Madeleine, and she really behaves strangely - regularly examines the portraits of her great-grandmother, who committed suicide, goes to her grave and copies her manner of collecting hair.
Once Madeline rushed into a deep strait, but Scotty managed to save her, continuing the surveillance at the request of her friend. He brought the crazy lady to his home and immediately called his acquaintance, Gavin. From a telephone conversation, he learned that Carlotta was killed when she was only 26 years old, the same amount of Madeleine now ...
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. In parallel with this, another important event happens - his son named Michael returns from the war, but does not want to run a family business with his father.
Don Corleone does not change his rules and continues to conduct business, as before, but people appear who want to change the rules ... They encroach on the head of the family, and now he cannot take care of his family, and their life is in danger. In this case, the son of Don Corleone, Michael, can not afford to stay away ...
6. Apocalypse today - Francis Ford Coppola | 1979
The plot of the film is a real story about the Vietnam War. Any war is a loss, suffering and pain ... And while the rulers divide the lands, for ordinary civilians, wars become hell.
The inhabitants of a small settlement became scared from the fact that a real beast came to their lands - a colonel who had lost everything human ... He reveled in his power so much 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, sending a special agent there.
5. Taxi driver - Martin Scorsese | 1976
Travis Bickle participated in the bloody Vietnam War. Military events are long gone, now he lives in New York, suffers from insomnia and loneliness, works as a taxi driver.
He has a job, but a man is lost in this world. Looking at the world, he sees only the negative sides, believing that humanity is rotten. Delivering customers, he listens to the stories that they tell him from their lives. Travis concludes that all that happens to them is their punishment.
A desperate man decides to act ... It all starts with a robbery of a store - he becomes an accidental witness of this incident and, at the same time, an executioner of a robber.
From that moment on, his life will turn upside down, he will become the 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 imagination by Guido Anselmi. 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 a continuous intellectual landscape, search, wandering, crisis, confusion of fantasy ... And, of course, there are women in the film! They surround the main character, love him, although sometimes the idyll collapses and you have to do something with the resulting riot - for example, crush it with a whip.
3. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles | 1941
An abandoned and aged tycoon by the name of Charles Foster Kane dies, but manages to utter the last word: "Rosebad," which means a pink bud. The death of a tycoon does not leave society indifferent.
Citizen Kane got rich by accident, for the sake of wide publicity he could even 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.
2001: Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick | 1968
This film can only compete with the film "Star Wars". The story tells of a group of astronauts whose team includes: Dave Bowman, Frank Poole, and some others - an on-board computer.
In 2001, a team of astronauts made a space mission on the spacecraft S. S. Discovery. Their task is to study the previously unexplored region of the galaxy, after which they return to Earth and tell the world what they managed to find.
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, make every effort and ability.
1. Tokyo Tale - Yasujiro Ozu | 1953
A married couple of older people is heading to Tokyo. They are going to visit their son, who successfully works as a doctor, and their daughter has her own beauty salon. But the children have their own concerns and do not have time to stay with their parents, so they send them to the resort.
After the couple visited 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.