150 best movies I have seen
by guillermoegarzon | created - 03 Feb 2013 | updated - 09 Feb 2013 | PublicList of the best movies I have ever seen
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1. Cosmos (1980)
60 min | Documentary
Astronomer Carl Sagan leads us on an engaging guided tour of the various elements and cosmological theories of the universe.
Stars: Carl Sagan, Jaromír Hanzlík, Jonathan Fahn, Jean Charney
Votes: 44,143
The most important creation of Carl Sagan.
2. Les plages d'Agnès (2008)
112 min | Documentary, Biography
Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier, Vincent Fournier
Votes: 4,785 | Gross: $0.24M
Agnes Varda reminds her life. To do it she recovered each one of the beaches where something important related to her life happened.
3. Yume (1990)
119 min | Drama, Fantasy
A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.
Directors: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baishô, Toshie Negishi, Mieko Harada
Votes: 29,190 | Gross: $1.96M
The magical world of Akira Kurosawa painted in different stories.
4. Hachigatsu no rapusodî (1991)
98 min | Drama, War
Three generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa, Narumi Kayashima
Votes: 7,550 | Gross: $0.52M
All a world of feelings and sensations in a deep thought of Akira Kurosawa about the crime of Hiroshima.
5. Ikiru (1952)
143 min | Drama
A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka
Votes: 87,577 | Gross: $0.06M
Very important wisdom about life in the Akira Kurosawa version.
6. On connaît la chanson (1997)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A musical story about how people find their love on the streets of beautiful Paris.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Bacri, André Dussollier
Votes: 4,468 | Gross: $0.03M
A fresh and sweet comedy drawn by Alain Resnais.
7. Coeurs (2006)
120 min | Drama, Romance
In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Sabine Azéma, Isabelle Carré, Laura Morante, Pierre Arditi
Votes: 4,148 | Gross: $0.13M
Alain Resnais caresses the hearts of the common people.
8. Providence (1977)
110 min | Drama
A dying writer bases his last book on his own perception of his family.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud, David Warner
Votes: 3,507
The greatest dramatic story told by Alain Resnais.
9. I Want to Go Home (1989)
100 min | Comedy
A grumpy American is suffering during his visit to Europe.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Laura Benson, Adolph Green, Linda Lavin, Gérard Depardieu
Votes: 809
A funny and happy story where Alain Resnais make a comparison between the french and the american cultures.
10. Little Murders (1971)
108 min | Comedy, Crime
Pitch black comedy about a young nihilistic New Yorker coping with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.
Director: Alan Arkin | Stars: Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson
Votes: 3,566 | Gross: $0.26M
A beauty and surrealistic story about the daily violence in USA directed by Alan Arkin.
11. The Winter Guest (1997)
R | 108 min | Drama
A recent widow, who is determined to leave Scotland for Australia with her son, gets an unexpected visit from her aging mother.
Director: Alan Rickman | Stars: Phyllida Law, Emma Thompson, Sheila Reid, Sandra Voe
Votes: 3,748 | Gross: $0.78M
Alan Rickman translate to the film the play of Sharman Macdonald with ^hyllida Law and Emma Thompson playing mother and daughter characters as they are in the real life.
12. Babel (I) (2006)
R | 143 min | Drama
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Mohamed Akhzam
Votes: 317,172 | Gross: $34.30M
Fabulous story showing as all the actions done by the people in the world is related to each other. Grand Prix of Cannes for Alejandro González Iñárritu.
13. Russkiy kovcheg (2002)
99 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky
Votes: 21,823 | Gross: $0.04M
Aleksandr Sokhurov makes a magic documental about the russian story using a tour by the Hermitage museum of Saint Petersburg.
14. Sacrifice (1986)
149 min | Drama
At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Guðrún Gísladóttir
Votes: 30,990 | Gross: $0.30M
Andrei Tarkovski left to the humanity his offer message in this beautiful film.
15. Solaris (1972)
167 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy
Votes: 98,283
Andrei Tarkovski and the most impressive science fiction film ever done.
16. Darbareye Elly (2009)
119 min | Drama, Mystery
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Merila Zare'i
Votes: 57,175 | Gross: $0.11M
One of the great film makers of Iran, Asghar Farhadi shows the communication problems between the people.
17. Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (2011)
PG-13 | 123 min | Drama
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini
Votes: 258,581 | Gross: $7.10M
Once again, Asghar Farhadi showing how the small things of the day are changing the life of the people. A moral story.
18. Moulin Rouge! (2001)
PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A poor Bohemian poet in 1890s Paris falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star coveted by a jealous duke.
Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 299,387 | Gross: $57.39M
Spectacular, spectacular. The wonderful production of Baz Luhrman.
19. Stealing Beauty (1996)
R | 118 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
After her mother commits suicide, a young woman travels to Italy in search of love, truth and a deeper connection with herself.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Liv Tyler, Carlo Cecchi, Sinéad Cusack
Votes: 30,427 | Gross: $4.57M
Bernardo Bertolucci tell us the story of a young american woman searching his father in Toscana. With the beauty of Liv Tyler.
20. The Last Emperor (1987)
163 min | Biography, Drama, History
Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying
Votes: 111,530 | Gross: $43.98M
The story about the last emperor of China and the change of a culture. Great film of Bernardo Bertolucci.
21. La luna (1979)
142 min | Drama
While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazar, Renato Salvatori
Votes: 5,377
Bernardo Bertolucci describes the relation between mother and son when the father is absent.
22. Novecento (1976)
317 min | Drama, History
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini
Votes: 27,287
The great saga of Italy since 1900. The most important cast of actors in a film of Bernardo Bertolucci.
23. The Sheltering Sky (1990)
138 min | Adventure, Drama
An American couple travel abroad to revitalize their relationship. But as the trip drags on, their attempt at recovering what they once had seems futile.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott, Jill Bennett
Votes: 13,736 | Gross: $2.08M
The most romantic story ever showed by the cinema in this movie of Bernardo Bertolucci.
24. Paris, je t'aime (2006)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Through the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented, and awakened.
Directors: Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydès, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Leonor Watling, Ludivine Sagnier, Fanny Ardant
Votes: 74,560 | Gross: $4.86M
A wonderful collection of Paris stories.
25. Stellet Licht (2007)
145 min | Drama, Romance
In a Mennonite community in Mexico, a father's faith is tested when he falls in love with a new woman.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Cornelio Wall, Miriam Toews, Maria Pankratz, Peter Wall
Votes: 6,839 | Gross: $0.05M
Carlos Reygadas makes the world goes in a different way. A poetic and touching story.
26. Antonieta (1982)
108 min | Biography, Drama, War
Anna uncovers an incident involving a young Mexican woman, Antonieta, while doing research for a book on women's suicides in the XXth century. In 1931, in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Antonieta shot herself through the heart.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Hanna Schygulla, Ignacio López Tarso, Carlos Bracho
Votes: 405
Carlos Saura join the past and the present in the figures of Antonieta, a mexican independent woman and Hanna Schygulla, a reporter looking for the reasons of Antonieta's suicide.
27. Modern Times (1936)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford
Votes: 259,505 | Gross: $0.16M
The best film ever done by Charles Chaplin, with unforgettable scenes.
28. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
R | 124 min | Drama
A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Director: Charlie Kaufman | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener
Votes: 98,247 | Gross: $3.08M
Charlie Kaufman wrote and also directed this gigantic film about languages and roles people play.
29. Les uns et les autres (1981)
184 min | Drama, Music
Through fabulous music, this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the U.S., from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniel Olbrychski
Votes: 2,749
Claude Lelouch put together several stories of european people that were changed by the second world war. Music, dance and actors playing around the human life. "All the stories are the same".
30. What's New Pussycat (1965)
108 min | Comedy
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine
Votes: 11,063 | Gross: $18.82M
Clive Donner directed this crazy film written by Woody Allen with the participation of a dreamed cast of actors.
31. Siddhartha (1972)
89 min | Drama, Mystery
The story of a young Indian who embarks upon a journey to find the meaning of existence. Based on the novel by Hermann Hesse.
Director: Conrad Rooks | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Simi Garewal, Romesh Sharma, Pinchoo Kapoor
Votes: 1,298
Conrad Rooks leave the texts of Herman Hesse be moved to the screen.
32. Scorchers (1991)
81 min | Comedy, Drama
On Splendid's wedding night, she won't allow her husband to consummate the marriage. Meanwhile, her armed cousin is looking for the hooker, who slept with her husband.
Director: David Beaird | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Denholm Elliott, James Earl Jones, Emily Lloyd
Votes: 672
David Beairs painted a beautiful story in Louisiana with a wonderful cast of great actors: Faye Dunaway, Denholm Elliot, James Wilder, Emily Lloyd, Jennifer Tilly and others.
33. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
PG-13 | 197 min | Drama, Romance, War
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger
Votes: 82,094 | Gross: $111.72M
David Lean probably did the most important production for the screen after "Gone with the wind" in this epic russian story. The romantic story of Boris Pasternak with Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Omar Shariff, Tom Courtenay and several more actors.
34. A Passage to India (1984)
164 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox
Votes: 20,879 | Gross: $27.19M
David Lean put in unforgettable images of India, the novel of E. Forster.
35. State and Main (2000)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.
Director: David Mamet | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Rebecca Pidgeon, Michael Higgins
Votes: 22,187 | Gross: $6.92M
David Mamet has created this wonderful movie about movies creation.
36. Incendies (2010)
R | 131 min | Drama, Mystery, War
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Mustafa Kamel
Votes: 200,375 | Gross: $6.86M
A canadian film maker, Denis Villeneuve, moves the theater play about the Lebanon war to a film where the human condition is critiziced and make evident.
37. Jésus de Montréal (1989)
118 min | Drama, Romance
A group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Rémy Girard
Votes: 7,550 | Gross: $1.60M
A wonderful film of another canadian film maker, Denys Arcand. If Jesus had become to the world he would be dead again.
38. El faro (1998)
109 min | Drama
Two Argentine sisters, Memé and Aneta, lose their mother in a car crash. Memé, the elder, is also left lame with one badly scarred leg. The orphaned girls go to Uruguay to stay with their ... See full summary »
Director: Eduardo Mignogna | Stars: Ingrid Rubio, Jimena Barón, Florencia Bertotti, Ricardo Darín
Votes: 733
Eduardo Mignogna made with this film a simphony to the human been and his efforts to go ahead in spite of everything.
39. Crna machka, beli machor (1998)
R | 127 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Matko and his son Zare live on the banks of the Danube river and get by through hustling and basically doing anything to make a living. In order to pay off a business debt Matko agrees to marry off Zare to the sister of a local gangster.
Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Bajram Severdzan, Srdjan 'Zika' Todorovic, Branka Katic, Florijan Ajdini
Votes: 56,400 | Gross: $0.35M
In this comedy Emir Kusturica shows with humour the life of the "ziganes" at the border of the Danube. All the story is full of humour (sometimes black humour) and life happiness.
40. Underground (1995)
170 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Two underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way.
Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac
Votes: 61,266 | Gross: $0.17M
This was the bigest effort of Emir Kusturica. To describe in around of two hours of film the circumstances and the vagaries that led to the creation and collapse of Yugoslavia. It makes this film one of the seven wonderful of the cinema.
41. Etz Limon (2008)
106 min | Drama, War
The story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemontree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.
Director: Eran Riklis | Stars: Hiam Abbass, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Ali Suliman, Doron Tavory
Votes: 6,882 | Gross: $0.57M
Eran Riklis shows in this film the contradictions of the people of Israel in its relationship with its Arab neighbors through this terrible parable of a lemon forest.
42. Le rayon vert (1986)
99 min | Drama, Romance
It's July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. She feels very bored and "empty", but this won't last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her...
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Marie Rivière, María Luisa García, Vincent Gauthier, Amira Chemakhi
Votes: 10,496 | Gross: $0.04M
All the films of Eric Rohmer should integrate this list, but this one is the most extraordinary and poetic. The green ray is the last one before the end of the sunset.
43. 8½ (1963)
138 min | Drama
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo
Votes: 125,209 | Gross: $0.05M
There is no need to describe something about this marvelous film of Federico Fellini. It contains the quintessence of the modern cinema.
44. Amarcord (1973)
123 min | Comedy, Drama
A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia
Votes: 46,832 | Gross: $0.58M
There are no words to describe the miracles that Federico Fellini shows us in this film about his memories.
45. Giulietta degli spiriti (1965)
137 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Visions, memories, and mysticism all help a 40-something woman to find the strength to leave her cheating husband.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu, Valentina Cortese
Votes: 14,723 | Gross: $0.08M
There are critics who argue that Fellini's Giulietta is the equivalent of 8 1/2 on women.
46. La dolce vita (1960)
174 min | Comedy, Drama
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux
Votes: 78,217 | Gross: $19.52M
With this movie, Federico Fellini created the legend about the modern city of Rome. Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni will continue to find them at the Trevi's fountain for the rest of our lives.
47. La strada (1954)
108 min | Drama
A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani
Votes: 66,593
Magic and emotions are together in this extraordinary film of Federico Fellini. Never more we forget Gelsomina and neither the fierce Zampanó.
48. La voce della luna (1990)
126 min | Comedy, Drama
The amusing and entertaining adventures of a recently released mental patient and his band of misfits, who discover conspiracies to participate in while looking for love.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Roberto Benigni, Paolo Villaggio, Nadia Ottaviani, Marisa Tomasi
Votes: 3,303
Roberto Benigni was the chosen one for Federico Fellini to personify the character of Ivo Salvini. This film is based on the novel with the same name of Ermanno Cavazzoni and is the most surrealistic film of Fellini and also the last one.
49. I clowns (1970 TV Movie)
92 min | Comedy
A ragout of real memories and mockumentary, as Fellini explores a childhood obsession: circus clowns.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Riccardo Billi, Gigi Reder, Tino Scotti, Valentini
Votes: 2,957
When Federico Fellini tried to convince us he was doing a documentary, all their fans knew very well that the real life would be influenced by the phantasy of Fellini. This is the case of "I clowns", were the leit motiv is "has the clown died", and after this question, all the magic and dreams of Fellini are displayed over the screen.
50. Roma (1972)
120 min | Comedy, Drama
A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini's life.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Britta Barnes, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence, Pia De Doses
Votes: 13,805 | Gross: $0.73M
This is another documentary of Federico Fellini. Here the excuse for to show the delirious of Federico Fellini is the city of Rome. The fashion show for prelates of the Catholic Church is amazing.
51. Fellini - Satyricon (1969)
129 min | Drama, Fantasy
A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone
Votes: 17,188 | Gross: $1.14M
Federico Fellini would describe the life in the times of the roman empire. For this reason this film is based on the novel of Petronio, written during the roman empire. But after all, is a film of Federico Fellini, then all their ghosts and allegories are present in the scenes.
52. E la nave va (1983)
132 min | Drama, History, Music
In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti, Peter Cellier
Votes: 6,725
How was the storm that moves Europe to the chaos of the First World War?. It is explained in this "musical" film of Federico Fellini.
53. El viaje (1992)
150 min | Adventure, Drama
Follows the journey taken by 17-year-old Martin through Latin America - by bicycle - from his snow-frozen school in Tierra del Fuego in search of his 'real' father, a cartoonist turned anthropologist believed to be in the Amazon jungle.
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Walter Quiroz, Soledad Alfaro, Ricardo Bartis, Christina Becerra
Votes: 829
Francisco "Pino" Solanas gift to the cinema is this movie, "El viaje" ("The trip"), when a teenager will make a voyage of initiation in search of his father throughout Latin-America from Ushuahia to Mexico.
54. Romeo and Juliet (1968)
PG | 138 min | Drama, Romance
When two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery, Milo O'Shea
Votes: 34,779 | Gross: $38.90M
Only Franco Zeffirelli was capable to make a film about the hapless young heroes of Verona. Olivia Houssey and Leonard Whithing played the drama in the most realistic way. Also the music of Nino Rota is unforgetable.
55. Turandot (1987 TV Movie)
134 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
Director: Kirk Browning | Stars: James Levine, Éva Marton, Plácido Domingo, Leona Mitchell
Votes: 156
Franco Zeffirelli was the responsible of the staging in the Metropolitan House of New York of this beautiful Puccini's opera. In this case the singers were Eva Marton, Placido Domingo and Leona Mitchell.
56. Powaqqatsi (1988)
99 min | Documentary, Music
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
Director: Godfrey Reggio | Stars: Christie Brinkley, David Brinkley, Patrick Disanto, Pope John Paul II
Votes: 8,877 | Gross: $0.59M
From the trilogy of Godfrey Reggio (and Philip Glass in the music) I have chosen this one because its photography is perfect.
57. Gake no ue no Ponyo (2008)
101 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A five-year-old boy develops a relationship with Ponyo, a young goldfish princess who longs to become a human after falling in love with him.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson, Tomoko Yamaguchi
Votes: 163,553 | Gross: $15.09M
All the movies done by Hayao Miyazaki are beautiful, but this one, telling us the story of the little mermaid Ponyo contains all the purity and beauty that coexist with the strength to live in the stories of Miyazaki.
58. Ansikte mot ansikte (1976)
114 min | Drama, Fantasy
Two psychiatrists have their marriage tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Aino Taube, Gunnar Björnstrand
Votes: 6,140
Fascinating analysis of the human soul. How the fears interfer with the feelings and can destroy a person. Wonderful film of Ingmar Bergman with a wonderful Liv Ullman.
59. The Serpent's Egg (1977)
119 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe, Heinz Bennent
Votes: 6,358
Ingmar Bergman went to Munich trying to leave back his problems with the sweden government and made this exceptional study of the fascism in Germany. With a not expected David Carradine.
60. Fanny och Alexander (1982)
188 min | Drama
Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Kristina Adolphson, Börje Ahlstedt
Votes: 67,503 | Gross: $4.97M
The most important title in the last films of Ingmar Bergman. Fanny and Alexander shows two children leaving their father's dead and a new marriage of their mother.
61. Viskningar och rop (1972)
91 min | Drama
When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin
Votes: 37,001 | Gross: $1.74M
Probably the most painful film of Ingmar Bergman and his first film made in color.
62. Saraband (2003)
R | 107 min | Drama, Music
Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius
Votes: 8,519 | Gross: $0.65M
"Saraband" is a TV movie and was never copied for display in theaters. Here Ingmar Bergman showed the characters of "Scenes from a marriage" 30 years later. The result is extraordinary.
63. Höstsonaten (1978)
99 min | Drama, Music
A devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Björk
Votes: 37,806
For the first time Ingmar Bergman directed Ingrid Bergman. She and Liv Ullman made this film unforgetable. There are dialogs that are unique.
64. Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953)
114 min | Comedy
Monsieur Hulot comes to a beachside hotel for a vacation and accidentally, but good-naturedly, causes havoc.
Director: Jacques Tati | Stars: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Micheline Rolla, Valentine Camax
Votes: 20,273
Jacques Tati presented his character Mr. Hulot and described how he enjoyed his holydays at the sea. Never I have loughed so much as I did seing this film.
65. Mon oncle (1958)
116 min | Comedy
Monsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.
Director: Jacques Tati | Stars: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis
Votes: 24,255
"Jacques Tati already put in scene his character Mr. Hulot. This time making a ferocious satire of the modern life style.
66. Playtime (1967)
155 min | Comedy
Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.
Director: Jacques Tati | Stars: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden, France Rumilly
Votes: 25,949
Third one of the greatest films made by Jacques Tati. Probably the most important where all the messages are so clear and also the gags are fabulous.
67. The City of Your Final Destination (2009)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance
Omar wants to write an authorized biography on a dead writer and travels to a farm in Uruguay to meet the trustees - the writer's brother, widow and cute mistress/mother of his daughter.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Omar Metwally, Anthony Hopkins, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nicholas Blandullo
Votes: 3,238
Last one of the greatest films done by James Ivory with Ismail Merchant as producer. Once again the destiny is showed as a product of several people and there is nothing a single people can be do in order to change his life. With a lot a wonderful actors and the music of Jorge Drexler. This film was shot mainly in Argentina.
68. Howards End (1992)
PG | 142 min | Drama, Romance
Set in the early 20th century, class distinctions and troubled relations affect the relationship between two families and the ownership of a cherished British estate known as Howards End.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter
Votes: 35,870 | Gross: $25.97M
Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham-Carter play the main characters in this film of James Ivory plenty of meanings and excelent transcription of the E.M. Forster novel.
69. The Remains of the Day (1993)
PG | 134 min | Drama, Romance
A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, John Haycraft, Christopher Reeve
Votes: 84,460 | Gross: $22.95M
"The remains of the day" joined once again Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson in a wonderful transcription of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel. A reflexion about the human responsibility and how far our acts can be important for the future.
70. Surviving Picasso (1996)
R | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The passionate Merchant Ivory drama tells the story of Françoise Gilot (Natascha McElhone), the only lover of Pablo Picasso (Sir Anthony Hopkins) who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty, and move on with her life.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Julianne Moore, Joss Ackland
Votes: 7,888 | Gross: $2.00M
James Ivory once again directed Anthony Hopkins. This time no more and no less than to impersonate Pablo Picasso.
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