Martin Scorsese has compiled a list of films that he considers the best in history (16 photos)

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One of the main directors of our time, Martin Scorsese, spoke to Sight And Sound magazine about the films that he considers the best in history. Like many of his colleagues, the 80-year-old director singled out Stanley Kubrick's guess what film, one of Alfred Hitchcock's major masterpieces, the best Western in history and the very film that critics constantly put at the top of their lists of the best.

In addition to them, Scorsese highlighted many non-English-language films, most of which were Italian. In general, there are no films on the list younger than 1968, so this is a time-tested classic.

15th place: Vertigo (1958)



Director: Alfred Hitchcock.

IMDb: 8.3

14th place: Tales of the Misty Moon After the Rain (Japan, 1953)





Director: Kenji Mizoguchi.

IMDb: 8.2

13th place: The Searchers (1956)



Director: John Ford.

IMDb: 7.9

The film is considered the pinnacle of the Western genre.

12th place: Salvatore Giuliano (Italy, 1961)



Director: Francesco Rosi.

IMDb: 7.3

11th place: River (1951)



Director: Jean Renoir.

IMDb: 7.4

10th place: Red Shoes (1948)



Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger.

IMDb: 8.1

9th place: Countryman (Italy, 1946)



Director: Roberto Rossellini.

IMDb: 7.6

8th place: The Word (Denmark, 1955)



Director: Karl Theodor Dreyer.

IMDb: 8.3

7th place: Leopard (Italy, France, 1963)



Director: Luchino Visconti.

IMDb: 8.0

As an additional motivation for watching: here in the frame is a young Alain Delon.

6th place: Live (Japan, 1952)



Director: Akira Kurosawa.

IMDb: 8.3

By the way, in 2022, the British film “To Live” was released, whose plot is based on Kurosawa’s painting (who, in turn, was inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s story “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”). The new version of To Live even received two Oscar nominations - for adapted screenplay and best actor.

5th place: Diary of a Country Priest (France, 1951)



Director: Robert Bresson.

IMDb: 7.8

4th place: Citizen Kane (1941)



Director: Orson Welles.

IMDb: 8.3

The same film that ranks first on most authoritative lists of the best films in history. Let us remember that it was filmed by a 25-year-old young man.

3rd place: Ashes and Diamonds (Poland, 1958)



Director: Andrzej Wajda.

IMDb: 7.8

2nd place: 8 and a half (Italy, 1963)



Director: Federico Fellini.

IMDb: 8.0

1st place: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)



Director: Stanley Kubrick.

IMDb: 8.3