56 best movies of all time. Part 1

The best films of all time are all very different. Among them are dramas, action films, comedies, thrillers ... They can be based on real events or be completely fictional. But what do all these films have in common? Firstly, high marks from critics, and secondly (and this is the most important thing) - at one time it was impossible to tear yourself away from them. However, in our time they are still able to captivate the viewer.

So here is our top best movies of all time:

1. Beginning (2010)

An industrial spy who uses the technology of penetrating someone else's mind to steal corporate secrets, unexpectedly gets a very unusual task ¬ to put certain ideas in the mind of the director of the company.

Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elena Page

Industrial spy House Cobb is the best in his dangerous craft of obtaining other people's secrets. He steals them deeply from the subconscious when a person is asleep, at a time when the mind is defenseless. Cobb's rare ability makes him useful in the risky world of industrial espionage, but it cost him everything he loved, turning his life into an endless wandering.

But at one point Cobb is offered the opportunity to atone for his sins. The reward for a job done successfully will be the opportunity to return to your old life, but the task seems almost impossible. Cobb and the team of specialists will not steal, but, on the contrary, put the idea into someone else's mind. If successful, it would be the perfect crime.

But neither careful planning, nor knowledge, nor experience, could prepare them to face a dangerous enemy who seems to be able to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have foreseen.

2. Mister nobody (2009)

The train is about to start, and the confused boy is still standing on the platform. Should he leave with his mother or stay with his father? Any of his decisions will entail a lot of unpredictable consequences. But until he makes his choice, anything can happen.

Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Writer: Jaco Van Dormael
Cast: Jared Leto, Sarah Polly, Diane Kruger

In 2092, Nemo, now 118 years old, retells his life story to a reporter. He does not quite adequately perceive reality, it often seems to him that he is still 34 years old. However, when he remembers his real age, his story becomes even more confusing. He claims that there were 3 turning points in his life: at nine (when his parents divorced), at sixteen and at thirty-four. His account of the multiple paths of life that flows from every choice he makes during the turning points is boggling.

One of his lives ends with a happy marriage with Eliza. She was never able to recover from her unrequited love for a boy named Stefan, whom she fell in love with as a teenager. She asked Nemo to swear that after her death he would scatter her ashes on Mars. In another life, he will marry Gina. They live in abundance, but rather boring. And in his third life, he has a stormy romance with his half-sister Anna, two of whom ...

3. Interstellar (2014)

The research team faces an extremely important mission - to guarantee humanity a chance for survival in the future. To complete the task, they are sent on a space journey through a wormhole in space.

Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hatway, Jessica Chastain

In the future, disasters, famines and droughts hit the Earth. Only interstellar travel can guarantee the survival of humanity. A wormhole is being opened on the outskirts of our solar system, allowing a team of astronauts to travel where no human has ever gone before. Perhaps at the end of their journey a planet suitable for human life awaits them.

4. Prestige (2006)

A tragic incident changes the lives of two magicians-illusionists, forcing them to enter into a stubborn confrontation in attempts to create an unsurpassed illusion. Trying to surpass each other in the art of deception, they are ready to sacrifice everything that is dear to them.

Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson

Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough and Alfred Borden work as magician's assistants in London at the end of the eighteenth century. When Julia dies in an accident at the show, Robert blames Alfred for it, which turns them into enemies. Constant competition over time makes them both famous magicians, not least due to the constant attempts to spoil each other's focus during the performance. Once Robert's obsessive desire to reveal the secret of the success of one of Alfred's tricks leads to tragedy.

5. Time Patrol (I) (2014)

To complete his career, a high-ranking agent of the temporary patrol will have to overtake a criminal who has successfully eluded him for a long time in the wilds of time. But the pursuit of him turns into a unique, amazing and unimaginable journey that allows you to learn the true essence of such concepts as love, destiny, personality, as well as understand the origins of all prohibitions and restrictions on time travel.

Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig (The Spierig Brothers)
Screenwriter: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig (The Spierig Brothers)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor

The life of the Temporal Agent is dedicated to serving the annals of Destiny. Throughout his ministry, he travels through time, seeking the rule of law in all the infinity of time. Now, as the last task, his mission is to catch the criminal who has long remained elusive.

6. Django Unchained (2012)

Django, a freed black slave, seeks to rescue his wife from the hands of a cruel Mississippi planter. To successfully complete this risky endeavor, he enlists the help of a hunter for high-risk criminals.

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio

The story begins in 1858. Schultz, the bounty hunter, buys Django's slave because he can help find the person Schultz is interested in. After the right person has been found, Django asks to find his wife Brunhilda. Once their former owner sold them separately for attempting to escape. Schultz offers Django a deal ¬– to become Schultz's partner in exchange for help in finding Brunhilda.

Finally, they manage to find out that Django's wife was sold to a Mississippi planter. Since it is impossible to act directly, telling the planter the whole truth, they make a plan to freely enter the planter's house and free Brunhilda.

7. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

This is a story about a true long-term friendship between two prisoners, which helps them escape from the torment of despair and remorse.

Director: Frank Darabont
Screenwriter: Stephen King (short story "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshenko Redemption"), Frank Darabont (screenplay)
Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton

The story is about the fate of a successful banker in the past, and now innocently condemned to imprisonment in the dark Shawshank prison. However, the main character of the film is able to completely distance himself from the surrounding bleak reality. Among his cellmates, he makes several friends, the best of whom is a prisoner named Red, who is serving a long term.

8. Fight Club (1999)

An insomniac office worker and a reckless soap salesman decide to start an underground fight club.But over time, their idea turns into something much more grandiose.

Director: David Fincher
Screenwriter: Chuck Palannik (original work), Jim Uls (screenplay)
Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meath Loaf

The main character (Edward Norton) is trying to normalize his emotional state and get rid of the insomnia that torments him. He begins attending so-called support groups anonymously, where people talk about their real suffering. Meeting Marla (Elena Bonham Carter), who also comes incognito to such meetings, gives him some relief.

However, he then contacts Tyler (Brad Pitt), which leads him to an underground fight club and an illegal soap business. The situation soon spirals out of control, and the two men begin a fierce struggle for love and power. When the main character reveals all the ins and outs of fight club, he is horrified by who Tyler really is.

9. Pulp Fiction (1994)

In the film, four different storylines are firmly intertwined together. The heroes of this tale of toughness and remorse are two hired killers, a boxer, a gangster with his wife, and two loser gangsters.

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avari
Cast: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson

Two assassins, Julius Winfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta), were tasked with returning their stolen suitcase to their boss, Marcellus Wallace (Ving Reims). Wallace also instructs Vincent to remove his wife Mia (Uma Thurman). He will have to do this in a few days, during Wallace's absence from the city. Another character in the tape is Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis), an aging boxer whom Wallace pays for losing fights.

The lives of all the characters outwardly seem in no way connected with each other. But a chain of accidents, sometimes funny and unusual, weaves their fates into one tight knot.

10. Communication (2013)

A group of friends decides to throw a party under a comet flying in the sky. Then strange and inexplicable phenomena begin to occur.

Director: James Ward Birkit
Writer: James Ward Birkit (original), James Ward Birkit (screenplay)
Cast: Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brandon

A group of eight friends are organizing a feast while unexplained phenomena occur in the night sky. Friends become participants in a chain of events that are contrary to common sense.

11. Areas of Darkness (I) (2011)

An incredible drug that allows a person to fully utilize all the faculties of his brain turns an unsuccessful writer into a financial expert. However, at the same time he plunges into a new world full of dangers.

Director: Neil Burger
Writer: Leslie Dixon (Screenplay), Alan Glynn (Original Artwork)
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Anna Friel, Abby Cornish

A dynamic thriller about a writer taking an experimental drug that uses the human brain 100 percent. However, as soon as he achieves personal perfection, he unwittingly finds himself in the path of villains from among the mighty of this world.

After losing his job as a writer and breaking up with his girlfriend Lindy (Abby Cornish) Eddie Morra (Cooper) completely loses faith in himself. But things change radically the day a longtime friend introduces Eddie to the pharmaceutical company NZT, which is developing new drugs. Taking this drug allows Eddie to gain incredible determination and absolute self-confidence. With the NZT remedy, he can handle any task. Until recently, a nonentity, Eddie achieves dizzying success in the field of finance, which attracts the attention of financial tycoon Carl Van Loon (De Niro). The latter decides to use the super-capable Eddie as a tool for generating billions of dollars in profits. However, the drug's side effects threaten the former writer’s meteoric rise. Also, Eddie has to constantly be on the alert to keep his secret, for the hitman expects the slightest chance to reveal Eddie's connection with NZT and remove him as an unnecessary witness.

12. Time Loop (2007)

A time machine accidentally encountered on the way of the protagonist returns him an hour back to the past. This gives rise to a whole chain of disasters with unpredictable consequences, which begins from the moment the main character meets himself in the past.

Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Writer: Nacho Vigalondo
Cast: Carra Elehalde, Candela Fernandez, Barbara Goenaga

Hector is just an ordinary person who moved with his wife to a new house. One evening, through binoculars, he notices a naked girl in the forest. He goes there and finds her lying on a rock. Suddenly, a man with a face wrapped in pink cloth beats Hector with scissors held in his hand ...

13. Exam (2009)

Eight applicants for a high-paying corporate position are locked up in an examination room, each handed an exam ticket with just one question. At first, they are confused by the seeming simplicity of the question, but soon passions begin to heat up more and more.

Director: Stuart Hazeldin
Writer: Stuart Hazeldin, Simon Garrity (storyline)
Cast: Adar Beck, Gemma Chan, Natalie Cox

Eight talented candidates for the role of employees of a mysterious and powerful corporation reach the final stage of selection. In a dull, windowless room, the Examiner gives them eighty minutes to answer a simple question. The rules of the exam are as follows: do not talk to either the Examiner or the armed guards at the door, do not spoil tickets, and do not leave the room. The slightest violation will be followed by disqualification. After starting the countdown, the Examiner leaves the room.

After flipping the tickets, candidates see only pristine sheets of paper in front of them. After several minutes of confusion, one of the candidates writes "I believe that I deserve ..." and he is immediately kicked out for a spoiled sheet. The rest, realizing that they are allowed to communicate with each other, decide together to reveal the secret of the question to which they have to answer. Their first assumption is that the question is hidden in the ticket as special marks in a banknote. But it is impossible to find out this in the room allotted to them.

14. Child of Darkness (2009)

A married couple who recently lost their child decide to adopt a 9-year-old girl. However, her apparent naivety and innocence is nothing more than a mask.

Director: Jome Colle-Serra
Writer: David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (script) (aka David Leslie Johnson), Alex Mays (story)
Cast: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Furman

Keith and John Coleman repair their fractured marriage after losing their child. They decide to take on a foster child. Their choice falls on the sweet and well-bred nine-year-old girl Ester from the Shelter. St. Marina. Their son, Daniel, meets his new sister with hostility, but their deaf-mute daughter Max is initially delighted. Over time, Kate realizes that Esther is manipulating others, while probably not being completely mentally healthy. John ignores all of his wife's fears.

To find out the truth, Kate decides to talk to Sister Abigel from the orphanage. The nun tells her about Esther's past, full of sinister secrets. It becomes quite obvious that this girl is not at all who she wants to appear.

15. Time error (2014)

Three friends find some kind of mysterious device that takes pictures of the coming 24 hours. They hide it from prying eyes and use it for personal goals. However, at one point, the images that the device gives out become more and more alarming and threatening.

Director: Bradley King
Writer: Bradley King
Cast: Danielle Panabaker, Matt O'Leary, George Finn

Three friends discover a time machine that captures the future in photographs.They successfully use it to make money on races, placing bets on future winners. But over time, an unquenchable greed and thirst for profit awakens in their hearts. They stop trusting each other, suspecting everyone of a dishonest game. Soon, new photographs reveal an unsightly truth and the situation is completely out of control.

16. Time Loop (2012)

In 2074, a man who crossed the path of the mafia is sent to the past, where a hired killer's bullet awaits him. But one of the murderers named Joe is in for an unpleasant surprise one day. Mafiosi decide to "close the loop" and send Joe himself from the future into the past for reprisal.

Director: Ryan Johnson
Writer: Ryan Johnson
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt

Joe is one of the so-called "loopers". His job is to kill people from the future who are sent by his employers to the past using a time machine. It's the perfect way to cover up a crime, but Joe knows the other side of the coin too. One day its owners will decide to clean up all the ends and remove the "looper" himself. One day, Joe will have to kill himself from the future. But when that day comes, Joe from the future does not want to share the fate prepared for him and goes on the run. Two copies of one person engage in a desperate struggle for their future.

17. Nerve (I) (2016)

A high school student, unexpectedly for herself, is fond of the Internet game "truth or dare". Over time, she realizes that her every step is controlled by a mysterious organization of "caretakers".

Director: Henry Just, Ariel Schulman
Writer: Jessica Scharzer (Screenplay), Gene Ryan (Writer)
Cast: Emma Roberts, Dave Franco, Emily Mead

The film is about an extreme online game in which the participants are paid for the risks. Participants compete with each other for the main prize, risking more and more. With each stage, the tasks become more and more dangerous, putting the lives of the participants in jeopardy.

18. Request to friends (2016)

Could a college student have guessed that removing some mysterious girl from friends would have dire consequences? A certain demonic entity begins a deadly hunt for her best friends. In order not to be completely alone, the heroine begins a desperate struggle.

Director: Simon Verhoeven
Writer: Matthew Ballen, Philip Koch
Cast: Alicia Debnam-Carey, William Moseley, Connor Paolo

College student Laura (Alicia Debnam-Carey) is popular with many friends, both on Facebook and in life. She easily adds the uncommunicative and mysterious Marina (Leslie Asher) to the friend zone, but soon removes her from her friends. In revenge, Marina sets herself the goal of harming Laura as much as possible. So terrifying and disgusting videos begin to appear on Laura's page that the page begins to quickly lose popularity, and Laura's friends and subscribers on the network. Worst of all, her real friends begin to die one by one under unclear circumstances. Laura will have to break the mortal curse before it's too late.