56 best movies of all time. Part 2

The greatest movies of all time can be about just about anything. Each of them has something of its own, unique, something that other films look up to and try to imitate. But we all know and love them. After all, the original cannot be faked!

Here is the second part of our top best movies of all time:

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19. Age of Adaline (2015)

A girl born at the beginning of the twentieth century, as a result of an accident, acquires the gift of eternal youth. However, after many years of loneliness, she meets a man who brings confusion to the usual way of life, stretching out for an infinitely long time.

Director: Lee Toland Krieger
Writer: J. Mills Goodlow, Salvador Paskovitz
Cast: Blake Lively, Michiel Hewsman, Harrison Ford

Adaline Bowman has the wonderful gift of staying forever young, as if she were always 29 years old. For eight decades she has been living alone, never getting close to anyone, in order to preserve her secret. But one day, by chance, she falls passionately in love with the charismatic philanthropist Ellis Jones. But by the will of fate, close acquaintance with his parents threatens the safety of Adaline's secrets. She has to make a difficult choice that puts her entire future life on the line.

20. The Mysterious Story of Benjamin Button (2008)

A screen version of the story of the same name about a man for whom life has gone backwards.

Director: David Fincher
Writer: Eric Roth
Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton

As a result of the hurricane Katrina that struck New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams (Nia Fuller) finds herself on her deathbed in a hospital in New Orleans. Caroline, her eldest daughter, is next to her. Daisy asks to read aloud to her the diary of Benjamin Button, Daisy's longtime friend.
This diary tells the story of his unusual life journey. Amazingly, one day, time went backwards for him. Button was diagnosed with several fatal congenital diseases. But, contrary to the forecasts of doctors, he survived and over time began to become younger. His mother died in childbirth, his biological father, Thomas Button, left his son to the mercy of fate. He was raised by Queenie, a black woman who worked as a nanny in the master's house. Grandma Daisy met Benjamin when she also lived in the same house. Separated for many years, Daisy and Benjamin did not stop communicating. finally did not find each other again. Once, at the moment when they became the same age, they found each other again ...

21. 1+1 (2011)

A paragliding crash turns a man of noble blood into a helpless cripple, unable to take care of himself on his own. He is forced to seek the help of the appropriate services that provide him with a young guy as a nurse.

Director: Olivier Nacache, Eric Toledano
Screenwriter: Olivier Nacache, Philippe Pozzo di Borgo (based on his autobiographical novel Le Second Souffle)
Cast: Francois Cluse, Omar Sy, Anne Le Nye

The film is set in Paris. Philip, an aristocrat, intellectual and owner of a millionth fortune, was paralyzed by chance. Together with his secretary Magali, he selects candidates for personal care. Suddenly, Driss leaves the line of candidates and hands Philip a document from the Social Service for signing. He needs confirmation that he is looking for a job in order to continue to receive unemployment benefits. Instead, Philip offers Driss a probationary period to gain experience in caring for Philip himself. After that, Driss will be able to independently decide whether to remain in this position. Driss accepts his offer. Very quickly, the measured life of Philip and his employees is changing dramatically.

22. The heat of our bodies (2013)

This story begins at the moment when a different zombie guy rescues a girl who still belongs to the world of the living from death. The mutual feelings engendered by this unusual couple launch a cascade of events that can completely transform the now lifeless world.

Director: Jonathan Levine
Screenwriter: Isaac Marion (writer) Jonathan Levin (screenplay)
Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich

A young zombie named P is very different from the other undead that make up the majority of the world's current population. One day, during a feast for devouring human flesh, he decides to protect the living girl Julie. The relationship that began with Julie begins to return the zombies to their former humanity. The changes are affecting other zombies as well, spreading through their population like wildfire. But then the chimeric couple are subjected to severe ordeals. They begin to hunt from all sides, both irreconcilable people and ferocious zombies "Bonis". Their only chance is to find a way to overcome differences between races and build a new world never seen before.

23. Shelter (2007)

The woman returns with her family to the house where she spent her childhood. It used to be a shelter for children with disabilities. Soon, her son begins to communicate with a new, invisible friend.

Director: J. A. Bayona
Writer: Sergio J. Sanchez
Cast: Belén Rueda, Fernando Caio, Roger Princesep

Laura, who has no relatives other than her husband, together with him raise their adopted son Simon. They live in a house that was once an orphanage for disabled orphans, in which Laura herself grew up in her time. One day, Simon tells his adoptive mother that he invented five imaginary friends for himself.

Laura decides to reopen the shelter. When she throws a party, Simon tries unsuccessfully to introduce her to his invisible friends. Following Sison disappears, a mysterious masked boy appears in his place. Laura begins to haunt the persistent feeling of someone else's presence in the house. Finally, to establish the truth, she invites a team of parapsychologists.

24. Let Me In (2008)

Oscar was ridiculed and scorned as a child. But having met a beautiful and extremely unusual girl, Eli, not only for the first time truly falls in love, but also finds a way to take revenge.

Director: Thomas Alfredson
Screenwriter: John Ivide Lindqvist (original writer and screenplay)
Cast: Kor Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar

The events take place in the suburbs of Stockholm in 1982. Twelve-year-old Oscar wants to take revenge on his classmates for humiliation and bullying. Suddenly, he meets and falls in love with a strange girl, Eli. She does not eat, is afraid of the sun and cannot enter the room without an invitation. She gives Oscar the strength to protect himself. But one day he learns the terrible truth about his beloved. To live, she needs to drink human blood. Oscar will have a difficult choice. Will he be able to step over his love or is he ready to do anything for her?

25. Under the Cover of Night (2016)

After her divorce from the main character, a wealthy art gallery owner, her ex-husband is writing a thriller novel. The main message of this work is cruel revenge. The worst thing is that the events and situations described on the pages of the book begin to take on reality.

Director: Tom Ford
Writer: Tom Ford (Screenplay), Austin Wright (Original)
Cast: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon

This film can be called a "tale of a story." At the very beginning of the story, a woman named Suzanne receives a handwritten book from her ex-husband, abandoned 20 years ago. He asks for her opinion on the manuscript. The work is called "Nocturnal Animals", it tells how the rest of a man with his family in nature turned into a real nightmare with a tragic end. But Suzanne herself thinks that this story is about her. Unwittingly, she plunges into painful memories of her first marriage and is tormented by remorse.

26.Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

A Mumbai teenager is accused of cheating on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. However, the boy was able to give answers to the questions posed only thanks to the experience accumulated during his life in the slums.

Director: Danny Boyle, Loveline Tandan (assistant director)
Screenwriter: Simon Bofoy (screenplay), Vikas Swarup (original work)
Cast: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla

The tape begins with the air of the Indian version of the TV show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Participant Jamal Malik, an 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, prepares to answer the final and crucial question to win 20 million rupees. Everyone is chained to the screens when the unexpected light goes out and Malik is arrested by the police. He is accused of cheating, because they cannot understand how the guy knows the answers to all the questions.

All Jamal has to do is tell them about his life. He and his brother grew up in a slum and have seen a lot in their lives, from violent clashes with local gangs, to the loss of a beloved named Latika. Each twist of his fate provides a clue to answer a question from a TV show. In every episode of his incredible life, Jamal found answers to seemingly insoluble mysteries from the TV show. For only one question, the young guy has no answer yet: what is he trying to achieve, what to strive for ...

27. Moon 2112 (2009)

Astronaut Sam Bell is engaged in the extraction and sending of resources from the Moon to Earth to save humanity from the consequences of the energy crisis. His only assistant is the GERTY computer. By the end of the third year on the moon, the astronaut is in serious trouble.

Director: Duncan Jones
Writer: Duncan Jones (Storyline), Nathan Parker
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominic McElligot

Sam Bell has a 3-year contract with Lunar Industries. All this time he will have to work alone on the lunar station, developing rich deposits of Helium-3, an environmentally friendly fuel for earth's energy. The astronaut does not have a direct connection with the Earth, his entire social circle is limited to the GERTY computer, which ensures his life. By the end of the third year of his imprisonment, the lack of normal human communication drives Sam to the brink of insanity. He is delusional in reality, his only desire is to return to Earth, to his beloved wife Tess and their daughter Eva, who was born right before his departure.

But just two weeks before returning to Earth, an accident befalls him. While working with an automatic harvester, he is injured. Consciousness leaves him ...

28. Hell (2007)

In 2057, the international crew of the spacecraft embarks on a dangerous expedition to the Sun. Their task is to start anew the nuclear processes in the dying light with the help of an atomic bomb.

Director: Duncan Jones
Writer: Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominic McElligot

In 2057, the sun will begin to extinguish, endangering the existence of life on planet Earth. The first space mission to revive the Sun has failed. Seven years later, humanity makes a second attempt, this time without the slightest margin for error.

29. Gravity (2013)

A couple of astronauts are desperately trying to escape, finding themselves in the abyss of space as a result of a tragic accident.

Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Writer: Alfonso Cuaron, Jonas Cuaron
Cast: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris

The shuttle crew, performing a fairly ordinary mission, consists of only two people. For talented medical engineer Rhiana Stone (Sandra Bullock), this is the first flight, and for crew commander Matt Kowalski (George Clooney), the last before retirement. Routine performance of a task in zero gravity in one moment turns into a disaster. The spaceship was destroyed, and the astronauts themselves were thrown into the boundless void of space. The only straw they can grab onto is the bundle that holds them together.

30. Oblivion (I) (2013)

the work of the protagonist (Tom Cruise) seems clear and obvious to him: to ensure stable production of the remnants of the earth's resources. But over time, he has more and more questions about his contract, employers and about himself.

Director: Joseph Kosinski
Writer: Karl Hajdusek, Michael Arndt
Cast: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Risborough, Olga Kurylenko

The surface of the Earth in the future is devastated by decades of war with a hostile alien race called the Scavengers. There are very few people left on the planet, they are needed only for the repair and maintenance of automatic drones. But finding the wreckage of a spaceship fundamentally changes everything for one of them. He reimagines everything that is known about the war with aliens. Perhaps this is a turning point in the fate of humanity ...

31. The Martian (2015)

Considering their comrade dead, the team of researchers flies off Mars, leaving him alone on the surface of the red planet. He has to use all his strength, knowledge and abilities to survive and send news about himself to Earth.

Director: Ridley Scott
Writer: Drew Goddard (Screenplay), Andy Weir (Original Artwork)
Cast: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig

A terrible storm hits the expedition on Mars, in which one of the astronauts, Mark Watney, disappears. His comrades leave him on the surface of an alien planet, since they consider him dead. But, in spite of everything, he remains alive. His ingenuity allows him to find ways to survive and send the news about himself. After that, not only NASA scientists, but, it seems, the whole world is eager to help him get back.

32.12 Angry Men (1957)

The tape tells about the attempts of the chairman of the jury to prevent the passing of an undeserved sentence. He desperately tries to convince his colleagues to reconsider the evidence.

Director: Sidney Lumet
Writer: Reginald Rose (story), Reginald Rose (script)
Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balm

After listening to the speeches of the prosecutor and the lawyer, the jury members retreat into a room to pronounce a sentence on a young man accused of his father's murder. However, what appears to be a straightforward and straightforward murder case quickly turns into a convoluted detective story with mixed evidence. The jury members have to face their own prejudices and prejudices, both in relation to the case and the accused, and in relation to each other. Very quickly, the events in the jury room begin to resemble a performance where each of the jury acts as actors.

33. John Wick (2014)

The former hired killer again has to take up his dangerous craft in order to track down and punish the gangsters who deprived him of everything dear, including the life of his beloved dog.

Director: Chad Stahelski, David Leitch
Writer: Derek Kolstad
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyquist, Alfie Allen

The soul of John Wick, a former professional hitman, is corroded by the bitterness of the loss of his beloved wife. All that helps him to alleviate the pain of loss is the last gift he will remember. However, he loses both him and his car, the 1969 Mustang, when he is robbed by the men of the son of one of the mafia leaders, Joseph Tarasov. John has to remember past skills to pay off the bills, because only the blood of enemies can satisfy his thirst for revenge. But his and his revenge, the whirlpool of death and destruction generated by it, are nothing more than details of a carefully verified plan of the big mafia boss Viggo Tarasov and his relatives.

34. John Carter (2012)

The veteran of the Civil War unexpectedly finds himself on the planet Mars, called the local Barsun. He is captured by the savages inhabiting the planet, twice the height of a person. He manages to escape and meets with Princess Wula, in dire need of help.

Director: Andrew Stanton
Writer: Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews
Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe

The events of the film unfold in 1868.After refusing to replenish the ranks of the army, John Carter, a retired veteran of the Civil War, is imprisoned. Fleeing from the pursuit after the escape and the bullets he met hostile Indians, Carter hides in a cave. There he meets with a certain owner of the medallion, the touch of which takes him to an unprecedented place. Among other miracles, he discovers the ability to jump to an incredible high-rise. The case brings him to a woman who told him that he was on Mars. Against his will, he intervenes in the whirlpool of events boiling on the planet.

35. Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

By a fateful accident, Jack, a simple peasant in love with a princess, opens the passage connecting the two worlds, starting an ancient war between people and the race of giants.

Director: Brian Singer
Writer: Darren Lemke, Christopher McQuarrie
Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Stanley Tucci, Ewan McGregor

Jack's adventure begins with a trip to the market. His uncle instructs him to sell a horse and buy shingles for the leaking roof. As a result, he saves Princess Isabella from the rascals, and returns home with just a handful of beans, given to him by a mysterious monk. His uncle doesn't believe that beans are magic at all and just throws them away.
Further events rush at a gallop. The Princess enters Jack's house, not wanting to become the wife of the power-hungry Roderick. And then a giant stem breaks out of the floor, carrying the whole house upward, along with the princess. Jack and the Royal Guards set out on an expedition to rescue the princess. Soon they discover mysterious lands high in the clouds, inhabited by giants from living legends.

36. Gattaka (1997)

The person decides to subject themselves to genetic improvements. His goal is to fulfill his lifelong dream and go on a space journey.

Director: Andrew Nikkol
Writer: Andrew Nikkol
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law

In the not so distant future, only the best representatives of the human race are entitled to go to the stars. Vincent Freeman does not fit that definition in any way, despite all his genetic enhancements. Society recognized him as fit only for rough, unskilled work. Wanting to break out of his caste, Vincent decides to pretend to be genetically more perfect. He takes on the guise of Jerome Morrow, paralyzed in a car accident. Vincent cleverly falsifies tests and DNA samples. But when he was already on the list of travelers to the stars, the director of the mission was killed. The investigation that has begun threatens his secret ...