1 st place. Bitter Moon (Bitter Moon, 1992), directed by Roman Polanski. During the cruise of Fiona and Nigel, a fine English couple of newlyweds (Christine Scott Thomas and Hugh Grant) gets acquainted with an eccentric couple - Mimi and Oscar (Emmanuel Senje and Peter Coyote). Oscar, an elderly playboy in a wheelchair, tells Nigel the story of his acquaintance with Mimi - a luxurious woman in the very color of the years. What began as a passionate love affair turned into a story of jealousy and hatred, and ended sadly.
For some reason he picks it out to the point of trembling. A lot of this contributes to the witch appearance of Szene - an actress who starred at Polanski and in the "Ninth Gate". Striking and this very explosive story, full of emotions of monstrous power, while, as in mockery, told in appearance impassive hero - crippled and impotent. The conclusions that are made from it are amazing, and the final is terrifying. The picture, perhaps, can not be called either an unconditional masterpiece, or a classic of erotic cinema, but, having looked at it once, you remember for the rest of your life.
2 nd place. Titanic (Titanic, 1996), directed by James Cameron. "Titanic", one of the most notorious liners, goes on its first and last journey to the shores of America. Already on board is the acquaintance of Rosa (Kate Winslet) - girls from a poor but noble family, and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) - a pauper artist. Rose is going to jump overboard to avoid marriage with an unloved person, Jack rescues her at the last minute.
No matter how many accuse this movie of pop, tearfulness, melodrama, it was watched, reviewed and will be reviewed for many more years. Perhaps the fact is that Cameron approached the process of filming not only with its inherent corrosiveness and scope, but also with real enthusiasm and love. And the semi-sketchy history of the relationship between Jack and Rosa overlapped the almost documentary history of the tragedy of the Titanic, and therefore falls into the soul.
3 rd place. Gone With The Wind (1939), directed by Victor Fleming. The story of a smart girl named Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), whose character was formed under the influence of the war of the North and South, as well as the third husband - Rat Butler (Clark Gable). The film is recognized as one of ten cinematic masterpieces of all time, the name of the heroine has become a household name.
Unknown, remember the name of Margaret Mitchell - the author of the eponymous novel - if not for this film. (Unprecedented at the time, the budget, large-scale colorful shooting and, of course, the game Vivien Leigh, who at first did not want to be invited to this role, since the actress was not an American).
4 th place. Stretched string (Hwal, 2005), directed by Kim Ki-duk. A nameless old man and his young pupil, who he prepares for himself as wife, live on a boat, lonely floating on the waves. Before the wedding there were only a few days. But among the fishermen, sometimes mooring to the haven of this strange couple, is the one who conquers the girl's heart. She no longer wants to obey her elderly fiancé.
An infinitely symbolic and beautiful film and a very complex love triangle, studying which, you do not know who to empathize with more: an old man distraught with jealousy and grief, a girl who was locked up in a boat, or a young man who does not understand what he interfered with.
5th place. Wait for me (1943), directors Alexander Stolper, Boris Ivanov. Lisa (Valentina Serova) is waiting for her husband (Boris Blinov), who went to war, but instead receives only a note with a request to wait and an oral story of a husband's friend, a military photojournalist. He is sure that Lisa's husband died in an unequal battle with the Nazis. Lisa is heartbroken, but in spite of everything believes that her Kolya will return home, and continues to wait for him.
On this Soviet film grown generations of viewers. Despite the time in which the picture was taken, there is almost no propaganda, no ideological background. It's just a movie about a great love that really helps to survive. The episode, in which Lisa and Nikolai still meet, can be moved, perhaps, even by the modern spectator.
6th place. Ordinary Miracle (1978), directed by Mark Zakharov. The fairy tale is the parable of Eugene Schwartz, whose text is supplemented with magnificent musical numbers. On a visit to the storyteller (Oleg Yankovsky) come his own, but slightly out of control characters. According to the idea of the storyteller, the Princess (Eugene Simonova) should kiss the Bear (Alexander Abdulov), after which he will become the beast finally. But everything from the very beginning is not quite as it was intended.
Thanks to domestic television, there is no need to buy a DVD with this film - it's already shown several times a year for different programs. We are somehow used to it so much that we do not fully realize how good the actors are in it, how clever and witty the Schwartz text is, how sweet and touching this fairy love is and how difficult it was at all to take it off in the USSR itself the height of the Brezhnev era.
7th place. Love in the Time of Cholera, 2007, directed by Mike Newell. According to the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Poor young telegraphist Florentino Ariza (when he grows up, will be Javier Bardem) at first sight falls in love with the only daughter of a wealthy mule dealer Fermin (Giovanna Mezzogiorno). The girl pays him back and swears to marry him, but the father separates the lovers, wanting to find the best couple. Florentino waits for the return of the fiancé 51 years, nine months and four days.
As one of the heroines of the film, a gloomy lady of about forty, angrily says, "love is ridiculous at our age, and it's simply indecent in such an old woman." This statement is thoroughly refuted throughout the film: persistent Florentino, growing up, decrepit and even having time to gain experience with other women, does not cease to cherish the hope of happiness with the only lady of his heart.
8th place. Breaking the Waves (1996), directed by Lars von Trier. Bess, a girl from a religious Scottish community (Emily Watson) marries a petroleum protege, a great, cheerful guy (Stellan Skarsgaard). However, an accident on the tower chained him to bed. The nature of his spoils, he then drives his wife away, then makes her make love to others and talk about their feelings. Beth in horror. But, having decided that adultery invigorates her husband and, possibly, helps him to get to his feet more quickly, he begins to walk with disgust to the right and to the left.
The famous bespredelschik von Trier always has something to finish the spectator. Usually it's some kind of sacrificial, like Sonechka Marmeladova, a woman's image, surrounded by some particularly nightmarish and cruel world. The reality of such stories can not be believed and even laugh at them, but the effect they produce is memorable.
9th place. Real love (Love Actually, 2003), directed by Richard Curtis. Several life and love stories, many of which in the end will somehow be related to each other. The Prime Minister falls in love with his assistant, his sister tries to establish relations with her husband, the husband looks at the young. At the same time, the widower tries to help his own little son, who fell in love with a classmate, on the love front, and a gloomy writer, fleeing from his heart tragedy, suddenly finds a new love that she can not even explain - she is a foreigner. Composition of the actors awe: Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Rowan Atkinson, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson.
To the best of a ridiculous, moderately romantic, but very pleasant comedy, ranked in the rating, mainly due to the number and variety of love stories. Love is childish, love is unhappy and happy, love is tragic and hopeless, love for a woman, for a man, for a friend, a love that rules the world or does not commit to anything. All, in general, love.
10th place. Bodyguard (The Bodyguard, 1992), directed by Mick Jackson. Former bodyguard of the US President Farmer (Kevin Costner) is hired to guard the famous pop singer Rachel Marron (Whitney Houston). The singer - a woman with a character, a bodyguard - is also a guy not a blunder. Love is inevitable.
Like and you know by heart, and you understand that the plot is nowhere easier, but you look again and again. Because it's beautiful and empathic, that's it. Well, the songs in the performance of Whitney Houston you listen with the same pleasure.