12 Greatest Films of All Time by Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese's 12 greatest films of all time chosen as part of Sight and Sound's 2012 poll.
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Detractions
- Single author (-50)
- Voted on by industry employee(s) (-20)
Films (12)
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Directed by Stanley Kubrick | Rated G | 149 min | 1968
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.
2. 8½
Directed by Federico Fellini | 138 min | 1963
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
3. The Leopard
Directed by Luchino Visconti | 187 min | 1963
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily.
4. Salvatore Giuliano
Directed by Francesco Rosi | 125 min | 1962
The unclear and complicate twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.
5. Ashes and Diamonds
Directed by Andrzej Wajda | 103 min | 1958
During the German occupation noble, bourgeois and worker's partisan groups lived in peace with another. On the first day of freedom they start to fight each other. In these fights is weaved a most tender love story.
6. Vertigo
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock | Rated PG | 128 min | 1958
A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
7. The Searchers
Directed by John Ford | 119 min | 1956
A Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from an Indian tribe.
8. Ugetsu
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi | 96 min | 1953
A fantastic tale of war, love, family and ambition set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.
9. The River
Directed by Jean Renoir | 99 min | 1951
Three adolescent girls growing up in Bengal, India, learn their lessons in life after falling for an older American soldier.
10. The Red Shoes
Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 133 min | 1948
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
11. Paisan
Directed by Roberto Rossellini | 120 min | 1946
Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice. Communication is fragile. A woman leads an Allied patrol through a mine field; she dies ...
12. Citizen Kane
Directed by Orson Welles | 119 min | 1941
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.