50 best films of all time according to the film magazine Empire

To compile this list, the editors of the magazine Empire has arranged online poll, which could take film fans from around the world participate. In addition, Empire also appealed for help to a famous director, screenwriter and film critic. The original collection consists of a hundred of films, but we decided to show you only the 50 most-most.

50. Lawrence of Arabia

• Drama, adventure, war, biography, history.
• United Kingdom, United States, 1962.
• Duration: 216 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,3.

The film is about an English spy, to lead a detachment of Arabs in a guerrilla war against the Turks.

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49. On the needle

• Drama.
• United Kingdom, 1995.
• Duration: 94 min.
• IMDb: 8,2.

The story of the four friends, who are trying to get off the addiction and find their place in adult life.

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48. Silence of the Lambs

• Thriller, crime, detective, drama, horror.
• United States, 1990.
• Duration: 114 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,6.

The FBI is investigating a series of creepy serial killer, but comes to a standstill and turned for help to a psychopathic killer Hannibal Lecter, who once was a psychiatrist.

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47. Interstellar

• Fiction, drama, adventure.
• US, UK, Canada, Iceland, 2014.
• Duration: 169 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,6.

the concentration of oxygen on Earth is rapidly falling, and mankind is in great danger. To play it safe before the inevitable catastrophe, the team goes in search of new planets suitable for life.

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46. citizen Kane

• Drama, Detective.
• United States, 1941.
• Duration: 119 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,4.

Newspaper magnate, billionaire and single Charles Kane dramatically dying in his desolate castle. Finally he manages to utter just one mysterious word that brings to mind the local journalists.

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45. Drive

• Drama, Crime.
• United States, 2011.
• Duration: 100 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,8.

Neon nuarny film about the adventures of the great riders who can skillfully evade prosecution and perform noble deeds.

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44. Gladiator

• Action, drama, adventure.
• US, UK, 2000.
• Duration: 155 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,5.

The film about the plight of the brave general Maximus, who miraculously saved from certain death and became a gladiator.

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43. flying over Cuckoo's Nest

• Drama.
• USA, 1975.
• Duration: 133 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,7.

Once in a psychiatric hospital, a criminal Randle McMurphy dares to resolute rebellion against the reigning rules. Go is not so easy against the system.

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42. Oil

• Drama.
• United States, 2007.
• Duration: 158 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,1.

Daniel Pleynvyu alone trades gold and silver mining. When fate throws him a chance to become a major oil tycoon, but it is not as easy as we would like.

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41. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

• United States, 2004.
• Duration: 108 min.
• IMDb: 8,3.

Beautiful and sad picture of Michel Gondry lovers of a couple who after parting trying hard to forget about each other in any way possible.

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40. 12 Angry Men

• Drama, Crime.
• United States, 1957.
• Duration: 96 min.
• IMDb: 8,9.

Twelve jurors gather in the conference room to make a final and irreversible judgment, whether the boy is guilty of the murder of his father or not.

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39. Saving Private Ryan

• Drama, War.
• United States, 1998.
• Duration: 169 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,6.

In the course of military battles Ryan family loses once three sons. To somehow cheer inconsolable mother decides to send the command to the home of her son's last survivor. To execute this order, a small detachment of salvation will have to go the hard way.

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38. Mad Max: Road Rage

• Thriller, fantasy, adventure.
• Australia, USA, 2015.
• Duration: 120 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,1.

Lone wanderer Max Rokatanski wanders the scorched planet, accompanied only by his visions and ghosts of the past. Mercenaries from the Citadel take him prisoner, from which it is struggling to escape.

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37. Something

• Horror, Science Fiction, Detective.
• USA, 1982.
• Duration: 109 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,2.

A team of researchers from the Antarctic polar station is faced with a monstrous alien creature that is able to take the guise of their victims. Worst of all is that it is absolutely nowhere to run.

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36. The Departed

• Thriller, Drama, Crime.
• USA, Hong Kong, 2006.
• Duration: 151 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,5.

The story of the two standouts of the Police Academy, which prey on each other. One of them works for the mafia, and the second is trying to calculate it.

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35. Radiance

• Horror, Thriller, Drama, Detective.
• US, UK, 1980.
• Duration: 144 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,4.

Writer Jack Torrance and his family planned to live in a secluded hotel to finish my book there and stay at the same time as a part-time job in a caretaker. He hopes that nothing will distract him, but it is very much mistaken.

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34. Guardians of the Galaxy

• Fantasy, action, adventure.
• US, UK, 2014.
• Duration: 121 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,1.

Incredibly strange superhero team (one Rocket Raccoon which alone is worth!) Save the galaxy from the insidious villains and imminent death.

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33. Schindler's list

• Drama, Biography, History.
• USA, 1993.
• Duration: 195 min.
• IMDb: 8,9.

Historical drama about a German businessman Oskar Schindler, who during World War II helped save the life of one thousand Jews.

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32. The Usual Suspects

• Thriller, Drama, Crime, Detective.
• USA, Germany, 1995.
• Duration: 106 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,6.

Unusual movie puzzle of five suspects, a crime and a whole heap of mysteries.

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31. Taxi driver

• Thriller, Drama, Crime.
• USA, 1976.
• Duration: 113 min.
• IMDb: 8,3.

Travis Bickle - Vietnam War veteran, whose awful gnawing feeling of loneliness. He works as a taxi driver, but secretly wants to clean up the New York of all sinners and libertines.

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30. Seven

• Thriller, Drama, Crime, Detective.
• USA, 1995.
• Duration: 127 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,6.

Companions police officers William Somerset and David Mills investigate sophisticated crimes committed by a serial killer who imagines himself an instrument of God.

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29. The big Lebowski

• Comedy, Crime, Detective.
• United Kingdom, United States, 1998.
• Duration: 117 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,2.

Gangsters mistaken protagonist nicknamed Dude for millionaire namesake and kidnapped his wife, hoping to get a huge ransom.

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28. Casablanca

• Drama, Romance, War.
• United States, 1942.
• Duration: 103 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,5.

Classic Hollywood melodrama about two lovers and complex life choices that have to be done.

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27. Good bad evil

• Western.
• Italy, Spain, Germany (FRG), 1966.
• Duration: 178 min.
• IMDb: 8,9.

Three desperate and ruthless bandit join forces to find the stolen gold. But they soon realize that the decision to work together was not the best idea.

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26. scramble

• Action, Thriller, Drama, Crime.
• USA, 1995.
• Duration: 171 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,2.

Best offender America and America the best detective trying to figure out which one of them Lovcen, steeper and more capable.

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25. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

• Fantasy, action, thriller.
• USA, France, 1991.
• Duration: 137 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,5.

More than 10 years after the events of the first part. Sarah Connor's son John was born, which is destined to win the war of mankind against the machines. But the new model of the Terminator that no matter what tends to prevent him from doing so.

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24. Matrix

• Fantasy, action.
• United States, 1999.
• Duration: 136 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,7.

Cult film of the Wachowski sisters programmer Neo, who suddenly realizes that the whole world around us - it's just a computer program.

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23. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

• Fantasy, drama, adventure.
• USA, New Zealand, 2002.
• Duration: 179 min.
• IMDb: 8,7.

The second part of the legendary trilogy, Peter Jackson about hobbits Frodo and Sam, who travel to the gates of Mordor to destroy the One Ring.

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22. Apocalypse now

• Drama, War.
• USA, 1979.
• Duration: 194 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,5.

Benjamin Willard, a veteran of the Vietnam War, instruct the responsible task. He had to go into the jungle and find it mad Colonel Walter Kurtz, who's doing terrible things.

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21. 2001: A Space Odyssey

• Fantasy adventure.
• United Kingdom, United States, 1968.
• Duration: 149 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,3.

spacecraft team sent to the research trip to Jupiter, not knowing that a harmless-looking computer with artificial intelligence is actually present, the murder weapon.

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20. Toughie

• Action, Thriller.
• USA, 1988.
• Duration: 133 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,2.

police officer John McClane arrives in Los Angeles to mend relations with his wife. But before doing so, he will release her from captivity of the hostages.

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19. Jurassic Park

• Adventure, fantasy, family.
• USA, 1993.
• Duration: 127 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,1.

Professor Rich builds on a remote island relic park, populated by prehistoric animals. Everything is ready for the grand opening, but due to an unfortunate oversight dinosaurs are on the loose.

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18. Start

• Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Drama, Detective.
• US, UK, 2010.
• Duration: 148 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,8.

Industrial spy Dominic Cobb stealing corporate secrets, using technology common dreams. To return to his children, he agreed to an almost impossible job. This time he will not steal another idea and implement it into the unconscious victim.

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17. Fight club

• Thriller, Drama, Crime.
• USA, Germany, 1999.
• Duration: 131 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,8.

Ordinary and unremarkable life office clerk is changing dramatically after meeting Tyler Durden, an eccentric man with a boundless imagination and a rather perverse views on a life.

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16. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

• Fantasy, drama, adventure.
• USA, New Zealand, 2003.
• Duration: 201 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,9.

The final part of the trilogy about the adventures of hobbits and the battle for Middle-earth.

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15. Aliens

• Horror, fantasy, action, thriller, adventure.
• US, UK, 1986.
• Duration: 137 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,4.

After several years spent in a state of suspended animation, the officer Ellen Ripley will return to the planet, populated by thousands strangersTo fight them again.

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14. foreign

• Horror, fantasy.
• United Kingdom, United States, 1979.
• Duration: 116 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,5.

Sci-fi Ridley Scott on the hostile alien creatures, which in no matter what was seeking to destroy the crew of the spaceship "Nostromo".

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13. Blade Runner

• Fiction, thriller, drama, romance.
• USA, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, 1982.
• Duration: 110 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,2.

Retired detective Rick Deckard hunts a group of cyborgs-replicants who have managed to escape from the space colony and now sent to Earth.

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12. The Godfather - 2

• Drama, Crime.
• USA, 1974.
• Duration: 202 minutes.
• IMDb: 9,0.

Crime drama about the Corleone mafia clans. In this part we are introduced to the details of the stormy youth of Vito Corleone, as well as talk about his son Michael.

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11. Back to the Future

• Fantasy, comedy, adventure.
• United States, 1985.
• Duration: 116 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,5.

Seventeen year old teenager Marty McFly agrees to participate in a secret experiment, and with the help of the time machine It moved to 30 years ago.

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10. Lord of the rings, Brotherhood of the ring

• Fantasy, drama, adventure.
• USA, New Zealand, 2001.
• Duration: 178 min.
• IMDb: 8,8.

The very first part of a trilogy about Middle Earth, where we are introduced to the characters and learn about Sauron, the dark Lord, to make the magic Ring.

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9. Star Wars. Episode IV: A New Hope

• Fiction, fantasy, action, adventure.
• USA, 1977.
• Duration: 121 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,7.

The first film adaptation of the cult space opera of George Lucas. Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker very young company smuggler Han Solo sent to rescue Princess Leia from the fearsome Darth Vader.

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8. jaws

• Thriller, adventure, horror.
• USA, 1975.
• Duration: 124 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,0.

Brave sailor in the company of at least brave expedition goes in search of a bloodthirsty killer shark that attacks people.

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7. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

• Action, Adventure.
• United States, 1981.
• Duration: 115 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,5.

Exciting adventures archaeologist Indiana Jones, which is a secret mission goes in search of the sacred relics.

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6. Good guys

• Drama, Crime.
• United States, 1990.
• Duration: 140 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,7.

Henry Hill from early childhood dreams of becoming a real gangster. When his wish is carried out, it is understood that the criminal life devoid of every kind of romance.

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5. Pulp Fiction

• Thriller, Comedy, Crime.
• USA, 1994.
• Duration: 154 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,9.

The lives of two assassins, a boxer, a gangster's wife and a couple of bandits intertwine in a tangle that the viewer and to untangle.

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4. The Shawshank Redemption

• Drama, Crime.
• USA, 1994.
• Duration: 142 minutes.
• IMDb: 9,3.

Young financier Andy Dyufreyna suspected of murder he did not commit. Despite this he is sentenced to life in prison, from which no one has yet managed to escape.

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3. The Dark Knight

• Fantasy, action, thriller, crime.
• US, UK, 2008.
• Duration: 152 minutes.
• IMDb: 9,0.

The city once again needed a hero, and they traditionally becomes Batman, whose mission - to eliminate criminal named Joker.

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2. Star Wars. Episode V: Empire Strikes Back

• Fiction, fantasy, action, adventure.
• USA, 1980.
• Duration: 124 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,8.

Despite the fact that in the last part of the saga "Death Star" managed to destroy the galaxy for the battle and did not think to subside. Yoda begins to train the young Jedi Luke tricks that very soon it will be useful.

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1. Godfather

• Drama, Crime.
• United States, 1972.
• Duration: 175 min.
• IMDb: 9,2.

Criminal saga of the Sicilian mafia family Corleone, which has a great reputation in New York.

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Note that in this list of what is missing, or, on the contrary, think that some films there is not a place? Then we wait for your opinions and personal tops in the comments!