«Os 10 melhores filmes de sempre» são o resultado de uma escolha feita por 358 realizadores de referência, dos quais fazem parte Woody Allen, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Quentin Tarantino, Terence Davies, Guillermo del Toro, Martin Scorsese, Olivier Assayas, Michael Mann, Guy Maddin, Francis Ford Coppola, Mike Leigh e Aki Kaurismäki, entre muitos outros. 

Alguns títulos são já esperados, outros nem por isso, mas todas as escolhas prometem corresponder às expectativas de grande qualidade e diversidade no que concerne ao crème de la crème do cinema. A saber:

1. Tokyo Story

Ozu Yasujirô, 1953

(48 votes)

2. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick, 1968

(42 votes)

Welles’s feat of imagination in Citizen Kane remains dazzling and inspiring. Cinema aspiring to great art, political import – and delivered with unabashed showmanship. The fervour of the work is as excited and electric as ever. The thriller plot never disappoints.—Kenneth Branagh

8½ is a film I saw three times in a row in the cinema. This is chaos at its most elegant and intoxicating. You can’t take your eyes off the screen, even if you don’t know where it’s heading. A testament to the power of cinema: you don’t quite understand it but you give yourself up to let it take you wherever. —Pen-Ek Ratanaruang 

A true classic has to be both intimate and universal. To speak about cinema through cinema requires a voice unwavering in its passion and purity. 8½ speaks as much about life as it does about art – and it makes certain to connect both. A portrait of the teller and his craft – a lustful, sweaty, gluttonous poem to cinema. —Guillermo del Toro

A film so vivid, hypnotic and corrosive that it feels forever seared onto your eyeballs, Taxi Driver turns a city, a time and a state of mind into a waking nightmare that’s somehow both horribly real and utterly dreamlike. —Edgar Wright

Coppola evoked the high-voltage, dark identity quest, journeying into overload; the wildness and nihilism – all captured in operatic and concrete narrative, with the highest degree of difficulty. A masterpiece. —Michael Mann

A classic, but I never tire of it. The screenplay is just so watertight, and Michael’s journey is one of the best protagonist arcs ever created. —Justin Kurzel

7. Vertigo

[These are the scenes or aspects I usually think about in the movies I have thought about most often…] In Vertigo, after he’s worked so hard to remake her and finally she emerges: hair dyed platinum, grey suit, misty lens. It’s her!—Miranda July

I must have been around 13 when I first watched Mirror. This time I realised that there are films that are not even meant to be ‘understood’. It’s the poetry of cinema in its purest form, on a very delicate verge of being pretentious – which makes its genius even more striking.—Alexei Popogrebsky

My absolute favourite, the most humanistic and political film in history. —Roy Andersson