Andrei Tarkovsky's 10 Favorite Films

A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.

A small-town priest struggles with his faith.

A priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but many others do not return the favor.

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.

A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.