The Bucket List

Salieri's jealous confession of Mozart, from Peter Shaffer's play.

Thirty years of a mother and daughter, from comedy to a hospital corridor.

Three steelworkers from Pennsylvania go to Vietnam; the Russian roulette scenes.

McMurphy against Nurse Ratched in the ward; the second film to sweep the big five.

Newman and Redford run the long con on a Chicago mob boss, to Scott Joplin rags.

Scarlett O'Hara, the burning of Atlanta and the biggest box office in inflation-adjusted history.

Villeneuve's sequel: a replicant cop finds a buried secret and a very old Deckard.

Los Angeles, 2019: a detective hunts four replicants who want more life.

Woody is stolen by a collector and learns he was once a TV star.

Ripley cloned two hundred years on, in a Joss Whedon script shot by Jeunet.

Fincher's grim debut: Ripley crash-lands on a prison planet with one alien and no weapons.

Cameron turns Scott's horror into a war film: Ripley, the marines and the queen.

An 80-year-old Harrison Ford, a Nazi rocket scientist and the Antikythera mechanism.

Indy in 1957, with Soviets, a nuked fridge and Marion back.

The dark prequel: Shanghai, a mine-cart chase and a heart pulled from a chest.

How Han met Chewie and won the Falcon from Lando; the Kessel Run, finally shown.

The Skywalker saga closes with Palpatine back and Rey choosing a name.

Luke in exile on Ahch-To, and the throne-room fight the sequel trilogy is remembered for.

Smaug falls on Lake-town and five armies meet at the gates of Erebor.

Barrel-riding down the Forest River and the dragon under the Lonely Mountain.

Danny Ocean assembles eleven men to rob three Las Vegas casinos in one night.

A bomb-disposal team in Iraq, and the man who needs the job more than he admits.

The Boston Globe team that broke the Catholic Church abuse story, told as process.

Solomon Northup, a free man in New York, is kidnapped and sold into Louisiana.

A Montmartre waitress rearranges the lives of strangers, in green and red.

A Sacramento senior year, and a mother-daughter argument that never quite ends.

A Minnesota physics professor's life unravels while three rabbis explain nothing.

A Tehran couple divorce, and every decision afterwards is morally impossible.

A maid of honour falls apart, at length, in the best comedy of its decade.

A linguist learns an alien language and it rearranges her sense of time.