Shot with the same cast over twelve years, so the boy actually grows up on screen.
A concierge, a lobby boy and a stolen painting in a made-up Mitteleuropa.
Wire-work swordplay across the bamboo forests of Qing dynasty China.
Eighteen years without a birth, and one famously unbroken shot through a war zone.
A couple erase each other from memory and he changes his mind halfway through.
A hunter takes a case of drug money and a man with a cattle gun follows.
Three chapters in the life of a boy growing up black and gay in Miami.
Bilbo leaves Bag End with thirteen dwarves and a wizard.
Eleven Oscars, Pelennor Fields and a very long goodbye.
Helm's Deep, Gollum, and the best battle sequence of its decade.
Nine walkers set out from Rivendell; New Zealand becomes Middle-earth.
How the Death Star plans were stolen; the saga's best war film.
A scavenger, a defecting stormtrooper and the Falcon back in the air.
Anakin becomes Vader on the lava banks of Mustafar.
The Republic gets an army and Anakin gets a wife.
Podracing, midi-chlorians and the start of the prequel trilogy.
Endor, Jabba's barge and the redemption of Darth Vader.
The best of the saga: Hoth, Dagobah, and the line everyone misquotes.
The last act, staged at the opera in Palermo.
The sequel that runs Michael's fall against his father's rise.
A man born old ages backwards through the twentieth century.
Facebook's founding as a deposition, scored by Trent Reznor.
The unsolved San Francisco case, told through the people it consumed.
One month of political horse-trading to pass the Thirteenth Amendment.
Pre-crime police in 2054 Washington, and the cop they come for.
A teenage con man forges his way across 1960s America, an FBI agent behind him.
Fathers, sons and the Holy Grail, with Sean Connery stealing every scene.
The perfect adventure film, boulder and all.
Five Points, 1863, and the nativist butcher who runs it.
An aspiring comedian kidnaps his idol to get a spot on the show.
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