A London bookshop owner and the most famous actress in the world; the blue door is still there.
The romantic comedy that made Roberts a star, and Rodeo Drive a location.
A legal clerk with no training takes on a utility poisoning a California town, and wins.
Stone's three-hour portrait of a president recording himself into the ground.
A butler who cannot say what he feels, in a house whose master is entertaining the Nazis.
A pilot lands a broken plane upside down and saves ninety-six people while drunk.
August Wilson's play, filmed: a Pittsburgh binman who could have played in the majors, and the family he fences in.
A burnt-out bodyguard in Mexico City tears the city apart looking for the girl he was hired to protect.
The 54th Massachusetts, the first Black regiment of the Civil War, marching to Fort Wagner.
One shift with a Los Angeles narcotics detective who is the worst thing on his own beat.
Spike Lee's three-hour life of the man from prison to Mecca to the Audubon Ballroom.
Margaret Thatcher in old age, remembering the rise; Streep won her third Oscar for it.
A nun is certain about a priest and has no proof; the film refuses to settle it either.
A Polish survivor in post-war Brooklyn, and the decision on the ramp at Auschwitz she cannot say out loud.
A tobacco scientist blows the whistle on his industry and 60 Minutes decides whether to air it.
The true story of the New York cop who would not take the money, and testified about the ones who did.
A Puerto Rican ex-con tries to go straight in 1975 New York, with Sean Penn as the lawyer dragging him back.
A blind, furious retired colonel takes a schoolboy to New York for one last weekend; the tango, and the Oscar.
A backpacker finds a secret Thai island commune, and then finds out what it costs to keep it secret.
A nineteen-year-old DiCaprio opposite Johnny Depp in a small Iowa town nobody leaves.
Howard Hughes builds aeroplanes and studios while the germs close in; Scorsese's biggest canvas.
A smuggler, a fisherman and a journalist chase a pink diamond through the Sierra Leone civil war.
The Washington Post decides whether to print the Pentagon Papers, with Streep as the publisher who says yes.
A man from a country that stops existing mid-flight, living in a JFK departure lounge for nine months.
A Brooklyn insurance lawyer negotiates a Cold War prisoner swap on a bridge in Berlin.
Houston, we have a problem: the 1970 rescue told with slide rules, duct tape and no music cue to spare.
A mob enforcer and his son on the run through Depression-era Illinois, shot by Conrad Hall in his last film.
Death row in 1935 Louisiana and the gentle giant who can heal with his hands; three hours that earn their length.
A lawyer fired for having AIDS sues his firm, in the first big-studio film to say the word out loud.
Four years alone on a Pacific island with a volleyball, and the FedEx parcel he never opens.
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