Two musicians on an island are overtaken by a civil war they had ignored.
Two sisters and a boy in a hotel in a country at war, speaking a language none of them knows.
A pastor who no longer believes takes a service for nine people.
A country weekend of couples rearranging themselves; the comedy that made Bergman famous.
A circus owner and his mistress humiliated in a small town; Bergman's breakthrough in style.
Two teenagers run away to the Stockholm archipelago for a summer that ends.
The feature cut of Dekalog 6, with a gentler ending: a boy watches a woman through a telescope, and she finds out.
The feature cut of Dekalog 5: a murder and an execution, shot through green filters; it helped end the Polish death penalty.
A widow, a dead lawyer and martial-law Poland; the first film written with Piesiewicz.
Three lives branch from whether a man catches a train; shelved by the censors for six years.
Margaret Keane painted the big-eyed children; her husband signed them.
Sondheim's musical as a blood-soaked Victorian London; Depp and Bonham Carter sing.
Depp's Wonka and a factory of Oompa-Loompas played by one actor.
A dying father's tall tales, and the son who checks them; Burton's warmest film.
Martians destroy Earth to Slim Whitman; Burton's all-star trading-card satire.
Johnny Depp as the worst director in Hollywood, in loving black and white; Martin Landau as Lugosi.
The Penguin, Catwoman and a Gotham of black ice; the darker Burton Batman.
Pee-wee Herman crosses America after his bicycle is stolen; Burton's first feature.
A hitman's routine, his mistakes and his internal monologue, to the Smiths.
Fincher's Lisbeth Salander, with a Reznor score and the coldest Sweden on film.
A man promises God everything to stop a nuclear war; Tarkovsky's last film, shot by Sven Nykvist.
A Russian poet in Italy carries a candle across an empty pool; exile as a state of mind.
Benigni wanders a countryside listening to wells; Fellini's last film.
Fellini films a crew filming Fellini at Cinecitta, with Mastroianni as Mandrake.
Two retired dancers reunite for a television special; Masina and Mastroianni.
An opera singer's ashes are carried to sea in 1914, on a ship of absurd mourners.
Donald Sutherland as a mechanical seducer in a Venice built entirely in the studio.
Petronius as a hallucination: Nero's Rome with no moral centre at all.
A wife's visions in Fellini's first colour film, made for Giulietta Masina.
Small-time swindlers dress as priests to rob peasants, and one of them tires of it.
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