A programmer tests whether Ava is conscious in a glass house in the mountains.
Jake Gyllenhaal films crime scenes for the morning news in LA; a sociopath's success story.
Scarlett Johansson as an alien picking up men in Glasgow, filmed with hidden cameras.
Brie Larson at a foster-care facility for teenagers; the small film that launched a cast.
Somali pirates board a container ship; Tom Hanks' last scene with the navy medic.
Matthew McConaughey as a Texan smuggling AIDS drugs in 1985; he and Jared Leto both won Oscars.
Bruce Dern drives to collect a sweepstakes prize that does not exist, in black and white.
A schoolgirl and a blue-haired art student in Lille; the Palme d'Or given to the actresses too.
Sandra Bullock alone in orbit after the debris hits; Cuaron's 13-minute opening shot.
Greta Gerwig runs through Manhattan to Bowie in black and white; a portrait of being 27.
Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and the Hulk together for the first time; the Battle of New York.
Gordon-Levitt hunts his older self, Bruce Willis; Rian Johnson's time-travel noir.
Six-year-old Hushpuppy in a Louisiana bayou as the ice caps melt.
Denis Lavant plays nine lives in one day from a white limousine; Carax's surreal tour of cinema.
A kindergarten teacher accused by a child; a Danish village turns on Mads Mikkelsen.
Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway singing live on set and the barricades of 1832.
A bipolar man and a widow train for a dance contest in Philadelphia; Jennifer Lawrence's Oscar.
Five students at a cabin and the office that runs the horror; Whedon and Goddard's meta-slasher.
A South London gang fights aliens on Bonfire Night; John Boyega's debut.
Two estranged brothers meet in the final of an MMA tournament; Nick Nolte as their father.
Gary Oldman as George Smiley hunts a mole in 1970s MI6; le Carre at his best on film.
A wedding and a planet on a collision course with Earth; von Trier on depression.
Brad Pitt rebuilds the Oakland A's with statistics; Sorkin makes maths tense.
Owen Wilson steps into 1920s Paris with Hemingway and the Fitzgeralds every midnight.
A Texas childhood in the 1950s and the creation of the universe; Malick's Palme d'Or.
Gosling's stunt driver in a scorpion jacket, synth-pop and a lift; Refn's neon LA.
Boarding-school children raised as organ donors; Ishiguro's quiet dystopia.
Two mothers, their teenagers and the sperm donor who turns up for dinner.
A marriage at its start and its end, cut together; Gosling and Williams.
Micky Ward and his crack-addict brother in Lowell; Christian Bale's Oscar.
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