A portal into an actor's head on the 71/2th floor; Kaufman and Jonze's debut.
Nine lives in the San Fernando Valley, an Aimee Mann singalong and a rain of frogs.
A boy who sees dead people and the twist that made Shyamalan; "I see dead people".
Max Fischer, the worst student at the best school, and Bill Murray as his rival in love.
A son accuses his father at a 60th birthday dinner; the first Dogme 95 film.
Twenty minutes to find 100,000 marks, run three times; Tykwer's techno Berlin.
A janitor at MIT who is a maths genius, and Robin Williams saying "it's not your fault".
The rise and fall of a porn star in the San Fernando Valley, 1977 to 1984.
Three cops, a diner massacre and Kim Basinger as a Veronica Lake lookalike; 1950s noir done right.
Emily Watson's Bess and a paralysed husband in a Calvinist Scottish village; von Trier's first great film.
Robin Williams and Nathan Lane run a drag club in South Beach and meet the in-laws.
A masked killer who has seen every horror film; Wes Craven reinvents the slasher.
Twenty-four hours in the Paris banlieue after a riot, in black and white; "so far, so good".
Five criminals in a line-up and Keyser Soze; the ending everybody replayed.
Pacino and De Niro at a diner table, and the downtown LA shootout the police study.
Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy talk through one night in Vienna; the first of three.
A bus that explodes under 50 mph; Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock through Los Angeles.
A day at a New Jersey convenience store in black and white for $27,000; "I'm not even supposed to be here today".
Two Hong Kong cops and two women, canned pineapple and "California Dreamin'"; Wong Kar-wai's pop masterpiece.
A hitman and a 12-year-old Natalie Portman in New York; Gary Oldman's "EVERYONE".
Two Peking opera stars across fifty years of Chinese history; the only Chinese Palme d'Or.
A model and a retired judge who taps his neighbours' phones in Geneva; Kieslowski's last film.
A Polish hairdresser humiliated in Paris rebuilds himself in Warsaw for revenge; equality as black comedy.
Juliette Binoche after the crash that killed her family; Kieslowski's trilogy begins with liberty.
Bill Murray lives the same day in Punxsutawney until he gets it right.
Keanu Reeves undercover with surfing bank robbers in president masks; Bigelow's action classic.
Two women, a Thunderbird and the Grand Canyon; Ridley Scott's road movie that ends in the air.
Liquid metal, a good Terminator and the biggest budget yet spent; the sequel that beat the original.
The Coens' Prohibition gangster film, the hat in the woods and Gabriel Byrne's double game.
Schwarzenegger on Mars, a three-breasted woman and an eyeball-popping ending; Verhoeven and Philip K. Dick.
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