A Nobel-winning poet returns to Gijon and the woman he left forty years before.
An actor sells his conscience to the Nazis for the stage; Klaus Maria Brandauer's great performance.
Three provincial girls in 1958 Moscow, and the same three twenty years on.
Oskar stops growing at three and drums through the rise of the Nazis in Danzig.
A husband recruits a stranger to cheer up his depressed wife, and a boy of thirteen does it instead.
Simone Signoret as an ageing ex-prostitute raising the children of others in Belleville.
French and German colonists in 1915 Africa learn there is a war and stage their own.
A year in Fellini's Rimini under Mussolini: peacocks in snow, the ocean liner at night.
Truffaut plays a director shooting a bad film, and every crisis of a shoot.
Six friends keep trying to have dinner; Bunuel keeps stopping them.
A Jewish aristocratic family in Ferrara plays tennis while the racial laws close in.
A police chief murders his mistress and leaves clues to prove he cannot be touched.
Costa-Gavras on the assassination of a Greek deputy and the cover-up; thriller as journalism.
The seven-hour Soviet Tolstoy, with the Red Army as extras at Borodino.
A young railway apprentice worries about sex and, by accident, the Resistance.
A racing driver and a script girl meet at their children's school in Deauville.
A Slovak carpenter is made "Aryan controller" of an old Jewish widow's button shop.
Loren and Mastroianni in three stories, three cities, and the striptease.
A shell-shocked veteran and a lonely girl at a boarding school, and a town that misreads them.
Bergman's medieval revenge ballad; Wes Craven remade it as a horror film.
Orpheus and Eurydice during Carnival in Rio, with a bossa nova score that went round the world.
Tati's Monsieur Hulot against an ultra-modern house that hates people.
A Roman prostitute keeps hoping; the ending smile is one of the great last shots.
A silent, black-and-white French film about the end of silent film; and it won.
A trainer takes on a thirty-something waitress who wants to box, and the film turns.
Two murderesses and one lawyer in Jazz Age Chicago; "Cell Block Tango".
Will Shakespeare, writer's block, and a muse in disguise while Romeo and Juliet takes shape.
A Union lieutenant alone on the frontier is taken in by the Lakota.
A Jewish widow and her Black chauffeur over 25 years in Atlanta.
Karen Blixen's coffee farm and her affair with Denys Finch Hatton, in the Ngong Hills.
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