Ben Kingsley as the Mahatma across three hours and 300,000 extras at the funeral.
Two British runners at the 1924 Olympics, and the beach to Vangelis.
Robert Redford's directing debut: a suburban family after a drowning.
A custody battle in which both parents are right, and the French toast scene.
Woody Allen and Diane Keaton fall in and out of love in a film that talks to the camera.
A Philadelphia club fighter gets one shot at the champ; the steps, the run, the raw eggs.
Popeye Doyle chases a heroin ring under the El; the car-versus-train chase.
George C. Scott in front of the flag, in the biography he refused the Oscar for.
A Texas hustler and a tubercular con man in a New York winter; the only X-rated winner.
Dickens as a musical: workhouse, pickpockets and "Consider Yourself".
A Black Philadelphia detective and a Mississippi sheriff solve a murder they cannot stand to share.
Thomas More refuses to bless Henry VIII's divorce and pays with his head.
Audrey Hepburn's flower girl and Rex Harrison's phonetician; the rain in Spain.
A bawdy Georgian romp with the most famous eating scene in cinema.
Peter O'Toole crosses the Nefud in 70mm; the desert epic every other desert epic quotes.
Romeo and Juliet as rival gangs on the Upper West Side, danced by Jerome Robbins.
An insurance clerk lends his flat to his bosses for their affairs; Wilder at his most bitter and warm.
Eleven Oscars, a nine-minute chariot race and a galley slave who becomes a prince.
Belle Epoque Paris and a courtesan-in-training, in Lerner and Loewe songs.
British prisoners build a bridge for the Japanese, and a colonel forgets whose side he is on.
A Bronx butcher and a shy teacher meet at a dance; the shortest Best Picture ever.
Brando as the longshoreman who "coulda been a contender".
Soldiers in Hawaii in the weeks before Pearl Harbor, and the kiss in the surf.
DeMille's Technicolor circus epic, with a train wreck and a clown who never removes his makeup.
Gene Kelly dances a seventeen-minute Gershwin ballet through painted Paris.
Bette Davis's ageing star and the fan who takes everything; "fasten your seatbelts".
A populist governor's rise and rot, drawn from Huey Long.
Laurence Olivier's black-and-white Elsinore, the only Shakespeare film to win Best Picture.
A journalist poses as Jewish to write about antisemitism in postwar America.
Three veterans come home to the same small town and cannot fit back in.
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