Elderly parents visit their busy children in Tokyo; regularly voted the greatest film ever made.
George Bailey sees the world without him and Bedford Falls at Christmas became a ritual.
A cat survives a flood with a capybara, a lemur and a bird; no dialogue, made in Blender.
Stop-motion Pinocchio in Mussolini's Italy, about death rather than obedience.
A jazz teacher dies before his big gig and argues his way back from the Great Before.
A pet chameleon becomes sheriff of a desert town; Gore Verbinski's spaghetti western.
A widowed theatre director and his young driver, three hours in Hiroshima from a Murakami story.
Four teachers test the theory that life is better at 0.05% blood alcohol.
A year in the life of a domestic worker in 1970 Mexico City, in black-and-white 65mm.
A Tehran couple staging Death of a Salesman, and an assault in their new flat.
A novice nun in 1962 Poland learns she is Jewish and goes to find the graves.
A Roman socialite turns 65 and looks past the parties; Sorrentino's La Dolce Vita.
A director with nothing to say makes a film about that; Fellini's masterpiece.
Four people on a Baltic island and a woman's descent into schizophrenia.
Fellini's waif and strongman on the road; Giulietta Masina's face does the rest.
A Brooklyn sex worker marries a Russian oligarch's son and his family arrives.
A pianist and his bouncer-driver tour the 1962 Deep South with the Negro Motorist Green Book.
A mute cleaner falls for an amphibian man held in a Cold War lab.
A washed-up superhero actor stages a Broadway play, in one apparent take.
The CIA fakes a sci-fi movie to smuggle six diplomats out of Tehran in 1980.
George VI, a stammer and an Australian speech therapist with no credentials.
A Mumbai tea boy explains, question by question, how he knows every answer.
Two days of colliding lives in Los Angeles; the most argued-about Best Picture of its decade.
John Nash, game theory and the schizophrenia that came with the Nobel.
A suburban father unravels; a plastic bag in the wind.
A burned man in a Tuscan villa remembers a desert affair before the war.
William Wallace, blue face paint and the Battle of Stirling without the bridge.
Eastwood's retired killer takes one last job; the western that buried the myth.
Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter; the third big-five sweep.
Oliver Stone's own tour of Vietnam, a rookie between two sergeants.
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