Classic Bucket List

Pacino robs a Brooklyn bank to pay for his lover's surgery; "Attica!"

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch defending a Black man in Depression-era Alabama.

Beatty and Dunaway rob banks and die in slow motion; New Hollywood begins.

Bresson's thief in Paris, filmed as hands and gestures, and the ending in the prison.

A policeman investigates a missing girl on a pagan Scottish island; the ending is the title.

John Wayne, Dean Martin and a jail to hold; Hawks made it as an answer to High Noon.

Alain Delon as a hitman in a trench coat and fedora; Melville's cool influenced every hitman film since.

John Wayne's five-year hunt for his kidnapped niece through Monument Valley, and the doorway shot.

A death-obsessed teenager and a 79-year-old woman fall in love, to Cat Stevens.

Burt Lancaster as a Sicilian prince watching his world end, and Visconti's hour-long ball.

Kermit crosses America by bicycle to Hollywood; "Rainbow Connection".

Hitchcock's obsession film in San Francisco, the dolly zoom and the green light.

Every line sung, every wall painted; Catherine Deneuve at a petrol station in the snow.

Clint Eastwood's .44 Magnum and 'do you feel lucky' in San Francisco.

Mia Farrow, a Manhattan apartment building and very helpful neighbours.

A French actress and a Japanese architect, memory and the bomb; Resnais and Duras.

Rossellini shot on the streets months after the Germans left; neorealism begins here.

Nuns in a Himalayan palace, and Kathleen Byron in red lipstick; shot entirely in a Surrey studio.

Three hours of the Paris theatre world of the 1830s, made in secret under the Occupation.

A ballerina torn between art and love, with a 17-minute ballet in Technicolor.

A father and son search Rome for a stolen bicycle he needs to keep his job.

Welles at 25: deep focus, a fractured biography and the word 'Rosebud'.

Peter Lorre as a child murderer hunted by the police and the underworld; Lang's first sound film.

Four men drive nitroglycerine over mountain roads; the most tense two hours of the 1950s.

Buster Keaton chases a stolen locomotive through the Civil War, doing every stunt himself.

Gary Cooper waits for the noon train alone, in real time, with a town that will not help.

Chaplin caught in the gears of a factory, the last stand of the silent comedy.

A hunting weekend at a chateau, farce turning to death; Renoir on the France of 1939.

Three prospectors in Mexico and what gold does to them; "we don't need no stinking badges".

Robert Mitchum cannot escape a woman or a past; the noir with the best cigarette lighting.