A ballerina torn between art and love, with a 17-minute ballet in Technicolor.
Audrey Hepburn as a princess on the run and Gregory Peck on a Vespa through Rome.
Bergman's Christmas: a theatrical family in 1907 Uppsala, then a bishop's cold house.
A shell-shocked veteran and a lonely girl at a boarding school, and a town that misreads them.
Three provincial girls in 1958 Moscow, and the same three twenty years on.
A Black Philadelphia detective and a Mississippi sheriff solve a murder they cannot stand to share.
Simone Signoret as an ageing ex-prostitute raising the children of others in Belleville.
Peter O'Toole crosses the Nefud in 70mm; the desert epic every other desert epic quotes.
Costa-Gavras on the assassination of a Greek deputy and the cover-up; thriller as journalism.
A young railway apprentice worries about sex and, by accident, the Resistance.
A police chief murders his mistress and leaves clues to prove he cannot be touched.
Soldiers in Hawaii in the weeks before Pearl Harbor, and the kiss in the surf.
An actor sells his conscience to the Nazis for the stage; Klaus Maria Brandauer's great performance.
Truffaut plays a director shooting a bad film, and every crisis of a shoot.
Thomas More refuses to bless Henry VIII's divorce and pays with his head.
A husband recruits a stranger to cheer up his depressed wife, and a boy of thirteen does it instead.
Popeye Doyle chases a heroin ring under the El; the car-versus-train chase.
Belle Epoque Paris and a courtesan-in-training, in Lerner and Loewe songs.
Romeo and Juliet as rival gangs on the Upper West Side, danced by Jerome Robbins.
A Slovak carpenter is made "Aryan controller" of an old Jewish widow's button shop.
Brando as the longshoreman who "coulda been a contender".
Woody Allen and Diane Keaton fall in and out of love in a film that talks to the camera.
Dickens as a musical: workhouse, pickpockets and "Consider Yourself".
Bergman's medieval revenge ballad; Wes Craven remade it as a horror film.
DeMille's Technicolor circus epic, with a train wreck and a clown who never removes his makeup.
Robert Redford's directing debut: a suburban family after a drowning.
Loren and Mastroianni in three stories, three cities, and the striptease.
A Roman prostitute keeps hoping; the ending smile is one of the great last shots.
A bawdy Georgian romp with the most famous eating scene in cinema.
George C. Scott in front of the flag, in the biography he refused the Oscar for.
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