Classic Bucket List

A year in Fellini's Rimini under Mussolini: peacocks in snow, the ocean liner at night.

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton fall in and out of love in a film that talks to the camera.

A Bronx butcher and a shy teacher meet at a dance; the shortest Best Picture ever.

A custody battle in which both parents are right, and the French toast scene.

Romeo and Juliet as rival gangs on the Upper West Side, danced by Jerome Robbins.

Bergman's Christmas: a theatrical family in 1907 Uppsala, then a bishop's cold house.

French and German colonists in 1915 Africa learn there is a war and stage their own.

Oskar stops growing at three and drums through the rise of the Nazis in Danzig.

Six friends keep trying to have dinner; Bunuel keeps stopping them.

Audrey Hepburn's flower girl and Rex Harrison's phonetician; the rain in Spain.

Robert Redford's directing debut: a suburban family after a drowning.

An insurance clerk lends his flat to his bosses for their affairs; Wilder at his most bitter and warm.

A shell-shocked veteran and a lonely girl at a boarding school, and a town that misreads them.

A Jewish aristocratic family in Ferrara plays tennis while the racial laws close in.

British prisoners build a bridge for the Japanese, and a colonel forgets whose side he is on.

Simone Signoret as an ageing ex-prostitute raising the children of others in Belleville.

Truffaut plays a director shooting a bad film, and every crisis of a shoot.

Rick, Ilsa, the letters of transit and the most quoted script ever written.

Clark Gable leads the mutiny against Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh.

Three veterans come home to the same small town and cannot fit back in.

The novelist takes on the Dreyfus affair; the first biopic to win.

A runaway heiress and a reporter on a bus; the romantic comedy blueprint, and the first clean sweep of the big five.

Garbo, Crawford and the Barrymores cross paths in a Berlin hotel; "I want to be alone."

A Welsh mining family remembered; the film that beat Citizen Kane.

The first talkie to win, a backstage musical about two sisters and one man.

A populist governor's rise and rot, drawn from Huey Long.

German schoolboys march to the trenches in the film that defined the anti-war picture.

Capra's screwball comedy about a family that refuses to be respectable.

Three hours of Broadway spectacle around the impresario who invented the revue.

Bette Davis's ageing star and the fan who takes everything; "fasten your seatbelts".