The original, a black-and-white elegy for Hiroshima in the shape of a monster.
Mel Gibson on an outback highway in the film that cost $350,000 and started a franchise.
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.
Three steelworkers from Pennsylvania go to Vietnam; the Russian roulette scenes.
A director with nothing to say makes a film about that; Fellini's masterpiece.
Newman and Redford run the long con on a Chicago mob boss, to Scott Joplin rags.
Fellini's waif and strongman on the road; Giulietta Masina's face does the rest.
Four people on a Baltic island and a woman's descent into schizophrenia.
McMurphy against Nurse Ratched in the ward; the second film to sweep the big five.
A governess, seven children and the Salzburg hills; still the musical everyone can sing.
The first computer-animated feature: a cowboy doll and a space ranger fight over a boy.
Los Angeles, 2019: a detective hunts four replicants who want more life.
Scarlett O'Hara, the burning of Atlanta and the biggest box office in inflation-adjusted history.
Seven crew, one ship, one creature; the haunted house in space that started it all.
The sequel that runs Michael's fall against his father's rise.
Rashomon. four witnesses, four irreconcilable accounts of the same killing.
Jake LaMotta destroys everyone around him, in black and white.
De Niro's insomniac cabbie and the most quoted mirror scene in cinema.
A robot boy built by a grieving scientist; Tezuka, the god of manga, from 1952.
Sun Tzu's thirteen chapters on winning without fighting, quoted in every boardroom.
Clarke's novel written alongside Kubrick's film, and it explains the ending.
The boy who would not grow up, Neverland and Captain Hook.
Ten years of Odysseus getting home: the Cyclops, the Sirens, and the bow only he can string.
Paul Atreides on Arrakis: spice, sandworms and the most imitated world in science fiction.
Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver and the map with an X; every pirate cliche starts here.
The first collectible card game, and still the deepest.
Square's first MMO, from 2002, where a party needed a healer before it could leave town; the servers are still up.
Ryo in Hong Kong and Kowloon, still asking strangers about sailors, and an ending left hanging for eighteen years.
Diddy and Dixie through Kaptain K. Rool's pirate world; the hardest and best of the Rare trilogy.
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