Rod Serling's anthology of twists, 1959 to 1964; "Time Enough at Last".
Lucille Ball and the chocolate factory; the sitcom that invented the three-camera format.
Peter Falk's rumpled detective, "just one more thing", with the murderer shown first.
A Korean War field hospital for eleven seasons; the finale is still the most watched episode ever.
Two English children lost in the outback are saved by an Aboriginal boy on his walkabout; Roeg.
A Senegalese woman as a maid on the Riviera; the first feature by a sub-Saharan director.
A girl in a Castilian village after the Civil War believes Frankenstein's monster is real.
Dinner guests who cannot leave the room, for weeks; Bunuel in Mexico.
Bardot, a screenwriter and Fritz Lang in Capri; Godard's CinemaScope about a marriage ending.
A cowherd and a student dream of Paris on a motorbike with horns; Senegal's New Wave.
A novice nun's charity turns into a beggars' Last Supper; banned in Spain, Palme d'Or in Cannes.
A bourgeois writer stays in Havana after the revolution and watches through a telescope.
Catherine Deneuve as a doctor's wife working afternoons in a brothel; Bunuel's dream logic.
A Resistance prisoner plans his escape from Montluc in real detail; Bresson's truest film.
Tati at a Brittany seaside hotel, a tennis serve and a squeaking door.
The life of a donkey passed between owners; Bresson's saint.
A young man with magic flees his sorcerer father across 13th-century Mali; the Bambara epic.
A Yorkshire boy trains a kestrel; Loach's 1969 masterpiece and the football lesson.
Bruce Lee at a martial-arts tournament on an island fortress; the mirror room.
Stories inside stories in the Sierra Morena; the Polish cult film Scorsese and Coppola restored.
Two thieves hired to catch a bandit; the biggest Bollywood film ever, still quoted daily.
A woman waits for a soldier who will not return; the Soviet film that won the Palme d'Or.
A lonely wife in 1879 Calcutta and her husband's cousin; Satyajit Ray's own favourite.
A southern family moves to Milan and the brothers destroy each other; Visconti's epic.
A small-town firemen's ball where everything goes wrong; Forman's satire banned "forever" in 1968.
A village woman raises her sons through famine and debt; the Indian epic of 1957.
A 12-year-old scout on the Eastern Front; Tarkovsky's first film and the dream sequences.
A factory girl in a town of women falls for a pianist from Prague; Forman's Czech New Wave comedy.
A couple and a hitchhiker on a sailboat for a weekend; Polanski's only Polish feature.
A pensioner and his dog on the edge of eviction in Rome; De Sica's bleakest neorealism.
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