Cary Grant chased by a crop duster and up Mount Rushmore in the template for the spy thriller.
A brainwashed war hero, a Queen of Diamonds and a political assassination; paranoia in 1962.
A man, a woman and a baroque hotel where nothing can be pinned down; the most argued-over puzzle film.
Wheat fields at magic hour, locusts and fire; the most beautifully photographed film of its decade.
Sissy Spacek at the prom, the bucket of pig blood, and the hand from the grave.
Birds attack Bodega Bay for no reason; the school playground scene.
Mel Brooks in black and white with Gene Wilder; "Puttin' on the Ritz".
Michael Myers, Haddonfield and a piano theme in 5/4; Carpenter made it for $300,000.
James Dean in a red jacket, the knife fight at the observatory and the chickie run.
John Wayne, Dean Martin and a jail to hold; Hawks made it as an answer to High Noon.
A French actress and a Japanese architect, memory and the bomb; Resnais and Duras.
A policeman investigates a missing girl on a pagan Scottish island; the ending is the title.
John Wayne's five-year hunt for his kidnapped niece through Monument Valley, and the doorway shot.
Lean's Russian Revolution romance, the ice palace and "Lara's Theme".
Three men and a Civil War gold hunt; the graveyard standoff to Morricone.
A newsreader who is "mad as hell" becomes a ratings hit; Chayefsky predicted television.
A death-obsessed teenager and a 79-year-old woman fall in love, to Cat Stevens.
Truffaut's own childhood as Antoine Doinel, ending with the freeze frame on the beach.
Burt Lancaster as a Sicilian prince watching his world end, and Visconti's hour-long ball.
Alain Delon as a hitman in a trench coat and fedora; Melville's cool influenced every hitman film since.
Hitchcock's obsession film in San Francisco, the dolly zoom and the green light.
Two bikers ride to New Orleans with Jack Nicholson in tow; the counterculture on film.
The three-minute opening crane shot across the Mexican border and Welles as a corrupt cop.
A Swinging London photographer enlarges a picture and may have found a murder.
Benjamin, Mrs Robinson and the bus at the end, to Simon and Garfunkel.
Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch defending a Black man in Depression-era Alabama.
Two friends and Jeanne Moreau over twenty years; the New Wave at its most exhilarating.
A press agent and a gossip columnist in the meanest New York ever filmed.
Clint Eastwood's .44 Magnum and 'do you feel lucky' in San Francisco.
Newman and Redford, the cliff jump and the Bolivian freeze frame.
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