Schoolgirls vanish on a Victorian rock in 1900 and nobody explains it.
A Swinging London photographer enlarges a picture and may have found a murder.
John Wayne, Dean Martin and a jail to hold; Hawks made it as an answer to High Noon.
Newman and Redford, the cliff jump and the Bolivian freeze frame.
The three-minute opening crane shot across the Mexican border and Welles as a corrupt cop.
Two bikers ride to New Orleans with Jack Nicholson in tow; the counterculture on film.
Paul Newman eats fifty eggs on a chain gang; "what we've got here is failure to communicate".
Wheat fields at magic hour, locusts and fire; the most beautifully photographed film of its decade.
Truffaut's own childhood as Antoine Doinel, ending with the freeze frame on the beach.
Three men and a Civil War gold hunt; the graveyard standoff to Morricone.
A man, a woman and a baroque hotel where nothing can be pinned down; the most argued-over puzzle film.
A ronin asks to commit seppuku in a lord's courtyard and tells a story first; Kobayashi's samurai masterpiece.
Two friends and Jeanne Moreau over twenty years; the New Wave at its most exhilarating.
Sissy Spacek at the prom, the bucket of pig blood, and the hand from the grave.
Grieving parents in a winter Venice and a small figure in a red coat.
A death-obsessed teenager and a 79-year-old woman fall in love, to Cat Stevens.
One juror against eleven in a hot room; Lumet made a whole film out of a single table.
John Wayne's five-year hunt for his kidnapped niece through Monument Valley, and the doorway shot.
The icon painter through medieval Russia, the Tatar raid and a boy casting a bell.
A policeman investigates a missing girl on a pagan Scottish island; the ending is the title.
Burt Lancaster as a Sicilian prince watching his world end, and Visconti's hour-long ball.
Two musicians in drag flee the mob with Marilyn Monroe; "nobody's perfect".
Audrey Hepburn as a princess on the run and Gregory Peck on a Vespa through Rome.
Peter Lorre as a child murderer hunted by the police and the underworld; Lang's first sound film.
Kansas in sepia, Oz in Technicolor, and the ruby slippers.
Vertov's day in a Soviet city, made of split screens, freeze frames and no story at all.
Ingrid Bergman spies on Nazis in Rio for Cary Grant; the key, the wine cellar and the longest kiss.
Four men drive nitroglycerine over mountain roads; the most tense two hours of the 1950s.
A father and son search Rome for a stolen bicycle he needs to keep his job.
Rossellini shot on the streets months after the Germans left; neorealism begins here.
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