Orpheus and Eurydice during Carnival in Rio, with a bossa nova score that went round the world.
Truffaut plays a director shooting a bad film, and every crisis of a shoot.
A Texas hustler and a tubercular con man in a New York winter; the only X-rated winner.
A year in Fellini's Rimini under Mussolini: peacocks in snow, the ocean liner at night.
A Bronx butcher and a shy teacher meet at a dance; the shortest Best Picture ever.
A Philadelphia club fighter gets one shot at the champ; the steps, the run, the raw eggs.
Simone Signoret as an ageing ex-prostitute raising the children of others in Belleville.
A governess, seven children and the Salzburg hills; still the musical everyone can sing.
Audrey Hepburn's flower girl and Rex Harrison's phonetician; the rain in Spain.
A Jewish aristocratic family in Ferrara plays tennis while the racial laws close in.
Eleven Oscars, a nine-minute chariot race and a galley slave who becomes a prince.
British prisoners build a bridge for the Japanese, and a colonel forgets whose side he is on.
Costa-Gavras on the assassination of a Greek deputy and the cover-up; thriller as journalism.
Soldiers in Hawaii in the weeks before Pearl Harbor, and the kiss in the surf.
Loren and Mastroianni in three stories, three cities, and the striptease.
A shell-shocked veteran and a lonely girl at a boarding school, and a town that misreads them.
Woody Allen and Diane Keaton fall in and out of love in a film that talks to the camera.
French and German colonists in 1915 Africa learn there is a war and stage their own.
A Roman prostitute keeps hoping; the ending smile is one of the great last shots.
Peter O'Toole crosses the Nefud in 70mm; the desert epic every other desert epic quotes.
Romeo and Juliet as rival gangs on the Upper West Side, danced by Jerome Robbins.
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.
DeMille's Technicolor circus epic, with a train wreck and a clown who never removes his makeup.
A husband recruits a stranger to cheer up his depressed wife, and a boy of thirteen does it instead.
German schoolboys march to the trenches in the film that defined the anti-war picture.
Bette Davis's ageing star and the fan who takes everything; "fasten your seatbelts".
Clark Gable leads the mutiny against Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh.
Scarlett O'Hara, the burning of Atlanta and the biggest box office in inflation-adjusted history.
The novelist takes on the Dreyfus affair; the first biopic to win.
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