Pacino robs a Brooklyn bank to pay for his lover's surgery; "Attica!"
Beatty and Dunaway rob banks and die in slow motion; New Hollywood begins.
Sissy Spacek narrates a killing spree across the Dakota plains; Malick's debut.
Belmondo and Karina drive south in primary colours; Godard at his most alive.
Alain Delon as a hitman in a trench coat and fedora; Melville's cool influenced every hitman film since.
The three-minute opening crane shot across the Mexican border and Welles as a corrupt cop.
Jack Nicholson with a slit nose, the water wars of Los Angeles and "forget it, Jake".
Belmondo, Seberg and the jump cut; the New Wave arrives in one film.
An insurance salesman and a bored wife plan the perfect murder; Wilder and Chandler write the noir rulebook.
Peter Lorre as a child murderer hunted by the police and the underworld; Lang's first sound film.
Robert Mitchum cannot escape a woman or a past; the noir with the best cigarette lighting.
A Johannesburg gang leader steals a car with a baby in the back seat.
Bogart as Sam Spade and 'the stuff that dreams are made of'; the first film noir.
Bogart and Bacall in a Chandler plot so tangled even the author could not say who killed the chauffeur.
A retired Buenos Aires investigator writes a novel about a 25-year-old rape and murder.
Two murderesses and one lawyer in Jazz Age Chicago; "Cell Block Tango".
A Black Philadelphia detective and a Mississippi sheriff solve a murder they cannot stand to share.
Brando as the longshoreman who "coulda been a contender".
A police chief murders his mistress and leaves clues to prove he cannot be touched.
Popeye Doyle chases a heroin ring under the El; the car-versus-train chase.
Two boys grow up in a Rio favela; one takes a camera, the other a gun.
An illiterate teenager enters a French prison and leaves running the place.
A writer is tried for her husband's death, with only their blind son as witness.
A disgraced journalist and a hacker reopen a forty-year-old disappearance.
Little Italy, small-time hoods and the film that started De Niro and Scorsese.
A rookie detective loses his pistol in postwar Tokyo and hunts it through the heat.
A wife disappears and a media circus decides her husband did it.
The first Kurosawa-Mifune film: a slum doctor and a tubercular gangster.
A shoe executive must choose between his fortune and a kidnapped boy.
The Osage murders of the 1920s, told as a marriage.
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