One shift with a Los Angeles narcotics detective who is the worst thing on his own beat.
Charlize Theron unrecognisable as Aileen Wuornos, in the performance that won her the Oscar.
Two con artists press-ganged into an FBI sting, in the loudest costume design of the decade.
A mob enforcer and his son on the run through Depression-era Illinois, shot by Conrad Hall in his last film.
A Philadelphia detective hides among the Amish with a boy who saw a murder.
A private eye and a hired thug bumble through 1977 Los Angeles; the funniest thing either actor has done.
One night, one taxi and a grey-haired contract killer working through a list; Los Angeles shot on digital.
A London gangster goes home to Newcastle to find out how his brother died; British noir at its coldest.
A Puerto Rican ex-con tries to go straight in 1975 New York, with Sean Penn as the lawyer dragging him back.
Three Minis through Turin, a coach on a cliff edge, and the best last line in British cinema.
Four Chicago widows finish the robbery their husbands died on.
The true story of the New York cop who would not take the money, and testified about the ones who did.
A lawyer takes one drug deal and cannot take it back; the only screenplay Cormac McCarthy wrote for the screen.
An ex-con and a policewoman steal one of a furniture magnate's quintuplets; Nicolas Cage in a stocking mask.
Getty refuses to pay his grandson’s ransom; Plummer replaced Spacey in nine days of reshoots.
A saxophonist, a runaway and a petty thief rob their way to the sea; the second flop before Joint Security Area.
A barber blackmails his wife's lover to get into dry cleaning; Deakins in black and white.
A mother sets out to clear her son of a schoolgirl's murder and will not stop when she should.
Park's debut: a gangster's runner and his boss's girlfriend head for the coast. He disowned it for years.
A professor rents a room from a churchgoing Mississippi widow and tunnels to a casino vault.
An obsessive-compulsive con man meets the teenage daughter he did not know about.
A Queens detective is put on a Manhattan murder witness and falls for her.
Lecter in Florence ten years on, and a dinner scene that lost the film half its audience.
A Texas bar owner hires a private eye to kill his wife, and every man misreads what happened.
Two New York cops escort a yakuza home to Osaka and lose him on the tarmac.
Frank Lucas imports heroin in the coffins of dead servicemen; Washington against Crowe.
Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises.
A structural engineer has the prison's blueprints tattooed over his body and gets himself sent inside to break his brother out.
The Wachowskis' first feature: an ex-convict and a mobster's girlfriend plan to take two million dollars of laundered money out from under him.
Arthur Fleck on trial from Arkham with Lady Gaga as Lee Quinzel, told as a jukebox musical; the lowest CinemaScore ever given a comic-book film.
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