Two musicians on an island are overtaken by a civil war they had ignored.
An opera singer's ashes are carried to sea in 1914, on a ship of absurd mourners.
A pastor who no longer believes takes a service for nine people.
A man promises God everything to stop a nuclear war; Tarkovsky's last film, shot by Sven Nykvist.
The feature cut of Dekalog 5: a murder and an execution, shot through green filters; it helped end the Polish death penalty.
A television newsreader confesses to murder on air, and her mother is the star in the audience.
Two teenagers run away to the Stockholm archipelago for a summer that ends.
A wife's visions in Fellini's first colour film, made for Giulietta Masina.
Three lives branch from whether a man catches a train; shelved by the censors for six years.
An uncle arrives after a father's death; Park's English-language debut, written by Wentworth Miller.
A romance novelist who can no longer write romance; the turn towards Almodovar's mature films.
Donald Sutherland as a mechanical seducer in a Venice built entirely in the studio.
A disgraced radio host and a homeless medievalist in New York; Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges.
Margaret Keane painted the big-eyed children; her husband signed them.
The feature cut of Dekalog 6, with a gentler ending: a boy watches a woman through a telescope, and she finds out.
Two retired dancers reunite for a television special; Masina and Mastroianni.
A man goes to his dead lover's farm and is kept there by the brother.
Two schoolgirls sell sex for a trip to Europe, and a father finds out.
A dying writer comes home to tell his family and cannot get a word in; the Grand Prix at Cannes.
A widow, a dead lawyer and martial-law Poland; the first film written with Piesiewicz.
The flood as an environmental epic with rock angels; Russell Crowe builds the ark.
Fellini films a crew filming Fellini at Cinecitta, with Mastroianni as Mandrake.
Small-time swindlers dress as priests to rob peasants, and one of them tires of it.
A circus owner and his mistress humiliated in a small town; Bergman's breakthrough in style.
A film director, his trans sister and an obsessive lover; Almodovar's breakthrough in Spain.
Petronius as a hallucination: Nero's Rome with no moral centre at all.
A detective in the Weimar Berlin of 1929; Germany's most expensive series.
Who killed Laura Palmer? Lynch and Frost's town of cherry pie and owls.
A Las Vegas comedy legend and the young writer who needs her; Jean Smart.
A Paris talent agency and its stars playing themselves; Dix pour cent.
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