A mother loses her son and goes to Barcelona to find his father; Almodovar's women.
A Bosnian and a Serb trapped in a trench with a third man lying on a mine.
A womanising Prague cellist is stuck with a five-year-old Russian boy in 1989.
Jewish prisoners forced to forge pounds and dollars for the Reich in Sachsenhausen.
A Johannesburg gang leader steals a car with a baby in the back seat.
Nuns in a Himalayan palace, and Kathleen Byron in red lipstick; shot entirely in a Surrey studio.
Rossellini shot on the streets months after the Germans left; neorealism begins here.
An elderly Parisian couple, a stroke, and a husband who keeps his promise.
A hunting weekend at a chateau, farce turning to death; Renoir on the France of 1939.
Renoir's French officers in a German prison camp in 1916, where class matters more than nation.
A Rio mother holds her family together after the dictatorship takes her husband in 1971.
Javier Bardem as the quadriplegic who fought for thirty years for the right to die.
A Roman prostitute keeps hoping; the ending smile is one of the great last shots.
A Buenos Aires teacher begins to suspect her adopted daughter was taken from a "disappeared" mother.
Simone Signoret as an ageing ex-prostitute raising the children of others in Belleville.
Brando as the longshoreman who "coulda been a contender".
A year in Fellini's Rimini under Mussolini: peacocks in snow, the ocean liner at night.
A Philadelphia club fighter gets one shot at the champ; the steps, the run, the raw eggs.
A Jewish aristocratic family in Ferrara plays tennis while the racial laws close in.
Bergman's Christmas: a theatrical family in 1907 Uppsala, then a bishop's cold house.
Karen Blixen's coffee farm and her affair with Denys Finch Hatton, in the Ngong Hills.
Catherine Deneuve as a rubber-plantation owner in French Vietnam as it starts to end.
A Swedish father and son work a Danish farm at the end of the nineteenth century.
A French cook in a Danish Lutheran village spends her lottery win on one dinner.
A custody battle in which both parents are right, and the French toast scene.
Truffaut plays a director shooting a bad film, and every crisis of a shoot.
A trainer takes on a thirty-something waitress who wants to box, and the film turns.
A Texas hustler and a tubercular con man in a New York winter; the only X-rated winner.
Orpheus and Eurydice during Carnival in Rio, with a bossa nova score that went round the world.
Robert Redford's directing debut: a suburban family after a drowning.
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