A summer day at a Red Army hero's dacha in 1936, until the car from the NKVD arrives.
Oskar stops growing at three and drums through the rise of the Nazis in Danzig.
British prisoners build a bridge for the Japanese, and a colonel forgets whose side he is on.
A boy survives a reprisal in occupied Haarlem and spends forty years understanding that night.
Eleven Oscars, a nine-minute chariot race and a galley slave who becomes a prince.
Bergman's medieval revenge ballad; Wes Craven remade it as a horror film.
Two British runners at the 1924 Olympics, and the beach to Vangelis.
A Bronx butcher and a shy teacher meet at a dance; the shortest Best Picture ever.
DeMille's Technicolor circus epic, with a train wreck and a clown who never removes his makeup.
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.
Ben Kingsley as the Mahatma across three hours and 300,000 extras at the funeral.
Five generations of women on a Dutch farm, told as a fable.
A Jewish widow and her Black chauffeur over 25 years in Atlanta.
A Kurdish family tries to cross the Alps into Switzerland on foot, in winter.
A Nobel-winning poet returns to Gijon and the woman he left forty years before.
The seven-hour Soviet Tolstoy, with the Red Army as extras at Borodino.
Thomas More refuses to bless Henry VIII's divorce and pays with his head.
Three provincial girls in 1958 Moscow, and the same three twenty years on.
A racing driver and a script girl meet at their children's school in Deauville.
A shell-shocked veteran and a lonely girl at a boarding school, and a town that misreads them.
A young railway apprentice worries about sex and, by accident, the Resistance.
A police chief murders his mistress and leaves clues to prove he cannot be touched.
An actor sells his conscience to the Nazis for the stage; Klaus Maria Brandauer's great performance.
A Slovak carpenter is made "Aryan controller" of an old Jewish widow's button shop.
Two chess grandmasters, one Soviet and one defector, in a Geneva title match.
A Black Philadelphia detective and a Mississippi sheriff solve a murder they cannot stand to share.
A Union lieutenant alone on the frontier is taken in by the Lakota.
A London couturier meets a waitress who will not be arranged.
A lonely writer falls in love with an operating system, in a very warm Los Angeles.
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