Drama Bucket List

A writer is tried for her husband's death, with only their blind son as witness.

A journalist poses as Jewish to write about antisemitism in postwar America.

A 15-year-old is sent on tour by Rolling Stone and grows up on the bus.

A rage-prone salesman, a pudding coupon scheme and a harmonium left in the street.

Garbo, Crawford and the Barrymores cross paths in a Berlin hotel; "I want to be alone."

A family of former child geniuses reassembles in a New York brownstone.

Bette Davis's ageing star and the fan who takes everything; "fasten your seatbelts".

Two teenagers and an older woman drive to a beach that may not exist.

Bing Crosby as a young priest who sings his way through a struggling parish.

An English family through Dunkirk and the Blitz, made to bring America into the war.

Two boys grow up in a Rio favela; one takes a camera, the other a gun.

A Welsh mining family remembered; the film that beat Citizen Kane.

Laurence Olivier's black-and-white Elsinore, the only Shakespeare film to win Best Picture.

A drifting veteran attaches himself to the founder of a new movement.

Thirty years of a London family, from the Boer War to the Jazz Age, from Noel Coward's play.

A 15-year-old on an Essex estate dances alone until her mother brings a man home.

Two Wyoming sheepherders and twenty years of a love neither can name.

Three generations of a Taipei family, told over one year and three hours.

Rick, Ilsa, the letters of transit and the most quoted script ever written.

An illiterate teenager enters a French prison and leaves running the place.

Three veterans come home to the same small town and cannot fit back in.

Four days of an alcoholic writer, the first Hollywood film to take addiction seriously.

A summer in northern Italy, a visiting graduate student, and a father's speech.

A week in the life of a folk singer in 1961 Greenwich Village, going nowhere with a cat.

The novelist takes on the Dreyfus affair; the first biopic to win.

A painter is hired to paint a bride in secret on a Breton island in 1770.

A populist governor's rise and rot, drawn from Huey Long.

Charlie Kaufman writes himself, and his invented twin, into a film about orchids.

Macbeth relocated to feudal Japan, ending in a storm of arrows.

Two Jesuit priests search for their mentor in seventeenth-century Japan.