A boy and a Bengal tiger in a lifeboat for 227 days; Ang Lee's 3D ocean.
A stop-motion man for whom everyone has the same voice, except one woman in a Cincinnati hotel.
Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in 1952 New York; Haynes' Patricia Highsmith romance.
Natalie Portman's ballerina cracks under Swan Lake; Aronofsky's backstage horror.
Six stories across five centuries with the same actors; the Wachowskis and Tykwer's huge gamble.
An old professor drives to receive an honour and revisits his life in dreams.
Pacino as Tony Montana in Miami; "say hello to my little friend".
A knight plays chess with Death during the plague; the image everyone knows of Bergman.
Three men enter the Zone where wishes come true; Tarkovsky's slow masterpiece.
A nurse and a mute actress on an island until their faces merge; Bergman's most radical film.
Tarkovsky's sentient ocean planet and a cosmonaut's dead wife returning; the Soviet 2001.
Elderly parents visit their busy children in Tokyo; regularly voted the greatest film ever made.
A year in the life of a domestic worker in 1970 Mexico City, in black-and-white 65mm.
A novice nun in 1962 Poland learns she is Jewish and goes to find the graves.
George Bailey sees the world without him and Bedford Falls at Christmas became a ritual.
A Roman socialite turns 65 and looks past the parties; Sorrentino's La Dolce Vita.
The German remake: the trenches of 1917 without a frame of glory.
A Tehran couple staging Death of a Salesman, and an assault in their new flat.
Four teachers test the theory that life is better at 0.05% blood alcohol.
A widowed theatre director and his young driver, three hours in Hiroshima from a Murakami story.
A Brooklyn sex worker marries a Russian oligarch's son and his family arrives.
A washed-up superhero actor stages a Broadway play, in one apparent take.
Two days of colliding lives in Los Angeles; the most argued-about Best Picture of its decade.
John Nash, game theory and the schizophrenia that came with the Nobel.
George VI, a stammer and an Australian speech therapist with no credentials.
Eastwood's retired killer takes one last job; the western that buried the myth.
Four people on a Baltic island and a woman's descent into schizophrenia.
William Wallace, blue face paint and the Battle of Stirling without the bridge.
Salieri's jealous confession of Mozart, from Peter Shaffer's play.
A director with nothing to say makes a film about that; Fellini's masterpiece.
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