Fellini's waif and strongman on the road; Giulietta Masina's face does the rest.
Jack, Rose, the door, and eleven Oscars; the film that was everything in 1997.
Salieri's jealous confession of Mozart, from Peter Shaffer's play.
A pianist and his bouncer-driver tour the 1962 Deep South with the Negro Motorist Green Book.
Eastwood's retired killer takes one last job; the western that buried the myth.
Thirty years of a mother and daughter, from comedy to a hospital corridor.
Four people on a Baltic island and a woman's descent into schizophrenia.
John Nash, game theory and the schizophrenia that came with the Nobel.
McMurphy against Nurse Ratched in the ward; the second film to sweep the big five.
Three steelworkers from Pennsylvania go to Vietnam; the Russian roulette scenes.
A Minnesota physics professor's life unravels while three rabbis explain nothing.
Shot with the same cast over twelve years, so the boy actually grows up on screen.
A linguist learns an alien language and it rearranges her sense of time.
A Tehran couple divorce, and every decision afterwards is morally impossible.
A maid of honour falls apart, at length, in the best comedy of its decade.
A Sacramento senior year, and a mother-daughter argument that never quite ends.
The Boston Globe team that broke the Catholic Church abuse story, told as process.
Scarlett O'Hara, the burning of Atlanta and the biggest box office in inflation-adjusted history.
Solomon Northup, a free man in New York, is kidnapped and sold into Louisiana.
An aspiring comedian kidnaps his idol to get a spot on the show.
Jake LaMotta destroys everyone around him, in black and white.
One month of political horse-trading to pass the Thirteenth Amendment.
An Elmore Leonard adaptation and the warmest film Tarantino has made.
Two Victorian magicians destroy each other over a single trick.
The last act, staged at the opera in Palermo.
De Niro's insomniac cabbie and the most quoted mirror scene in cinema.
The sequel that runs Michael's fall against his father's rise.
A couple erase each other from memory and he changes his mind halfway through.
A fading TV cowboy and his stunt double drift through 1969 Los Angeles.
Rashomon. four witnesses, four irreconcilable accounts of the same killing.
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