Hugoโs barricades sung live on set, with Hathawayโs one-take I Dreamed a Dream.
Bob Dylan from the Village to Newport 1965, with Chalamet singing it himself.
A screenwriter goes to Las Vegas to drink himself to death and meets someone who lets him.
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, paints and writes with the only limb he controls.
James Braddock fights his way out of the Depression, one purse at a time.
A West African boy conscripted into a militia, and the commandant who becomes his father.
P. T. Barnum as a pop musical; the songs outlived the reviews.
Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin, from the London workhouse to the honorary Oscar.
The last day of Oscar Grant, before a BART platform in Oakland on New Yearโs morning.
A young forger sent to Italy to bring a rich man home decides to become him instead.
Virginia Woolf, a 1950s housewife and a New York editor, in one day each, across three eras.
The week after Dallas, seen entirely from inside Jacqueline Kennedy.
A lawyer fired for having AIDS sues his firm, in the first big-studio film to say the word out loud.
A neurologist wakes catatonic patients with L-DOPA, and watches it stop working.
Stone's three-hour portrait of a president recording himself into the ground.
A Philadelphia detective hides among the Amish with a boy who saw a murder.
Ten years of Muhammad Ali, from Liston to the Rumble in the Jungle.
A Polish survivor in post-war Brooklyn, and the decision on the ramp at Auschwitz she cannot say out loud.
Johnny Cash from Folsom Prison back to Sun Records, sung by the actors themselves.
A legal clerk with no training takes on a utility poisoning a California town, and wins.
A sports agent writes an honest memo, loses everything, and keeps one client.
August Wilson's play, filmed: a Pittsburgh binman who could have played in the majors, and the family he fences in.
A Liverpool hairdresser and a drunk Open University tutor; both of them learn something.
A Vietnam volunteer comes home paralysed and turns against the war that sent him.
A blind, furious retired colonel takes a schoolboy to New York for one last weekend; the tango, and the Oscar.
Two years, three sisters and a hypochondriac; the warmest film Woody Allen made.
DiCaprio and Winslet again, eleven years after Titanic, in a Connecticut marriage coming apart.
A backpacker finds a secret Thai island commune, and then finds out what it costs to keep it secret.
A nun is certain about a priest and has no proof; the film refuses to settle it either.
Two centuries of Lestat and Louis, in the adaptation Anne Rice initially hated and then took out an advert to praise.
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