A ruined Manhattan socialite moves in with her sister in San Francisco and keeps up the act.
Joy Mangano invents the Miracle Mop and fights everyone who tries to take it.
A Liverpool hairdresser and a drunk Open University tutor; both of them learn something.
A factory worker who has not slept in a year, played by an actor who lost thirty kilos to do it.
A magazine assistant survives a fashion editor who never raises her voice.
Spike Lee's three-hour life of the man from prison to Mecca to the Audubon Ballroom.
A mob enforcer and his son on the run through Depression-era Illinois, shot by Conrad Hall in his last film.
DiCaprio and Winslet again, eleven years after Titanic, in a Connecticut marriage coming apart.
A man from a country that stops existing mid-flight, living in a JFK departure lounge for nine months.
Two years, three sisters and a hypochondriac; the warmest film Woody Allen made.
A butler who cannot say what he feels, in a house whose master is entertaining the Nazis.
Howard Hughes builds aeroplanes and studios while the germs close in; Scorsese's biggest canvas.
Greta Gerwig's Alcott, cut between two timelines so the ending lands twice.
Neil Armstrong to the Moon, shot from inside the helmet and told through a father who cannot talk about his daughter.
A neurologist wakes catatonic patients with L-DOPA, and watches it stop working.
A German teenager and an older woman, and the trial twenty years later that explains her secret.
Charlize Theron unrecognisable as Aileen Wuornos, in the performance that won her the Oscar.
Two con artists press-ganged into an FBI sting, in the loudest costume design of the decade.
The 54th Massachusetts, the first Black regiment of the Civil War, marching to Fort Wagner.
Richard Williams coaching Venus and Serena on public courts in Compton, to a plan he wrote before they were born.
Four years alone on a Pacific island with a volleyball, and the FedEx parcel he never opens.
A backpacker finds a secret Thai island commune, and then finds out what it costs to keep it secret.
Two Connecticut families in 1973, a key party and the storm that ends it.
Margaret Thatcher in old age, remembering the rise; Streep won her third Oscar for it.
Two centuries of Lestat and Louis, in the adaptation Anne Rice initially hated and then took out an advert to praise.
A salesman and his son sleeping in a station toilet while he works an unpaid internship.
The true story of the New York cop who would not take the money, and testified about the ones who did.
A Polish survivor in post-war Brooklyn, and the decision on the ramp at Auschwitz she cannot say out loud.
A Brooklyn insurance lawyer negotiates a Cold War prisoner swap on a bridge in Berlin.
Black maids in 1963 Jackson, Mississippi tell a young writer what the job is actually like.
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