Drama Bucket List

The Washington Post decides whether to print the Pentagon Papers, with Streep as the publisher who says yes.

An Irish girl emigrates to 1950s New York and has to choose which country she is from.

A Puerto Rican ex-con tries to go straight in 1975 New York, with Sean Penn as the lawyer dragging him back.

A Brooklyn insurance lawyer negotiates a Cold War prisoner swap on a bridge in Berlin.

A gallery owner reads her ex-husband’s novel, and the novel plays out beside her life.

An armed forces radio DJ in 1965 Saigon, improvising his way past the censors.

Houston, we have a problem: the 1970 rescue told with slide rules, duct tape and no music cue to spare.

Two Napoleonic officers keep meeting to fight over an insult neither can remember; Scott's first feature.

Demi Moore shaves her head to get through SEAL selection as a senator’s test case.

One accusation told three ways, ending in the last judicial duel France allowed.

Frank Lucas imports heroin in the coffins of dead servicemen; Washington against Crowe.

A lawyer takes one drug deal and cannot take it back; the only screenplay Cormac McCarthy wrote for the screen.

A Korean girl goes to New York to get her superpig back from the company that bred it.

Lucius comes back to the arena twenty years on, with rhinos and a sea battle in the Colosseum.

A blacksmith becomes a knight and holds Jerusalem against Saladin; watch the director’s cut, not the release.

A school ship goes down in a squall in 1961 and the captain is put on trial for it.

An obsessive-compulsive con man meets the teenage daughter he did not know about.

A mother sets out to clear her son of a schoolgirl's murder and will not stop when she should.

A fourteen-year-old hires a drunk marshal to hunt her father's killer; Portis played straight.

A London trader inherits a Provence vineyard and is talked out of selling it.

A New York playwright is put in a peeling Hollywood hotel to write a wrestling picture, and cannot.

A barber blackmails his wife's lover to get into dry cleaning; Deakins in black and white.

Six short Westerns, from a singing gunslinger to a stagecoach of strangers who will not stop talking.

Park's debut: a gangster's runner and his boss's girlfriend head for the coast. He disowned it for years.

Apu marries a stranger when her groom fails to arrive, and the trilogy closes on his son.

A structural engineer has the prison's blueprints tattooed over his body and gets himself sent inside to break his brother out.

Soderbergh cuts the Lem novel to ninety-nine minutes, with George Clooney on a station where the dead come back.

Arthur Fleck on trial from Arkham with Lady Gaga as Lee Quinzel, told as a jukebox musical; the lowest CinemaScore ever given a comic-book film.