A Vietnam veteran hunted through Washington woods; the film before the sequels.
Caesar hunts a colonel who has put apes in a labour camp; Andy Serkis in performance capture from end to end.
Caesar and Koba across a broken bridge; the best of the modern trilogy.
A drug tested on chimpanzees makes Caesar intelligent, and he leads the break-out across the Golden Gate Bridge.
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.
A Russian poet in Italy carries a candle across an empty pool; exile as a state of mind.
A gangster forces a student into prostitution and watches her through a mirror.
A mute woman runs floating fishing huts and a fugitive arrives; the film that shocked Venice.
Donald Sutherland as a mechanical seducer in a Venice built entirely in the studio.
A shooting binds five lives across twenty years of Spain.
A dying father's tall tales, and the son who checks them; Burton's warmest film.
Two sisters and a boy in a hotel in a country at war, speaking a language none of them knows.
A Madrid housewife on amphetamines kills her husband with a ham bone.
A concert pianist visits the daughter she left; Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann in one long night.
Johnny Depp as the worst director in Hollywood, in loving black and white; Martin Landau as Lugosi.
A man promises God everything to stop a nuclear war; Tarkovsky's last film, shot by Sven Nykvist.
Two friends kiss for a student film and cannot go back to what they were.
A girl alone in a prairie house with her father's corpse and her doll heads; Gilliam's most disliked film.
A pastor who no longer believes takes a service for nine people.
Two teenagers run away to the Stockholm archipelago for a summer that ends.
Two friends fall for the same beautiful stranger; slow motion and colour blocks.
Norah Jones drives across America after a breakup; Wong's English-language road film.
A widow, a dead lawyer and martial-law Poland; the first film written with Piesiewicz.
Two women give birth on the same day, and Spain digs up a Civil War grave.
Small-time swindlers dress as priests to rob peasants, and one of them tires of it.
A retired bullfighter and a lawyer share a taste for killing; Banderas early.
Five young men idle away their twenties in a seaside town; the film Scorsese keeps remaking.
A war reporter asks a friend to be there when she dies; Almodovar's first English feature, and a Golden Lion.
A blind screenwriter remembers the film and the woman that blinded him; Penelope Cruz.
An opera singer's ashes are carried to sea in 1914, on a ship of absurd mourners.
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