Angels listening to Berliners' thoughts in black and white, one of them falling for a trapeze artist.
Juliette Binoche after the crash that killed her family; Kieslowski's trilogy begins with liberty.
A Polish hairdresser humiliated in Paris rebuilds himself in Warsaw for revenge; equality as black comedy.
Johnny Depp with blades for hands in pastel suburbia; Burton's fairy tale.
Edward Norton as a reformed neo-Nazi and the curb-stomp scene.
The rise and fall of a porn star in the San Fernando Valley, 1977 to 1984.
Two Peking opera stars across fifty years of Chinese history; the only Chinese Palme d'Or.
Nobody puts Baby in a corner; the summer of 1963 at a Catskills resort.
Robin Williams tells his boys to seize the day; "O Captain! My Captain!"
Szpilman surviving the Warsaw ghetto and the ruins; Polanski's own history.
Harry Dean Stanton walks out of the desert; the peep-show conversation with Nastassja Kinski.
A janitor at MIT who is a maths genius, and Robin Williams saying "it's not your fault".
Two friends on a wine tour of Santa Barbara; the film that hurt Merlot sales.
Two Hong Kong cops and two women, canned pineapple and "California Dreamin'"; Wong Kar-wai's pop masterpiece.
A model and a retired judge who taps his neighbours' phones in Geneva; Kieslowski's last film.
Two women, a Thunderbird and the Grand Canyon; Ridley Scott's road movie that ends in the air.
Max Fischer, the worst student at the best school, and Bill Murray as his rival in love.
A Belarusian boy watches the SS burn villages in 1943; the most harrowing war film made.
Emily Watson's Bess and a paralysed husband in a Calvinist Scottish village; von Trier's first great film.
A son accuses his father at a 60th birthday dinner; the first Dogme 95 film.
The hottest day in Bed-Stuy and a pizzeria; Spike Lee's film about race that ends without an answer.
A family drives a VW bus to a child beauty pageant; the push-start.
Five teenagers in Saturday detention; the John Hughes film that named a generation.
Twenty-four hours in the Paris banlieue after a riot, in black and white; "so far, so good".
Nine lives in the San Fernando Valley, an Aimee Mann singalong and a rain of frogs.
Three stories tied by a car crash in Mexico City; Inarritu's debut.
Four boys walk the tracks to find a body; Rob Reiner's Stephen King coming-of-age.
A ronin asks to commit seppuku in a lord's courtyard and tells a story first; Kobayashi's samurai masterpiece.
One juror against eleven in a hot room; Lumet made a whole film out of a single table.
Pacino robs a Brooklyn bank to pay for his lover's surgery; "Attica!"
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