Three hours of the Paris theatre world of the 1830s, made in secret under the Occupation.
A Johannesburg gang leader steals a car with a baby in the back seat.
Nuns in a Himalayan palace, and Kathleen Byron in red lipstick; shot entirely in a Surrey studio.
Welles at 25: deep focus, a fractured biography and the word 'Rosebud'.
A hunting weekend at a chateau, farce turning to death; Renoir on the France of 1939.
A trans singer in Santiago is shut out of her partner's death by his family.
A boy survives a reprisal in occupied Haarlem and spends forty years understanding that night.
Bergman's medieval revenge ballad; Wes Craven remade it as a horror film.
Thomas More refuses to bless Henry VIII's divorce and pays with his head.
A trainer takes on a thirty-something waitress who wants to box, and the film turns.
Three provincial girls in 1958 Moscow, and the same three twenty years on.
A Roman prostitute keeps hoping; the ending smile is one of the great last shots.
A racing driver and a script girl meet at their children's school in Deauville.
A Jewish widow and her Black chauffeur over 25 years in Atlanta.
A year in Fellini's Rimini under Mussolini: peacocks in snow, the ocean liner at night.
A Bronx butcher and a shy teacher meet at a dance; the shortest Best Picture ever.
A Slovak carpenter is made "Aryan controller" of an old Jewish widow's button shop.
A Buenos Aires teacher begins to suspect her adopted daughter was taken from a "disappeared" mother.
Two British runners at the 1924 Olympics, and the beach to Vangelis.
Oskar stops growing at three and drums through the rise of the Nazis in Danzig.
A Swedish father and son work a Danish farm at the end of the nineteenth century.
A Jewish aristocratic family in Ferrara plays tennis while the racial laws close in.
Simone Signoret as an ageing ex-prostitute raising the children of others in Belleville.
A Black Philadelphia detective and a Mississippi sheriff solve a murder they cannot stand to share.
The seven-hour Soviet Tolstoy, with the Red Army as extras at Borodino.
A Kurdish family tries to cross the Alps into Switzerland on foot, in winter.
Catherine Deneuve as a rubber-plantation owner in French Vietnam as it starts to end.
Truffaut plays a director shooting a bad film, and every crisis of a shoot.
A young railway apprentice worries about sex and, by accident, the Resistance.
A police chief murders his mistress and leaves clues to prove he cannot be touched.
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