An actor sells his conscience to the Nazis for the stage; Klaus Maria Brandauer's great performance.
Two chess grandmasters, one Soviet and one defector, in a Geneva title match.
A Union lieutenant alone on the frontier is taken in by the Lakota.
Brando as the longshoreman who "coulda been a contender".
Orpheus and Eurydice during Carnival in Rio, with a bossa nova score that went round the world.
Robert Redford's directing debut: a suburban family after a drowning.
A Philadelphia club fighter gets one shot at the champ; the steps, the run, the raw eggs.
Bergman's Christmas: a theatrical family in 1907 Uppsala, then a bishop's cold house.
Karen Blixen's coffee farm and her affair with Denys Finch Hatton, in the Ngong Hills.
Eleven Oscars, a nine-minute chariot race and a galley slave who becomes a prince.
A French cook in a Danish Lutheran village spends her lottery win on one dinner.
A Texas hustler and a tubercular con man in a New York winter; the only X-rated winner.
A summer day at a Red Army hero's dacha in 1936, until the car from the NKVD arrives.
British prisoners build a bridge for the Japanese, and a colonel forgets whose side he is on.
DeMille's Technicolor circus epic, with a train wreck and a clown who never removes his makeup.
Costa-Gavras on the assassination of a Greek deputy and the cover-up; thriller as journalism.
Soldiers in Hawaii in the weeks before Pearl Harbor, and the kiss in the surf.
A shell-shocked veteran and a lonely girl at a boarding school, and a town that misreads them.
Ben Kingsley as the Mahatma across three hours and 300,000 extras at the funeral.
Five generations of women on a Dutch farm, told as a fable.
Thirty years of a mother and daughter, from comedy to a hospital corridor.
A Nobel-winning poet returns to Gijon and the woman he left forty years before.
A custody battle in which both parents are right, and the French toast scene.
A writer is tried for her husband's death, with only their blind son as witness.
Two Wyoming sheepherders and twenty years of a love neither can name.
A 15-year-old is sent on tour by Rolling Stone and grows up on the bus.
A maid of honour falls apart, at length, in the best comedy of its decade.
A drifting veteran attaches himself to the founder of a new movement.
A journalist poses as Jewish to write about antisemitism in postwar America.
A Welsh mining family remembered; the film that beat Citizen Kane.
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