A sports agent writes an honest memo, loses everything, and keeps one client.
August Wilson's play, filmed: a Pittsburgh binman who could have played in the majors, and the family he fences in.
A Vietnam volunteer comes home paralysed and turns against the war that sent him.
A Polish survivor in post-war Brooklyn, and the decision on the ramp at Auschwitz she cannot say out loud.
An Irish girl emigrates to 1950s New York and has to choose which country she is from.
Two years, three sisters and a hypochondriac; the warmest film Woody Allen made.
A blind, furious retired colonel takes a schoolboy to New York for one last weekend; the tango, and the Oscar.
A nun is certain about a priest and has no proof; the film refuses to settle it either.
A Puerto Rican ex-con tries to go straight in 1975 New York, with Sean Penn as the lawyer dragging him back.
Death row in 1935 Louisiana and the gentle giant who can heal with his hands; three hours that earn their length.
A Liverpool hairdresser and a drunk Open University tutor; both of them learn something.
An obsessive-compulsive novelist, a waitress and a dog, in the comedy that won both leads an Oscar.
A salesman and his son sleeping in a station toilet while he works an unpaid internship.
A magazine assistant survives a fashion editor who never raises her voice.
Howard Hughes builds aeroplanes and studios while the germs close in; Scorsese's biggest canvas.
DiCaprio and Winslet again, eleven years after Titanic, in a Connecticut marriage coming apart.
A man from a country that stops existing mid-flight, living in a JFK departure lounge for nine months.
A factory worker who has not slept in a year, played by an actor who lost thirty kilos to do it.
Spike Lee's three-hour life of the man from prison to Mecca to the Audubon Ballroom.
A mob enforcer and his son on the run through Depression-era Illinois, shot by Conrad Hall in his last film.
A backpacker finds a secret Thai island commune, and then finds out what it costs to keep it secret.
A neurologist wakes catatonic patients with L-DOPA, and watches it stop working.
A butler who cannot say what he feels, in a house whose master is entertaining the Nazis.
The women who brought down Roger Ailes at Fox News, told from inside the newsroom.
Greta Gerwig's Alcott, cut between two timelines so the ending lands twice.
Neil Armstrong to the Moon, shot from inside the helmet and told through a father who cannot talk about his daughter.
A German teenager and an older woman, and the trial twenty years later that explains her secret.
The 54th Massachusetts, the first Black regiment of the Civil War, marching to Fort Wagner.
Richard Williams coaching Venus and Serena on public courts in Compton, to a plan he wrote before they were born.
Two centuries of Lestat and Louis, in the adaptation Anne Rice initially hated and then took out an advert to praise.
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