Two Napoleonic officers keep meeting to fight over an insult neither can remember; Scott's first feature.
Lucius comes back to the arena twenty years on, with rhinos and a sea battle in the Colosseum.
Frank Lucas imports heroin in the coffins of dead servicemen; Washington against Crowe.
A school ship goes down in a squall in 1961 and the captain is put on trial for it.
Six short Westerns, from a singing gunslinger to a stagecoach of strangers who will not stop talking.
A blacksmith becomes a knight and holds Jerusalem against Saladin; watch the directorโs cut, not the release.
A mother sets out to clear her son of a schoolgirl's murder and will not stop when she should.
A woman in a psychiatric ward is certain she is a machine and stops eating; Park at his gentlest.
A New York playwright is put in a peeling Hollywood hotel to write a wrestling picture, and cannot.
A lawyer takes one drug deal and cannot take it back; the only screenplay Cormac McCarthy wrote for the screen.
Satyajit Ray's three films following one Bengali boy from a village to Calcutta.
Jesse and Celine in Vienna, Paris and Greece, nine years apart each time.
Apu marries a stranger when her groom fails to arrive, and the trilogy closes on his son.
Caesar and Koba across a broken bridge; the best of the modern trilogy.
Soderbergh cuts the Lem novel to ninety-nine minutes, with George Clooney on a station where the dead come back.
A structural engineer has the prison's blueprints tattooed over his body and gets himself sent inside to break his brother out.
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.
Apu leaves the village for school in Benares and then Calcutta, while his mother waits.
Caesar hunts a colonel who has put apes in a labour camp; Andy Serkis in performance capture from end to end.
A Vietnam veteran hunted through Washington woods; the film before the sequels.
A drug tested on chimpanzees makes Caesar intelligent, and he leads the break-out across the Golden Gate Bridge.
Eight strangers on four continents start sharing each other's senses and skills; two seasons and a closing special.
Petronius as a hallucination: Nero's Rome with no moral centre at all.
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.
Two retired dancers reunite for a television special; Masina and Mastroianni.
A man promises God everything to stop a nuclear war; Tarkovsky's last film, shot by Sven Nykvist.
Five young men idle away their twenties in a seaside town; the film Scorsese keeps remaking.
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.
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