A burned man in a Tuscan villa remembers a desert affair before the war.
William Wallace, blue face paint and the Battle of Stirling without the bridge.
A washed-up superhero actor stages a Broadway play, in one apparent take.
A mute cleaner falls for an amphibian man held in a Cold War lab.
Thirty years of a mother and daughter, from comedy to a hospital corridor.
McMurphy against Nurse Ratched in the ward; the second film to sweep the big five.
Jack, Rose, the door, and eleven Oscars; the film that was everything in 1997.
A Mumbai tea boy explains, question by question, how he knows every answer.
Eastwood's retired killer takes one last job; the western that buried the myth.
Oliver Stone's own tour of Vietnam, a rookie between two sergeants.
Newman and Redford run the long con on a Chicago mob boss, to Scott Joplin rags.
A pianist and his bouncer-driver tour the 1962 Deep South with the Negro Motorist Green Book.
Solomon Northup, a free man in New York, is kidnapped and sold into Louisiana.
Wire-work swordplay across the bamboo forests of Qing dynasty China.
A concierge, a lobby boy and a stolen painting in a made-up Mitteleuropa.
The Boston Globe team that broke the Catholic Church abuse story, told as process.
Scarlett O'Hara, the burning of Atlanta and the biggest box office in inflation-adjusted history.
A rat with a palate cooks in Paris, and a critic remembers his mother's food.
A Tehran couple divorce, and every decision afterwards is morally impossible.
A bomb-disposal team in Iraq, and the man who needs the job more than he admits.
A mole in the police and a mole in the mob, hunting each other in Boston.
Facebook's founding as a deposition, scored by Trent Reznor.
The sequel that runs Michael's fall against his father's rise.
A hunter takes a case of drug money and a man with a cattle gun follows.
Miyazaki's late, strange masterpiece about grief and a tower between worlds.
Three chapters in the life of a boy growing up black and gay in Miami.
A fading TV cowboy and his stunt double drift through 1969 Los Angeles.
A freed slave and a bounty hunter ride into the antebellum South.
Nine walkers set out from Rivendell; New Zealand becomes Middle-earth.
Eleven Oscars, Pelennor Fields and a very long goodbye.
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