Bergman's medieval revenge ballad; Wes Craven remade it as a horror film.
Two chess grandmasters, one Soviet and one defector, in a Geneva title match.
An actor sells his conscience to the Nazis for the stage; Klaus Maria Brandauer's great performance.
A police chief murders his mistress and leaves clues to prove he cannot be touched.
Bergman's Christmas: a theatrical family in 1907 Uppsala, then a bishop's cold house.
French and German colonists in 1915 Africa learn there is a war and stage their own.
A young railway apprentice worries about sex and, by accident, the Resistance.
A racing driver and a script girl meet at their children's school in Deauville.
Three provincial girls in 1958 Moscow, and the same three twenty years on.
Eleven Oscars, a nine-minute chariot race and a galley slave who becomes a prince.
George C. Scott in front of the flag, in the biography he refused the Oscar for.
Will Shakespeare, writer's block, and a muse in disguise while Romeo and Juliet takes shape.
Tati's Monsieur Hulot against an ultra-modern house that hates people.
A deserter in 1931 Spain is taken in by a painter and his four daughters.
A trainer takes on a thirty-something waitress who wants to box, and the film turns.
Romeo and Juliet as rival gangs on the Upper West Side, danced by Jerome Robbins.
Karen Blixen's coffee farm and her affair with Denys Finch Hatton, in the Ngong Hills.
Catherine Deneuve as a rubber-plantation owner in French Vietnam as it starts to end.
A Roman prostitute keeps hoping; the ending smile is one of the great last shots.
An insurance clerk lends his flat to his bosses for their affairs; Wilder at his most bitter and warm.
DeMille's Technicolor circus epic, with a train wreck and a clown who never removes his makeup.
A Philadelphia club fighter gets one shot at the champ; the steps, the run, the raw eggs.
A Jewish widow and her Black chauffeur over 25 years in Atlanta.
Loren and Mastroianni in three stories, three cities, and the striptease.
Costa-Gavras on the assassination of a Greek deputy and the cover-up; thriller as journalism.
A year in Fellini's Rimini under Mussolini: peacocks in snow, the ocean liner at night.
Soldiers in Hawaii in the weeks before Pearl Harbor, and the kiss in the surf.
A Bronx butcher and a shy teacher meet at a dance; the shortest Best Picture ever.
Popeye Doyle chases a heroin ring under the El; the car-versus-train chase.
Belle Epoque Paris and a courtesan-in-training, in Lerner and Loewe songs.
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