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.
Ben Kingsley as the Mahatma across three hours and 300,000 extras at the funeral.
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.
A Kurdish family tries to cross the Alps into Switzerland on foot, in winter.
The seven-hour Soviet Tolstoy, with the Red Army as extras at Borodino.
Two British runners at the 1924 Olympics, and the beach to Vangelis.
A Black Philadelphia detective and a Mississippi sheriff solve a murder they cannot stand to share.
Five generations of women on a Dutch farm, told as a fable.
Oskar stops growing at three and drums through the rise of the Nazis in Danzig.
Six friends keep trying to have dinner; Bunuel keeps stopping them.
A Swedish father and son work a Danish farm at the end of the nineteenth century.
Bergman's Christmas: a theatrical family in 1907 Uppsala, then a bishop's cold house.
Woody Allen and Diane Keaton fall in and out of love in a film that talks to the camera.
A shell-shocked veteran and a lonely girl at a boarding school, and a town that misreads them.
Simone Signoret as an ageing ex-prostitute raising the children of others in Belleville.
A custody battle in which both parents are right, and the French toast scene.
Audrey Hepburn's flower girl and Rex Harrison's phonetician; the rain in Spain.
A mute cleaner falls for an amphibian man held in a Cold War lab.
A Jewish aristocratic family in Ferrara plays tennis while the racial laws close in.
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.
Truffaut plays a director shooting a bad film, and every crisis of a shoot.
Eight Italian soldiers are forgotten on a Greek island for three years of the war.
An insurance clerk lends his flat to his bosses for their affairs; Wilder at his most bitter and warm.
Two murderesses and one lawyer in Jazz Age Chicago; "Cell Block Tango".
Karen Blixen's coffee farm and her affair with Denys Finch Hatton, in the Ngong Hills.
A Buenos Aires teacher begins to suspect her adopted daughter was taken from a "disappeared" mother.
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