A French cook in a Danish Lutheran village spends her lottery win on one dinner.
A Slovak carpenter is made "Aryan controller" of an old Jewish widow's button shop.
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.
A deserter in 1931 Spain is taken in by a painter and his four daughters.
Thomas More refuses to bless Henry VIII's divorce and pays with his head.
A Texas hustler and a tubercular con man in a New York winter; the only X-rated winner.
French and German colonists in 1915 Africa learn there is a war and stage their own.
Catherine Deneuve as a rubber-plantation owner in French Vietnam as it starts to end.
A Philadelphia club fighter gets one shot at the champ; the steps, the run, the raw eggs.
A summer day at a Red Army hero's dacha in 1936, until the car from the NKVD arrives.
British prisoners build a bridge for the Japanese, and a colonel forgets whose side he is on.
Peter O'Toole crosses the Nefud in 70mm; the desert epic every other desert epic quotes.
Brando as the longshoreman who "coulda been a contender".
A boy survives a reprisal in occupied Haarlem and spends forty years understanding that night.
A silent, black-and-white French film about the end of silent film; and it won.
A bawdy Georgian romp with the most famous eating scene in cinema.
Orpheus and Eurydice during Carnival in Rio, with a bossa nova score that went round the world.
Dickens as a musical: workhouse, pickpockets and "Consider Yourself".
Robert Redford's directing debut: a suburban family after a drowning.
Bergman's medieval revenge ballad; Wes Craven remade it as a horror film.
A Union lieutenant alone on the frontier is taken in by the Lakota.
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.
George C. Scott in front of the flag, in the biography he refused the Oscar for.
A young railway apprentice worries about sex and, by accident, the Resistance.
Will Shakespeare, writer's block, and a muse in disguise while Romeo and Juliet takes shape.
Eleven Oscars, a nine-minute chariot race and a galley slave who becomes a prince.
A trainer takes on a thirty-something waitress who wants to box, and the film turns.
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