Johnny Depp with blades for hands in pastel suburbia; Burton's fairy tale.
Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy talk through one night in Vienna; the first of three.
Bill Murray lives the same day in Punxsutawney until he gets it right.
A model and a retired judge who taps his neighbours' phones in Geneva; Kieslowski's last film.
Angels listening to Berliners' thoughts in black and white, one of them falling for a trapeze artist.
Two friends and Jeanne Moreau over twenty years; the New Wave at its most exhilarating.
Every line sung, every wall painted; Catherine Deneuve at a petrol station in the snow.
Wheat fields at magic hour, locusts and fire; the most beautifully photographed film of its decade.
Hitchcock's obsession film in San Francisco, the dolly zoom and the green light.
A French actress and a Japanese architect, memory and the bomb; Resnais and Duras.
A death-obsessed teenager and a 79-year-old woman fall in love, to Cat Stevens.
Lean's Russian Revolution romance, the ice palace and "Lara's Theme".
Belmondo and Karina drive south in primary colours; Godard at his most alive.
Belmondo, Seberg and the jump cut; the New Wave arrives in one film.
Benjamin, Mrs Robinson and the bus at the end, to Simon and Garfunkel.
A married woman and a doctor meet in a railway tea room; the most restrained love story ever filmed.
Audrey Hepburn as a princess on the run and Gregory Peck on a Vespa through Rome.
A ballerina torn between art and love, with a 17-minute ballet in Technicolor.
Gene Kelly in the rain, Donald O'Connor up the walls, and Hollywood's own switch to sound.
Cocteau's fairy tale with living candelabra arms and a Beast more moving than the prince.
An RAF pilot argues for his life on a staircase to heaven; Earth in colour, heaven in black and white.
The Tramp and the blind flower girl; the last close-up is the one critics call the greatest in cinema.
Ingrid Bergman spies on Nazis in Rio for Cary Grant; the key, the wine cellar and the longest kiss.
Three hours of the Paris theatre world of the 1830s, made in secret under the Occupation.
An elderly Parisian couple, a stroke, and a husband who keeps his promise.
A farmer plans to drown his wife and falls back in love with her in the city; Murnau in Hollywood.
A retired Buenos Aires investigator writes a novel about a 25-year-old rape and murder.
A racing driver and a script girl meet at their children's school in Deauville.
Audrey Hepburn's flower girl and Rex Harrison's phonetician; the rain in Spain.
Catherine Deneuve as a rubber-plantation owner in French Vietnam as it starts to end.
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