Bill Murray lives the same day in Punxsutawney until he gets it right.
Nobody puts Baby in a corner; the summer of 1963 at a Catskills resort.
The first animated film nominated for Best Picture; the ballroom scene.
Can men and women be friends? The deli scene and "I'll have what she's having".
Hitchcock's obsession film in San Francisco, the dolly zoom and the green light.
Wheat fields at magic hour, locusts and fire; the most beautifully photographed film of its decade.
Belmondo, Seberg and the jump cut; the New Wave arrives in one film.
A French actress and a Japanese architect, memory and the bomb; Resnais and Duras.
Every line sung, every wall painted; Catherine Deneuve at a petrol station in the snow.
Belmondo and Karina drive south in primary colours; Godard at his most alive.
Lean's Russian Revolution romance, the ice palace and "Lara's Theme".
Two friends and Jeanne Moreau over twenty years; the New Wave at its most exhilarating.
Benjamin, Mrs Robinson and the bus at the end, to Simon and Garfunkel.
A death-obsessed teenager and a 79-year-old woman fall in love, to Cat Stevens.
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.
Will Shakespeare, writer's block, and a muse in disguise while Romeo and Juliet takes shape.
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.
A silent, black-and-white French film about the end of silent film; and it won.
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