Jake Gyllenhaal films crime scenes for the morning news in LA; a sociopath's success story.
Somali pirates board a container ship; Tom Hanks' last scene with the navy medic.
A hitman and a 12-year-old Natalie Portman in New York; Gary Oldman's "EVERYONE".
Three students lost in the Maryland woods on camcorder; the found-footage film that fooled people.
Pacino and De Niro at a diner table, and the downtown LA shootout the police study.
Twenty minutes to find 100,000 marks, run three times; Tykwer's techno Berlin.
Waterloo station, a Tangier rooftop chase and the end of Treadstone.
A bus that explodes under 50 mph; Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock through Los Angeles.
Greengrass takes over with shaky cam and a Moscow car chase.
Five criminals in a line-up and Keyser Soze; the ending everybody replayed.
An amnesiac assassin pulled from the sea; the spy film that made Bond change.
A boy who sees dead people and the twist that made Shyamalan; "I see dead people".
John McClane barefoot in Nakatomi Plaza on Christmas Eve; the template for every action film after.
Three cops, a diner massacre and Kim Basinger as a Veronica Lake lookalike; 1950s noir done right.
Bertolucci and Storaro's fascist Italy in tilted frames and autumn light.
A Swinging London photographer enlarges a picture and may have found a murder.
James Stewart with a broken leg and binoculars watches a murder across the courtyard.
Cary Grant chased by a crop duster and up Mount Rushmore in the template for the spy thriller.
Five hours in a U-boat in 1941; the claustrophobia has never been bettered.
Grieving parents in a winter Venice and a small figure in a red coat.
A brainwashed war hero, a Queen of Diamonds and a political assassination; paranoia in 1962.
Alain Delon as a hitman in a trench coat and fedora; Melville's cool influenced every hitman film since.
Melville's French Resistance as a grey, unglamorous business of betrayals.
Birds attack Bodega Bay for no reason; the school playground scene.
Robert Mitchum as a preacher with LOVE and HATE on his knuckles hunting two children downriver.
A wife and a mistress murder the headmaster, then the body vanishes; the twist Hitchcock envied.
Hitchcock's obsession film in San Francisco, the dolly zoom and the green light.
Clint Eastwood's .44 Magnum and 'do you feel lucky' in San Francisco.
Ingrid Bergman spies on Nazis in Rio for Cary Grant; the key, the wine cellar and the longest kiss.
Harry Lime in the sewers of occupied Vienna, the zither theme and the Ferris wheel speech.
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