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.
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".
Three cops, a diner massacre and Kim Basinger as a Veronica Lake lookalike; 1950s noir done right.
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.
John McClane barefoot in Nakatomi Plaza on Christmas Eve; the template for every action film after.
Twenty minutes to find 100,000 marks, run three times; Tykwer's techno Berlin.
Pacino and De Niro at a diner table, and the downtown LA shootout the police study.
Waterloo station, a Tangier rooftop chase and the end of Treadstone.
Five hours in a U-boat in 1941; the claustrophobia has never been bettered.
Hitchcock's obsession film in San Francisco, the dolly zoom and the green light.
Bertolucci and Storaro's fascist Italy in tilted frames and autumn light.
Grieving parents in a winter Venice and a small figure in a red coat.
A Swinging London photographer enlarges a picture and may have found a murder.
Clint Eastwood's .44 Magnum and 'do you feel lucky' in San Francisco.
A brainwashed war hero, a Queen of Diamonds and a political assassination; paranoia in 1962.
Melville's French Resistance as a grey, unglamorous business of betrayals.
A wife and a mistress murder the headmaster, then the body vanishes; the twist Hitchcock envied.
Birds attack Bodega Bay for no reason; the school playground scene.
Alain Delon as a hitman in a trench coat and fedora; Melville's cool influenced every hitman film since.
Robert Mitchum as a preacher with LOVE and HATE on his knuckles hunting two children downriver.
Cary Grant chased by a crop duster and up Mount Rushmore in the template for the spy thriller.
James Stewart with a broken leg and binoculars watches a murder across the courtyard.
Four men drive nitroglycerine over mountain roads; the most tense two hours of the 1950s.
A retired Buenos Aires investigator writes a novel about a 25-year-old rape and murder.
An insurance salesman and a bored wife plan the perfect murder; Wilder and Chandler write the noir rulebook.
A Stasi officer listens to a playwright's flat and slowly changes sides.
Ingrid Bergman spies on Nazis in Rio for Cary Grant; the key, the wine cellar and the longest kiss.
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