Watch Day for Night

Tati's Monsieur Hulot against an ultra-modern house that hates people.

Truffaut's own childhood as Antoine Doinel, ending with the freeze frame on the beach.

Two friends and Jeanne Moreau over twenty years; the New Wave at its most exhilarating.

Fellini's waif and strongman on the road; Giulietta Masina's face does the rest.

A Roman prostitute keeps hoping; the ending smile is one of the great last shots.

Orpheus and Eurydice during Carnival in Rio, with a bossa nova score that went round the world.

The novelist takes on the Dreyfus affair; the first biopic to win.

Tornatore's tender love letter to cinema and a Sicilian boyhood — keep tissues nearby for the final reel