Il grido (The Outcry)
Antonioni's 1957 "Il Grido" makes its point thanks to the vast and treeless voodoo of the Po Valley.
Birdy
Does war make you mad? Not necessarily. Sometimes it only makes things clearer.
The Graduate
In Mike Nichols' classic, a bored housewife does it with a younger Benjamin and ends up losing her religion.
The Birds
Hitch turns birds into the menacing, lethal agents of blonde ambition gone wrong.
Annie Hall
Woody Allen's sex-and-the-city masterpiece endures for its supreme compassion.
Grey Gardens
Albert and David Maysles documentary reveals two Ediths in a state of memorable decay.
Los abrazos rotos (Broken Embraces)
Almodóvar's characters panhandle for sympathy but get chump change instead.
The Color of Money
Though much about Scorsese's 80s effort is hackneyed, Newman and Cruise are not.
L’Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad)
Alain Resnais's experimental classic puts feelings ahead of logic and adds a maze.
Chunking Express
Wong Kar-wai burrows winningly into quirky love lives of Hong Kong cops.
Funny People
After the one-liners, Judd Apatow's moral comedy mimes "It's a Wonderful Life."