Though much about Scorsese's 80s effort is hackneyed, Newman and Cruise are not.

Alain Resnais's experimental classic puts feelings ahead of logic and adds a maze.

Wong Kar-wai burrows winningly into quirky love lives of Hong Kong cops.

After the one-liners, Judd Apatow's moral comedy mimes "It's a Wonderful Life."

Detective noir goes to California high school in Rian Johnson's finely-tuned effort.

Fassbinder's exploration of West German xenophobia is still apt decades later.

Reiner's military procedural has an ace up its sleeve: an angry Jack Nicholson.

Memory is the brave new world in director Andrei Tarkovsky's Solyaris.

The 1943 French thriller "Le Corbeau" is a memorable study of propaganda's perils.

Chilean Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 genre-bender is a symbolic feast for eyes and mind alike.

Carl Theodor Dreyer's Joan of Arc story is a platform for Maria Falconetti's astounding face.

One gulp of wet sand and everything begins to taste like sex in Hiroshi Teshigahara's film.