2012 poll

The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.

Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy"s girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.

An aging group of outlaws in 1913 Texas look for one last big score, selling stolen Army rifles to a rogue Mexican general during that country"s revolution, as the traditional American West is disappearing around them.

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.

When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.

Greece, 1939-1952: Fascist, Nazi, and Communist conflict, as seen through the eyes of a family of travelling provincial players.

A day in the life of a Parisian housewife/prostitute, interspersed with musings on the Vietnam War and other contemporary issues.

Unable to find the war he"s been asked to cover, a frustrated war correspondent takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms-deal acquaintance.

Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.

The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.

A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.

A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.

The growing pains of three young women contrast with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold.

A Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami.

A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.

A film about the French general"s youth and early military career.

When King Henry IV ascends to the throne, his heir, the Prince of Wales, is befriended by Sir John Falstaff, an old, overweight, fun-loving habitual liar. Through Falstaff"s eyes we see the reign of King Henry IV and the rise of Henry V.

A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.

At a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air-freight company is compelled to risk the lives of his pilots in order to win an important contract as a traveling American showgirl stops in town.

A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.