D

	The Da Vinci Code – crap film version of a crap book that was a sensation at the time. Conspiracy about Jesus	Director: Ron Howard Cast: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen
	The Dam Busters – iconic WW2 bombing raid film with bouncing bombs, a classic score and unfortunately named dog	Director: Michael Anderson Cast: Michael Redgrave, Richard Todd, Ursula Jeans
	Dance with a Stranger – ill-treated Ruth Ellis becomes the last woman hung in Britain in this sympathetic drama	Director: Mike Newell Cast: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm
	Dances with Wolves – Best Picture winning revisionist Western epic, as a soldier finds a bond with Native Americans he never knew	Director: Kevin Costner Cast: Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Mary McDonnell
	Dangerous Liaisons – in pre-Revolutionary France, two aristocrats play seductive games with other people’s hearts.	Director: Stephen Frears Cast: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer
	The Danish Girl – sentimental true story (virtually none of which is true) about a man in the 20s transitioning	Director: Tom Hooper Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts
	The Dark Knight – possibly greatest ever comic book movie, exciting, intelligent and thrilling as Batman takes on the Joker	Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman
	Dark River – a woman returns to her family farm after 15 years, where tensions remain unresolved	Director: Clio Barnard Cast: Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley, Sean Bean
	Dark Victory – a woman has her terminal condition hidden from her by the doctor who loves her, in a classic tear-jerker	Director: Edmund Goulding Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald
	Darkest Hour – Churchill comes to power and faces an immediate crisis, as many press for a negotiated peace	Director: Joe Wright Cast: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Stephen Dillane
	David Copperfield – classic all-star Dickens adaptation, extremely influential costume drama	Director: George Cukor Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, WC Fields, Edna May Oliver
	Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – apes and men are precariously balanced in this superb trilogy episode	Director: Matt Reeves Cast: Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman
	The Day After Tomorrow – ecological disaster devastates the world in this epic disaster movie	Director: Roland Emmerich Cast: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum
	Day for Night – romantic entanglements take place on a film set, in this charming, witty film about making movies	Director: François Truffaut Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Valentine Cortese
	A Day in the Death of Joe Egg – a father copes with his son’s disability through jokes in this autobiographical play adaptation	Director: Peter Medak Cast: Alan Bates, Janet Suzman, Peter Bowles
	The Day of the Jackal – a hitman is hired by the OAS to assassinate Charles de Gaulle in this creeping thriller.	Director: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale, Delphine Seyrig
	The Dead – rather beautiful Joyce adaptation, low-key and gorgeous, the director’s swansong	Director: John Huston Cast: Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Cathleen Delaney
	Dead Poet’s Society – a teacher inspires students in this sickly sentimental coming-of-age drama. He would fail DBS today	Director: Peter Weir Cast: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke
	The Deadly Affair – marvellous Le Carré adaptation as a British spy with an unfaithful wife tracks a killer in London	Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: James Mason, Simeone Signoret, Maximilian Schell
	Death in Venice – landmark LGBTQ film of a dying composer falling for a beautiful boy in Venice. Creepier now than it was.	Director: Luchino Visconti Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Mark Burns, Marisa Berenson
	Deadpool – try-hard superhero spoof, that explains all the cliches it uses but still rigidly sticks to them	Director: Tim Miller Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein
	Deadpool & Wolverine – fourth-wall leaning team-up which wears thin quickly but made everyone lots of money	Director: Shawn Levy Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin
	The Death of Stalin – hilarious, foul-mouthed black comedy as Stalin’s ministers scramble for power after his death	Director: Armando Iannucci Cast: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Michael Palin
	Death on the Nile – all-star Agatha Christie murder mystery on the Nile. Perfect Sunday afternoon viewing	Director: John Guillermin Cast: Peter Ustinov, David Niven, Bette Davis
	Death on the Nile – second big-budget Branagh Poirot, better than the first but with some of its Operatic flaws	Director: Kenneth Branagh Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Annette Bening
	The Decameron – Pasolini’s smutty adaptation aims for political but lands at cheek	Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Cast: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davali, Vincenzo Amato
	Decision Before Dawn – very well-made, behind-the-lines spy thriller that places a German POW as the hero	Director: Anatole Litvak Cast: Oskar Werner, Richard Basehart, Gary Merill
	Decision to Leave – brilliant Vertigo-ish drama as detective is drawn to the chief suspect in a murder	Director: Park Chan-wook Cast: Tang Wei, Park Hei-il, Lee Jung-hyun
	Deep Blue Sea – Scientists try to cure Alzheimer’s by breeding hyper intelligent sharks. What could go wrong?	Director: Renny Harlin Cast: Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson
	Deep Impact – a meteor heads to Earth…sound familar? This disaster film is serious rather then fun	Director: Mimi Leder Cast: Téa Leoni, Robert Duvall, Morgan Freeman
	The Deer Hunter – controversial Vietnam-set Best Picture winner as steel workers return from the war but are changed forever	Director: Michael Cimino Cast: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale
	Denial – David Irving sues an author for calling him a Holocaust denier in a glossy adaptation of a landmark trial	Director: Mick Jackson Cast: Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson, Andrew Scott
	The Departed – Best Picture winning crime thriller: the robbers have a mole with the cops and vice versa.	Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson
	The Descendants – a man’s wife is in a coma: he must connect with his daughters and deal with his family	Director: Alexander Payne Cast: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller
	The Desert Fox – admiring biopic of the original ‘Good German’ Field Marshal Rommel	Director: Henry Hathaway Cast: James Mason, Jessica Tandy, William Reynolds
	Destroyer – a tough cop finds a murder she is investigating has links to a shady undercover case from her past	Director: Karyn Kusama Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sebastian Stan, Toby Kebbell
	Destry Rides Again – delightful semi-mock Western, as a gun shy sheriff cleans up a dirty town	Director: George Marshall Cast: Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Brian Donlevy
	The Devil is a Woman – romance and duels in revolutionary Spain	Director: Josef von Sternberg Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero
	The Devil Wears Prada – a tyrannical editor at a fashion magazine terrorises her staff	Director: David Frankel Cast: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt
	Les Diabloques – his mistress and his wife murder a cruel schoolmaster. Can they cover their guilt?	Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot Cast: Simeone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Charles Vanel
	Dial M for Murder – lesser Hitchcock, with good touches, as a man plots to murder his wife and get away with it	Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, John Williams
	The Diary of Anne Frank – rather dry and stagy adaptation of the famous diary, with all the passion strained out	Director: George Stevens Cast: Anne Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters
	Die Another Day – Brosnan’s swansong which starts daringly but swiftly descends into sub-Moore nonsense	Director: Lee Tamahori Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens
	Die Hard – a cop, trapped in a hijacked building, gets into a battle with wits with a mastermind. Best action film of all time?	Director: John McTiernan Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia
	Die Hard with a Vengeance – it’s Die Hard – but across the whole of New York, as Hans Gruber’s brother looks for revenge	Director: John McTiernan Cast: Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson, Jeremy Irons
	The Dig – an amateur archaeologist uncovers Sutton Hoo – leading many to reflect on life and legacy	Director: Simon Stone Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan, Lily James
	Dirty Harry – sublime pulp thriller, with Eastwood in legendary form, one of the best of its genre	Director: Don Siegel Cast: Clint Eastwood, Andy Robinson, Harry Guardino
	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie – Parisian snobs keep having their dinners interrupted. Playful, absurdist farce	Director: Luis Buñuel Cast: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stéphane Audran
	Disobedience – a Jewish woman returns to her orthodox London community, where the woman she loves is now married	Director: Sebastian Lelio Cast: Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola
	Disraeli – Victorian statesman foils spies and plays cupid in this entertaining melodrama with an Oscar-winning star	Director: Alfred E Green Cast: George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, Joan Bennett
	Distant Voices, Still Lives – Davies’ poetic memory piece, inspired by his own life, is a unique piece of film-making	Director: Terence Davies Cast: Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite
	Do the Right Thing – racial tensions simmer in a hot New York in Spike Lee’s masterpiece, a truly brilliant film	Director: Spike Lee Cast: Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee
	Doctor Dolittle – a musical disaster, as terrible as you’ve heard it is, where nothing works at great length	Director: Richard Fleischer Cast: Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley
	Dr Mabuse, der Spieler – a criminal mastermind wreaks havoc in Lang’s masterful film-as-mini-series	Director: Fritz Lang Cast: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Bernhard Goetzke
	Dr No – the first ever James Bond film, gets a lot of the formula in place from day one	Director: Terence Young Cast: Sean Connery, Ursual Andress, Joseph Wiseman
	Doctor Strange – reality-twisting Marvel film as a crippled surgeon becomes a master magician	Director: Scott Derickson Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams
	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – cross dimensional light horror; fails to deliver on its promise	Director: Sam Raimi Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Rachel McAdams
	Dr Strangelove; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb – nuclear war farce, blackly hilarious end-of-the-world	Director: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
	Doctor Zhivago – Lean mega-epic about revolutionary Russia, looks pretty but miscast and more than a little empty	Director: David Lean Cast: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Rod Steiger
	Dodsworth – a husband and wife drift apart on a European vacation in this rich non-judgemental drama	Director: William Wyler Cast: Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor
	Dog Day Afternoon – a desperate bank robber finds himself at the centre of a media storm when he takes the bank hostage	Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning
	La Dolce Vita – a hedonistic would-be-novelist flits from party to party in Rome and never writes a word	Director: Federico Fellini Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee
	Donnie Brasco – an FBI agent goes undercover with gangsters and finds his loyalties divided	Director: Mike Newell Cast: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen
	Donnie Darko – landmark cult film: a disturbed boys imagines a huge rabbit who may be a herald of the end of the world	Director: Richard Kelly Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell
	Don’t Look Now – chilling, atmospheric supernatural story mixed with a moving depiction of grief	Director: Nicolas Roeg Cast: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland
	Don’t Look Up – a meteor heads towards Earth – but the politician don’t want to hear about it: shrill satire	Director: Adam McKay Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep
	Double Indemnity – quite simply one of the best film noir/femme fatale films ever made	Director: Billy Wilder Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
	Doubt – stagy, but very well acted, play adaptation; in the 1950s a nun suspects the priest at her school to be an abuser	Director: John Patrick Shanley Cast: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
	Downfall – the last days of Hitler in shocking detail, in the definitive Hitler film, the first German film about the dictator	Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes
	Dracula Untold – first (failed) attempt to launch a Monsters-verse; Dracula takes on dangerous powers to save his people	Director: Gary Shore Cast: Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Sarah Gadron
	The Draughtsman’s Contract – deliberately oblique, art film about a murder in a country house in the 1680s	Director: Peter Greenaway Cast: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert
	Dredd – successful reboot where he keeps the helmet on. Dredd is called into to settle a towerblock siege	Director: Pete Travis Cast: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey
	The Dresser – an ailing actor prepares for one more Lear with his faithful, obsessive dresser. Marvellous film about theatre.	Director: Peter Yates Cast: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins
	Drive My Car – a mourning actor stages a multi-lingual production of Chekov and bonds with his driver	Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tōko Miura, Masaki Okada
	Drive – a samurai-style getaway driver finds a reason to bend his rules in this cult crime drama	Director: Nicholas Winding Refn Cast: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks
	The Driver – a nameless getaway driver gets involved in a huge score while being chased by an obsessed cop	Director: Walter Hill Cast: Ryan O’Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabella Adjani
	Driving Miss Daisy – in the South, a Black chauffeur drives a Jewish lady in infamous Best Picture winning feel-good film	Director: Bruce Beresford Cast: Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd
	A Dry White Season – a Afrikaner has his eyes opened to racism in one of the finest anti-Apartheid films	Director: Euzhan Palcy Cast: Donald Sutherland, Zakes Mokae, Marlon Brando
	The Duchess – in the 18th century, the Duchess of Devonshire is the toast of society but unhappily married	Director: Saul Dibb Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Hayley Atwell
	The Duke – cosy true-ish crime caper: an eccentric Brit steals a painting of Wellington for his social campaign	Director: Roger Michell Cast: Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead
	Dune: Part One – superbly atmospheric adaptation of a dense, pompous sci-fi novel, light years ahead of previous versions	Director: Denis Villeneuve Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac
	Dune: Part 2 – Villeneuve’s triumphant sequel continues to raise the bar for science fiction, in this definitive adaptation	Director: Denis Villeneuve Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson
	Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves – full of heart and excitement, you’ll be amazed at how good it is	Director: Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley Cast: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page
	Dunkirk – superb, epic WW2 film, very cleverly split over multiple timelines. One of Nolan’s best	Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: Fionn Whitehead, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy

E

	The Eagle – dry adventure story, as a Roman officer and a native Brit go behind the lines in search of a lost legion	Director: Kevin Macdonald Cast: Canning Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland
	Eastern Promises – chilling fairytale as a midwife’s hunt for a babies family leads to the dark criminal underbelly of London	Director: David Cronenberg Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel
	Eddie the Eagle – obvious and not-as-funny-as-it-could-be biopic of the infamously hopeless ski jumper	Director: Dexter Fletcher Cast: Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Iris Berben
	The Edge – two men, one with a photographic memory, are stranded in the Alaskan forest, hunted by a bear	Director: Lee Tamahori Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin
	An Education – coming-of-age drama as a teenager flirts with abandoning university for an affair with an older man	Director: Lone Scherfig Cast: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina
	Eight and a Half – Fellini’s brilliant fantasy about his own life, love, careers and past packed with many brilliant moments	Director: Federico Fellini Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Rossella Falk
	Election – a teenager is determined to win a high school election at all costs. Her teacher is just as determined to stop her	Director: Alexander Payne Cast: Matthew Broderick, Reece Witherspoon
	The Elephant Man – heartbreaking version of the life of Joseph Merrick, beautifully made and also provokes tears	Director: David Lynch Cast: John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft
	Elizabeth – influential costume drama, that retells Tudor history as if was The Godfather, with added sex	Director: Shekhar Kapur Cast: Cate Blanchett, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush
	Elizabeth: The Golden Age – belated sequel, more conventional than the first, that tackles the Spanish Armada	Director: Shekhar Kapur Cast: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush
	Elmer Gantry – entertaining plot-boiler about a morally flexible preacher with a great star-turn	Director: Richard Brooks Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Shirley Jones
	Elvis – biopic of the most famous man of the 20th century, told in Luhrmann’s explosion of style with sensitivity	Director: Baz Luhrmann Cast: Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson
	Elysium – in a dystopian future, the rich live on a space station while the poor live on earth.	Director: Neill Blomkamp Cast: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Alice Braga
	Emilia Perez – a gangster has a sex change in this clumsy musical mish mash that annoyed almost everyone	Director: Jacques Audiard Cast: Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez
	Empire of Light – a relationship flourishes between a troubled cinema worker and a young man in a flat film	Director: Sam Mendes Cast: Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Toby Jones, Colin Firth
	Empire of the Sun – gorgeously filmed coming-of-age tale, that doesn’t quite engage with the novel’s complexity	Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Nigel Havers
	The Empire Strikes Back – the best ever Star Wars film, as Luke trains as a Jedi while his friends dodge capture by Darth Vader	Director: Irvin Kershner Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
	Enchanted – delightfully affectionate live-action Disney spoof, as a princess falls from her fairy-tale world into ours	Director: Kevin Lima Cast: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden
	The End of the Affair – solid Greene adaptation, as a man can’t understand why his relationship with a married women ended	Director: Neil Jordan Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea
	Enemy at the Gates – uninspired war epic, as sniper duel during the Battle of Stalingrad	Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud Cast: Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachael Weisz, Ed Harris
	Enemy of the State – ahead-of-its-time surveillance thriller, as Will Smith runs from the powers of the state	Director: Tony Scott Cast: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight
	Les Enfants du Paradis – perhaps the greatest film about theatre ever made, France’s Gone with the Wind	Director: Marcel Carné Cast: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur
	The English Patient – Best Picture winning romantic epic: a badly burned man retells his love for a married woman in 1930s	Director: Anthony Minghella Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Juliette Binoche
	The Entertainer – a selfish, seedy end-of-the-pier performer staggers from personal disaster to personal disaster	Director: Tony Richardson Cast: Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey
	EO – a donkey encounters man’s indifference in a passionate plea for animal rights	Director: Jerzy Skolimowski Cast: Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert
	The Equalizer – TV remake, as a former special-ops agent uses his skills to right wrongs done to regular people	Director: Antoine Fuqua Cast: Denzel Washington, Chloe Grace Moretz
	Equus – a young boy blinds a stable of horses – a psychiatrist tries to find out why. Crude and literal,makes the play look bad	Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter
	Erin Brockovich – true-life story of a brash legal aid who builds a case against a corrupt power company polluting a towns water	Director: Steven Soderbergh Cast: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart
	Escape from Alcatraz – three criminals do what it says on the tin in this quietly observed prison drama	Director: Don Siegel Cast: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward
	Escape from New York – the President gets lost in a New York turned prison in this very fun cult actioner	Director: John Carpenter Cast: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasance
	Escape to Victory – bizarre POW movie in which a team of football legends take on the Germans. Pelé and Stallone together at last!	Director: John Huston Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Pelé
	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – a man his his memory wiped of his ex – but changes his mind during the procedure	Director: Michel Gondry Cast: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Elijah Wood
	Eternals – God-like Aliens have guided mankind for millennia – but what if they are the baddies? Complete mess	Director: Chloé Zhao Cast: Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie
	Everything Everywhere All At Once – all realities are going to end: and only a disillusioned woman can save it	Director: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan
	Evil Does Not Exist – haunting parable on nature and modern society, full of beautiful imagery	Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Cast: Hitoshi Omika, Ryo Nishikawa, Ryuji Kosaka
	Ex Machina – a billionaire has built an AI woman who wants control over her own life	Director: Alex Garland Cast: Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson
	Excalibur – dementedly Gothic version of the Arthurian legend, like a Opera on heat	Director: John Boorman Cast: Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson, Helen Mirren
	Exodus: Gods and Men – biblical epic focusing on Moses, that keeps butting up against its atheism	Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro
	The Exorcist – a young girl is demonically possessed in this gut-wrenching thriller that brilliantly gets under your skin	Director: William Friedkin Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair
	The Exterminating Angel – Buñuel’s classic social satire, as middle class dinner guests find they can’t leave a room	Director: Luis Buñuel Cast: Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, José Baviera
	Eye in the Sky – British soldiers and politicians have to make real-time decisions about a missile strike	Director: Gavin Hood Cast: Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, Aaron Paul
	The Eyes of Tammy Faye – a Christian evangelist in the 80s gets wrapped up in scandal in this bog-standard biopic	Director: Michael Showalter Cast: Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Cherry Jones

F

	The Fabelmans – Spielberg explores his childhood in this rich film in love with the movies	Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Michelle Williams
	Face/Off – an FBI agent and a master terrorist exchange faces and take over each other’s lives in this insane but fun actioner	Director: John Woo Cast: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen
	Fail Safe – Dr Strangelove played absolutely straight, but full of brilliant scenes and performances	Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: Henry Fonda, Dan O’Herlihy, Walter Matthau
	The Fall Guy – huge fun, adventure romance celebrating the craft behind-the-magic of movies	Director: David Leitch Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
	Fallen – a detective finds himself chasing after a murderer who is in fact a body possessing demon	Detective: Gregory Hoblit Cast: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland
	The Fallen Idol – a boy’s hero worship of a butler leads to disaster in this fabulously sad thriller	Director: Carol Reed Cast: Ralph Richardson, Bobby Henrey, Michèle Morgan
	The Falling – in an all-girls school, an epidemic of unexplained fainting is linked to sexual awakenings	Director: Carol Morley Cast: Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh, Maxine Peake
	Fanny and Alexander – Bergman’s family film, a gorgeous thought-provoking family epic	Director: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Ewa Fröling, Jan Malmsjö, Gunn Wållgren
	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Potter prequel series about a wizard who cares for unusual beasts	Director: David Yates Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler
	Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – bad Potter film, a messy meander through Potter-lore and backstory	Director: David Yates Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Johnny Depp, Jude Law
	Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – the franchise enters its death throws in this anaemic final offering	Director: David Yates Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Mads Mikkelsen
	The Fantastic Four: First Steps – enjoyable entry, bright, colourful and fun, but never explores its depths	Director: Matt Shakman Cast: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn
	The Farewell – a Chinese family keep her terminal cancer a secret from the matriarch in this personal film	Director: Lulu Wang Cast: Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin
	Farewell My Concubine – boy actors grow to men in pre-Revolutionary China. Complex, challenging, brilliant	Director: Chen Kaige Cast: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong Li
	Fargo – superb, blackly-comic, murderous farce about a kidnapping and blackmail plot gone wrong	Director: Coen Brothers Cast: Frances McDormand, William H Macy, Steven Buscemi
	Fat City – a punch drunk old boxer deals with addiction, failure and knowing he’ll never make the big time.	Director: John Huston Cast: Stacey Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrell
	Fatal Attraction – an affair goes wrong when the woman can’t let it go. A mega-hit that looks more and more sexist today	Director: Adrian Lyne Cast: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer
	The Father – a man suffering from Alzheimers struggles to know where and when he is	Director: Florian Zeller Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Rufus Sewell
	Faust – a technical marvel, Murnau’s beautiful exploration of the myth is awash with striking, haunting images	Director: FW Murnau Cast: Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn
	The Favourite – two women feud to become the favourite of Queen Anne in this sharp, bitter and funny costume drama	Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Cast: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz
	Fences – in 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black father clashes with his son and makes big promises to his wife	Director: Denzel Washington Cast: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Jovan Adepo
	Fiddler on the Roof – realist-tinged musical adaptation with a star turn and a growing sense of tragedy	Director: Norman Jewison Cast: Topol, Norma Crane, Rosalind Harris
	The Fifth Estate – biopic of wikileaks founder Julian Assange, which manages to totally fumble all its points	Director: Bill Condon Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Alicia Vikander
	Fifty Shades of Grey – shockingly bad film, based on a soft porn book that was an inexplicable global sensation	Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson Cast: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eloise Mumford
	Fight Club – dark satire about the founding of a cult, a little too pleased with itself but still electric	Director: David Fincher Cast: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter
	The Fighter – two boxing brothers battle family clashes and addiction in this warm-hearted Rocky-ish tale	Director: David O. Russell Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo, Amy Adams
	Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool – Gloria Grahame, in the last years of her life, forms a relationship with a younger man	Director: Paul McGuigan Cast: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters
	Firebrand – not entirely successful dramatically, attempt to reclaim Katherine Parr from history’s trivia corner	Director: Karim Aïnouz Cast: Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Simon Russell Beale
	The Firm – a cocksure laywer works for a big firm – and finds out its up to no good, in this not-very-good Grisham plotboiler	Director: Sydney Pollack Cast: Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Jeanne Tripplehorn
	The First Great Train Robbery – in Victorian London a gang of criminals plans a train heist.	Director: Michael Chrichton Cast: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley Anne-Down
	First Knight – old-fashioned, romantic retelling of the Arthurian legend that focuses on the love triangle	Director: Jerry Zucker Cast: Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond
	First Man – handsome biography of Neil Armstrong that, like its lead, is a little cold and easier to admire than like	Director: Damien Chazelle Cast: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke
	The Fisher King – a fired shock-jock gets wrapped up in a homeless man’s quest for the Holy Grail	Director: Terry Gilliam Cast: Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl
	Five Easy Pieces – a self-loathing pianist doesn’t fit in anywhere in this searing drama with a scintillating Nicholson	Director: Bob Rafelson Cast: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach
	Five Graves to Cairo – a British corporal has to outfox Rommel in this overlooked wartime spy thriller	Director: Billy Wilder Cast: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich von Stroheim
	The Flash – the DCU finally dies with this awful mess, full of fan-pleasing nonsense and free of emotion or sense	Director: Andy Muschiette Cast: Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton, Sasha Calle
	Flash Gordon – cult, but actually awful, campy attempt to capture some of the Star Wars magic.	Director: Mike Hodges Cast: Sam J Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow
	The Flight of the Phoenix – an aircraft crashes in the desert and the survivors must rebuild it to have any chance of surviving	Director: Robert Aldrich Cast: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch
	For Your Eyes Only – Bond goes back to basics, in a low-key adventure hunting for a missing computer in Greece	Director: John Glen Cast: Roger Moore, Carol Bouquet, Topol
	Ford v Ferrari (Le Mans ’66) – a Brit driver and retired racer turned engineer, work to create the perfect race car	Director: James Mangold Cast: Christian Bale, Matt Damon, Caitríona Balfe
	Foreign Correspondent – spy thriller in the Blitz, as Hitchcock pleads for America to join the war	Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, George Sanders
	Forrest Gump – tiresome Best Picture winner about a man with learning difficulties, smug, sanctimonious and smackable	Director: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Robin Wright, Sally Field
	Fort Apache – a martinet colonel leads his regiment to near disaster in this gripping Western	Director: John Ford Cast: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Ward Bond
	42nd Street – joyous film about a musical theatre production, full of the joy of theatre	Director: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, Ruby Keeler
	45 Years – on the eve of their anniversary, a husband reveals a secret to his wife that changes everything	Director: Andrew Haigh Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay
	The Founder – a businessman spots an opportunity in a burger stand in this fascinating McDonalds history	Director: John Lee Hancock Cast: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch
	The Four Feathers – classic boys-own British Empire hero story as a man is mistaken for a coward but proves his worth	Director: Zoltan Korda Cast: John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith
	The Four Hundred Blows – adults can’t see the artistic heart of a young tearaway in this marvellous coming-of-age tale	Director: François Truffaut Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier
	The Four Musketeers – much darker sequel that awkwardly tries to keep the jokes up, not always successfully	Director: Richard Lester Cast: Michael York, Oliver Reed, Faye Dunaway
	Four Weddings and a Funeral – a clumsy Brit falls in love with a Southern Belle in the Brit comic phenomenon	Director: Mike Newell Cast: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Simon Callow
	Frankenstein – iconic monster film, whose imagery totally reinvented public perception of the novel	Director: James Whale Cast: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff
	Frankenstein – del Toro’s dream project, a Gothic spectacular that places its sympathy with the Creature	Director: Guillermo del Toro Cast: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz
	Free Fire – an arms sale turns into a mass shootout in this action filled black comedy	Director: Ben Wheatley Cast: Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Brie Larsen
	The French Connection – Best Picture winner about an obsessed cop chasing down French drugs and damn the consequences	Director: William Friedkin Cast: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey
	French Connection II – Popeye Doyle follows those French drugs all the way back to Marseilles in this solid sequel	Director: John Frankenheimer Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson
	The French Lieutenant’s Woman – a Victorian man loves a fallen woman, while the actor playing him loves his co-star	Director: Karel Reisz Cast: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Leo McKern
	Freud – the famous psychologist develops his theories in an intriguing film	Director: John Huston Cast: Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks
	From Here to Eternity – Best Picture winning Pearl Harbor drama, as soldiers struggle against the system in late 1941	Director: Fred Zinneman Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
	The Front – a front for Blacklisted writers grows a conscience in this heartfelt mix of comedy and tragedy	Director: Martin Ritt Cast: Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Michael Murphy
	The Front Page – original (and perhaps best) version of the definitive story of cynical journalism	Director: Lewis Milestone Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O’Brien, Mary Brian
	The Front Runner – in 1988 Gary Hart runs for President – but is caught in a lie on his infidelity	Director: Jason Reitman Cast: Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, JK Simmons
	Frost/Nixon – very well made play adaptation about David Frost’s famous interviews with Richard Nixon	Director: Ron Howard Cast: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon
	Frozen 2 – Elsa is drawn towards a voice from the wilderness that may hold the key to secrets in the kingdom	Director: Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck Cast: Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Josh Gadd, Jonathan Groff
	The Fugitive – an innocent man goes on the run to prove his innocence in this superb chase thriller	Director: Andrew Davis Cast: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Jeroen Krabbé
	The Full Monty – unemployed Sheffield steelworkers decide to become strippers who go ‘the full monty’ in this Brit mega-hit	Director: Peter Cattaneo Cast: Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, Tom Wilkinson
	Funny Girl – Streisand is sensational in this otherwise slightly flat musical that never quite offers as much show as you’d like	Director: William Wyler Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Walter Pidgeon
	Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – demented prequel, full of imagination, even if you are never sure you need it	Director: George Miller Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke
	Fury – a WW2 tank crew lead the line in Normandy in this solid but unmemorable war film	Director: David Ayer Cast: Brad Pitt, Logan Lehman, Shia LeBeouf