T

	The Talented Mr Ripley – a closeted man envies and loves his rich friend so much he murders him and takes his identity	Director: Anthony Minghella Cast: Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow
	Tár – a conductor is wrapped in scandal in this mesmerising film, open to multiple interpretations	Director: Todd Field Cast: Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant
	Taxi Driver – a desperate nobody fixates on a woman, a Presidential candidate and a child prostitute. Gripping, essential.	Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro, Cybil Shepherd, Jodie Foster
	The Ten Commandments – DeMille’s swan song, the biggest, campiest, most famous Biblical epic of them all	Director: Cecil B DeMille Cast: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
	Ten Rillington Place – excellent true-life crime drama, focusing on John Christie and the wrongful execution of Timothy Evans	Director: Richard Fleischer Cast: Richard Attenborough, John Hurt, Judy Geeson
	Tender Mercies – a reformed country and western singer searches for joy in Chekovian drama	Director: Bruce Beresford Cast: Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley
	Tenet – a secret agent is hired by a secret organisation, in this undefinable mix of Bond and time travel	Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Kenneth Branagh
	Terminator 2: Judgment Day – superior sequel: a cyborg travels back in time to save the future leader of the human resistance	Director: James Cameron Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong
	Terminator: Genisys – second attempt to kickstart the franchise, a messy, personality-free disaster	Director: Alan Taylor Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtenay
	Terminator: Dark Fate – surely one final time to relaunch the franchise, a better movie but a box-office disaster	Director: Tim Miller Cast: Linda Hamilton, Mackenzie Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger
	Terms of Endearment – Best Picture winning tearjerker about the fractious relationship between a mother and daughter	Director: James L Brooks Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson
	Tess – beautifully shot and tragic (if a little long) Hardy adaptation, filmed in France (for obvious legal reasons)	Director: Roman Polanski Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson
	Thank You For Smoking – a corporate lobbyist is a mouthpiece for the smoking industry	Director: Jason Reitman Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Katie Holmes, Maria Bello
	Their Finest – making of a nation moving WW2 picture, the brain child of an undervalued female scriptwriter	Director: Lone Scherfig Cast: Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy
	Thelma and Louise – iconic feminist movie, as two women go on the run after killing a would-be rapist	Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel
	The Theory of Everything – sanitised but heart-warming Stephen Hawking biopic, focusing on his marriage	Director: James Marsh Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox
	There Will Be Blood – one of the greatest film of the decade, a ruthless oil man will sacrifice anything for fortune	Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J O’Connor
	They Made Me a Fugitive – don’t get confused with Odd Man Out… impressive man on the run drama	Director: Alberto Calvalcanti Cast: Trevor Howard, Sally Jones, Griffith Jones
	The Thing – on an Antarctic base, a shapeshifting alien hunts down the crew. Body horror classic.	Director: John Carpenter Cast: Kurt Russell, Wilfrid Brimley, TK Carter
	Things to Come – HG Wells utopia future has flat dialogue but great visuals in this sci-fi curiosity	Director: William Cameron Menzies Cast: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson
	The Third Man – one of the greatest films ever made, a naive American finds out unfortunate facts about his dead friend	Director: Carol Reed Cast: Joseph Cotton, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Alida Valli
	Thirteen Lives – the astonishing rescue of a group of boys from caves in Thailand brilliantly dramatised	Director: Ron Howard Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton, Tom Bateman
	This Sporting Life – a self-loathing rugby player struggles to express his feelings in this hard-hitting kitchen sink drama	Director: Lindsay Anderson Cast: Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel
	Thor: Ragnarak – hilarious Marvel film, that brilliantly reinvents Thor as someone lighter, funnier and tragic	Director: Taika Waititi Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett
	Thor: Love and Thunder – smug, unfunny, self-satisfied adventure, takes all the wrong lessons from Ragnorak	Director: Taika Waititi Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – a mother campaigns for justice for her murdered son	Director: Martin McDonagh Cast: Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson
	Three Colours: Blue – first of this legendary trilogy: the wife of a composer is consumed with grief by his death	Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Emmanuelle Riva
	Three Colours: White – a husband has everything taken from him by his cheating wife and plans revenge	Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski Cast: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos
	Three Colours: Red – final, and greatest, film in the trilogy: a student and a retired judge form an unlikely bond	Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski Cast: Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Lorit
	Three Days of the Condor – after his whole team is killed on his bosses orders, a young CIA analyst tries to find out why	Director: Sydney Pollack Cast: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow
	Through a Glass Darkly – a woman suffering schizophrenia doubts God’s existence in this Bergman Oscar-winner	Director: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow
	Thunderball – Bond searches for lost nuclear weapons and spends a lot of time underwater in a film I’ve often found boring	Director: Terence Young Cast: Sean Connery, Alfredo Celi, Claudine Auger
	Tick… Tick… Boom – Jonathan Larsen worries his chances of making his mark are fading, in this loving musical tribute	Director: Lin-Manuel Miranda Cast: Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesús
	Time After Time – HG Wells builds a time machine and chases a fleeing Jack the Ripper to 1970s San Francisco	Director: Nicholas Meyer Cast: Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen
	Time Bandits – a young boy joins a group of time travelling dwarves in this wonderful fantasy for history buffs	Director: Terry Gilliam Cast: Craig Warnock, David Rappaport, Kenny Baker
	The Time Machine – disastrously awful version, made worse by being directed by Wells’ Great-Grandson	Director: Simon Wells Cast: Guy Pearce, Samantha Mumba, Jeremy Irons
	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – brilliant, atmospheric adaptation of Le Carré’s Mole-hunt classic	Director: Tomas Alfredson Cast: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Benedict Cumberbatch
	To Catch a Thief – Cary Grant is the retired thief falsely accused of a new crime in his luscious but middle-road Hitchcock	Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis
	Tokyo Story – a retired couple are ignored by their children in one of the greatest, and simplest, films ever made	Director: Yasujirō Ozu Cast: Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara
	Tom Jones – Best Picture winning sex-farce about a rogueish adopted son of a country squire, which tries way to hard	Director: Tony Richardson Cast: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith
	Tomorrow Never Dies – Bond goes up against a media tycoon, planning to start a war for ratings. Brosnan on top form	Director: Roger Spottiswoode Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh
	Tootsie – a difficult actor finds work disguised as a woman and winning a part on a TV soap. Superb, smart comedy	Director: Sydney Pollack Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr
	Top Gun – Cruise flies planes and Goose dies: that’s the basic sum of the plot of this mega smash-hit	Director: Tony Scott Cast: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Val Kilmer
	Top Gun: Maverick – Tom Cruise flies again in this much-better-than-the-original sequel	Director: Joseph Kosinski Cast: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Jon Hamm
	Top Hat – classic Astaire and Rogers dancing, in glorious top hat and tails	Director: Mark Sandrich Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
	Topsy-Turvy – brilliant Gilbert and Sullivan biopic, also a wonderful celebration of the power and magic of theatre	Director: Mike Leigh Cast: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Timothy Spall
	Total Recall – action satire; in a dytopian future, a man has a fantasy of being a spy on Mars: but what if its actually true?	Director: Paul Verhoeven Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone
	Touch of Evil – late Welles masterpiece about a corrupt cop in a Southern border-town, dealing with murder and mayhem	Director: Orson Welles Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
	The Towering Inferno – does exactly what it says on the tin, in this classic all-star disaster film.	Director: Irwin Allen, John Guillermin Cast: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway
	Toy Story 4 – not sure there was a reason to make a fourth film, and this doesn’t really supply one	Director: Josh Cooley Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts
	The Tragedy of Macbeth – glorious, imaginative and compelling version one of the best Shakespeare films	Director: Joel Coen Cast: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Corey Hawkins
	The Train – a French resistance fighter frustrates a German general, stealing France’s art legacy by train	Director: John Frankenheimer Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
	Trainspotting – iconic film about addiction: Scottish youngsters cope with drug dependence	Director: Danny Boyle Cast: Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle
	Transformers: Dark of the Moon – simply horrible, horrible film that plumbs almost every crude depth	Director: Michael Bay Cast: Shia LeBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro
	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre – brilliant gold hunting drama of obsession, greed and mistrust	Director: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – sentimental tear-jerker on the tough life of an Irish-American family	Director: Elia Kazan Cast: Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire, James Dunn
	The Trial of the Chicago 7 – solid, crowd-pleasing film about the trial of Democratic activists in 1968	Director: Aaron Sorkin Cast: Edjie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
	Triangle of Sadness – rather obvious satire on the super-rich, as a yacht cruise turns into Lord of the Flies	Director: Ruben Östlund Cast: Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon
	Triple 9 – thieves plan to get away with a heist by distracting the cops by killing another cop somewhere else	Director: John Hillcoat Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Antony Mackie, Casey Affleck
	Trouble in Paradise – two con artists in a relationship decide to con a rich woman: not helped when he falls in love with her	Director: Ernst Lubitsch Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall
	Troy – revisionist Trojan war epic. One of those epic films I have a real soft spot for	Director: Wolfgang Petersen Cast: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom
	True Grit – Wayne wins the Oscar as an eye-patched Marshal in a film already old-fashioned when it was released	Director: Henry Hathaway Cast: John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell
	The Truman Show – a man unwittingly lives in an invented world and is actually the star of a reality TV show	Director: Peter Weir Cast: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Natasha McElhone
	Trumbo – biopic of the Hollywood scriptwriter, blacklisted and forced to work anonymously	Director: Jay Roach Cast: Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren, Diane Lane
	The Turning Point – two ballet dancers – one who retired young, one near the end of her career – deal with old resentments	Director: Herbert Ross Cast: Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Tom Skerritt
	12 Angry Men – a single juror tries to win over the rest in one of the greatest trial dramas ever made	Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J Cobb, Ed Begley
	12 Monkeys – a time-travelling criminal is sent back 40 years to 1996 to find the origins of a world-ending virus	Director: Terry Gilliam Cast: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt
	Twelve O’Clock High – a hot shot general tries not to buckle under pressure commanding a WW2 bomber wing	Director: Henry King Cast: Gregory Peck, Dean Jagger, Hugh Marlowe
	Twentieth Century – a theatre producer tries to cajole his former star to return with him to Broadway	Director: Howard Hawks Cast: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly
	23 Paces to Baker Street – despite the title, this murder mystery about a blind man has nothing to do with Sherlock Holmes	Director: Henry Hathaway Cast: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker
	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me – spin-off of the TV series, Lynch reclaims it with added weirdness and darkness	Director: David Lynch Cast: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick
	Twister – storm chasers flirt and flee from the winds in this deeply silly disaster film	Director: Jan de Bont Cast: Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes
	The Two Popes – Benedict XVI meets with the future Pope Francis, in this witty, excellently acted odd-couple movie	Director: Fernando Meirelles Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins

U

	U-571 – American sailors steal the Enigma machine so their code breakers can crack it. Didn’t go down well in the UK	Director: Jonathan Mostow Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Harvey Keitel, Bill Paxton
	Unbroken – a POW survives incredible suffering and being stranded at sea during WW2	Director: Angelina Jolie Cast: Jack O’Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund
	Uncut Gems – a luckless gem dealer needs a big score to clear his gambling debts in this electric comedy thriller	Director: Benny & Josh Safdie Cast: Adam Sandler, Lakeith Stanfield, Julia Fox
	Under Fire – well-made but naive film about Nicaragua that pulls its punches and settles for melodrama	Director: Roger Spottiswoode Cast: Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy
	Unforgiven – brilliant Best Picture winning Western: a retired killer is lured back and slowly finds he can still kill	Director: Clint Eastwood Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
	A United Kingdom – an African Prince marries a British woman but they face huge obstacles to stay together	Director: Amma Assante Cast: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Terry Pheto
	The Untouchables – FBI Agents take on Al Capone in this superb cops and robbers film (with added Eisenstein homage)	Director: Brian de Palma Cast: Kevin Coster, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Andy Garcia
	Up in the Air – a consultant who flies across America, firing people for downsizing companies, questions his choices	Director: Jason Reitman Cast: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick
	Us – creep horror as a woman encounters a sinister doppelganger of herself – is there a dark mystery behind it?	Director: Jordan Peele Cast: Lupita N’yongo, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph
	The Usual Suspects – a mismatched gang of crooks are recruited by a mysterious mastermind. But who is he?	Director: Bryan Singer Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Chazz Palminteri

V

	Vera Drake – a 1950s abortionist is arrested in this superb social issues drama, possibly Leigh’s best film	Director: Mike Leigh Cast: Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Peter Wight
	Vertical Limit – dreadful Wages of Fears rip-off, as mountainers carry explosives up a mountain to dig out stranded friends	Director: Martin Campbell Cast: Chris O’Donnell, Bill Paxton, Scott Glenn
	Vertigo – a detective has fear of heights and an obsession with the woman he’s been hired to follow. One of the greatest films ever made.	Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara bel Geddes
	Vice – terrible, smug and obvious Dick Cheney polemic	Director: Adam McKay Cast: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Sam Rockwell
	Victim – a closeted lawyer is blackmailed in this pioneering drama on gay rights	Director: Basil Dearden Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Sims, Derek Price
	Victoria and Abdul – sentimental and feeble royal friendship drama, that has nothing interesting to say	Director: Stephen Frears Cast: Judi Dench, Ali Farzal, Tim Pigott-Smith
	The Vikings – swashbuckler about a Viking prince and a Saxon slave with a mysterious background	Director: Richard Fleischer Cast: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh
	The Virgin Spring – a senseless killing leads to loss of faith in Bergman’s challenging but essential ‘other’ Medieval film	Director: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Birgitta Pettersson
	Vita and Virginia – Virginia Woold and Vita Sackville West fall in love and have an affair in this odd film	Director: Chanya Button Cast: Gemma Arterton, Elizabeth Debicki, Isabella Rossellini
	Volcano – dreadful, predictable and very silly disaster film as a volcano erupts under LA. What are the odds?!	Director: Mick Jackson Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche

W

	The Wages of Fear – penniless workers have to drive explosive chemicals over dangerous terrain in this gripping thriller	Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot Cast: Yves Montard, Charles Vanel, Folco Lilli
	Waiting Women – three women share stories of their marriage in Bergman’s experiment with form and genre	Director: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Anita Björk, Eva Dahlbeck, Maj-Britt Nilsson
	Walk the Line – heartfelt Johnny Cash biopic	Director: James Mangold Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Reece Witherspoon
	Walkabout – dreamlike coming-of-age story set in the Australian outback	Director: Nicolas Roeg Cast: Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, David Gulpilil
	War of the Planet of the Apes – Caesar seeks revenge after tragedy hits his family, during a war between man and ape	Director: Matt Reeves Cast: Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn
	WarGames – a computer wants to play a game: unfortunately the game is Thermonuclear war…	Director: John Badham Cast: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood
	Watch on the Rhine – dated at the time anti-Nazi film, too wordy and not dramatic enough	Director: Herman Shumlin Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Lucile Watson
	Watchmen – reverent graphic novel adaptation that captures the visuals but not the depth	Director: Zach Snyder Cast: Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode
	The Water Diviner – after his sons are MIA after Gallipoli, a father travels to Turkey to find their bodies	Director: Russell Crowe Cast: Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Dylan Georgiades
	Waterloo – practically a reconstruction of the battle, shot on a massive scale; the sort of film I’m a sucker for	Director: Sergei Bondarchuk Cast: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles
	WaterWorld – a mutant mariner helps a woman and child in a water-soaked dystopian world. Legendary box office bomb.	Director: Kevin Reynolds Cast: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn
	The Way Back – in the 1940s men escape from a Siberian Gulag and walk across Asia to freedom	Director: Peter Weir Cast: Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan
	West Side Story – Best Picture winning classic musical about dancing street gangs with some of the best dancing you’ll ever see	Director: Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno
	West Side Story – vibrant and dynamic remake that places Puerto Rican culture more at its heart	Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, Mike Faist
	The Westerner – Ford western bromance between a cowboy and Judge Roy Bean	Director: William Wyler Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport
	The Whale – dishonest, disingenuous, manipulative, sentimental – a dying obese man tries connect with his daughter	Director: Darren Aronofsky Cast: Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau
	What We Do In the Shadows – very funny spoof, as a group of vampires house-share in New Zealand	Director: Jermaine Clement, Taika Waititi Cast: Taika Waititi, Jermaine Clement, Jonathan Brudgh
	Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? – two sisters feud over the past in the first ever “hag horror”	Director: Robert Aldrich Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
	White Heat – Cagney makes it to the top of the world as possibly the most psychotic gangster this side of Goodfellas	Director: Raoul Walsh Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
	The White Ribbon – chilling parable: a village in 1900s Germany faces a series of outrages possibly carried out by children	Director: Micheal Haneke Cast: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Burghart Klaußner
	The White Tiger – a poor Indian works as a chauffeur for a rich couple and is asked to take the blame for their mistakes	Director: Ramin Bahrani Cast: Adarsh Gourav, Priyanka Chopra Jones, Rajkummar Rao
	Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – a married couple play psychological games with themselves and their guests	Director: Mike Nichols Cast: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
	Widows – the wives of a gang of late-criminals, have no choice but to complete the final heist they planned	Director: Steve McQueen Cast: Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki
	The Wife – a celebrated writer picks up a Nobel Prize: but how much of his success should actually be credited to his wife?	Director: Björn Runge Cast: Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater
	Wild – a woman wants to recover from grief and addiction by an epic hike: a lot more than just Eat, Pray, Hike	Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski
	Wild at Heart – a released killer and his girl go on the run in this dark and irritating Lynchian film	Director: David Lynch Cast: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd
	The Wild Bunch – a bunch of old cowboys rage against the dying of the light in this hugely violent, brilliant Western	Director: Sam Peckinpah Cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan
	Wild Rose – an irresponsible cleaner with a powerful voice dreams of being a country and western singer	Director: Tom Harper Cast: Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters, Sophie Okonedo
	Wild Strawberries – an aged doctor reflects on life and loss in Bergman’s surprisingly optimistic road-trip movie	Director: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin
	Wilde – biopic, with a perfectly cast Fry, that sometimes feels a little uncertain on its attitudes and tone	Director: Brian Gilbert Cast: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Jennifer Ehle
	Wilson – Zanuck’s dream project, a very earnest biography of Woodrow Wilson	Director: Henry King Cast: Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Cedric Hardwicke
	The Wind That Shakes the Barley – Loach mourns the loss of the Socialist Republic of Ireland in the 1920s	Director: Ken Loach Cast: Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham
	Wings – silent WW1 flying action film and buddy movie, the first Best Picture winner: pilots love the same woman but become friends	Director: William A Wellman Stars: Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen
	The Winslow Boy – handsome, faithful Rattigan adaptation as a father works for justice for his son	Director: David Mamet Cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Jeremy Northam, Rebecca Pidgeon
	Witness – an Amish boy witnesses a murder. A detective goes undercover to protect him and falls in love with his mother	Director: Peter Weir Cast: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas
	Witness for the Prosecution – Agatha Christie courtroom drama adaptation, with one of the best twists ever	Director: Billy Wilder Cast: Charles Laughton, Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power
	The Wolf of Wall Street – a Wall Street crook takes almost as man drugs as he steals dollars in this electric classic	Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie
	The Wolverine – the clawed superhero searches for peace in Japan – but of course doesn’t find it	Director: James Mangold Cast: Hugh Jackman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tak Okamoto
	The Woman in Black – a widowed solicitor explores a haunted house. Good jump horror film with a too young star	Director: James Watkins Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer
	Woman in Gold – cosy Philomena rip off: woman and her lawyer fight for a painting stolen from her family in WW2	Director: Simon Curtis Cast: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl
	The Woman King – warrior women in 1820s Africa fight to protect their kingdom in a punchy action epic	Director: Gina Prince-Bythe Cast: Viola Davis, Thusu Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, John Boyega
	Women in Love – two couples struggle for love and happiness in this arty and odd DH Lawrence adaptation	Director: Ken Russell Cast: Glenda Jackson, Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Jennie Linden
	Women Talking – admirably well-meaning feminist drama, but it doesn’t succeed as well as it might	Director: Sarah Polley Cast: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckely
	Wonder Woman – Wonder Women fights an evil German General in WW1: not as revolutionary as it claims	Director: Patty Jenkins Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, David Thewlis
	Wonder Woman 1984 – unfairly criticised sequel, in many ways more fun and engaging than the first	Director: Patty Jenkins Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristin Wiig, Pedro Pascal
	Working Girl – a secretary has business smarts – but her ideas stolen by her female boss – in this Wall Street comedy	Director: Mike Nichols Cast: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver
	The World is Not Enough – Bond gets involved in mysterious threats to a pipeline – but who can he trust?	Director: Michael Apted Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle
	The Wrong Box – old-school farce full of mistaken identity and black comedy, sometimes tries a little too hard	Director: Bryan Forbes Cast: John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine

X

	X-Men: Apocalypse – the heroes take on a super powerful mutant aiming to destroy the world (again) in a series rapidly running out of ideas	Director: Bryan Singer Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence
	X-Men: Dark Phoenix – final flourish of the prequel films, with all ideas finally gone, though not as bad as all that	Director: Simon Kinberg Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jessica Chastain

Y

	Yankee Doodle Dandy – all-singing, all-dancing Broadway legend biopic	Director: Michael Curtiz Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
	You Only Live Twice – Bond goes to Japan and meets Blofield. Connery looks like he wants to be literally anywhere else	Director: Lewis Gilbert Cast: Sean Connery, Donald Pleasance, Akiko Wakabayashi
	Young Mr Lincoln – myth-making ‘origins story’ for America’s greatest President	Director: John Ford Cast: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver
	The Young Victoria – affectionate costume drama on the romance between Victoria and Albert	Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Cast: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany
	Young Winston – handsome biopic covering the early years of Winston Churchill, from cradle to maiden speech at the commons	Director: Richard Attenborough Cast: Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft
	Youth – a retired composer rebuilds relations with his daughter at a Swiss retreat for the rich and famous	Director: Paolo Sorrentino Cast: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz

Z

	Zardoz – in the future a slave hunter discovers he is the tool of the Gods. Or something. Crazy sci-fi, as bad as it sounds	Director: John Boorman Cast: Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman
	Zero Dark Thirty – morally dubious Hunt for Bin Laden film, that (inadvertently?) builds a strong case for torture	Director: Kathryn Bigelow Cast: Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Jennifer Ehle
	Zodiac – three men hunt for the Zodiac Killer in Fincher’s masterful true-crime thriller about the dangers of obsession	Director: David Fincher Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jnr
	Zorba the Greek – a Brit learns to become Greek from a larger-than-life peasant in a tonally confused film	Director: Michael Cacoyannis Cast: Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas, Lila Kedrova
	Zulu – a small group of British soldiers stand firm against overwhelming orders in this non-triumphalist Zulu war film	Director: Cy Endfield Cast: Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins