the 20 best film in history

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

A happy bank clerk loses his identity after a robbery and is then presumed dead.

An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

A woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.

A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.

A married farmer falls under the spell of a sophisticated woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.

The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.

A notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved.

Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

A film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.

A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes.

A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.

A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.

During the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.

A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.

In France during the late 18th Century, a man sets out to avenge the death of his friend at the hands of a master swordsman.

Four historical tales depict the ongoing human struggle against prejudice and inhumanity.

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.

At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.