Casablanca

U / Michael Curtiz / 1942 / Casablanca / USA
Bogart is Rick Blaine, an American expatriate and war profiteer in WW II Morocco. He's content to merely run the Cafe Americain until Ilsa, the luminous Bergman, returns to his life after breaking his heart years before. Ilsa's husband Victor Laszlo is the Czech Resistance leader whose only hope of safe transport from Morocco is Rick Blaine. Ilsa offers herself as a bargaining tool and Rick must choose between his own happiness and the lives of others. An accidental Hollywood masterpiece, this spine-tingling tear-jerker just gets better and better as time goes by.