Legends of the Fall (1994)

Pure, unembarrassed melodrama, and the most windswept film here. Edward Zwick follows the Ludlow brothers on their father's Montana ranch across several decades of the early 20th century, with a world war, a rivalry soured by jealousy and Julia Ormond's Susannah, whose love for the restless Tristan bends every life around her. Brad Pitt plays Tristan at full mythic volume, all long hair and horseback silhouettes against the mountains, and Anthony Hopkins anchors the family as the colonel. It is the kind of epic that occasionally mistakes grandeur for depth, so take it for what it is: gorgeous scenery, big emotions and a romance where years of absence only make the longing louder.