Barry Lyndon (1975, UK)

In director Stanley Kubrick's three-hour visually-stunning costume period-drama (with astonishing, gorgeous candlelit cinematography by John Alcott, oil painting-like tableauxs, and superb costuming) adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's 1844 novel with stately voice-over narration by Michael Hordern - about the rise and fall of an opportunistic rogue:

• the opening duel scene set in 1750s Ireland - with the film's opening line: "Gentlemen, cock your pistols. Gentlemen. Aim your pistols. One! Two! Three!" - resulting in the death of 'Barry Lyndon's father Redmond Barry over a horse sale altercation: (Narrator: "Barry's father had been bred, like many sons of genteel families to the profession of the law. There is no doubt he would've made an eminent figure in his profession had he not been killed in a duel which arose over the purchase of some horses")
• the film's second fateful dueling scene of impetuous and jealous young Irish rogue son Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal) competing against suitor Captain John Quin (Leonard Rossiter) for the affection of his pretty cousin Nora Brady (Gay Hamilton) - with Barry's stubborn assertion: ("I'm not sorry and I'll not apologize")
• Barry's joining of the British Army, and his bare fist-fight with a burly fellow soldier Poole (Pat Roach)
• the battle scene (of the Seven Years' War) of British soldiers marching toward the French troops in rows and being mowed down in the Battle of Minden - with the death of Barry's friend Captain Grogan (Godfrey Quigley) in a muddy ditch

Barry In the British Army During Seven Years' War

• after deserting the Army, Barry's brief affair with a young, pretty Prussian-German war bride and peasant mother Lieschen (Diana Korner) whose husband was away at war; the lonely woman served him a candlelight dinner while also feeding her one year-old baby boy Peter, and asked him: "You are sometimes lonely?...Would you like to stay with me?"; at their sad farewell the next morning after they professed their love for each other, the sardonic off-screen voice-over: "This heart of Lieschen's was like many a neighboring town that had been stormed and occupied several times before Barry came to invest it"
• Barry's admission of spying for Prussian Captain Potzdorf (Hardy Krüger) to nobleman Chevalier de Balibari (Patrick Magee): ("I have a confession to make to you. I'm an Irishman...")
• the scenes of Barry's noticing of Lady Lyndon (Marisa Berenson), the Countess of Lyndon - married to aging and terminally-sick Sir Charles Lyndon (Frank Middlemass) - and the seduction scene during his first flirtatious meeting with her in a gamester session, lit only with candlelight, casting a reddish glow, soon after followed by his stately courtship and Barry's marriage into wealth - becoming Barry Lyndon

Barry's Encounters and Subsequent Romance & Marriage With Countess of Lyndon (Marisa Berenson)

• their ultimately unhappy marriage ("Lady Lyndon tended to a melancholy and maudlin temper, and, left alone by her husband, was rarely happy or in good humor. Now, she must add jealousy to her other complaints and find rivals even among her maids"), exemplified by the scene of Lady Lyndon witnessing Barry's unfaithfulness in the garden with a maid, and his subsequent sincere apology to her while she sat motionless and passive in her bath, but then kissed him
• the scene of Barry's detestable teenaged step-son Lord Bullingdon (Leon Vitali) accusing his father of years of physical abuse toward him and the Lyndon family during an afternoon concert in the drawing room: ("...his brutal and ungentlemen-like behavior, his open infidelity, his shameless robberies and swindling of my property, and yours") and Barry's brawling retaliation against his step-son for defaming him in front of an audience
• the sad death scene of Barry's 9 year-old son Bryan (David Morley) after being thrown from a horse (given as a birthday present) and paralyzed three days earlier - with his parents at his bedside when he expired
• the film's lengthy third duel scene of Barry vs. his stepson Lord Bullingdon ("I have not received satisfaction") with pistols in a barn - Lord Bullingdon fired first but misfired, then Barry shot his pistol into the ground to avoid confrontation; during the second round of firing, Barry was hit in the left leg (that required amputation)
• the final shot of aging, sad and gray-haired Lady Lyndon reacting sorrowfully and wistfully to Barry's name as she signed his yearly annuity/bribe (to stay away from her and England) of 500 guineas, to be sent to him in Ireland