2. Schindler's List (Oskar & Stern)
Oskar and Stern are the perfect odd couple at completely the wrong time. You could almost see them together in another genre, like a Midnight Run kind of thing (Charles Grodin!). Oskar and Stern are opposites in almost every sense of the word, from their upbringing to their personalities to their statures, and the alliance they strike up truly goes from point A to point Z, from business partners to partners in unfathomable heroics to permanently endeared souls, very gradually and all at once. Their superbly entertaining, entrancing juxtaposition and constantly developing cinematic friendship help get the audience through the horrors of the movie in many ways, much like both elements help the characters in the movie persevere through the horrors they actually experience.