A wuxia of exiled swordsmen in a desert, cut and recut for years; Christopher Doyle's desert light.
A triad and his reckless little brother; Wong's first film, and the most conventional.
A war reporter asks a friend to be there when she dies; Almodovar's first English feature, and a Golden Lion.
Two women give birth on the same day, and Spain digs up a Civil War grave.
A blind screenwriter remembers the film and the woman that blinded him; Penelope Cruz.
A shooting binds five lives across twenty years of Spain.
A romance novelist who can no longer write romance; the turn towards Almodovar's mature films.
A television newsreader confesses to murder on air, and her mother is the star in the audience.
A discharged patient kidnaps an actress and waits for her to love him; the film that changed US ratings.
A film director, his trans sister and an obsessive lover; Almodovar's breakthrough in Spain.
A retired bullfighter and a lawyer share a taste for killing; Banderas early.
A Madrid housewife on amphetamines kills her husband with a ham bone.
An uncle arrives after a father's death; Park's English-language debut, written by Wentworth Miller.
A priest becomes a vampire through a failed experiment; Zola by way of Korean horror.
A woman released after thirteen years for a murder she did not commit collects her debts.
A shooting in the DMZ investigated from both sides; the film that made Park's name in Korea.
A brutal debt collector meets a woman claiming to be his mother; the Golden Lion of 2012.
Two schoolgirls sell sex for a trip to Europe, and a father finds out.
A gangster forces a student into prostitution and watches her through a mirror.
A mute woman runs floating fishing huts and a fugitive arrives; the film that shocked Venice.
A former ballplayer in 1990s New York is handed a cat and the wrong people's problem.
A house, a poet and an escalating allegory that empties cinemas; Jennifer Lawrence.
The flood as an environmental epic with rock angels; Russell Crowe builds the ark.
Two friends kiss for a student film and cannot go back to what they were.
A dying writer comes home to tell his family and cannot get a word in; the Grand Prix at Cannes.
A man goes to his dead lover's farm and is kept there by the brother.
Two friends fall for the same beautiful stranger; slow motion and colour blocks.
A concert pianist visits the daughter she left; Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann in one long night.
A marriage taken apart over six episodes; divorce rates rose in Sweden after it aired.
Four people on a windswept island, with the actors stepping out to explain themselves.
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