Gael Garcia Bernal sells the campaign that voted out Pinochet in 1988, shot on 1980s video.
A colonial officer waits for a transfer that never comes; Lucrecia Martel's 18th-century fever.
Two con men and a sheet of rare stamps in Buenos Aires; Argentina's heist classic.
Sonia Braga refuses to sell her flat to developers in Recife; the film that fought Brazil's government.
A Brazilian village disappears from the map and hunters arrive; a western with drones.
Rio's BOPE police unit in the favelas; the Brazilian action film everyone argued about.
A letter writer at Rio's station takes an orphan across Brazil to find his father.
Young Che Guevara rides across South America in 1952; Gael Garcia Bernal and Walter Salles.
A lie in 1935 and the Dunkirk beach in one five-minute take.
Keira Knightley's Elizabeth and the hand flex; Joe Wright's dawn proposal.
Emma Thompson wrote and starred, Ang Lee directed; the best of the 1990s Austen wave.
Brad Pitt as an unintelligible boxer and an 86-carat diamond; Ritchie's follow-up.
Four friends, a card game and a lot of London gangsters; Guy Ritchie's debut.
A miner's son in the 1984 strike wants to dance ballet; Jamie Bell's furious tap.
Sheffield steelworkers become strippers; "Hot Stuff" in the dole queue.
Hugh Grant stammers through five ceremonies; the Richard Curtis template.
A 12-year-old joins a skinhead gang in 1983; Shane Meadows' Midlands.
Ben Kingsley as the most terrifying gangster in Britain arrives at a Costa del Sol villa.
Bob Hoskins as a London gangster whose empire explodes over one Easter weekend.
Two out-of-work actors go on holiday by mistake to the Lake District; the British cult comedy.
A Yorkshire boy trains a kestrel; Loach's 1969 masterpiece and the football lesson.
Two brothers in the Irish War of Independence and the civil war after; Loach's Palme d'Or.
A Dublin busker and a Czech pianist write songs for a week; "Falling Slowly" won the Oscar.
An old man is shuttled between Bucharest hospitals for a night; black comedy as indictment.
Two students arrange an illegal abortion in Ceausescu's Romania; the New Wave's Palme d'Or.
A Romani boy with telekinesis sold to a gangster; Kusturica's magical realism.
Fifty years of Yugoslavia in a cellar with a brass band; Kusturica's second Palme d'Or.
Two estranged Icelandic brothers and a sheep disease; the Grimsson beards.
A supermarket worker and an alcoholic welder in Helsinki fall in love over the radio news of Ukraine.
A man beaten and left with amnesia starts over among Helsinki's container dwellers; Kaurismaki.
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