Two girls named Marie decide to be as bad as the world; Vera Chytilova's anarchic collage.
A small-town firemen's ball where everything goes wrong; Forman's satire banned "forever" in 1968.
A factory girl in a town of women falls for a pianist from Prague; Forman's Czech New Wave comedy.
A couple and a hitchhiker on a sailboat for a weekend; Polanski's only Polish feature.
Stories inside stories in the Sierra Morena; the Polish cult film Scorsese and Coppola restored.
A film student investigates a forgotten Stalinist hero bricklayer; Wajda's Citizen Kane.
A Home Army soldier ordered to kill a communist on the last day of the war; Wajda and Cybulski.
The Red Army Faction from 1967 to 1977; Germany's terrorism epic.
Kinski hauls a steamship over a mountain in the Amazon, for real; Herzog's madness on film.
A woman rebuilds herself through the German economic miracle; Fassbinder's biggest hit.
A 60-year-old cleaner marries a Moroccan worker in Munich; Fassbinder's Sirk melodrama.
A son fakes the survival of East Germany for his mother after her coma; the Berlin Wall comedy.
A Bedouin boy follows his brother into the desert of 1916; Jordan's western.
A baker who climbs the wall to see his girlfriend is turned informant; Palestine's thriller.
Two friends from Nablus with 48 hours before a suicide bombing; Hany Abu-Assad.
An Israeli veteran reconstructs the 1982 Lebanon war in animated interviews.
A 12-year-old sues his parents for being born, in the slums of Beirut; Nadine Labaki.
A Saudi girl saves for a bicycle she is not supposed to ride; the first film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia.
A woman vanishes on a beach weekend and every lie surfaces; Farhadi before A Separation.
Marjane Satrapi's comic-book childhood in revolutionary Iran, animated in black and white.
A brother and sister share one pair of shoes; the first Iranian film nominated for an Oscar.
A blind boy home from school for the summer; Majidi's Iranian tearjerker.
A boy tries to return a classmate's notebook across two villages; Kiarostami's simplest film.
A man drives around Tehran looking for someone to bury him after his suicide; the Palme d'Or of 1997.
A man who impersonated a film director is tried, with everyone playing themselves; Kiarostami's docu-fiction.
Aamir Khan trains his daughters as wrestlers in Haryana; the true story and the biggest Indian film in China.
A man raised in a village discovers he is the heir of a kingdom; Indian cinema at its most enormous.
A wrongly delivered lunchbox starts a correspondence between a widower and a housewife in Mumbai.
Five hours of a coal-mafia feud across three generations; Anurag Kashyap's Godfather.
Three engineering students against a pressure-cooker college; the most watched Indian film of its time.
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