Dinner guests who cannot leave the room, for weeks; Bunuel in Mexico.
An old man is shuttled between Bucharest hospitals for a night; black comedy as indictment.
Parents keep their adult children inside a walled garden with a false language; Lanthimos' breakout.
A butcher's apartment block in a post-apocalyptic France; Jeunet and Caro's bedspring rhythm.
A son accuses his father at a 60th birthday dinner; the first Dogme 95 film.
Fifty years of Yugoslavia in a cellar with a brass band; Kusturica's second Palme d'Or.
Two out-of-work actors go on holiday by mistake to the Lake District; the British cult comedy.
A corporate recruiter who steals art picks the wrong target; Jo Nesbo's thriller on screen.
Two estranged Icelandic brothers and a sheep disease; the Grimsson beards.
A family funeral home in Los Angeles; the finale is the one everyone cites.
Ben Kingsley as the most terrifying gangster in Britain arrives at a Costa del Sol villa.
An anthology in the Coens' Minnesota; each season a new decade and a new crime.
A mechanic recognises the man who tortured him in prison; Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or.
Two conspiracy theorists kidnap a CEO they think is an alien; Lanthimos and Emma Stone again.
Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding, the Nancy Kerrigan attack told as mockumentary.
Leonardo DiCaprio as a washed-up revolutionary hunted by Sean Penn; PTA's Pynchon action film.
A man stops being his friend's friend on an Irish island in 1923, and starts cutting off fingers.
A Black detective infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan by phone in 1972; Spike Lee's Oscar for the script.
Emma Stone as a woman with an infant's brain discovering the world; Lanthimos' Victorian fantasy.
A luxury cruise, a Marxist captain, a storm at dinner and an island where the cleaner rules.
Two women fight for Queen Anne's favour in a fisheye court; Olivia Colman's Oscar.
A Hitler Youth boy with an imaginary Hitler played by Taika Waititi hides a Jewish girl.
Carey Mulligan pretends to be drunk to catch predators; Emerald Fennell's candy-coloured revenge.
Natalie Portman studies Julianne Moore for a film about her tabloid marriage; Todd Haynes.
Robert Pattinson dies and is reprinted on an ice planet; Bong Joon-ho's English-language satire.
A father runs from an avalanche and leaves his family; a marriage dissects itself over a ski week.
Isabelle Huppert is raped and refuses to be a victim; Verhoeven's most provocative film.
Two hitmen hiding in Bruges; Colin Farrell hates the place and Ralph Fiennes arrives.
Six Argentine stories of revenge, from a plane full of enemies to a wedding.
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