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.
A bourgeois writer stays in Havana after the revolution and watches through a telescope.
A letter writer at Rio's station takes an orphan across Brazil to find his father.
Penelope Cruz, her dead mother returned and a body in the freezer; Almodovar's La Mancha.
A family funeral home in Los Angeles; the finale is the one everyone cites.
Sonia Braga refuses to sell her flat to developers in Recife; the film that fought Brazil's government.
A Mexican girl cooks her emotions into the food; magical realism from the kitchen.
Parents keep their adult children inside a walled garden with a false language; Lanthimos' breakout.
Emma Thompson wrote and starred, Ang Lee directed; the best of the 1990s Austen wave.
Three Aboriginal girls walk 1,500 miles home along the fence in 1931.
Vic Mackey's corrupt strike team in LA; the first cable anti-hero and the best finale.
A novice nun's charity turns into a beggars' Last Supper; banned in Spain, Palme d'Or in Cannes.
A young man with magic flees his sorcerer father across 13th-century Mali; the Bambara epic.
A cowherd and a student dream of Paris on a motorbike with horns; Senegal's New Wave.
Catherine Deneuve as a doctor's wife working afternoons in a brothel; Bunuel's dream logic.
Five stories of the Camorra in the Naples suburbs, shot like a documentary.
An old man is shuttled between Bucharest hospitals for a night; black comedy as indictment.
Oceanic 815 crashes on an island with a hatch and a smoke monster; the mystery that changed TV.
A son accuses his father at a 60th birthday dinner; the first Dogme 95 film.
An Amazonian shaman guides two explorers forty years apart, in black and white.
A mute Scottish woman, her piano and a Maori-tattooed settler on a New Zealand beach; Campion's Palme d'Or.
Sorrentino's Naples teenage years, the family and the arrival of Maradona.
Rust Cohle and Marty Hart in Louisiana; the six-minute tracking shot and "time is a flat circle".
A Yorkshire boy trains a kestrel; Loach's 1969 masterpiece and the football lesson.
A teenager taken in by his criminal family in Melbourne; Jacki Weaver's grandmother.
Al Swearengen and the founding of a lawless gold town, in Shakespearean profanity.
A man beaten and left with amnesia starts over among Helsinki's container dwellers; Kaurismaki.
Don Draper and a Madison Avenue ad agency through the 1960s; seven seasons of slow change.
A Senegalese woman as a maid on the Riviera; the first feature by a sub-Saharan director.
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