A colonial officer waits for a transfer that never comes; Lucrecia Martel's 18th-century fever.
Don Cheadle as the hotel manager who sheltered 1,268 people during the genocide.
A 12-year-old joins a skinhead gang in 1983; Shane Meadows' Midlands.
The life of a donkey passed between owners; Bresson's saint.
A boy sent to a Swedish village in the 1950s compares himself to Laika; Hallstrom's breakthrough.
The last human fleet flees the Cylons; the sci-fi series that was really about the war on terror.
Jihadists ban music and football in Timbuktu; a match played without a ball.
Two English children lost in the outback are saved by an Aboriginal boy on his walkabout; Roeg.
How Jimmy McGill became Saul Goodman; the Breaking Bad prequel many rate higher.
A gay artist and a young communist in 1979 Havana; Cuba's first Oscar-nominated film.
Two students arrange an illegal abortion in Ceausescu's Romania; the New Wave's Palme d'Or.
Bjork as a factory worker going blind, singing musical numbers in her head; von Trier's Palme d'Or.
Bardot, a screenwriter and Fritz Lang in Capri; Godard's CinemaScope about a marriage ending.
A ghost in an orphanage during the Spanish Civil War; del Toro's companion to Pan's Labyrinth.
A girl claims the chiefdom her grandfather refuses her; Keisha Castle-Hughes at 13.
A quadriplegic aristocrat and his carer from the banlieue; France's biggest comedy hit.
A Romani boy with telekinesis sold to a gangster; Kusturica's magical realism.
A girl in a Castilian village after the Civil War believes Frankenstein's monster is real.
Young Che Guevara rides across South America in 1952; Gael Garcia Bernal and Walter Salles.
Dakar boys lost at sea return to possess the girls they left; Mati Diop's ghost story.
A Resistance prisoner plans his escape from Montluc in real detail; Bresson's truest film.
Gael Garcia Bernal sells the campaign that voted out Pinochet in 1988, shot on 1980s video.
A wrongly delivered lunchbox starts a correspondence between a widower and a housewife in Mumbai.
A family through forty years of Chinese history, from the civil war to the Cultural Revolution.
A Bedouin boy follows his brother into the desert of 1916; Jordan's western.
A film student investigates a forgotten Stalinist hero bricklayer; Wajda's Citizen Kane.
A brother and sister share one pair of shoes; the first Iranian film nominated for an Oscar.
A lonely wife in 1879 Calcutta and her husband's cousin; Satyajit Ray's own favourite.
A woman waits for a soldier who will not return; the Soviet film that won the Palme d'Or.
The Red Army Faction from 1967 to 1977; Germany's terrorism epic.
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