Bruce Dern drives to collect a sweepstakes prize that does not exist, in black and white.
A pregnant sixteen-year-old with a hamburger phone finds adoptive parents; Diablo Cody's script.
A schoolgirl and a blue-haired art student in Lille; the Palme d'Or given to the actresses too.
Two estranged brothers meet in the final of an MMA tournament; Nick Nolte as their father.
A Texas childhood in the 1950s and the creation of the universe; Malick's Palme d'Or.
A conscientious objector saves 75 men at Okinawa without a rifle; Mel Gibson's war film.
A jazz pianist and an actress in Los Angeles; the freeway opening and the ending that hurts.
Micky Ward and his crack-addict brother in Lowell; Christian Bale's Oscar.
The 2008 crash explained by Margot Robbie in a bath; McKay makes finance a comedy.
Jennifer Lawrence hunts her father through the Ozarks meth country; her breakthrough.
Isabelle Huppert is raped and refuses to be a victim; Verhoeven's most provocative film.
Christopher McCandless walks into Alaska and the abandoned bus; Sean Penn's adaptation of Krakauer.
Six-year-old Hushpuppy in a Louisiana bayou as the ice caps melt.
A kindergarten teacher accused by a child; a Danish village turns on Mads Mikkelsen.
DiCaprio mauled by a bear and crawling through winter for revenge; his Oscar at last.
An old Wolverine and a dying Professor X on a road trip; the superhero film as western.
A father in false teeth stalks his consultant daughter around Bucharest; the funniest German film.
London gay activists support a Welsh mining village in the 1984 strike; the true story.
Gary Oldman as George Smiley hunts a mole in 1970s MI6; le Carre at his best on film.
A bipolar man and a widow train for a dance contest in Philadelphia; Jennifer Lawrence's Oscar.
Denis Lavant plays nine lives in one day from a white limousine; Carax's surreal tour of cinema.
A bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey writes poems for a week; Jarmusch's gentlest film.
A marriage at its start and its end, cut together; Gosling and Williams.
Strange punishments in a German village in 1913, in black and white; Haneke on the roots of fascism.
Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway singing live on set and the barricades of 1832.
Eastwood as a Korean War veteran with a Hmong family next door and a car in the garage.
A wedding and a planet on a collision course with Earth; von Trier on depression.
A father runs from an avalanche and leaves his family; a marriage dissects itself over a ski week.
Casey Affleck returns to a Massachusetts fishing town to raise his nephew; grief without relief.
Two mothers, their teenagers and the sperm donor who turns up for dinner.
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