Elizabeth II from 1947 to 2005, with the cast replaced every two seasons.
A financial adviser launders cartel money at a Missouri lake; Jason Bateman and Laura Linney.
Five friends in London through the AIDS years of the 1980s; Russell T Davies.
Elisabeth Moss as Offred in Gilead; Atwood's novel and beyond.
One year at a Michigan high school in 1980; eighteen episodes and every future star.
A fine-dining chef takes over his dead brother's Chicago sandwich shop; the kitchen as panic attack.
Tulsa 1921 and a masked police force; Damon Lindelof's sequel to the comic.
Debtors play children's games for a fortune and their lives; the most watched Netflix series.
An English pilot shipwrecked in 1600 Japan and Lord Toranaga; the Emmy record-breaker.
Keira Knightley's Elizabeth and the hand flex; Joe Wright's dawn proposal.
An Amazonian shaman guides two explorers forty years apart, in black and white.
Sorrentino's Naples teenage years, the family and the arrival of Maradona.
A letter writer at Rio's station takes an orphan across Brazil to find his father.
How Jimmy McGill became Saul Goodman; the Breaking Bad prequel many rate higher.
A rich boy and a poor boy at a Santiago school in the months before the 1973 coup.
A supermarket worker and an alcoholic welder in Helsinki fall in love over the radio news of Ukraine.
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.
An old man is shuttled between Bucharest hospitals for a night; black comedy as indictment.
Two men caring for two comatose women; Almodovar's Oscar for the screenplay.
A son accuses his father at a 60th birthday dinner; the first Dogme 95 film.
A Yorkshire boy trains a kestrel; Loach's 1969 masterpiece and the football lesson.
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.
Al Swearengen and the founding of a lawless gold town, in Shakespearean profanity.
Three Aboriginal girls walk 1,500 miles home along the fence in 1931.
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.
A novice nun's charity turns into a beggars' Last Supper; banned in Spain, Palme d'Or in Cannes.
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