An old man is shuttled between Bucharest hospitals for a night; black comedy as indictment.
Two brothers in the Irish War of Independence and the civil war after; Loach's Palme d'Or.
A young man with magic flees his sorcerer father across 13th-century Mali; the Bambara epic.
A gay artist and a young communist in 1979 Havana; Cuba's first Oscar-nominated film.
Two men caring for two comatose women; Almodovar's Oscar for the screenplay.
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.
A supermarket worker and an alcoholic welder in Helsinki fall in love over the radio news of Ukraine.
Vic Mackey's corrupt strike team in LA; the first cable anti-hero and the best finale.
A miner's son in the 1984 strike wants to dance ballet; Jamie Bell's furious tap.
A girl in a Castilian village after the Civil War believes Frankenstein's monster is real.
A Romani boy with telekinesis sold to a gangster; Kusturica's magical realism.
A girl claims the chiefdom her grandfather refuses her; Keisha Castle-Hughes at 13.
Bjork as a factory worker going blind, singing musical numbers in her head; von Trier's Palme d'Or.
Toni Collette leaves Porpoise Spit with ABBA; Australia's bittersweet comedy.
Two estranged Icelandic brothers and a sheep disease; the Grimsson beards.
A Maori family under a violent father in South Auckland; the film that shook New Zealand.
A lie in 1935 and the Dunkirk beach in one five-minute take.
A letter writer at Rio's station takes an orphan across Brazil to find his father.
Parents keep their adult children inside a walled garden with a false language; Lanthimos' breakout.
A novice nun's charity turns into a beggars' Last Supper; banned in Spain, Palme d'Or in Cannes.
A cowherd and a student dream of Paris on a motorbike with horns; Senegal's New Wave.
A son accuses his father at a 60th birthday dinner; the first Dogme 95 film.
Sorrentino's Naples teenage years, the family and the arrival of Maradona.
A quadriplegic aristocrat and his carer from the banlieue; France's biggest comedy hit.
Dakar boys lost at sea return to possess the girls they left; Mati Diop's ghost story.
Jihadists ban music and football in Timbuktu; a match played without a ball.
A rich boy and a poor boy at a Santiago school in the months before the 1973 coup.
Keira Knightley's Elizabeth and the hand flex; Joe Wright's dawn proposal.
Young Che Guevara rides across South America in 1952; Gael Garcia Bernal and Walter Salles.
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