Gael Garcia Bernal sells the campaign that voted out Pinochet in 1988, shot on 1980s video.
Don Draper and a Madison Avenue ad agency through the 1960s; seven seasons of slow change.
Emma Thompson wrote and starred, Ang Lee directed; the best of the 1990s Austen wave.
A Resistance prisoner plans his escape from Montluc in real detail; Bresson's truest film.
Two students arrange an illegal abortion in Ceausescu's Romania; the New Wave's Palme d'Or.
How Jimmy McGill became Saul Goodman; the Breaking Bad prequel many rate higher.
Don Cheadle as the hotel manager who sheltered 1,268 people during the genocide.
A colonial officer waits for a transfer that never comes; Lucrecia Martel's 18th-century fever.
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 Saudi girl saves for a bicycle she is not supposed to ride; the first film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia.
Aamir Khan trains his daughters as wrestlers in Haryana; the true story and the biggest Indian film in China.
A Home Army soldier ordered to kill a communist on the last day of the war; Wajda and Cybulski.
A hitman, his agent and a mute who breaks into shops at night; Chungking Express after dark.
A man who impersonated a film director is tried, with everyone playing themselves; Kiarostami's docu-fiction.
A couple and a hitchhiker on a sailboat for a weekend; Polanski's only Polish feature.
Villagers play the British at cricket to escape a tax; three hours and forty-four minutes of it.
A mechanic fights the mayor for his house on the Barents Sea; whale bones and vodka.
A pensioner and his dog on the edge of eviction in Rome; De Sica's bleakest neorealism.
A 12-year-old scout on the Eastern Front; Tarkovsky's first film and the dream sequences.
Three homeless people find a baby on Christmas Eve in Tokyo; Kon's warm one.
Three engineering students against a pressure-cooker college; the most watched Indian film of its time.
A man drives around Tehran looking for someone to bury him after his suicide; the Palme d'Or of 1997.
A family through forty years of Chinese history, from the civil war to the Cultural Revolution.
A woman rebuilds herself through the German economic miracle; Fassbinder's biggest hit.
Four hours of Taipei teenagers in 1960 and a murder; Edward Yang's masterpiece.
The Red Army Faction from 1967 to 1977; Germany's terrorism epic.
Two friends from Nablus with 48 hours before a suicide bombing; Hany Abu-Assad.
Kinski hauls a steamship over a mountain in the Amazon, for real; Herzog's madness on film.
A boy tries to return a classmate's notebook across two villages; Kiarostami's simplest film.
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