An actress's life and her film roles blur across Japanese history; Kon's tenderest film.
A brother and sister share one pair of shoes; the first Iranian film nominated for an Oscar.
A film student investigates a forgotten Stalinist hero bricklayer; Wajda's Citizen Kane.
A lonely wife in 1879 Calcutta and her husband's cousin; Satyajit Ray's own favourite.
Four children abandoned in a Tokyo flat, based on a true case; the boy won Best Actor at Cannes at 14.
A village woman raises her sons through famine and debt; the Indian epic of 1957.
A Bedouin boy follows his brother into the desert of 1916; Jordan's western.
A writer in a Hong Kong hotel and a science-fiction train to 2046; the sequel to In the Mood for Love.
A former bully seeks out the deaf girl he tormented; Kyoto Animation on guilt.
A southern family moves to Milan and the brothers destroy each other; Visconti's epic.
A Seoul cabbie drives a German reporter into the Gwangju uprising of 1980.
A son fakes the survival of East Germany for his mother after her coma; the Berlin Wall comedy.
A divorcing couple's son goes missing while they argue; Zvyagintsev's coldest film.
A 60-year-old cleaner marries a Moroccan worker in Munich; Fassbinder's Sirk melodrama.
A woman vanishes on a beach weekend and every lie surfaces; Farhadi before A Separation.
A mechanic recognises the man who tortured him in prison; Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or.
A fourth wife in a 1920s compound competing for the lantern; Zhang Yimou and Gong Li.
Leslie Cheung as a playboy in 1960 Hong Kong; the first of Wong Kar-wai's loose trilogy.
Two men from Hong Kong falling apart in Buenos Aires; Wong Kar-wai and the Iguazu falls.
An estranged film-director father offers his actress daughter a role in a house full of memories; Joachim Trier.
A grandmother with early Alzheimer's takes a poetry class as her grandson's crime surfaces.
A wrongly delivered lunchbox starts a correspondence between a widower and a housewife in Mumbai.
One day at a family reunion for a dead son; Kore-eda's Ozu film.
A family in Taiwan between the Japanese surrender and the 1947 massacre; Hou's Golden Lion.
A master chef and his three daughters over Sunday dinners in Taipei; Ang Lee before Hollywood.
A woman waits for a soldier who will not return; the Soviet film that won the Palme d'Or.
A blind boy home from school for the summer; Majidi's Iranian tearjerker.
A 12-year-old sues his parents for being born, in the slums of Beirut; Nadine Labaki.
Tarkovsky's own memories, his mother and a burning barn; the film with no plot people watch most.
A baker who climbs the wall to see his girlfriend is turned informant; Palestine's thriller.
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