One continuous take across a Berlin night, a bank robbery included.
A bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey writes poems for a week; Jarmusch's gentlest film.
A Texas childhood in the 1950s and the creation of the universe; Malick's Palme d'Or.
Eastwood as a Korean War veteran with a Hmong family next door and a car in the garage.
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.
Matthew McConaughey as a Texan smuggling AIDS drugs in 1985; he and Jared Leto both won Oscars.
A pregnant sixteen-year-old with a hamburger phone finds adoptive parents; Diablo Cody's script.
London gay activists support a Welsh mining village in the 1984 strike; the true story.
A stop-motion man for whom everyone has the same voice, except one woman in a Cincinnati hotel.
A father runs from an avalanche and leaves his family; a marriage dissects itself over a ski week.
Boarding-school children raised as organ donors; Ishiguro's quiet dystopia.
A six-year-old in a purple motel next to Disney World; Sean Baker and Willem Dafoe.
Michael Shannon builds a storm shelter for a storm only he sees.
Two mothers, their teenagers and the sperm donor who turns up for dinner.
Six-year-old Hushpuppy in a Louisiana bayou as the ice caps melt.
Christopher McCandless walks into Alaska and the abandoned bus; Sean Penn's adaptation of Krakauer.
Greta Gerwig runs through Manhattan to Bowie in black and white; a portrait of being 27.
Brie Larson at a foster-care facility for teenagers; the small film that launched a cast.
Martin Luther King and the 1965 march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Micky Ward and his crack-addict brother in Lowell; Christian Bale's Oscar.
A conscientious objector saves 75 men at Okinawa without a rifle; Mel Gibson's war film.
A father in false teeth stalks his consultant daughter around Bucharest; the funniest German film.
An old Wolverine and a dying Professor X on a road trip; the superhero film as western.
DiCaprio mauled by a bear and crawling through winter for revenge; his Oscar at last.
Gary Oldman as George Smiley hunts a mole in 1970s MI6; le Carre at his best on film.
Jennifer Lawrence hunts her father through the Ozarks meth country; her breakthrough.
Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy talk through one night in Vienna; the first of three.
Hitler's last twelve days in the bunker, with Bruno Ganz; the meme and the masterpiece.
Jim Carrey's whole life is a TV show; the door in the sky.
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