A widow, her violent son and the neighbour who helps; shot in a 1:1 square that opens up.
A sixteen-year-old and his mother tear at each other; Dolan wrote it at seventeen and starred.
A drifter lives in other people's empty homes; almost no dialogue for ninety minutes.
A mother writes to the daughter who cut her off; Alice Munro relocated to Spain.
A director, a childhood friend and a story about a priest; noir in a Catholic school.
An orphan chess prodigy in the 1960s; the series that sold out chess sets.
Pablo Escobar and the DEA in Medellin; Wagner Moura learned Spanish for it.
A monk and his pupil on a floating monastery through the seasons of a life.
Two identical women, one in Krakow and one in Paris, who never meet; Irene Jacob in both.
Ten films for the Ten Commandments in one Warsaw housing estate; Kieslowski's TV masterpiece.
Julie through her late twenties in Oslo, in twelve chapters; the frozen-time run.
A Tokyo toilet cleaner's days, cassettes and trees; Wenders and Koji Yakusho.
Two childhood friends from Seoul meet again in New York twenty-four years later; Celine Song's debut.
A family of petty thieves in Tokyo takes in an abused girl; Kore-eda's Palme d'Or.
A boy and a Bengal tiger in a lifeboat for 227 days; Ang Lee's 3D ocean.
Natalie Portman's ballerina cracks under Swan Lake; Aronofsky's backstage horror.
Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in 1952 New York; Haynes' Patricia Highsmith romance.
Mickey Rourke as a broken-down wrestler on the New Jersey circuit; the comeback of both of them.
A surgeon keeps a woman in his house and grows her a new skin; Almodovar's horror.
Matt Damon grows potatoes on Mars; Ridley Scott's most cheerful film.
Frances McDormand rents three billboards to shame the police chief; McDonagh's angry comedy.
Choose life: Edinburgh heroin addicts, the worst toilet in Scotland and Iggy Pop.
Four addicts in Coney Island through one year; Aronofsky's hip-hop montage and Clint Mansell's theme.
Pacino as Tony Montana in Miami; "say hello to my little friend".
A knight plays chess with Death during the plague; the image everyone knows of Bergman.
A nurse and a mute actress on an island until their faces merge; Bergman's most radical film.
Tarkovsky's sentient ocean planet and a cosmonaut's dead wife returning; the Soviet 2001.
Three men enter the Zone where wishes come true; Tarkovsky's slow masterpiece.
An old professor drives to receive an honour and revisits his life in dreams.
A Tehran couple staging Death of a Salesman, and an assault in their new flat.
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