Two friends fall for the same beautiful stranger; slow motion and colour blocks.
Norah Jones drives across America after a breakup; Wong's English-language road film.
A blind screenwriter remembers the film and the woman that blinded him; Penelope Cruz.
The feature cut of Dekalog 6, with a gentler ending: a boy watches a woman through a telescope, and she finds out.
A discharged patient kidnaps an actress and waits for her to love him; the film that changed US ratings.
Two friends kiss for a student film and cannot go back to what they were.
A priest becomes a vampire through a failed experiment; Zola by way of Korean horror.
A country weekend of couples rearranging themselves; the comedy that made Bergman famous.
A triad and his reckless little brother; Wong's first film, and the most conventional.
A South Korean heiress paraglides into North Korea and a captain hides her; the K-drama gateway.
Colin Firth in a wet shirt; the BBC Austen that defined the genre.
Connell and Marianne from Sligo to Trinity College; Sally Rooney's novel in twelve half-hours.
Keira Knightley's Elizabeth and the hand flex; Joe Wright's dawn proposal.
A mute Scottish woman, her piano and a Maori-tattooed settler on a New Zealand beach; Campion's Palme d'Or.
Hugh Grant stammers through five ceremonies; the Richard Curtis template.
Dakar boys lost at sea return to possess the girls they left; Mati Diop's ghost story.
A Mexican girl cooks her emotions into the food; magical realism from the kitchen.
Two men caring for two comatose women; Almodovar's Oscar for the screenplay.
A lie in 1935 and the Dunkirk beach in one five-minute take.
Emma Thompson wrote and starred, Ang Lee directed; the best of the 1990s Austen wave.
A Dublin busker and a Czech pianist write songs for a week; "Falling Slowly" won the Oscar.
A woman waits for a soldier who will not return; the Soviet film that won the Palme d'Or.
Two men from Hong Kong falling apart in Buenos Aires; Wong Kar-wai and the Iguazu falls.
A bamboo forest fight and an echo game of drums; wuxia at its most beautiful.
Leslie Cheung as a playboy in 1960 Hong Kong; the first of Wong Kar-wai's loose trilogy.
Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol from London to Punjab; running in a Mumbai cinema since 1995.
A lonely wife in 1879 Calcutta and her husband's cousin; Satyajit Ray's own favourite.
A writer in a Hong Kong hotel and a science-fiction train to 2046; the sequel to In the Mood for Love.
A wrongly delivered lunchbox starts a correspondence between a widower and a housewife in Mumbai.
A runaway and a girl who can stop the rain in a Tokyo of endless downpours.
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