A baker who climbs the wall to see his girlfriend is turned informant; Palestine's thriller.
A 60-year-old cleaner marries a Moroccan worker in Munich; Fassbinder's Sirk melodrama.
A factory girl in a town of women falls for a pianist from Prague; Forman's Czech New Wave comedy.
A lonely wife in 1879 Calcutta and her husband's cousin; Satyajit Ray's own favourite.
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.
A wrongly delivered lunchbox starts a correspondence between a widower and a housewife in Mumbai.
Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol from London to Punjab; running in a Mumbai cinema since 1995.
A hitman, his agent and a mute who breaks into shops at night; Chungking Express after dark.
A pianist and a singer across the Iron Curtain from 1949 to 1964, in black-and-white square frames.
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in the first half of the Broadway musical; "Defying Gravity".
Zendaya between two tennis players over thirteen years; Guadagnino and a techno score.
Nine years later, Jesse and Celine walk through Paris in real time; "baby, you are gonna miss that plane".
A 15-year-old actor and a 25-year-old in the San Fernando Valley of 1973; PTA's hang-out film.
A detective falls for the widow he is investigating; Park Chan-wook's Hitchcockian romance.
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga; "Shallow" sung live for the first time.
Greta Gerwig's Alcott, told in two timelines with Saoirse Ronan as Jo.
Married now, in the Peloponnese, with the argument in the hotel room.
Boarding-school children raised as organ donors; Ishiguro's quiet dystopia.
A schoolgirl and a blue-haired art student in Lille; the Palme d'Or given to the actresses too.
A bullied boy and a vampire girl in a Stockholm suburb in the snow.
A jazz pianist and an actress in Los Angeles; the freeway opening and the ending that hurts.
A stop-motion man for whom everyone has the same voice, except one woman in a Cincinnati hotel.
A marriage at its start and its end, cut together; Gosling and Williams.
Emily Watson's Bess and a paralysed husband in a Calvinist Scottish village; von Trier's first great film.
A model and a retired judge who taps his neighbours' phones in Geneva; Kieslowski's last film.
Can men and women be friends? The deli scene and "I'll have what she's having".
Two Hong Kong cops and two women, canned pineapple and "California Dreamin'"; Wong Kar-wai's pop masterpiece.
Nobody puts Baby in a corner; the summer of 1963 at a Catskills resort.
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