A woman waits for a soldier who will not return; the Soviet film that won the Palme d'Or.
A hitman, his agent and a mute who breaks into shops at night; Chungking Express after dark.
A 60-year-old cleaner marries a Moroccan worker in Munich; Fassbinder's Sirk melodrama.
A Tokyo boy and a country girl swap bodies, and a comet approaches; the anime hit of 2016.
Leslie Cheung as a playboy in 1960 Hong Kong; the first of Wong Kar-wai's loose trilogy.
A baker who climbs the wall to see his girlfriend is turned informant; Palestine's thriller.
A runaway and a girl who can stop the rain in a Tokyo of endless downpours.
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in the first half of the Broadway musical; "Defying Gravity".
Married now, in the Peloponnese, with the argument in the hotel room.
Nine years later, Jesse and Celine walk through Paris in real time; "baby, you are gonna miss that plane".
A pianist and a singer across the Iron Curtain from 1949 to 1964, in black-and-white square frames.
A detective falls for the widow he is investigating; Park Chan-wook's Hitchcockian romance.
Zendaya between two tennis players over thirteen years; Guadagnino and a techno score.
A 15-year-old actor and a 25-year-old in the San Fernando Valley of 1973; PTA's hang-out film.
Greta Gerwig's Alcott, told in two timelines with Saoirse Ronan as Jo.
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga; "Shallow" sung live for the first time.
A jazz pianist and an actress in Los Angeles; the freeway opening and the ending that hurts.
A bullied boy and a vampire girl in a Stockholm suburb in the snow.
A Toronto slacker fights his girlfriend's seven evil exes in video-game style.
A marriage at its start and its end, cut together; Gosling and Williams.
A stop-motion man for whom everyone has the same voice, except one woman in a Cincinnati hotel.
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.
Emily Watson's Bess and a paralysed husband in a Calvinist Scottish village; von Trier's first great film.
Two Hong Kong cops and two women, canned pineapple and "California Dreamin'"; Wong Kar-wai's pop masterpiece.
Inconceivable! A grandfather reads a fairy tale with fencing, pirates and a six-fingered man.
Johnny Depp with blades for hands in pastel suburbia; Burton's fairy tale.
Angels listening to Berliners' thoughts in black and white, one of them falling for a trapeze artist.
A model and a retired judge who taps his neighbours' phones in Geneva; Kieslowski's last film.
Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy talk through one night in Vienna; the first of three.
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