A mute woman runs floating fishing huts and a fugitive arrives; the film that shocked Venice.
A former ballplayer in 1990s New York is handed a cat and the wrong people's problem.
Excommunicado in New York, with horses, dogs and a knife-throwing library.
A shooting in the DMZ investigated from both sides; the film that made Park's name in Korea.
A man goes to his dead lover's farm and is kept there by the brother.
Omar Sy as a gentleman thief in Paris inspired by the Arsene Lupin books; the Louvre heist.
A Mumbai policeman and a gangster's prophecy of the city's end; India's first Netflix original.
An Israeli undercover unit in the West Bank; the series both sides watched.
Debtors play children's games for a fortune and their lives; the most watched Netflix series.
A hacker with dissociative disorder takes down a conglomerate; Rami Malek and real code.
The Professor and his Dali-masked crew inside the Royal Mint of Spain; "Bella Ciao".
A student finds a notebook that kills whoever's name is written in it, and the detective L hunts him.
A Miami forensics analyst who kills killers; the first four seasons.
Gary Oldman as the flatulent head of MI5's rejects; le Carre with jokes.
A CIA analyst convinced a returned POW is a terrorist; Claire Danes and the first two seasons.
Jack Bauer in real time, one season per day; the split screen and the clock.
A Brazilian village disappears from the map and hunters arrive; a western with drones.
Rio's BOPE police unit in the favelas; the Brazilian action film everyone argued about.
Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander; the Swedish Millennium film before Fincher's.
Two con men and a sheet of rare stamps in Buenos Aires; Argentina's heist classic.
A Resistance prisoner plans his escape from Montluc in real detail; Bresson's truest film.
A corporate recruiter who steals art picks the wrong target; Jo Nesbo's thriller on screen.
Bob Hoskins as a London gangster whose empire explodes over one Easter weekend.
A couple and a hitchhiker on a sailboat for a weekend; Polanski's only Polish feature.
A baker who climbs the wall to see his girlfriend is turned informant; Palestine's thriller.
A village policeman, a Japanese stranger and a shaman; Korean horror that refuses to settle.
A class of schoolchildren forced to fight to the death on an island; the film The Hunger Games was accused of copying.
The hunt for Korea's first serial killer in the 1980s; Bong Joon-ho's ending stare.
Two conspiracy theorists kidnap a CEO they think is an alien; Lanthimos and Emma Stone again.
A secret agent hunts and repeatedly releases the man who killed his fiancee; Kim Jee-woon's revenge extreme.
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