A mechanic recognises the man who tortured him in prison; Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or.
Two friends from Nablus with 48 hours before a suicide bombing; Hany Abu-Assad.
A cop in the triads and a triad in the police; the film The Departed remade.
Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as married spies suspecting each other; Soderbergh's chamber thriller.
Robert Pattinson's detective Batman in a rain-soaked Gotham hunting the Riddler.
A family lives in silence because the monsters hunt by sound; John Krasinski's horror.
A Murakami story of a missing girl and a rich man who burns greenhouses; Lee Chang-dong.
War photographers drive to a besieged Washington in a near-future America; Alex Garland.
Jeremy Renner as another programme agent while Bourne is elsewhere; Manila motorbike chase.
Robert Pattinson through one New York night trying to free his brother; the Safdies' breakthrough.
Every child in one class walks out of their homes at 2:17 a.m. and vanishes; Zach Cregger's horror.
Carey Mulligan pretends to be drunk to catch predators; Emerald Fennell's candy-coloured revenge.
A family attacked by their own doppelgangers in Santa Cruz; Jordan Peele's second film.
Damon and Greengrass return; Athens riots and a Las Vegas car chase.
A detective falls for the widow he is investigating; Park Chan-wook's Hitchcockian romance.
Adam Sandler as a gambling-addict jeweller through two weeks of chaos; the Safdies and Kevin Garnett.
Ralph Fiennes runs the election of a pope; a thriller set entirely inside the Vatican.
Leonardo DiCaprio as a washed-up revolutionary hunted by Sean Penn; PTA's Pynchon action film.
Tom Cruise's HALO jump, a helicopter chase in Kashmir and a broken ankle on camera.
Jennifer Lawrence hunts her father through the Ozarks meth country; her breakthrough.
Two brothers rob the bank that is foreclosing on their ranch; a modern Texas western.
Isabelle Huppert is raped and refuses to be a victim; Verhoeven's most provocative film.
Sandra Bullock alone in orbit after the debris hits; Cuaron's 13-minute opening shot.
Somali pirates board a container ship; Tom Hanks' last scene with the navy medic.
Six Argentine stories of revenge, from a plane full of enemies to a wedding.
George Clooney as a law-firm fixer and Tilda Swinton sweating; the best legal thriller of its decade.
Gary Oldman as George Smiley hunts a mole in 1970s MI6; le Carre at his best on film.
One continuous take across a Berlin night, a bank robbery included.
Jake Gyllenhaal films crime scenes for the morning news in LA; a sociopath's success story.
Five criminals in a line-up and Keyser Soze; the ending everybody replayed.
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