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Rick and Morty | The absurd balance between tragedy and miracle of life

Big Little Lies | What lies beneath the surface

Mad Men | The pursuit of happiness in American society

In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation

Victoria | One city, one night, one take

Sebastian Schipper

Solos | Humans wanted

The Boys | The dark side of superheroes

The Good Place could be a better place

The Wilds | A matriarchal utopia inspired by teenage girls

Sarah Streicher

I Know This Much is True | A centrifuge of sadness

Derek Cianfrance

Lost | The first mainstream phenomenon on TV

The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today

The Rules of the Game | A war movie without a war

The Dark Knight | An allegory of 9/11 and The War on Terror

Christopher Nolan

The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity

Dark is an exception among TV shows

I’m Gonna Make You Love Me | A search for acceptance

Karen Bernstein

Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film

Bridgerton | A revolutionary period drama

Go Ahead | Family is not about blood relations

Chernobyl | What history can teach

Portrait of a Lady on Fire | A manifesto about the female gaze

Céline Sciamma

Jojo Rabbit | The best Nazi in the world

Will & Grace | Breaking taboos and making TV history

Arrival | A close encounter of the fifth kind

Denis Villeneuve

Gilmore Girls | An everlasting flavor of friendship

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Friends | Suspension of disbelief at Central Perk

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | A Case of the Blues

George C. Wolfe

Another Round | Awakening to Life

Thomas Vinterberg

I Am Not Your Negro | Witnessing American History

Breaking Bad | The downward spiral of an ordinary man

Killing Eve | Spies and Assassins play their game

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Devs | Alex Garland’s outlook on godlike tech companies

This is Us | How life is the perfect mix of sweet and sour

The Candidate | American politics before the Watergate

Michael Ritchie

The Morning Show | A story about power

The Walking Dead explores human nature

Alien | In space no one can hear you scream

Dark humor meets heavy drama in Orange Is the New Black

Chungking Express | A whirling tale of 1990s Hong Kong

Queen Sugar is a portrayal of oppression

Unorthodox | Finding one own’s voice

BoJack Horseman | A human journey

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

The Leftovers | A symphony of grief

Westworld | Free will is not free

Sharp Objects | A deep and dark humanity

Tiger King | A captivating portrait of obsession gone wrong

Normal People | Diverting the viewer’s expectations

Neon Genesis Evangelion | The harsh relationship with the other

When They See Us | The long way towards equality

Whiplash | Deromanticizing music and success

Damien Chazelle

Fleabag challenges the viewer in many ways

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Fantastic Mr. Fox | A story about animals and humans

Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief

Kenneth Lonergan

House, M.D. | When diagnostics becomes investigation

Romulus | A coming-of-age story in the ancient Lazio

The War Room | A testimony of Direct Cinema’s last days

D.A. Pennebaker

Stand by Me | A cult journey into adulthood

The Shock of the Future | It’s the music that matters

The Office | Pure comedy in the workplace

What feed journalists in The Newsroom

Primary | An intimate portrait of J.F.K.

Mulholland Drive | All roads lead to Cinema

The Man Standing Next | Shakespearean Tragedy in 70s Korea

Ted Lasso | Being good is the new being bad

Pan’s Labyrinth | An Antifascist Fantasy

Guillermo Del Toro

The End of the F***ing World | A psychopathic love story

Jonathan Entwistle

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story

Ana Lily Amirpour

Clichés & the City with Emily in Paris

WandaVision | The ultimate coping mechanism

The Thing | To Gaze Long into an Abyss

Dear White People | An exploration of racial identity

Momo | The importance of taking time

Bicycle Thieves | A simple and unforgettable story

Vittorio De Sica

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel | It’s comedy time

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Ida | A journey to discover one’s own identity

Paweł Pawlikowski

Bombay Rose has a unique visual animation style

The Law of Desire | Entertainment mixes with auteur cinema

Pedro Almodóvar

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | The witches of modern times

Roberto Aguirre Sacasa

Hollywood | Rewriting the Golden Age of cinema

Soul | Life is not about what you think it is

Galavant | A different happily ever after

Sound of Metal | A quest for stillness

The Queen’s Gambit | A western on the chessboard

Freaks and Geeks | A genuine portrait of adolescence

Gaslight | When the personal becomes political

Grey’s Anatomy | A pillar in the modern TV era

A History of Violence | The past of a shining knight casts shadows

David Cronenberg

The Kominsky Method | Laughter and melancholy

Mistery and domestic struggles in Desperate Housewives

Years and Years | A timely representation of today’s reality

Russell T Davies

13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years

Amour | An experience

The Handmaid’s Tale | It’s all much more than fiction

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier | What does it mean to be American

Malcolm Spellman

Selma | Drawing out the essence of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Man in the High Castle | “What have might been”

Locke | The hero’s journey at the wheel

Wag the Dog | When comedy looks like reality

In the Mouth of Madness | A Storyteller’s Testament

Mank | The Impression of a Man’s Life

Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony

Selfie | Meaning (and connection) cravings

Tristan Aurouet

Euphoria | A visceral portrayal of the teenage experience

Watchmen | A subversion of the superhero

Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad

Glee | The anthem of underdogs worldwide

The Undoing is not only a murder story

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Game of Thrones | When TV goes big

Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller

Alfred Hitchcock

A new renaissance in Atlanta

Mommy | An intimate portrait of the mother-son bond

Cat In The Wall | A critical look at the loss of tolerance

Vesela Kazakova

Gunpowder Heart | Revenge drama in Guatemala City

Captain Fantastic | Can a family thrive away from society?

Pose | Ball culture and trans representation

Parasite | Defying definition and labels

Sex Education | How hard being normal can be

Sense8 | A celebration of human connectedness

Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet | It’s not only about gaming

Nomadland | See You Down the Road

Community | The best college to attend

If Beale Street Could Talk | A story of ecstatic love

Betty Blue | A commentary on women depiction in the media

Jean-Jacques Beineix

Unbelievable | A story of injustice

Trying | An amusing glimpse into adoption

Schitt’s Creek | Not a regular family

House of Cards offers a dark portrait of America

Tales from the Loop | A guide on how to accept Time

Nathaniel Halpern

Joker | A portrayal of contemporary man

VEEP | A female vice-president? Not fiction anymore

Armando Iannucci

Elite | A teen drama dealing with complex themes

Midsommar | Ari Aster’s horror fairy tale

Grand Budapest Hotel | A romantic adventure in a fairy tale world

Seinfeld | The Sitcom Grandma

Brooklyn Nine-Nine | The good cops do exist

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