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

Jonathan Entwistle

Captain Fantastic | Can a family thrive away from society?

Whiplash | Deromanticizing music and success

Damien Chazelle

Seinfeld | The Sitcom Grandma

The Man Standing Next | Shakespearean Tragedy in 70s Korea

Nomadland | See You Down the Road

The Morning Show | A story about power

Game of Thrones | When TV goes big

I Know This Much is True | A centrifuge of sadness

Derek Cianfrance

Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad

The Wilds | A matriarchal utopia inspired by teenage girls

Sarah Streicher

Dear White People | An exploration of racial identity

Mistery and domestic struggles in Desperate Housewives

VEEP | A female vice-president? Not fiction anymore

Armando Iannucci

Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony

Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief

Kenneth Lonergan

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

The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity

Amour | An experience

Killing Eve | Spies and Assassins play their game

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

Karen Bernstein

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller

Alfred Hitchcock

Sharp Objects | A deep and dark humanity

A new renaissance in Atlanta

Hollywood | Rewriting the Golden Age of cinema

Selfie | Meaning (and connection) cravings

Tristan Aurouet

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | The witches of modern times

Roberto Aguirre Sacasa

Pose | Ball culture and trans representation

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

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

Tiger King | A captivating portrait of obsession gone wrong

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

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

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

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

When They See Us | The long way towards equality

Arrival | A close encounter of the fifth kind

Denis Villeneuve

Go Ahead | Family is not about blood relations

The Office | Pure comedy in the workplace

Community | The best college to attend

Unbelievable | A story of injustice

Ida | A journey to discover one’s own identity

Paweł Pawlikowski

The Queen’s Gambit | A western on the chessboard

Normal People | Diverting the viewer’s expectations

Another Round | Awakening to Life

Thomas Vinterberg

Will & Grace | Breaking taboos and making TV history

Pan’s Labyrinth | An Antifascist Fantasy

Guillermo Del Toro

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

D.A. Pennebaker

Betty Blue | A commentary on women depiction in the media

Jean-Jacques Beineix

Elite | A teen drama dealing with complex themes

In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation

Alien | In space no one can hear you scream

The Good Place could be a better place

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

Céline Sciamma

Locke | The hero’s journey at the wheel

Chernobyl | What history can teach

The Candidate | American politics before the Watergate

Michael Ritchie

The Thing | To Gaze Long into an Abyss

Big Little Lies | What lies beneath the surface

Mank | The Impression of a Man’s Life

What feed journalists in The Newsroom

Gunpowder Heart | Revenge drama in Guatemala City

Clichés & the City with Emily in Paris

Fleabag challenges the viewer in many ways

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

George C. Wolfe

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

The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today

The Undoing is not only a murder story

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film

Queen Sugar is a portrayal of oppression

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

Christopher Nolan

Gaslight | When the personal becomes political

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

Bombay Rose has a unique visual animation style

Breaking Bad | The downward spiral of an ordinary man

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

Jojo Rabbit | The best Nazi in the world

Lost | The first mainstream phenomenon on TV

Ted Lasso | Being good is the new being bad

Sex Education | How hard being normal can be

BoJack Horseman | A human journey

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

House of Cards offers a dark portrait of America

Schitt’s Creek | Not a regular family

In the Mouth of Madness | A Storyteller’s Testament

The Boys | The dark side of superheroes

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story

Ana Lily Amirpour

Watchmen | A subversion of the superhero

Parasite | Defying definition and labels

I Am Not Your Negro | Witnessing American History

Dark is an exception among TV shows

Euphoria | A visceral portrayal of the teenage experience

The Law of Desire | Entertainment mixes with auteur cinema

Pedro Almodóvar

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

Dark humor meets heavy drama in Orange Is the New Black

Unorthodox | Finding one own’s voice

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

Nathaniel Halpern

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

If Beale Street Could Talk | A story of ecstatic love

Stand by Me | A cult journey into adulthood

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

David Cronenberg

The Walking Dead explores human nature

Sound of Metal | A quest for stillness

Midsommar | Ari Aster’s horror fairy tale

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

Vesela Kazakova

Brooklyn Nine-Nine | The good cops do exist

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

Russell T Davies

The Leftovers | A symphony of grief

13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years

Glee | The anthem of underdogs worldwide

Mad Men | The pursuit of happiness in American society

Westworld | Free will is not free

Bridgerton | A revolutionary period drama

Wag the Dog | When comedy looks like reality

Joker | A portrayal of contemporary man

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