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Another Round | Awakening to Life

Thomas Vinterberg

Boyhood | When cinema captures real life

Richard Linklater

In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation

Tear along the dotted line by Zerocalcare | Being a black belt in dodging life

The Rose of Versailles | Putting politics into a children’s anime

Victoria | One city, one night, one take

Sebastian Schipper

Friends | Suspension of disbelief at Central Perk

Downton Abbey | Upstairs and Downstairs Intrigues

Julian Fellowes

Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony

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

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

Scenes from a Marriage | Gender roles, love and an empty house

Lupin | The gentleman thief who never dies

Tick, Tick… Boom! | Tribute to Jonathan Larson and creativity

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Dark is an exception among TV shows

The Boys | The dark side of superheroes

Lost | The first mainstream phenomenon on TV

Only Murders in the Building | Three strangers, a crime scene, and a podcast

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

D.A. Pennebaker

VEEP | A female vice-president? Not fiction anymore

Armando Iannucci

If Beale Street Could Talk | A story of ecstatic love

BoJack Horseman | A human journey

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

In the Mouth of Madness | A Storyteller’s Testament

Passing | On Racial Passing and Racial Identity

The Father | A psychological thriller in disguise

Breaking Bad | The downward spiral of an ordinary man

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

Encanto | Breaking the Circle of Trauma

Fantastic Mr. Fox | A story about animals and humans

Big Little Lies | What lies beneath the surface

Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film

Adventure Time | Magic, swords and heartbreak

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | A social commentary in the shape of a comedy

Last Night in Soho | A glamorous tribute to the swinging 60’s

The Big Bang Theory | How nerds and geeks conquered the world

Master of None | Different stories, same show

Bicycle Thieves | A simple and unforgettable story

Vittorio De Sica

Mindhunter | How to understand serial killers’ patterns

Betty Blue | A commentary on women depiction in the media

Jean-Jacques Beineix

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

Community | The best college to attend

Normal People | Diverting the viewer’s expectations

The Underground Railroad | On the screen

Tiger King | A captivating portrait of obsession gone wrong

It’s a Sin | The AIDS invasion in 1980s’ London

Russell T. Davies

Gilmore Girls | An everlasting flavor of friendship

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Game of Thrones | When TV goes big

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | The witches of modern times

Roberto Aguirre Sacasa

WandaVision | The ultimate coping mechanism

Fargo | The endless war between Good and Evil, Chance and Inevitability

Pan’s Labyrinth | An Antifascist Fantasy

Guillermo Del Toro

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

Russell T Davies

The Man Standing Next | Shakespearean Tragedy in 70s Korea

Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller

Alfred Hitchcock

The Power of the Dog | Human Depths Barking

The White Lotus | Evil & WASPs

Captain Fantastic | Can a family thrive away from society?

Ida | A journey to discover one’s own identity

Paweł Pawlikowski

The Thing | To Gaze Long into an Abyss

House of Cards offers a dark portrait of America

M.O.D.O.K. | A husband, a father, a Marvel villain having a harsh time

Marvel’s Daredevil | Being a Catholic superhero

Wag the Dog | When comedy looks like reality

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

Malcolm Spellman

Mistery and domestic struggles in Desperate Housewives

The Leftovers | A symphony of grief

What feeds journalists in The Newsroom

The Queen’s Gambit | A western on the chessboard

Watchmen | A subversion of the superhero

Force Majeure | The shame of surviving unfulfilled expectations

Euphoria | A visceral portrayal of the teenage experience

The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity

Amour | An experience

A new renaissance in Atlanta

City Lights | The time Charlie Chaplin risked it all

Charlie Chaplin

The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today

Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad

Unorthodox | Finding one own’s voice

Spirited Away | An otherworldly journey for growing up

Galavant | A different happily ever after

Mustang | A battle for women’s freedom

Deniz Gamze Ergüven

Loki | The God of Mischief is back (again)

Michael Waldron

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | A Rare Movie Combining Different Realities

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

Dawson’s Creek | Teen drama revolution

Kevin Williamson

The Office | Pure comedy in the workplace

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Neon Genesis Evangelion | The harsh relationship with the other

The Flight Attendant | The room where everything changed

L’Événement | Women’s Right to Choose

Mank | The Impression of a Man’s Life

I Know This Much is True | A centrifuge of sadness

Derek Cianfrance

Whiplash | Deromanticizing music and success

Damien Chazelle

Gaslight | When the personal becomes political

Unbelievable | A story of injustice

Momo | The importance of taking time

Trying | An amusing glimpse into adoption

Joker | A portrayal of contemporary man

The Crown | Royalty & the Grey Zone

Alien | In space no one can hear you scream

Taxi Driver | The Dark Night of the Psyche

Martin Scorsese

The Last Duel | The Idea of Justice for Medieval Women

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

Christopher Nolan

The Serpent | Asia’s most famous serial killer

Sound of Metal | A quest for stillness

Squid Game | Rules, rage and revolution of the TV Rubik’s cube

Hwang Dong-hyuk

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

Nathaniel Halpern

Arrival | A close encounter of the fifth kind

Denis Villeneuve

On Body and Soul | The disability to expose oneself

Nomadland | See You Down the Road

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

Alcarràs | A Tribute to Resistant Farmers’ Families

Selfie | Meaning (and connection) cravings

Tristan Aurouet

The Walking Dead explores human nature

Schitt’s Creek | Not a regular family

Million Dollar Baby | A Path of Suffering and Liberation

The Politician | An ironic and extra political satire

Bombay Rose has a unique visual animation style

Mommy | An intimate portrait of the mother-son bond

Bridgerton | A revolutionary period drama

Chris Van Dusen

Soul | Life is not about what you think it is

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

Sense8 | A celebration of human connectedness

Sharp Objects | A deep and dark humanity

Glee | The anthem of underdogs worldwide

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

Alfredino | Reconstruction of a national tragedy

Barbara Petronio

Will & Grace | Breaking taboos and making TV history

The Dark Glow of the Mountains | Explore inner landscapes

You | A Satire on Toxic Masculinity

Seinfeld | The Sitcom Grandma

Elite | A teen drama dealing with complex themes

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story

Ana Lily Amirpour

Maid | A game-changing tail on motherhood and abuse

Molly Smith Metzler

Sex Education | How hard being normal can be

Gunpowder Heart | Revenge drama in Guatemala City

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

The Undoing | Not only a murder story

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Dark humor meets heavy drama in Orange Is the New Black

Queen Sugar is a portrayal of oppression

Westworld | Free will is not free

Chernobyl | What history can teach

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

David Cronenberg

Midsommar | Ari Aster’s horror fairy tale

The Wilds | A matriarchal utopia inspired by teenage girls

Sarah Streicher

Locke | The hero’s journey at the wheel

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel | It’s comedy time

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Un Año, Una Noche | Living again, not surviving

Dune | A Sci-Fi movie both grounded and reaching for the Stars

Denis Villeneuve

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

Céline Sciamma

Killing Eve | Spies and Assassins play their game

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Pose | Ball culture and trans representation

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

The Good Place could be a better place

The Law of Desire | Entertainment mixes with auteur cinema

Pedro Almodóvar

The Morning Show | A story about power

Titane | Cyberpunk hybrids, homicide and a quest for love

Go Ahead | Family is not about blood relations

Mulholland Drive | All roads lead to Cinema

Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Peeping on a brave new intimacy

Steven Soderbergh

Hollywood | Rewriting the Golden Age of Cinema

Thelma & Louise | Revolutionary women on screen

Sherlock | The beloved investigative loner

How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) | The greatest drug dealers

Philipp Käßbohrer

Clichés & the City with Emily in Paris

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

Vesela Kazakova

Devs | Alex Garland’s outlook on godlike tech companies

Jojo Rabbit | The best Nazi in the world

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

Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief

Kenneth Lonergan

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

Jonathan Entwistle

Wild at Heart | Make love against the world

Chungking Express | A whirling tale of 1990s Hong Kong

13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years

Veronica Mars | When teen drama meets neo-noir

I Am Not Your Negro | Witnessing American History

Before and after Twin Peaks

Solos | Humans wanted

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

Freaks and Geeks | A genuine portrait of adolescence

Stand by Me | A cult journey into adulthood

Blade Runner 2049 | On how to be human

Denis Villeneuve

Fleabag challenges the viewer in many ways

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

The Kominsky Method | Laughter and melancholy

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

Karen Bernstein

House, M.D. | When diagnostics becomes investigation

West Side Story | Rewriting a cult classic

Steven Spielberg

When They See Us | The long way towards equality

The Candidate | American politics before the Watergate

Michael Ritchie

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

George C. Wolfe

Being the Ricardos | Behind the Scenes of Show Business

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

Ted Lasso | Being good is the new being bad

Brooklyn Nine-Nine | The good cops do exist

Parasite | Defying definition and labels

Dear White People | An exploration of racial identity

Mad Men | The pursuit of happiness in American society

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