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Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller

Alfred Hitchcock

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

The Banshees of Inisherin or the tragedy of a troubled friendship

Martin McDonagh

City Lights | The time Charlie Chaplin risked it all

Charlie Chaplin

The Danish Girl | Becoming Truly Oneself

Blade Runner 2049 | On how to be human

Denis Villeneuve

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

West Side Story | Rewriting a cult classic

Steven Spielberg

Selfie | Meaning (and connection) cravings

Tristan Aurouet

The Man Standing Next | Shakespearean Tragedy in 70s Korea

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

Nomadland | See You Down the Road

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

Christopher Nolan

Alien | In space no one can hear you scream

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

Steven Soderbergh

Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film

Gunpowder Heart | Revenge drama in Guatemala City

The Father | A psychological thriller in disguise

Vincent | Tim Burton’s First Experiment in Style

Mustang | A battle for women’s freedom

Deniz Gamze Ergüven

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story

Ana Lily Amirpour

13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years

The Candidate | American politics before the Watergate

Michael Ritchie

In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation

Bombay Rose has a unique visual animation style

Fantastic Mr. Fox | A story about animals and humans

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

Céline Sciamma

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

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

Parasite | Defying definition and labels

Gaslight | When the personal becomes political

Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad

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

Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

Denis Villeneuve

Ida | A journey to discover one’s own identity

Paweł Pawlikowski

Another Round | Awakening to Life

Thomas Vinterberg

Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony

Mank | The Impression of a Man’s Life

Taxi Driver | The Dark Night of the Psyche

Martin Scorsese

Chungking Express | A whirling tale of 1990s Hong Kong

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Getting Lost in the Labyrinthine World of Mind and Feelings

The Last Duel | The Idea of Justice for Medieval Women

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

George C. Wolfe

Ratatouille | Revealing the Outsider’s Magical Cuisine

Captain Fantastic | Can a family thrive away from society?

The Law of Desire | Entertainment mixes with auteur cinema

Pedro Almodóvar

Stand by Me | A cult journey into adulthood

Bicycle Thieves | A simple and unforgettable story

Vittorio De Sica

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

The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today

Jojo Rabbit | The best Nazi in the world

The Green Knight | An Epic Tale of Humans and Nature

Avatar | The Persuasion of an Alien Way of Life

Being the Ricardos | Behind the Scenes of Show Business

Bones and All | You can’t escape from who you are

Luca Guadagnino

Victoria | One city, one night, one take

Sebastian Schipper

Midsommar | Ari Aster’s horror fairy tale

The Dark Glow of the Mountains | Explore inner landscapes

Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief

Kenneth Lonergan

Thelma & Louise | Revolutionary women on screen

Locke | The hero’s journey at the wheel

Pan’s Labyrinth | An Antifascist Fantasy

Guillermo Del Toro

Momo | The importance of taking time

The Thing | To Gaze Long into an Abyss

Amour | An experience

Joker | A portrayal of contemporary man

Alcarràs | A Tribute to Resistant Farmers’ Families

Titane | Cyberpunk hybrids, homicide and a quest for love

Betty Blue | A commentary on women depiction in the media

Jean-Jacques Beineix

Pearl | Beauty and horror in technicolor

The Power of the Dog | Human Depths Barking

Wag the Dog | When comedy looks like reality

On Body and Soul | The disability to expose oneself

Some Like It Hot | Challenging Stereotypes Through Laughter

L’Événement | Women’s Right to Choose

I Am Not Your Negro | Witnessing American History

Force Majeure | The shame of surviving unfulfilled expectations

Wild at Heart | Make love against the world

Encanto | Breaking the Circle of Trauma

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

Vesela Kazakova

Million Dollar Baby | A Path of Suffering and Liberation

Boyhood | When cinema captures real life

Richard Linklater

Spirited Away | An otherworldly journey for growing up

Whiplash | Deromanticizing music and success

Damien Chazelle

The Whale | A kammerspiel of modern times

Darren Aronofsky

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

D.A. Pennebaker

Arrival | A close encounter of the fifth kind

Denis Villeneuve

Un Año, Una Noche | Living again, not surviving

Bones and All | Non si può sfuggire alla propria natura

Luca Guadagnino

Passing | On Racial Passing and Racial Identity

Master Gardener | A small tale of big issues

In the Mouth of Madness | A Storyteller’s Testament

If Beale Street Could Talk | A story of ecstatic love

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

Tokyo Godfathers | A Christmas Movie Full of Depth

Mulholland Drive | All roads lead to Cinema

Soul | Life is not about what you think it is

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

Karen Bernstein

Sound of Metal | A quest for stillness

Mommy | An intimate portrait of the mother-son bond

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

David Cronenberg

Funny Games | Becoming Accomplice to Violence

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