Come and See (1985)
Klimov's 1985 Soviet WWII drama. A teenage boy joins partisans in Nazi-occupied Belarus.
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1970sStalker (1979)
Tarkovsky's 1979 Soviet SF film. Two and a half slow hours that justify every minute.
1920sBattleship Potemkin (1925)
Eisenstein's 1925 Soviet propaganda film. The Odessa Steps sequence remains the most-imitated montage in cinema.
2010sLeviathan (2014)
Zvyagintsev's 2014 Russian drama. A man fighting a corrupt mayor over his coastal property.
2010sA Separation (2011)
Farhadi's 2011 Iranian domestic-legal drama. A middle-class couple's divorce becomes a moral procedural.
2010sThe Hunt (2012)
Vinterberg's 2012 Danish small-town drama. Mads Mikkelsen as a kindergarten teacher falsely accused of child abuse.
2000sThe Lives of Others (2006)
Donnersmarck's 2006 German drama. A Stasi officer surveilling a playwright.
1940sBicycle Thieves (1948)
De Sica's 1948 Italian neorealist drama. A father and son search Rome for a stolen bicycle.
1950sThe 400 Blows (1959)
Truffaut's 1959 French New Wave foundation. Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel.
2010sA Touch of Sin (2013)
Jia Zhangke's 2013 Chinese anthology. Four stories of modern violence in industrial China.
2000sMemories of Murder (2003)
Bong Joon-ho's 2003 procedural. Based on the real Hwaseong murders.
1980sBrubaker (1980)
Rosenberg's 1980 prison-reform drama. Robert Redford as the warden who arrives undercover as an inmate.