8.5/10

Director: Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache

Starring: Francois Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot, Clotilde Mollet

A.k.a. "Intouchables", "Untouchable". Philippe (Francois Cluzet) is a wealthy Parisian left paralyzed from the neck down after a paragliding accident.... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Georgia Moll, Fritz Lang

Aka "Le Mepris". Featuring Brigitte Bardot in a tale of film producer Jack Palance making a film directed by Fritz Lang (who plays himself in the film... Read more

8.2/10

Director: Danny Boyle

Starring: Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Kel...

A gritty, graphically painful and, at times, blackly funny look at a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh, Scotland focusing on one young man as he re... Read more

8/10

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Starring: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards

An early Stanley Kubrick classic about an elaborate race track robbery filmed with total artistic freedom using a multilayered simultaneous storyline.... Read more

8.1/10

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clementi

Derived from the novel by Alberto Moravia, acclaimed director Bernardo Bertolucci's visually electrifying masterpiece about sex, politics, repression... Read more

8.1/10

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo

Starring: Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, Brahim Haggiag

Director Gillo Pontecorvo brilliantly recreated the street riots and other events that led up to Algeria's independence from France in this astonishin... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Denys Arcand

Starring: Catherine Wilkening, Lothaire Bluteau

The marvellous, emotional and humourous story of modern day hypocrisy, as experienced by a group of actors who stage a radical interpretation of the l... Read more

7.8/10

Director: Michael Haneke

Starring: Ursina Lardi, Ulrich Tukur, Leonie Benesch, Christian Friedel

Michael Haneke ('Funny Games', 'Code Unknown', etc) does not make films with easy answers. 'The White Ribbon' offers a view of a small pre-WWI German... Read more

8.1/10

Director: Otto Preminger

Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price

One of the greatest Hollywood whodunits ever made, Otto Preminger's noir-flavored thriller stars Dana Andrews as a detective investigating the murder... Read more

8/10

Director: Charles Laughton

Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish

Robert Mitchum gives one of his best performances as Harry Powell, a psychotic self-styled preacher who is after the stolen money of a hanged man. Set... Read more

7.9/10

Director: David Lean

Starring: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles, Alec Guinness, Martita Hunt, Jean Sim...

One of the great translations of literature into film, David Lean's "Great Expectations" brings Charles Dickens's masterpiece to robust on-screen life... Read more

7.7/10

Director: George Stevens

Starring: Alan Ladd, Ben Johnson, Edgar Buchanan, Jack Palance, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, B...

George Stevens' legendary rendition of the archetypal Western myth earned six Academy Award nominations including Best Screenplay, Best Director and B... Read more

8/10

Director: Agnes Varda

Starring: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dorothee Blanck, Michel Legrand, Anna Kar...

This intimate film chronicles two hours in the life of a French singer who is waiting to hear if she has terminal cancer. The beautiful but spoiled Cl... Read more

8.5/10

Director: Ron Fricke

From the creators of the award-winning film "Baraka", Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, comes a new non-verbal masterpiece. Filmed over a five-year period... Read more

8.1/10

Director: William Wyler

Starring: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd

Winner of eleven Oscars including Charlton Heston as Best Actor, an epic spectacle concerning a prince of Judea who incurs the wrath of the Roman Empi... Read more

8/10

Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Kristoffer Joner, Domhnall Gleeson,...

Inspired by true events, The Revenant is an epic story of survival and transformation on the American frontier. While on an expedition into the unchar... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Vincente Minnelli

Starring: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Tom Drake

Judy Garland is the classic American teenager in love, in song, in one of the brightest hours of her career. 'Meet Me in St Louis' is a charming turn-... Read more

7.9/10

Director: Michael Haneke

Starring: Emmanuele Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Examining the close bond shared by an elderly couple when one of them begins to suffer from an illness, "Amour" tells a heart-rending story of sacrifi... Read more

7/10

Director: Matteo Garrone

Starring: Toni Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato, Salvatore Cantalupo, Maria Nazionale, Marco...

Matteo Garrone's stark, shocking vision of contemporary gangsterdom, is one of cinema's most authentic depictions of organized crime. A tour de force... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Claude Chabrol

Starring: Stephane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passallia

'The Butcher'. An intense psychological thriller about a schoolteacher who begins an affair with the town butcher, but the affair is interrupted when... Read more