Iranian new wave — Kiarostami, Farhadi, and the rest
Children, cars, doors, the conditional. The cinema that taught the rest of the world what minimalism could carry. Kiarostami, Farhadi, Panahi, Makhmalbaf, Ghobadi, the post-2010 wave that still goes underseen.
Close-Up
foreign gemcultdevastating
Children of Heaven
foreign gemcultcozy
A Separation
foreign gemdevastating
Where Is The Friend's House?
foreign gemcultdevastating
Life, and Nothing More…
foreign gemcultdevastating
Taste of Cherry
devastatingforeign gemcult
A Moment of Innocence
foreign gemcozycult
About Elly
foreign gemcultdevastating
Through the Olive Trees
foreign gemcultdevastating
The House Is Black
foreign gemcultatmospheric
Holy Spider
foreign gemdevastatingdread
The Salesman
devastatingforeign gemdread
The Wind Will Carry Us
cozyautumnalcult
Autres collections canon
Japanese New Wave — the essentials
80s horror everyone has forgotten
Giallo — Italy's blood-red mystery genre
Korean cinema essentials beyond Parasite
Post-Soviet cinema — Russia & Eastern Europe after 1991
The Romanian New Wave
Essential anime that isn't Studio Ghibli
Slow cinema — the long-take canon
70s American paranoia — the post-Watergate canon
First features by directors who later mattered
Documentaries that hold up as cinema
Scandinavian noir beyond the Stieg Larsson franchises
Argentine cinema — beyond Wild Tales
British kitchen-sink and what it became
First features directed by cinematographers
German New Wave — Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, Schlöndorff
Hong Kong action — Woo, Lam, Tsui, To
Spaghetti westerns — Leone, Corbucci, Sollima, and the second tier
Mumblecore — the American indie movement nobody named
Czech New Wave — Forman, Chytilová, Menzel, before they fled
French New Wave — Godard, Truffaut, Varda, Rivette, Rohmer
Blaxploitation — Shaft, Pam Grier, and the 70s Black cinema boom
Dogme 95 — von Trier, Vinterberg, and the vow of chastity
Australian New Wave — Weir, Miller, Armstrong, Campion
African cinema — Sembène, Sissako, Mambéty, and beyond
Italian neorealism — the rubble and the real
Commedia all'italiana — Italy laughing at itself
German expressionism — shadows, angles, madness
Taiwanese New Cinema — Hou, Yang, Tsai, and the island's quiet revolution
New Queer Cinema — Haynes, Araki, Van Sant, and the 90s insurgency
Wuxia and martial arts — flying swords, hidden masters