All Episodes

William Wyler's 'The Heiress' (1949)

Gabriel Axel's 'Babette's Feast' (1987)

Douglas Sirk's 'All That Heaven Allows' (1955)

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 'The Red Shoes' (1948)

Dianne Jackson's 'The Snowman' (1982)

Francis Ford Coppola's 'The Conversation' (1974)

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant' (1972)

Hayao Miyazaki's 'Kiki's Delivery Service' (1989)

Hayao Miyazaki's 'My Neighbor Totoro' (1988)

Ingmar Bergman's 'Cries and Whispers' (1972)

Frédéric Back's 'The Man Who Planted Trees' (1987)

Delbert Mann's 'Marty' (1955)

Franco Piavoli's 'Voices Through Time' (1996)

Robert Eggers's 'The Witch' (2015)

Jean Negulesco's 'Humoresque' (1946)

Michael Curtiz's 'Mildred Pierce' (1945)

Mike Newell's 'Enchanted April' (1991)

Audrey Wells's 'Under the Tuscan Sun' (2003)

Michael Haneke's 'Funny Games' (1997)

Michael Haneke's 'Amour' (2012)

Jane Campion's 'Bright Star' (2009)

Jane Campion's 'In the Cut' (2003)

Wim Wenders's 'Wings of Desire' (1988)

Joachim Trier's 'Oslo August 31st' (2011)

RaMell Ross's 'Hale County This Morning, This Evening' (2018)

Julie Dash's 'Daughters of the Dust' (1991)

George Sluizer's 'The Vanishing' (aka Spoorloos) (1988)

Lynne Littman's 'Testament' (1983)

Olivier Assayas's 'Clouds of Sils Maria' (2014)

John Cassavetes's 'Opening Night' (1977)

Charles Laughton's 'The Night of the Hunter' (1955)

Theo Angelopoulos's 'Landscape in the Mist' (1988)

Jean-Pierre Melville's 'Le silence de la mer' (1949)

Jean Vigo's 'L'atalante' (1934)

Terrence Malick's 'The Tree of Life' (2011)

Terrence Malick's 'Days of Heaven' (1978)

Michael Curtiz's 'Casablanca' (1942)

Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen's 'Singin' in the Rain' (1952)

Ang Lee's 'Brokeback Mountain' (2005)

Catherine Corsini's 'Summertime' (aka 'La Belle Saison') (2015)

Bong Joon-ho's 'Memories of Murder' (2003)

Roberto Rossellini's 'Journey To Italy' (1954)

Vittorio De Sica's 'Umberto D.' (1952)

Kelly Reichardt's 'Wendy and Lucy' (2008)

Dardenne brothers' 'Two Days, One Night' (2014)

Krzysztof Kieslowski's 'Three Colors: Blue' (1993)

Pablo Larrain's 'Jackie' (2016)

Agnès Varda's 'The Gleaners and I' (2000)

Nicolas Philibert's 'To Be and To Have' (2002)

Todd Haynes's 'Far From Heaven' (2002)

Todd Haynes's 'Safe' (1995)

Jane Campion's 'The Piano' (1993)

Maïwenn's 'My King' (2015)

Peter Webber's 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' (2003)

Pete Travis's 'The Go-Between' (2015)

Patricia Cardoso's 'Real Women Have Curves' (2002)

Nancy Savoca's 'Dogfight' (1991)

François Ozon's 'Under the Sand' (2000)

Jem Cohen's 'Museum Hours' (2012)

Robert Wise's 'The Haunting' (1963)

Alejandro Amenábar's 'The Others' (2001)

John Cromwell's 'The Enchanted Cottage' (1945)

Lynne Ramsay's 'Morvern Callar' (2002)

Carol Morley's 'Dreams of a Life' (2011)

Jessica Hausner's 'Lourdes' (2009)

'Sharp Objects' Recap - Ep 7 and 8

Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love' (2000)

David Lean's 'Brief Encounter' (1945)

'Sharp Objects' Recap - Ep 5 and 6

James Ivory's 'Maurice' (1987)

'Sharp Objects' Recap - Ep 3 and 4

Ingmar Bergman's 'Autumn Sonata' (1978)

Ingmar Bergman's 'Wild Strawberries' (1957)

'Sharp Objects' Recap - Ep 1 and 2

Ingmar Bergman's 'Summer Interlude' (1951)

Jonathan Glazer's 'Birth' (2004)

John Cassavetes's 'A Woman Under the Influence' (1974)

Michael Haneke's 'The Piano Teacher' (2001)

Yasujiro Ozu's 'Late Spring' (1949)

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's 'The Lives of Others' (2006)

Guillermo del Toro's 'Pan's Labyrinth' (2006)

Donna Deitch's 'Desert Hearts' (1985)

Kathleen Collins's 'Losing Ground' (1982)

Ounie Lecomte's 'A Brand New Life' (2009)

Joanna Hogg's 'Unrelated' (2007)

Abbas Kiarostami's 'Close-Up' (1990)

Michelangelo Antonioni's 'L'avventura' (1960)

Agnès Varda's 'Cléo from 5 to 7' (1962)

Chris Marker's 'La Jetée' (1962)

Carl Theodor Dreyer's 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' (1928)

Ceyda Torun's 'Kedi' (2016)

Peter Weir's 'Dead Poets Society' (1989)

Larisa Shepitko's 'Wings' (1966) and 'The Ascent' (1977)

The Keepers, Big Little Lies, and Broadchurch

Elem Klimov's 'Come and See' (1985)

Ettore Scola's 'A Special Day' (1977)

Mathieu Amalric's 'Le Stade de Wimbledon' (2001)

Herk Harvey's 'Carnival of Souls' (1962)

Agnieszka Holland's 'The Secret Garden' (1993)

Lee Chang-dong's 'Poetry' (2010)

Andrea Arnold's 'Fish Tank' (2009)

Laura Citarella and Veronica Llinás's 'Dog Lady' (2015) and Notes on a Cinema of the Unruly Woman

Barbara Loden's 'Wanda' (1970)

Katell Quillévéré's 'Heal The Living' (2016) and Radu Jude's 'Scarred Hearts' (2016)

Vadim Perelman's 'House of Sand and Fog' (2003)

Sally Potter's 'The Tango Lesson' (1997)

Agnès Varda's 'Vagabond' (1985)

Alain Resnais's 'Hiroshima Mon Amour' (1959)

Abdellatif Kechiche's 'Blue is the Warmest Color' (2013)

Ken Loach's 'I, Daniel Blake' (2016)

Abbas Kiarostami's Koker Trilogy

Abbas Kiarostami's 'Where Is My Friend's House' (1987) and Mohammad-Ali Talebi's 'Willow and Wind' (2000)

Abbas Kiarostami's 'Taste of Cherry' (1997)

Claude Chabrol's 'La Cérémonie' (1995)

Christian Petzold's 'Phoenix' (2014)

Alan J. Pakula's 'Sophie's Choice' (1982)

Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy

Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali' (1955)

Jean-Jacques Beineix's 'Locked-In Syndrome' (1997) and Julian Schnabel's 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' (2007)

David Lean's 'Summertime' (1955)

Krzysztof Kieślowski's 'The Double Life of Veronique' (1991)

Satyajit Ray's 'The Big City' (1963)

João Dumans and Affonso Uchoa's 'Arábia' (2017)

Barry Jenkins's 'Moonlight' (2016)

Jennie Livingston's 'Paris is Burning' (1990)

Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott's 'Big Night' (1996)

How I Discovered Cinema and Why It's So Important to Me

Krzysztof Kieślowski's 'Dekalog'

An Introduction