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01Incendies焦土之城Denis Villeneuve · Canada / France · Mystery / Drama / WarNawal dies in Canada, and her will refuses her a gravestone or a funeral unless her twins find the father they believed long dead and a brother they never knew existed. Two letters carry the pair back to the Levant and into a civil war. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play; nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.2010

02The Night of Counting the Years木乃伊之夜Shadi Abdel Salam · Egypt · Historical drama / Drama / NeorealismUpper Egypt, 1881. After their father's funeral, two brothers discover what has kept their clan alive for generations: selling off the royal mummies buried in the mountain above them. Shadi Abdel Salam — an architect by training who directed only one feature — shot it in Classical Arabic and near-static compositions, turning it into a parable about who owns the past.1969

03Underground地下Emir Kusturica · Yugoslavia / Bulgaria / Czech Republic / France / Germany / Hungary · Black comedy / Absurdist / Epic / WarBelgrade, 1941: a man hides his best friend's family in a cellar and tells them the war is not over. For the next twenty years he grows rich on that lie while the people below keep manufacturing weapons for a revolution that ended long ago. Kusturica turns half a century of Yugoslav history into a brass-band carnival, with a zoo and a chimpanzee. Palme d'Or, Cannes.1995

04Landscape in the Mist雾中风景Theo Angelopoulos · Greece / France / Italy · Road movie / Coming-of-age / Tragedy / DramaTwo children are told their father lives in Germany, so they board a night train and cross the whole of Greece to find him. Angelopoulos turns a search for a father into an allegory of twentieth-century Greece in slow long takes: fog, rain, snow, and a broken-fingered marble hand lifted out of the sea by helicopter. Silver Lion at Venice; the European Film Award for Best Film.1988

05The Battle of Algiers阿尔及尔之战Gillo Pontecorvo · Italy / Algeria · War / Historical drama / DocudramaIn Algiers between 1954 and 1957, the National Liberation Front and French paratroopers escalate their violence street by street. Pontecorvo uses newsreel-style black-and-white photography and non-professional actors to turn a colonial war into an archive with no narrator. Golden Lion, Venice 1966.1966

06The Third Man第三人Carol Reed · United Kingdom · Film noir / Mystery / ThrillerPost-war Vienna is carved into four occupied sectors. A broke pulp novelist arrives to take a job from an old friend and arrives in time only for the funeral. Carol Reed and Graham Greene turn a city cut into quarters into the summit of film noir: tilted frames, a chase through the sewers, a single zither. Top prize at Cannes; the Academy Award for black-and-white cinematography.1949

07La Ciénaga沼泽Lucrecia Martel · Argentina, Spain, France · DramaThe rainy season is just beginning in north-western Argentina: two middle-class families crowd into a decaying estate and a few murky pools, waiting for rain, waiting for children, waiting as nothing happens. Lucrecia Martel's feature debut, premiered in competition at Berlin and later taken into the Criterion Collection — a film in which almost nothing happens and everything is dangerous.2001

08Los Olvidados被遗忘的人们Luis Buñuel · Mexico · Crime / DramaIn a Mexico City slum, two street boys are pushed by fate toward the same street. Buñuel presses a surrealist's eye into the rawest street reality and films the people a city refuses to look at; Best Director at Cannes 1951, later inscribed in UNESCO's Memory of the World register.1950

09Daisies雏菊Věra Chytilová · Czechoslovakia · Experimental / Comedy / DramaTwo young women, both named Marie, decide the world is spoiled and that they will be spoiled too. A Czech New Wave classic that treats jump cuts, collage and coloured filters as weapons — banned the moment it was finished in 1966.1966

10MM 就是凶手Fritz Lang · Germany · Thriller / Crime / DramaA German city hunts a child murderer, the police and the underworld each casting their own net. Fritz Lang's first sound film rewrote the grammar of film sound with a single whistle heard off-screen.1931

11The 400 Blows四百击François Truffaut · France · Coming-of-age / Drama / French New WaveA Paris boy, punished for a lie, escapes a reform school and runs toward the sea. The film that opened the French New Wave: Truffaut's feature debut, semi-autobiographical, and Cannes Best Director in 1959.1959

12Rashomon罗生门Akira Kurosawa · Japan · Jidaigeki / Psychological thriller / MysteryA samurai is found dead in a bamboo grove, and a bandit, a wife, the dead man's spirit and a woodcutter each tell the story differently. The Golden Lion winner at Venice in 1951, and the first of Kurosawa and Mifune's sixteen films together.1950

13Yol道路Yılmaz Güney & Şerif Gören · Turkey / Switzerland / France · Ensemble drama / Road movie / Social realismAfter Turkey's 1980 military coup, five prisoners are granted a week's home leave. The screenplay was written from inside prison by Yılmaz Güney, who never reached the set. It won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1982 — and was banned in Turkey until 1999.1982

14Intolerance党同伐异D. W. Griffith · United States · Epic / Silent film / Anthology film / Historical dramaD. W. Griffith intercuts four stories separated by 2,500 years — the fall of Babylon, the Crucifixion, the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and a modern American labour strike — to argue that intolerance never goes out of date. The costliest gamble of the silent era, and the first true epic of film editing.1916

15Picnic at Hanging Rock悬崖上的野餐Peter Weir · Australia · Mystery / DramaValentine's Day, 1900, Victoria, Australia. A girls' school picnic at Hanging Rock ends with three students and a teacher walking into the rock and never coming back. Peter Weir turned an unsolved disappearance into the most celebrated film in Australian cinema.1975

16A Brighter Summer Day牯岭街少年杀人事件Edward Yang · Taiwan, China · Drama / CrimeTaipei, 1960. Hsiao Si'r, the son of a civil servant, grows up between night school, street gangs and his father's silences. In 237 minutes and over a hundred speaking parts, Edward Yang turns a real juvenile murder into the portrait of a whole generation.1991

17Ashes and Diamonds灰烬与钻石Andrzej Wajda · Poland · Drama / War / Thriller8 May 1945, the day the war in Europe ended. A former Home Army soldier is ordered to assassinate a local Communist Party secretary — and falls in love in a hotel ballroom in a small Polish town. The final film of Wajda's war trilogy, and the crowning achievement of the Polish Film School.1958

18The Act of Killing杀戮演绎Joshua Oppenheimer · Denmark, Indonesia, Norway, United Kingdom · Documentary / HistoryAfter the 1965 anti-communist purge in Indonesia the killers were never tried — they took power instead. Four decades on, the director asked them to restage their killings in the style of their favourite film genres. They agreed enthusiastically, and directed and starred in it themselves.2012

19The Spirit of the Beehive蜂巢幽灵Víctor Erice · Spain · Drama / Fantasy / Coming-of-ageIn 1940, with the Spanish Civil War just over, a mobile cinema brings the 1931 Frankenstein to an isolated village on the Castilian plateau. Six-year-old Ana comes to believe the monster really lives nearby and sets out to find him. Víctor Erice's feature debut: honey-coloured light, hexagonal windows, and a mystery that is never explained.1973

20The Passion of Joan of Arc圣女贞德蒙难记Carl Theodor Dreyer · France · Historical / Drama / Silent filmIn 1431 a young peasant girl is tried for heresy by an ecclesiastical court in Rouen. Dreyer condensed the real trial transcripts into a single day and shot almost all of it in close-up — the most famous face in cinema, and a torture that never touches the body.1928

21Alien异形Ridley Scott · United Kingdom / United States · Science Fiction / Horror / ThrillerThe commercial tug Nostromo is woken mid-route by a signal from an unnamed source. Seven crew members set down on a planetoid, find a crashed alien ship — and carry something back aboard that should have stayed where it was. Ridley Scott's 1979 science-fiction horror film, whose script said only that the crew was unisex, ended up rewriting the next forty years of the screen.1979

22Spring in a Small Town小城之春Fei Mu · China · Drama / RomanceIn a half-ruined family compound in a small Jiangnan town just after the war with Japan, five people live out one spring. Zhou Yuwen's marriage to her ailing husband Dai Liyan has gone silent — until his old friend Zhang Zhichen, who was Yuwen's lover before the war, arrives from Shanghai. Fei Mu's 1948 black-and-white masterpiece: five people, one crumbling courtyard, and a love that never crosses the line.1948

23Once Upon a Time in the West西部往事Sergio Leone · Italy / United States · Western / Epic / DramaThe railroad is pushing west, and a widow who has just stepped off the train inherits a patch of desert — the place where the station and the water will be. Four men are pulled onto the same line: a stranger with a harmonica, an outlaw wanted for something he did not do, a dying railroad man, and a killer with a gentle smile. Leone takes nearly three hours to bury the entire Western tradition.1968

24Singin' in the Rain雨中曲Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen · United States · Musical / Comedy / RomanceHollywood, 1927. Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are the studio's most bankable screen couple — on screen. Then sound arrives, and Lina's voice cannot survive it, so Kathy, out of the chorus, is pushed behind the curtain to speak for her. A musical comedy about how the movies learned to talk.1952

25Black Girl黑女孩Ousmane Sembène · Senegal / France · Drama / Social realismA young woman from outside Dakar, Diouana, is taken on as a maid by a French couple. She thinks it is the start of a new life; in France she is shut inside an apartment, addressed only as "the maid", and even her letters home are written for her by her employers. Sixty-five minutes, in black and white — the first feature film by a director from sub-Saharan Africa.1966

26Spirited Away千与千寻Hayao Miyazaki · Japan · Animation / Fantasy / Coming-of-ageTen-year-old Chihiro is moving house when her family wanders into an abandoned theme park. Her parents eat food that is not theirs and turn into pigs, and she is left to work in a bathhouse that serves the gods. Yubaba takes her name and leaves her only one character of it — "Sen". She has to work to survive, and she has to remember who she is to get them all back.2001

27City of God上帝之城Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund · Brazil · Crime / Drama / EpicOn the western edge of Rio de Janeiro, a relocation housing estate called Cidade de Deus grows over twenty years into a city ruled by armed teenagers. One boy who wants to be a photographer survives — because he learned to watch it all from behind a viewfinder.2002

28Modern Times摩登时代Charlie Chaplin · United States · Comedy / Social satire / DramaAmerica, deep in the Depression. A factory worker is pushed to a breakdown by the assembly line, and afterwards meets a young woman who survives by stealing bananas on the waterfront. It is Chaplin's last film as the Tramp — and the first in which the character speaks, in a language nobody understands.1936

29Come and See自己去看Elem Klimov · Soviet Union · War / Drama / HistoricalBelarus, 1943. A boy named Flyora digs a rifle out of the earth and wants to join the partisans. He has not fired a shot before he is swept into the German reprisals: villages emptied, villagers herded into a barn and burned alive. Elem Klimov used live ammunition, Steadicam and a face the war remakes in front of us to make the least forgiving war film ever shot.1985

30Pather Panchali大地之歌Satyajit Ray · India · Drama / Coming-of-age / NeorealismA village called Nischindipur, in Bengal. Harihar writes letters and recites scripture for a little money and dreams of better. His wife Sarbajaya holds the household together one day at a time. Their daughter Durga steals fruit from a neighbour's garden in the monsoon. Their small son Apu sees a train for the first time. Shot on and off over nearly three years, Satyajit Ray's first film turns a family's ordinary days into cinema.1955

31Close-Up特写Abbas Kiarostami · Iran · Docufiction / Drama / DocumentaryTehran, 1989. A broke film buff named Hossain Sabzian tells a woman on a bus that he is the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Two weeks later he is arrested for impersonation. Abbas Kiarostami obtained permission to film the trial, then had everyone involved — the family, the journalist, even the judge — replay themselves on camera. No narration. No category.1990

32Metropolis大都会Fritz Lang · Germany · Science Fiction / Drama / German ExpressionismA city sliced in two: gardens and towers above, machines and workers below. When the ruler's son follows a woman named Maria down into the depths, his father still holds another card — an inventor who can build a human being. Out of plaster, mirrors and one robot, Fritz Lang wrote the first draft of a century of urban science fiction.1927

33Breathless精疲力尽Jean-Luc Godard · France · Crime / DramaMarseille. A young man who models himself on American gangster pictures steals a car and, on the road to Paris, shoots a policeman. He is going to Paris for an American girl — a student and aspiring reporter deciding whether to stay. Shot handheld on real streets and cut with jump cuts, Godard's debut became the opening statement of the French New Wave.1960

34Parasite寄生虫Bong Joon-ho · South Korea · Black comedy / Thriller / DramaSeoul. A family living in a semi-basement scrapes by folding pizza boxes. When the son talks his way into a tutoring job at a wealthy household, the whole family follows him in, one at a time. With staircases, smell and one night of rain, Bong Joon-ho turns class difference into something you can physically feel.2019

35In the Mood for Love花样年华Wong Kar-wai · Hong Kong / France · Romance / DramaHong Kong, 1962. Two couples move into the same apartment building, and a man and a woman discover that their spouses are having an affair. They never cross the line, and what they leave behind stays in corridors, stairwells and rainy street corners. With cheongsams, a repeated theme and frames within frames, Wong Kar-wai turned almost nothing happening into one of the most moving love stories of the past quarter century.2000

362001: A Space Odyssey2001太空漫游Stanley Kubrick · United Kingdom / United States · Science Fiction / Adventure / EpicIn 1968 Kubrick compressed the whole span of human history — from a bone club to a star child — into a film with almost no dialogue. A black monolith on the Moon, a ship bound for Jupiter, and a computer that starts to lie: more than half a century on, it is still the line that divides science fiction.1968

37The Seventh Seal第七封印Ingmar Bergman · Sweden · Drama / FantasyIn 1957 Bergman had a knight returning from the Crusades challenge Death to a game of chess on a beach. The film lives in the gaps of that game — plague, flagellants, a troupe of actors, a last supper. Its question is medieval and still open: if God stays silent, is faith still possible?1957

38Bicycle Thieves偷自行车的人Vittorio De Sica · Italy · Drama / NeorealismRome, 1948. A long-unemployed man finally lands a job pasting posters — on condition that he owns a bicycle. His wife pawns the family's bed sheets to redeem his from the pawnshop; on his first day of work, it is stolen. Using non-professional actors and real streets, De Sica turned a small event into the most famous search in film history.1948

39Seven Samurai七武士Akira Kurosawa · Japan · Jidaigeki / Action / Adventure / DramaIn 1954 Kurosawa took a premise as plain as a fable — seven masterless samurai hired by farmers to fight bandits — and made the longest and most expensive Japanese film to that date. What it actually invented was not fight choreography but a narrative grammar of recruitment, defence and last stand, borrowed ever since.1954

40The Godfather教父Francis Ford Coppola · USA · Crime / DramaIn 1972 Coppola turned a bestselling mob novel into a family tragedy. Violence is never the spectacle here; it happens inside weddings, kitchens and churches — and the gangster film acquires, for the first time, the weight of classical tragedy.1972