A delicate Chinese box of a movie, Robert Kramer’s 1980 film achieves a power on par with the filmmaker’s classic 1970s explorations of the personal and political, Milestones and Ice. 

When Jimmy (Vincent Gallo) discovers that the father he thought was dead is alive somewhere in Lisbon, he makes the transatlantic trip but does not find what he expected. Robert Kramer’s aching 1987 film presents a portrait of disillusionment in Jimmy’s father, aka Doc (Paul McIsaac), a political activist who has seen (and once hoped for) better days.

Jeffrey Peixoto’s mesmerizing, wholly original film enters the mindsets of people who have had experiences with Scientology. But this is no sensational exposé of secrets—instead, Over the Rainbow is a fascinating, universal reflection on what shapes our perceptions of reality.

Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, and a world of chaos, Darren Aronofsky’s wild first-person vision of domestic and global apocalypse is one of the decade’s outstanding cinematic accomplishments. Its bewildering end-of-days mood feels ever more apt—and only truly comes to life on the big screen.