Alfonso Cuarón lovingly renders his debut feature, a screwball comedy of a middle-class libertine, through tightly timed gags and vividly designed tableaux.

Cuarón beautifully adapts the classic story by Frances Hodgson Burnett about Sara Crewe (Liesel Matthews), sent from her home in India to a New York boarding school when her father leaves to fight in WWI.

Alfonso Cuarón’s boldly expressionist update of Great Expectations emphasizes the ragged emotion at the novel’s heart.

After Great Expectations, Cuarón returned to Mexico and made a film that his teenage self would have loved. The result was Y tu máma también, a gorgeously intimate three-hander wrapped up in an unabashedly raunchy road comedy.

Enhanced by Cuarón’s deft choreography of deep focus action and his use of practical effects, the third Harry Potter film is a feast for the eyes, as well as proof of what a singular filmmaker might be able to apply to a global blockbuster.

This science fiction political thriller set in a dystopian Britain on the brink of bleak demise features stirring performances by Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, and Chiwetel Ejiofor as well as the Cuaróns’ distinctive filmmaking technique.

Cuarón’s riveting drama about isolation and survival in the unforgiving realm of outer space is captured with breathtaking and groundbreaking effects.

In Mexico City in the early ’70s, a middle-class family’s center is quietly and unassumingly held by its beloved live-in nanny and housekeeper (Yalitza Aparicio). Alfonso Cuarón tells an epic, autobiographical story of everyday life while also gently sweeping us into a vast cinematic experience.