An affecting meditation on time and human connection disguised as a sci-fi blockbuster, Arrival ranks among Villeneuve’s most moving and profound works to date.

That rarest of things—a sequel that lives up to, if not surpasses, its predecessor—Villeneuve’s follow-up to Ridley Scott’s timeless classic is one of the 21st century’s most atmospherically rich and visually transporting science fiction films.

A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, Villeneuve’s visionary adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal novel tells the story of Paul Atreides, a gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people.

Villeneuve and Jake Gyllenhaal reunite for this moodily absurdist adaptation of José Saramago’s The Double that if anything actually deepens the possibilities explored in the novel.

An investigation into generational trauma, Villeneuve’s audacious drama follows two Quebecois siblings as they journey to the fictitious Middle Eastern city of Daresh in search of their recently deceased mother’s enigmatic brother.

Villeneuve’s aesthetically uncompromising historical horror film about a Montreal mass shooting is a virtuosic and terribly absorbing portrait of violence in its most extreme form.

Villeneuve made his Hollywood debut with this harrowing and utterly engrossing thriller about grief and desperation, chronicling an investigation into the abduction of two young girls in a fictitious Pennsylvania city.

An FBI agent’s (Emily Blunt) idealism is put to the test in Villeneuve’s raw-nerve chronicle of a government task force’s efforts to take down a powerful Mexican drug cartel.

Coppola’s epic portrait of war as hell follows Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) as he undertakes a journey from South Vietnam to Cambodia at the height of the Vietnam War with orders to assassinate the rogue Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando).

Ridley Scott’s second feature used minimal gore and maximum claustrophobic tension to tell the now-iconic tale of an interstellar mining crew en route back to Earth with a very unfriendly stowaway on board.

This retelling of Billy Budd, set among a troop of Foreign Legionnaires, is one of Denis and DP Agnès Godard’s finest collaborations: a sensuously photographed story of misplaced longing and frustrated desire.

Ridley Scott’s seminal science fiction opus dazzled audiences with its vision of a 21st-century Los Angeles choked by neon and drowning in rain, where real human beings are scarcely distinguishable from androids.

A rare opportunity to see one of the great works of American science fiction presented in its newly restored, Spielberg-approved version on 70mm.

Tony Leung is a homesick Hong Kong exile in Buenos Aires locked in an on-again/off-again spiral of passion, jealousy, and “starting over” with the mercurial Leslie Cheung in Wong Kar Wai’s lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown.

Resnais’s devastating modernist masterwork, in which present and past are indistinguishable, follows a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) who goes to Hiroshima to make a film and has an affair with a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada).

The final film for stars Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, and Huston’s lone collaboration with writer Arthur Miller, is a tough, ambiguous morality play about a principled divorcée torn between her love for an aging cowboy and her attachment to the natural world he wants to control.

One of Ingmar Bergman’s most enigmatic works, Persona is the story of an actress who has suddenly fallen mute (Liv Ullman), and retreats to the countryside with her nurse (Bibi Andersson) to convalesce.

Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo leave middle-class life behind for a life on the run, out in the trees under the sun and the stars, by the wide blue sea.

Perrault and Brault’s seminal work of ethnofiction follows the inhabitants of Île-aux-Coudres as they renew their centuries-old tradition of trapping beluga whales.

Among the most oft-referenced and influential works in all of world cinema, Kurosawa’s epochal tale of Sengoku-era villagers hiring a band of ronin to protect their harvest from bandits remains a timeless masterpiece of action cinema.

In Clouzot’s masterful adaptation of Georges Arnaud’s novel, four desperate men take on a seemingly doomed mission when they agree to transport trucks full of highly explosive nitroglycerin through a South American mountain route.

Cassavetes’s classic portrait of a woman on the verge stars Gena Rowlands as Mabel, a hard-drinking L.A. housewife whose behavior has grown increasingly erratic, much to the concern of her construction foreman husband, Nick (Peter Falk).