Germany, Year Zero

A unit of British paratroopers in Afghanistan become caught in a minefield, unable to move or help their injured colleagues, in this unbearably tense thriller.

Devastatingly powerful, tense and claustrophobic war drama about the final mission of a German U-boat, from heroic start to tragic end.

Andrzej Wajda’s best-known, visually remarkable film starring Zbigniew Cybulski.

With gripping set-pieces, Andrzej Wajda’s debut depicts the establishment of a teenage anti-German resistance group.

Andrzej Wadja’s clammy and nightmarishly claustrophobic depiction of the 1944 Warsaw uprising.

Sammo Hung directs and stars in this high-kicking tribute to The Dirty Dozen, which sees ten convicts offered amnesty if the undertake a deadly mission behind enemy lines in Vietnam to destroy a top-secret munitions dump

Peter Lorre is unforgettable as the compulsive child murderer on the run from both police and criminals alike, in Fritz Lang’s seminal crime film.

With a blazing star performance from Hanna Schygulla in the title role, this was the greatest critical and commercial success of Fassbinder’s career.

Fassbinder's visual and verbal extravaganza about a successful but lonely fashion designer who falls in love with a beautiful younger woman.

One of Werner Herzog's most acclaimed and audacious films, Fitzcarraldo tells the incredible story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an opera-loving fortune hunter who dreams of bringing opera to the heart of the Peruvian jungle.

Fassbinder’s international breakthrough, this unconventional love story combines lucid social analysis with devastating emotional power.

Roberto Rossellini's film about a photographer who is given the power to rid the Earth of 'evil-doers'.

In her first collaboration with Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman stars as a refugee who marries a fisherman and moves to a barren island.

Roberto Rossellini's acerbic but finally very moving masterpiece about marital crisis boasts great performances from Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders

Roberto Rossellini’s landmark of Italian neorealism often cited as one of the greatest films ever made.

Roberto Rossellini’s ambitious and enormously moving follow-up to his breakthrough Rome, Open City.

Siblings find passion and peril online and in the real world, in this visually electric French drama.

A seductive neo-noir and cult classic centring on lesbian desire in dangerous circumstances.

The messiness of sex, the mysteries of birth and the moving spectacle of devoted parenting in the face of impending oblivion create a potent atmosphere in Claire Denis’ English-language debut.

Soulful docufiction featuring real-life porn actor Lalo Santos.

A troubled young sheep farmer falls for a hired hand in this stunning debut from Francis Lee.

Alejandro González Iñárritu's (Birdman, The Revenant) gripping debut feature is a savagely brilliant triptych around the theme of animalistic desires.