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A developing list of films I have thought beautiful, poignant over the last few years:


1) Home of the Brave (dir. Mark Robson, 1949)

2) Dog Day Afternoon (dir. Sidney Lumet, 1975)

3) Secret Sunshine (dir. Lee Chang-dong, 2007)

4) Beau Travail (dir. Claire Denis, 1999)

5) La Notte (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961)

6) Tongues Untied (dir. Marlon T. Riggs, 1989)

7) S'en Fout La Mort (dir. Claire Denis, 1999)

8) Stalker (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)

9) Week-end (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)

10) Life is Sweet (dir. Mike Leigh, 1990)

11) A Raisin in the Sun (dir. Daniel Petrie, 1961)

12) Beautiful Thing (dir. Hettie MacDonald, 1996)

13) Aftersun (dir. Charlotte Wells, 2022)

14) Ai no Korīda (dir. Nagisa Ōshima, 1976)

15) Killer of Sheep (dir. Charles Burnett, 1978)

16) Ceddo (dir. Ousmane Sembène, 1977)

17) Apur Sansar (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1959)


I hope you enjoy 🙂


London, UK // uptd. July 2026