100 films worth your evening.

A dwarf inherits a tiny train depot and reluctantly befriends two relentlessly cheerful locals, quiet, charming, genuinely funny.

A grumpy foster uncle and a city kid go on the run through the New Zealand bush, warm, hilarious, and unexpectedly moving.

A case of mistaken identity sends 'The Dude' into a kidnapping plot he never asked for, endlessly quotable, effortlessly cool.

Two slackers try to survive a zombie apocalypse without leaving their comfort zone, the best horror-comedy ever made.

A mockumentary following vampire flatmates navigating modern Wellington, deadpan perfection from first scene to last.

The little bear goes to prison and the whole movie is a lesson in how kindness wins, one of the best films of the decade, full stop.

A young witch moves to a new city and starts a delivery service, Miyazaki at his most purely joyful and unguarded.

An Australian radio telescope team helps transmit the Apollo 11 moon landing, true story, played with perfect deadpan affection.

A wanderer becomes sheriff of a lawless gold-rush town and casually outsmarts everyone, the funniest Western nobody talks about.

A Korean-American son and a local woman bond over the modernist architecture of Columbus, Indiana, slow, beautiful, and unexpectedly absorbing.

A restaurant chef quits, buys a food truck, and drives across America with his kid, a movie about making things with your hands and actually enjoying it.

A wealthy quadriplegic hires a young man from the projects as his caregiver and they become genuine friends, funny and unsentimental despite every opportunity.

A shy Parisian waitress secretly engineers happiness for strangers while avoiding her own, visually inventive and irresistibly strange.

A woman is sentenced to house arrest at her childhood home and suspects it's haunted, a sharp New Zealand horror-comedy that keeps you guessing.

A Dublin teen forms a band to impress a girl and accidentally discovers he's actually good, joyful, nostalgic, and packed with great original songs.

An Argentine crime story set across two timelines, built around a case a detective can't let go of, gripping and genuinely surprising.

Two sisters encounter a giant forest spirit while their mother recovers in hospital, the most purely gentle film ever made.

Two people with rough edges orbit each other toward a dance competition, warm, fast-talking, and better than its premise sounds.

Israeli retirees build an assisted-suicide machine for a terminally ill friend, a moral comedy that earns its laughs honestly.

A man discovers he can time travel and uses it mostly to fix small moments, not grand ones, Curtis at his least cynical and most affecting.

The true story of the worst ski jumper ever to compete at the Olympics, who competed anyway, a crowd-pleaser that earns every cheer.

A screenwriter in Paris discovers a portal to the 1920s and gets to meet his literary heroes, Allen's last fully satisfying film.

An Australian family fights the government's plan to take their modest home, a comedy about working-class dignity played completely straight.

A country house murder mystery where the real subject is the invisible labor of the servant class, Altman at his most precise.

An American oil executive arrives in a Scottish village to buy it and slowly falls under its spell, quiet, funny, and genuinely lovely.

A six-year-old in a Louisiana bayou community fights to keep her world together as it literally floods, visionary and fierce.

A young girl lives in the shadow of Disney World in a budget motel with her struggling mother, heartbreaking and honest without being bleak.

A veteran and his daughter live off the grid in Oregon until the state intervenes, deeply humane, quietly devastating.

Emily Dickinson's life from girlhood to death, played with fierce intelligence and dry wit, the biopic form finally used correctly.

A found family in Tokyo survives by shoplifting, until a choice unravels everything, Kore-eda's most precise and affecting work.

A 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents for bringing him into the world, anchored by a child performance that will wreck you.

A painter and her subject fall in love in 18th-century Brittany, knowing the portrait must eventually be finished, exquisite and exact.

A Polish novitiate discovers her Jewish heritage before taking her vows, shot in black-and-white Academy ratio, morally unresolvable.

A Hungarian prisoner at Auschwitz fixates on giving one child a proper burial while the world collapses around him, harrowing and formally radical.

A pastor with a dying congregation confronts a parishioner's environmental despair, Schrader's most disciplined and honest film.

A divorce, told from both sides simultaneously, devastating and fair in equal measure, with two performances that are hard to shake.

A rodeo rider recovering from a brain injury confronts what his life means without riding, lyrical, unhurried, completely real.

A bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey writes poems and lives a quietly beautiful life, a film about attention and the ordinary.

A retired couple's 45th anniversary week is upended by news from the husband's past, Charlotte Rampling in the performance of her career.

An Iranian couple's divorce spirals into a class conflict with no clean resolution, a masterclass in moral complexity.

Two ranch hands fall in love in 1960s Wyoming and spend decades managing what that means, still the most quietly painful American love story.

A girl joins a drill dance team in Cincinnati and mysterious seizures begin spreading, strange, precise, and completely its own thing.

A 15-year-old boy and an aging racehorse travel across the West looking for somewhere to belong, brutal and tender in alternating measures.

A prison warden preparing to execute an innocent man carries the weight of every execution before, Alfre Woodard at her most devastating.

Two teenage cousins travel from rural Pennsylvania to New York City to access an abortion, observational, honest, and quietly furious.

A 17-year-old girl searches the Missouri Ozarks for her missing father or they lose the house, the film that launched Jennifer Lawrence.

A strange illness spreads through a Korean village after a Japanese stranger arrives, a three-hour genre film that keeps changing what it is.

Eight French monks in Algeria must decide whether to flee approaching violence, a film about faith tested to its actual limit.

Shot on iPhone, a trans sex worker searches Los Angeles on Christmas Eve for her boyfriend who cheated, alive, funny, unfiltered.

Two former high school sweethearts cross paths in their hometown as middle-aged adults and spend a day revisiting what they lost, simple and quietly devastating.

The cast of a Star Trek-like TV show is recruited by actual aliens to save their planet, a perfect comedy that also works as a genuinely good sci-fi film.

A private eye and an enforcer team up in 1970s Los Angeles to find a missing girl, Shane Black's funniest and most fully realized film.

A couples' game night goes off the rails when an actual kidnapping gets mistaken for a game, smarter and funnier than any studio comedy has a right to be.

Six strangers meet in a mansion and one of them is a murderer, a comedy that works entirely on its own ludicrous terms, especially with friends.

A visually overwhelming racing epic the Wachowskis made after The Matrix trilogy, derided on release, genuinely brilliant 15 years later.

Two well-meaning hillbillies are mistaken for killers by a group of college students, a premise that generates 89 minutes of perfectly escalating mayhem.

A murder mystery where you learn who did it at the midpoint and spend the second half watching them try to hide it, wildly fun and brilliantly constructed.

A dinner party for eight unravels when a comet passes overhead, made for essentially nothing, genuinely unsettling, perfect for group viewing and post-film arguments.

A CIA agent and a KGB operative team up during the Cold War, stylish, loose, and completely charming; the spy film that wanted to be a fashion film.

A teenage girl and her father prospect for gems on an alien moon, lo-fi, character-driven, and more tense than anything with twice the budget.

A top London cop is reassigned to a sleepy English village that turns out to have a very dark secret, Wright's most tightly plotted and funniest film.

A deadpan Irish cop teams with an FBI agent to break up a drug operation in Connemara, Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson absolutely perfect together.

A poor Seoul family infiltrates a wealthy household, one member at a time, genre-bending, funny, then genuinely shocking; ideal for a group watch.

A CIA analyst's memoir falls into the hands of two gym employees who think they can sell it, the Coens treating Washington DC as a comedy of absolute stupidity.

Two hitmen hide in Bruges after a job goes wrong and one of them hates Bruges, dark comedy with genuine moral weight underneath.

A man stranded on an island befriends a talking, farting corpse, sounds unwatchable, is somehow tender and funny and genuinely strange in the best way.

Four British jihadists plan a terrorist attack while being comprehensively incompetent, the funniest and most uncomfortable comedy about radicalization ever made.

Three friends in a pub get caught in a time loop, a tight, funny, low-budget British sci-fi comedy that punches well above its weight.

Aliens land in a South London housing estate and the local gang has to fight them off, propulsive, funny, and smarter about its neighborhood than it needs to be.

Five friends attempt a pub crawl from their youth and discover the town has been taken over by robots, the best of Wright's Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy.

A Lonely Island mockumentary about a solo pop star on a world tour that's going badly wrong, the funniest music comedy since Spinal Tap.

A process server and his dealer go on the run after witnessing a murder, a genuine action-comedy that actually delivers on both halves.

A night guard discovers the museum exhibits come to life, peak crowd-pleaser, genuinely funny, and the kind of film a group watches without objection.

State troopers goofing off and solving a drug case, endlessly quotable, aggressively dumb in the best way, becomes funnier the more people are watching.

Two academic overachievers try to cram four years of partying into one night before graduation, sharp, warm, and the rare teen comedy that earns every emotional beat.

A biologist enters a mysterious shimmer-enclosed zone where the rules of biology no longer apply, dense, beautiful, and genuinely frightening.

A family unravels after a grandmother's death reveals a terrible secret, the most terrifying horror film in years; do not watch with the lights off.

An alien entity drives through Scotland, picking up men, Scarlett Johansson in a genuinely alien performance; cold, hypnotic, and unforgettable.

A couple goes to a Swedish midsummer festival and discovers the festivities have a dark conclusion, bright, pastoral, and deeply upsetting.

Two lighthouse keepers go mad on a remote New England rock, shot in black-and-white Academy ratio, dialogue half lifted from Melville; overwhelming.

A meteorite lands on a family farm and reality begins to mutate, Lovecraft adaptation that finally captures the source material's cosmic dread.

A man whose wife is murdered by a cult pursues revenge through a psychedelic fever dream, Nicolas Cage at peak Nicolas Cage; absolutely unhinged.

A Puritan family is banished from their colony and settles beside a forest that may harbor something ancient, historically precise and existentially terrifying.

A corporate assassin who inhabits other people's bodies to commit murders begins losing control of the line between self and host, cold, violent, brilliant.

A home-care nurse becomes convinced she has a divine mission regarding her terminally ill patient, tightly wound body horror and psychological disintegration.

A teenager participates in a sleep study and discovers the researchers are documenting something in the shared dreamspace, the most visually unsettling film of 2020.

A dance troupe's celebration goes horrifically wrong when the sangria is spiked with LSD, a single-location nightmare that never lets up.

A couple gets trapped in an endless suburban housing development and can't leave, Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots in a puzzle-box nightmare about domesticity.

Two sisters return home from a psychiatric institution to a stepmother who is not what she seems, Korean horror at its most layered and formally precise.

A self-described serial killer narrates episodes from his career while descending toward something worse, not for everyone; completely committed to its vision.

An aspiring actress in Hollywood discovers a production company that can make her famous, body horror about the cost of ambition; disgusting and correct.

Three stop-motion animated tales set in and around the same mysterious house across different eras, anthology horror that's stranger and more affecting than it looks.

A man chains his meth-addict friend to a cabin to force sobriety, and something in the surrounding forest takes notice, quiet dread that accumulates slowly.

A radio shock jock in a small Ontario town broadcasts as a zombie outbreak spreads, the infection is transmitted through English words; completely original.

A father and son coroner team examine an unidentified woman and the findings keep getting worse, a masterclass in tension built within a single room.

A rural American family carries on a dark tradition after the mother dies, as a local doctor begins to investigate, slow, cold, and genuinely upsetting.

A small-town cop brings a wounded man to a rural hospital and cult members surround the building, low-budget Carpenter homage with practical effects that deliver.

On the surface a bug war movie; actually a satire of fascism so straight-faced it was missed for a decade, alone at midnight it hits very differently.

Two British hitmen take a contract that gradually reveals itself as something very different, starts as crime drama, ends as something you'll think about for weeks.

A history professor discovers his exact double in a rented film and tracks him down, final-shot horror that you'll spend the next month trying to interpret.