Favorite Movies of All Time

Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood

Set in rural Iowa, the film follows Francesca Johnson and photographer Robert Kincaid as a chance encounter becomes a brief, life-changing romance. It explores love, responsibility, and the lasting significance of the choices we make.

Directed by: Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, and Jacques Perrin

A filmmaker looks back on his childhood in a Sicilian village and his friendship with the local projectionist. A story of cinema, memory, and the people and places we leave behind.

Directed by: Peter Chan
Starring: Maggie Cheung and Leon Lai

Two mainland Chinese newcomers meet in Hong Kong, where friendship grows into a complicated romance. Their lives intertwine across years of migration, ambition, and missed chances.

Directed by: Wong Kar-wai
Starring: Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and Faye Wong

Two lovelorn Hong Kong police officers experience unexpected encounters in a restless city. Two loosely connected stories explore loneliness, chance, and the possibility of beginning again.

Directed by: Céline Sciamma
Starring: Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel

On an isolated island in eighteenth-century France, a painter is commissioned to create a young woman’s wedding portrait. Close observation develops into intimacy in a story of art, desire, and memory.

Directed by: Damien Chazelle
Starring: Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling

An aspiring actress and a jazz pianist fall in love while pursuing their ambitions in Los Angeles. Music and dance frame a bittersweet story about love, creative dreams, and the choices that shape a life.

Directed by: Xu Lei
Starring: Xu Chaoying, Zhang Zhanyi, and Su Shuhe

When a friend is injured in a hit-and-run, two villagers in rural northern China turn amateur detectives to track down the driver. Their unlikely investigation becomes a gently comic story of friendship, loyalty, and ordinary people’s determination to do right by one another.