Time of the Wolf

In this film, podcast host Michael Muncer argues that the stereotype of Haneke as a director interested only in suffering misses the point.

Bruno Ganz is extraordinary as Adolf Hitler, living out his final days during the fall of Berlin in Oliver Hirschbiegel's acclaimed drama.

Todd Solondz’s casting of eight different actors of varying ages, genders and races to play the lead role of Aviva, makes for a truly original film.

Blending documentary and fiction, Alfréd Radok's remarkable film chronicling the Terezin ghetto was one of the first films to address the Holocaust.

Two Nigerian migrants dare to imagine a vibrant future outside of their confinement at a British immigration removal centre.

Audrey Tautou plays the shy waitress whose altruism leads to love, in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's BAFTA-winning hit romance.

Banned in Spain, condemned by the Vatican and celebrated at Cannes, Buñuel’s satire about an aspiring nun takes a stinging crack at society.

Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or-winner, about an octogenarian couple trying to cope when a stroke leaves the wife partly paralysed and speechless.

Michael Haneke's Cannes prizewinner, set in a pre-WW1 German village, explores the oppressively strict social conditions that gave rise to Nazism

Haneke’s Cannes award-winning masterpiece is both an enthralling thriller and a piercing analysis of colonial guilt.

Haneke’s most controversial film is a terrifying home invasion thriller.

Isabelle Huppert’s turn as a woman disturbed yet consumed by her own desires has lost none of its gut-punching torment, in Haneke’s unsettling drama.

Haneke’s brilliant multi-strand narrative delivers a chillingly prescient treatise on migration and racism, starring Juliette Binoche.

Isabelle Huppert and Toby Jones are among the cast in Haneke’s impressive satire about a well-to-do and French family oblivious to the migrant crisis.

Isabelle Huppert’s turn as a woman disturbed yet consumed by her own desires has lost none of its gut-punching torment, in Haneke’s unsettling drama.

Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or-winner, about an octogenarian couple trying to cope when a stroke leaves the wife partly paralysed and speechless.

The joint winner of the Cannes Jury Prize, EO is a strangely wonderful tale where the dark and light of humanity is laid bare.

Two lovers become entwined while both harbouring deep secrets and shame, in this epic postwar romance.

This rollicking take on Dumas’ swashbuckler, packed with lavish spectacle and high-stakes drama, slayed all Hollywood films at the French box-office.

Ruth Rendell provides the source novel for this delicious tale of deception and identity, from the master of mischievous melodrama, François Ozon.

Haneke’s Cannes award-winning masterpiece is both an enthralling thriller and a piercing analysis of colonial guilt.

Isabelle Huppert and Toby Jones are among the cast in Haneke’s impressive satire about a well-to-do and French family oblivious to the migrant crisis.

Isabelle Huppert’s turn as a woman disturbed yet consumed by her own desires has lost none of its gut-punching torment, in Haneke’s unsettling drama.

Michael Haneke’s drama explores a teenager’s obsession with screen violence, and his inability to distinguish between reality and fiction.

Haneke’s most controversial film is a terrifying home invasion thriller.

Haneke’s brilliant multi-strand narrative delivers a chillingly prescient treatise on migration and racism, starring Juliette Binoche.

Frederick Wiseman’s gastronomic dream of a film captures daily life in one of the world’s most prestigious restaurants.

Frederick Wiseman’s unflinching debut shows life inside an institution for the criminally insane, voted one of the greatest documentaries of all time.

A compassionate portrait of students at the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind, directed by Frederick Wiseman.

An immersive journey into the New York Public Library with great documentarian Frederick Wiseman.

Frederick Wiseman’s remarkable glimpse into the Kafkaesque nature of New York’s welfare system.

A fascinating portrait of the comings and goings, and the people involved in maintaining Manhattan’s iconic green space.