Chungking Express

A city earns this description when its buildings, journeys and daily routines change what people can do. These mostly post-1990 films look beyond the familiar New York, Paris and London circuit...

Rain earns its place here when it changes how a city feels: reflections stretch a street, windows divide companions or a downpour makes being outside seem like a private decision. Expect nocturnal...

For adult viewers who want romance to do more than deliver a reassuring ending, this ranking values chemistry, emotional precision and the ways filmmaking makes desire visible. It ranges across...

A personal cross-language ranking of films first publicly released in 1994. Hong Kong romance, American crime, Taiwanese urban comedy, a major sports documentary and long-form Hungarian cinema sit...