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Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love is a film about two people who never touch. That might sound like a limitation. It is the film's greatest strength. If Moonlight broke your heart with its restraint, this film will finish the job.

Before Ryan Gosling's Driver ever put on that scorpion jacket, Alain Delon walked through Paris in a trench coat and fedora, saying almost nothing, and became the coolest man in cinema. Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï is the blueprint for every stylish, silent loner thriller that followed.

Spielberg turned it down. Warner Bros. almost shelved it. But Robert Zemeckis’s Contact (1997) survived its troubled production to become one of the most…

Satoshi Kon's animated masterpiece explored dream infiltration four years before Christopher Nolan's blockbuster took the concept worldwide. Paprika (2006) isn't just a precursor to Inception - it's a wilder, more visually inventive version of the same idea.