Thriller/Noir

• Nightcrawler — essential, pairs with Fincher
• Prisoners — Villeneuve
• To Live and Die in L.A. — Friedkin
• Thief — Mann, Criterion
• The Guest — synthwave thriller
• Manhunter — Mann
• Only God Forgives — Refn
• Memories of Murder — Bong

World/Z Cinema

• Possession (1981) — Zulawski
• The American Friend — Wenders
• Come and See — Klimov
• Wings of Desire — Wenders
• Close-Up — Kiarostami
• Paris, Texas — Wenders
• Brazil — Gilliam director’s cut
• The Thin Red Line — Malick