Mads Mikkelsen’s meaningful looks mean business in a soil-tilling drama dug from Danish history.

A shambolic household takes shape as a family in a trial by fire all the sweeter for its transformative heat.

Director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s practised unpacking of the relativity of truth is cinematic origami.

With Juliette Binoche at the stove, every dish is a star in this dreamy, 19th-century romance.

A quagmire of cross-purposes inside a school is an unsettling lesson in the tenuousness of the structures we build to protect ourselves.

Less a passive viewing experience than a thumping run of body blows.

A man alone by choice finds grace in the everyday.

Two teenage refugees are flayed to sinew and bone in a hellscape trek from Senegal to Sicily.

A Greek island resort is a crucible of weaponised sex.

Every atrocity is a statistic to Auschwitz commandant Rudolph Höss in writer-director Jonathan Glazer’s shattering indictment of the unspeakable.