| — |  ▶ | Sunset BoulevardBilly Wilder, 1950. A silent star, a swimming pool, and a close-up she is ready for | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Witness for the ProsecutionBilly Wilder, 1957. A courtroom puzzle that keeps folding one more time | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Paths of GloryStanley Kubrick, 1957. Trenches, a court martial, and Kubrick already refusing comfort | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The ShiningStanley Kubrick, 1980. A hotel in winter, a typewriter, and one sentence over and over | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Inglourious BasterdsQuentin Tarantino, 2009. A basement bar scene that tightens for twenty unbearable minutes | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Great DictatorCharles Chaplin, 1940. Chaplin speaks, and uses the voice for a speech straight to camera | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | AliensJames Cameron, 1986. The sequel that swapped horror for a war film and got away with it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | 12Nikita Mikhalkov, 2007. Twelve jurors in a school gym, arguing a Chechen boy's life | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | High and LowAkira Kurosawa, 1963. Half a kidnapping thriller in a living room, half a descent into the city | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Avengers: EndgameAnthony Russo and Joe Russo, 2019. A three-hour victory lap that somehow earns the crowd noise | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Good Will HuntingGus Van Sant, 1997. It's not your fault, repeated until it lands | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | CocoLee Unkrich and Adrian Molina, 2017. A land of the dead built out of marigolds and remembered names | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Toy StoryJohn Lasseter, 1995. The first one, where the toys were afraid of being replaced | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Dark Knight RisesChristopher Nolan, 2012. A city under occupation and a hero who has to climb out of a pit | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | AmadeusMiloš Forman, 1984. Mediocrity's revenge, narrated by the man who committed it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Your Name.Makoto Shinkai, 2016. Two teenagers swap bodies and then swap something much harder | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | 3 IdiotsRajkumar Hirani, 2009. Three engineering students against an education system built to break them | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Das BootWolfgang Petersen, 1981. A submarine film where the enemy is mostly the pressure gauge | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | BraveheartMel Gibson, 1995. Freedom, shouted, and a battlefield that made everyone reach for blue paint | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Princess MononokeHayao Miyazaki, 1997. No villains, just a forest and an industry that both deserve to live | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | OldboyPark Chan-wook, 2003. A hallway, a hammer, and one long take done sideways | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Dr. StrangeloveStanley Kubrick, 1964. The end of the world played entirely for laughs | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | American BeautySam Mendes, 1999. A plastic bag in the wind, and a suburb pretending very hard | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | CapernaumNadine Labaki, 2018. A boy sues his parents for giving him life, and means it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Singin' in the RainStanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952. Made about the end of silent film, and still the most joyful musical | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Once Upon a Time in AmericaSergio Leone, 1984. Four hours of Leone letting memory run in the wrong order | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | JokerTodd Phillips, 2019. A staircase dance that became a meme and a warning at once | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Toy Story 3Lee Unkrich, 2010. The incinerator scene, where the toys just hold hands | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the JediRichard Marquand, 1983. Ewoks, a redemption, and the twin suns finally setting | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Come and SeeElem Klimov, 1985. A boy's face ages through a war in under two hours | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Requiem for a DreamDarren Aronofsky, 2000. Split screens and a montage rhythm that makes addiction physical | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | IncendiesDenis Villeneuve, 2010. A math problem that turns out to be a family, told across two countries | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | IkiruAkira Kurosawa, 1952. A bureaucrat learns he is dying and builds one playground | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Attack on Titan: The Last AttackRyota Aikei and Yūichirō Hayashi, 2024. The end of a story that spent a decade asking who the monsters were | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The HuntThomas Vinterberg, 2012. A rumour in a small town, and how fast neighbours turn | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindMichel Gondry, 2004. Erase a person and find out how much of you was them | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The ApartmentBilly Wilder, 1960. An office, a spare apartment key, and the loneliest promotion | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Lawrence of ArabiaDavid Lean, 1962. A desert shot so wide it changed what a screen was for | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | HeatMichael Mann, 1995. Two professionals across a diner table, and a street shootout after | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | ScarfaceBrian De Palma, 1983. Excess as tragedy, quoted forever by people who missed that part | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Reservoir DogsQuentin Tarantino, 1992. A heist film that never shows the heist | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | 2001: A Space OdysseyStanley Kubrick, 1968. A bone becomes a satellite, and the rest is left to you | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | UpPete Docter and Bob Peterson, 2009. The first ten minutes, and then a house that flies | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Double IndemnityBilly Wilder, 1944. Insurance fraud narrated by the dying man who planned it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | North by NorthwestAlfred Hitchcock, 1959. A crop duster in an empty field, chasing a man who is nobody | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | I SwearKirk Jones, 2025. A biography about a man who will not be spoken over | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Full Metal JacketStanley Kubrick, 1987. Two films in one, and the drill sergeant half is the famous one | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | A SeparationAsghar Farhadi, 2011. A divorce, a stairwell, and no one who is entirely wrong | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Die HardJohn McTiernan, 1988. One building, one cop, and the blueprint for thirty years of action | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | MFritz Lang, 1931. A city hunts a child killer, and the criminals hunt him harder | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | AmélieJean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001. Small kindnesses arranged into a machine of a movie | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | VertigoAlfred Hitchcock, 1958. A spiral, a green dress, and obsession filmed as vertigo | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | To Kill a MockingbirdRobert Mulligan, 1962. A porch, a trial, and a father explaining a town to his children | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Citizen KaneOrson Welles, 1941. A sled, a newsreel, and a fortune that explains nothing | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Indiana Jones and the Last CrusadeSteven Spielberg, 1989. Adding a father to the formula and letting them bicker through it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The StingGeorge Roy Hill, 1973. A long con on the audience as much as the mark | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | A Clockwork OrangeStanley Kubrick, 1971. Ultraviolence set to Beethoven and a cure worse than the crime | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | MetropolisFritz Lang, 1927. A city of towers built on a city of workers, in 1927 | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | 1917Sam Mendes, 2019. Two runners, one message, and a camera that refuses to cut | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Wolf of Wall StreetMartin Scorsese, 2013. Three hours of appetite with the bill left deliberately unpaid | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | SnatchGuy Ritchie, 2000. Diamonds, dogs, and a plot that only works at that speed | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | The Truman ShowPeter Weir, 1998. A man discovers his town is a set and the exit is a staircase | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | DownfallOliver Hirschbiegel, 2004. Ten days in a bunker, played without a single moment of relief | — win | — match wins |
| — |  ▶ | Shutter IslandMartin Scorsese, 2010. An island, a hurricane, and a detective who cannot leave | — win | — match wins |