@mwerickson Without thinking too hard about it: 1) The Conversation, absolutely masterful performance by Gene Hackman, excellent sound design, and I saw it in Paris with my husband in the early aughts. 2) Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control really showed me what experimental documentary could be. 3) Maria Full of Grace with its absolutely perfect ending. 4) Children of Men for delivering sci fi in the exactly right mix of domesticated futures and uncanny change. And 5) The Beat that My Heart Skipped for its quintessential French precision: small-but-big story, magnetic lead.