***** 1949. Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Two Film Academy awards (Best Director and Best Screenplay) and a nomination in the Best Picture category. Addie Ross writes to three women that she's just left town with one of their husbands. Masterpiece.

***** 1950. Directed by Nicholas Ray. A screenwriter, violent by nature, is suspected to have murdered a young woman he received in his apartment. Soon, his new girl-friend doesn't know anymore whether he's guilty or not. Superb movie about Hollywood and its demons. Masterpiece.

***** 1954. Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Academy award and Golden Globe earned by Edmond O'Brien. Huge and incredibly intelligent movie featuring an idealistic Spanish dancer lost in Hollywood. Masterpiece.

***** 1956. Directed by Nicholas Ray. A teacher, suffering from a rare and painful disease, accepts to take cortisone, a new drug in the 50's, under medical surveillance. Unfortunately, the patient modifies his prescriptions and becomes little by little psychotic. Masterpiece.

***** 1963. Written for the screen and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Four Academy Awards. First seen on a small TV set, then several times in theaters and finally on DVD. CLEOPATRA is not your usual peplum, it's a geyser of sublime scenes bound to stay in our collective unconscious. Indispensable.

***** 1970. Produced and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. How to transform the screenplay of a western dealing with a daring prison escape into a smart and satiric film about honesty and prison reforms ? Well, just ask Mankiewicz, one of the top directors of the Golden Age of Hollywood. An indispensable DVD in the honest man's library.

***** 1981. Written and directed by Brian De Palma. A sound engineer tries to unravel a political conspiracy but nobody believes him. This lyrical thriller, which has become a cult movie, proves once again that Brian De Palma is a major director. Masterpiece.

***** 2000. Co-written and directed by Béla Tarr. 145 minutes of perfection. With Werner Herzog, Sergei Parajanov and Andrei Tarkovsky, Béla Tarr belongs to the small group of visionary directors. Undisputable masterpiece.

***** 2001. Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. Four German Film Academy awards. Scientists hire twelve volunteers and lock them up in the basement of the building. Six men will play the prisoners and the others the wardens. Soon, the experiment becomes out of control. Masterpiece.

***** 2005. Directed by Ang Lee. Three Academy awards, three Golden Globes and Golden Lion of the 2005 Venice Film Festival. True love between two modern cowboys. Deserves all the praise it created.

***** 2006. Written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Academy award in the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year category and three European Film awards (Best film, Screenwriter and Actor). East Germany, 1984. A member of the Stasi spies on a small group of artists and secretly intervene in their lives. Masterpiece.

***** 2007. Co-written and directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. The rage outbreak is once again not far away when the search for a vaccine brings a seemingly immune subject into the headquarters of the American forces. Forget all the George Romero's zombies films and all the werewolves flicks, 28 WEEKS LATER is a masterpiece.