the essential film list

Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery.

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

12-year-old Mathilda is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade.

A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'

A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.

An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show.

A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day.