Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others), Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006

The Lives of Others is nothing short of classic, populist cinema. Engaging, exacting, meticulously paced, and genuinely affecting, von Donnersmarck's Cold War tale of surveillance and the surveilled is more accessible, and ultimately more successful, than Melville's recently rediscovered (and much celebrated) Army of Shadows, which treads much the same psychological ground.