Nuclear nightmares: the Belarus film festival taking a stand against repression

In a country where history casts a long shadow and authoritarianism reigns, a guerrilla festival team commandeer cinemas to champion liberty – if the KGB don’t get there first

The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: the full list

Our pick of the top films released in the US this year brings a shocking class war, tearjerking breakups, war, glamour, horror and everything in between. Tell us your favourites too

The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 1 – Parasite

Bong Joon-Ho’s breathlessly entertaining magnum opus mixed Hitchcockian suspense with deft social commentary, sparking heated debate worldwide

The 50 best films of 2019 in the UK: the full list

Our pick of the year’s top movies released in the UK reveals the end of an era, painful breakups, festive families, horrors both real and imagined, and heroes of many kinds

Long Day’s Journey Into Night review – an exhilarating slo-mo hallucination

Mystery, passion and fear permeate the obsessive reverie of a man searching for his lost love, which takes flight in an audacious 3D dream-fantasy sequence

Ip Man 4 review – kung fu master gives America a kicking

In the solemn fourth film about the real-life martial arts teacher, Ip Man takes on a racist bully in the US marine corps

The 50 best films of 2019 in the UK: No 3 – Happy As Lazzaro

Though it doesn’t yield its meanings easily, Alice Rohrwacher’s miraculous and enigmatic fable revels in its protagonist’s state of grace

Sons of Denmark review – conspiracy thriller takes a shocking turn

A misjudged scene depicting an acid attack fatally undermines this drama about radicalisation and anti-Muslim nationalism

The 50 best films of 2019 in the UK: No 8 – Burning

Lee Chang-dong’s missing-person drama was a flickering gem that forwent easy thrills for a deeply unsettling unresolvedness

So Long, My Son review – a gorgeous, melancholy masterpiece

Three decades of Chinese history are told through the lives of two couples linked by tragedy

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg review – delightful Deneuve reigns supreme

Catherine Deneuve brings an unworldly, subtly erotic charm to Jacques Demy’s rereleased pastel rainbow of a musical

The Cave review – horror and hope in a Syrian hospital battered by war

This powerful, immensely moving documentary follows the courageous medical staff who must treat injured children as bombs fall around them

The Wolf’s Call review – lots of sweaty sub-on-sub action

This French mashup of Dr Strangelove and The Hunt for Red October features lots of tense silence, sweaty faces and all the other tropes of submarine movies