I don’t have one favorite film, but if asked at gunpoint, it’d probably be Brazil. The influence of Terry Gilliam’s dystopian magnum opus is in practically every sci-fi film after it, plus Robert DeNiro plays a vigilante plumber. Nuff said. –Conrad Krendel-Clark

Brazil
1985
dir. Terry Gilliam
132 min.

Part of the ongoing series: Big Screen Classics