La Jetée (1962, Dir. Chris Marker)

Told almost entirely through still photographs, La Jetée is the most haunting time-travel story ever made in 28 minutes.
After World War III, survivors live underground and experiment with memory as a form of time travel. One man glimpses his own past… and something much worse.
Every freeze-frame feels like a wound. The ending inspired 12 Monkeys, but Marker’s original remains one of cinema’s purest meditations on time, love, and loss.

Rating: 5 / 5