If I’m being totally honest, the three movies I watch most are Jaws, Goodfellas, and Aliens — but you’ve seen all those. Yes, The Rules of the Game, Citizen Kane, and The Searchers are all masterpieces, but that fact can be confirmed by any Sight & Sound top ten list.

I don’t need to tell you about the genius found in The Big Lebowski and the Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick oeuvres, nor the charms of Die Hard and The Hunt for Red October. A Jacobin reader doesn’t need to be told of the dialectical brilliance of The Battle of Algiers or Sergei Eisenstein’s classics.

This is strictly a list of fantastic movies you may not have heard of (but that are readily available) or ones you misjudged or overlooked — with a few (non-prestige) TV show recommendations to get you through the ’Rona. I’ve tried to go for surprising options, but not contrarianism. Enjoy.