Miguel Gomes’s dazzling two-pronged tribute to old age, memory, and classic cinema is a bewitching, often funny journey with an atmosphere all its own. Like the ingenious Arabian Nights, Tabu is nearly impossible to categorize, but one thing’s for certain: it’s an arthouse high point of the 2010s.

Mocking contemporary city life, this swift, sharp comedy from rising-star director Daniel Soares earned a special mention at Cannes. Toggling between sleek, shiny new buildings and raging scenes of destruction, these vignettes regard the Portuguese housing crisis with dark and blazing wit.