My fav ones:

• The Shining 1980 by Stanley Kubrick
• The Shawshank Redemption 1994 by Frank Darabont
• The Silence of the Lambs 1991 by Jonathan Demme
• Se7en 1995 by David Fincher
• Interstellar 2013 by Christopher Nolan
• The Martian 2015 by Ridley Scott
• Whiplash 2014 by Damien Chazelle
• Inception 2010 by Christopher Nolan
• The Prestige 2006 by Christopher Nolan
• Little Women 2019 by Greta Gerwig
• Shutter Island 2010 by Martin Scorsese
• Misery 1990 by Rob Reiner

These are not my words entirely, based on my above listed movies, chatgpt helped me to define these sentences:

drawn to psychological intensity and moral tension

value ideas over spectacle

respect craft and auteurs

• intentional filmmaking
• strong vision