Batman Begins (2005)

Anna May Wong was a talented actress and a fashion icon and still had to fight for everything she had due to hatred and racism.

Some people’s first introduction to Mira Nair might be as New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mom. But with her insightful direction of 1991’s Mississippi Masala, Nair shows how much she deserves to be known as an artist. Delivering a nuanced portrait of a romance between a Black man and an Indian woman living in the South, Nair explores the complications each character faces, giving both equal weight.

A haunting look at grief, survival, and a mother’s quiet collapse in a world that never gave her room to fall.