Inception

A brilliantly constructed, at times action-packed science fiction film full of complex ambiguities that blurs the boundaries between dreams and desires, manipulation and reality. Essentially a melodrama of the purest kind, the film manages a spectacular balancing act between art and commercial cinema, fueled by grandiose visual ideas. Cinema was invented for films like this.

Hardly any other director is able to combine mainstream and art cinema as perfectly as Christopher Nolan. In this intricate, perfectly coherent mix of film noir and cybercrime, Leonardo DiCaprio as thief Cobb goes on a heist in the dreams of rich businessmen. His victims' ideas are worth millions on the open market. But his biggest coup is yet to come: for the unscrupulous company boss Saito, he is to feed new thoughts into the subconscious of a rival in order to influence his decisions. For Cobb, this is the beginning of a journey to the limits of his imagination. With a budget of over 170 million dollars, Christopher Nolan created breathtaking dream worlds in which hotel corridors begin to rotate and streets bend spectacularly. In addition to his boundless imagination and the complex story, in which even subplots demand the audience's full attention, he peppered his arthouse blockbuster with brilliant chases and thrilling shoot-outs.