The 2020 New York Film Festival: The Best Movies To See Virtually

This is the Opening Night Film for the 58th NYFF. Based on one of five anthology films from Academy-Award winner Steve McQueen's TV movie 'Small Axe,' 'Lovers Rock' centers on the real-life experiences of London's West Indian community set between 1969 and 1982.

This is the Centerpiece film. Directed by Chloé Zhao and starring two-time Academy-Award-winning actor Frances McDormand, 'Nomadland' follows a woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

This is the Closing Night film. 'French Exit' stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges about an aging Manhattan socialite living on what's barely left of her inheritance moves to a small apartment in Paris with her son and cat.

Pedro Almodóvar's new short film 'The Human Voice,' stars Tilda Swinton, a woman who watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him. Two living beings facing abandonment.

Helmed by Yulene Olaizola, 'Tragic Jungle' is a film set deep in the Mayan jungle of 1920 right on the border between Mexico and Belize. A group of Mexican gum workers cross paths with Agnes, a mysterious young Belizean woman. Her presence incites tension among the men, arousing their fantasies and desires. But they slowly discover the have woken up Xtabay, a legendary being that lurks in the heart of the jungle.

'Fauna' is the latest feature from Mexican-Canadian auteur Nicolás Pereda. It is a sly, comedic take on how violence in Mexico has infiltrated popular imagination. The film imagines a parallel reality of detectives and organized crime.

Argentine director Matías Piñeiro's 'Isabella' is about the difficulty of accurately defining the color of our decisions. It's the fifth installment of the “Las Shakespeareadas” series, which elaborates contemporary fictions about the female roles in William Shakespeare's comedies.

Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

As part of the Revival category at NYFF, 'Smooth Talk' stars Laura Dern, a free-spirited 15-year-old girl flirts with a dangerous stranger in the Northern California suburbs and must prepare herself for the frightening and traumatic consequences.