From an off-kilter AIDS comedy to a Harry Potter adventure — from a hormone-fueled road movie about horny teenagers to an Oscar-winning spectacle about a lone woman lost in space — Alfonso Cuarón has forged one of the most unpredictable and uncompromising careers in modern filmmaking. And yet, despite the absurd degree of variety that outwardly seems to define his art, Cuarón’s eight features are bound together by a shared obsession with time, memory, social mobility, and the cinema’s unique power to knot all of these things together (often in the span of a single dazzling shot).

Now touring the festival circuit with the universally adored “Roma” in advance of its December release in theaters and on Netflix, Cuarón has once again reconfirmed his place among the greatest auteurs working today. To celebrate a new addition to this remarkable body of work, we present our complete overview of Cuarón’s movies,...