Fritz the Cat (1972)

Fritz the Cat is a 1972 American adult animated comedy film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi. It was Bakshi's feature film debut and is loosely based on the Fritz the Cat comic strips by Robert Crumb. It was the first animated feature film to receive an X rating in the United States.

Release date: January 25, 1972 (New York)
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Film series: Fritz the Cat
Budget: 1 million USD

Slackers (2002)

Dave (Devon Sawa), Sam (Jason Segel) and Jeff (Michael Maronna) are about to graduate from Holden University with honors in lying, cheating and scheming. The three roommates have proudly scammed their way through the last four years of college and now, during final exams, these big-men-on-campus are… MORE

Release date: February 1, 2002 (USA)
Director: Dewey Nicks
Screenplay: David H. Steinberg
Distributed by: Screen Gems
Initial DVD release: May 28, 2002

Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

Hundreds of video tapes of torture, murder and dismemberment show a killer's decadelong reign of terror.

Release date: 2009 (USA)
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Screenplay: John Erick Dowdle
Producer: Drew Dowdle
Story by: John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle

Begotten (1990)

God Killing Himself (Brian Salzberg), Mother Earth (Donna Dempsey) and Son of Earth-Flesh on Bone (Stephen Charles Barry) are players in a myth of primal gore.

Release date: June 5, 1991 (USA)
Director: E. Elias Merhige
Film series: Begotten
Budget: 33,000 USD
Initial DVD release: February 20, 2001

Sightseers (2013)

An innocent tour of Britain's countryside turns into a disturbing odyssey when Chris whisks his girlfriend away on a cross-country road trip.

Release date: May 10, 2013 (USA)
Director: Ben Wheatley
Box office: 2.1 million USD
Production companies: StudioCanal, Film4 Productions, UK Film Council
Screenplay: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram

Lost River (2014)

A single mother is swept into a dark underworld while her son discovers an underwater town.

Release date: April 10, 2015 (USA)
Director: Ryan Gosling
Box office: 615,500 USD
Cinematography: Benoît Debie
Screenplay: Ryan Gosling

Proxy (2013)

After a vicious attack, a young woman gradually realises nothing in her life is as it appears.

Release date: 2013 (USA)
Director: Zack Parker
Music composed by: The Newton Brothers
Screenplay: Zack Parker, Kevin Donner
Producers: Zack Parker, Faust Checho

Nuit Noire (Black Night) (2005)

In a world overtaken by eternal darkness, the buttoned down entomologist abandons his phantoms to embrace the unknown. Oscar is a conservator at the Natural Science Museum, and spends most of his days surrounded by bugs. When Oscar isn't tending to the tiny specimens that line his home and workplace, he can frequently be found reflecting on his childhood traumas in the psychiatrist's office. One day, Oscar returns home from work to find an African woman from the museum lying in his bed.

Initial release: October 3, 2005
Director: Olivier Smolders
Screenplay: Olivier Smolders
Cast: Fabrice Rodriguez, Yves-Marie Gnahoua, Marie Lecomte, MORE
Editors: Olivier Smolders, Philippe Bourgueil
Producers: Olivier Smolders, Michel De Kempeneer, Claude Haïm

Midsommar (2019)

A couple travel to Sweden to visit their friend's rural hometown for its fabled midsummer festival, but what begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.

Release date: July 3, 2019 (USA)
Director: Ari Aster
Budget: $8–10 million
Screenplay: Ari Aster
Box office: 42.3 million USD

Mother! (2017)

A young woman spends her days renovating the Victorian mansion that she lives in with her husband in the countryside. When a stranger knocks on the door one night, he becomes an unexpected guest in their home. Later, his wife and two children also arrive to make themselves welcome. Terror soon strikes when the beleaguered wife tries to figure out why her husband is so seemingly friendly and accommodating to everyone but her.

Release date: September 15, 2017 (USA)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Screenplay: Darren Aronofsky
Budget: 30 million USD

Who's Watching Oliver (2017)

A mentally unstable loner wanders the streets committing a shocking killing spree. His only possible way out of a life he is desperate to escape comes in the form of the eccentric Sophia, naive to the danger she has put herself in.

Release date: July 3, 2018 (USA)
Director: Richie Moore
Screenplay: Russell Geoffrey Banks, Richie Moore, Raimund Huber
Producers: Raimund Huber, Aki Komine

Man Bites Dog (1992)

The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben (Benoît Poelvoorde) are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and arbitrary musings on topics of interest to him, such as music or the conditions of low-income housing, and even goes so far as to introduce the documentary crew to his family. But their reckless indulgences soon get the better of them.

Release date: January 15, 1993 (USA)
Directors: Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel
Budget: BEF1 million (USD$33,000)
Language: French

Kids (1995)

Amoral teen Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) has made it his goal to sleep with as many virgin girls as possible -- but he doesn't tell them that he's HIV positive. While on the hunt for his latest conquest, Telly and his best friend, Casper (Justin Pierce), smoke pot and steal from shops around New York. Meanwhile, Jenny (Chloë Sevigny), one of Telly's early victims, makes it her mission to save other girls from him. But before she has a chance to confront him at a party, everything goes horribly wrong.

Release date: July 28, 1995 (USA)
Director: Larry Clark
Initial DVD release: June 11, 1997
Screenplay: Harmony Korine
Budget: 1.5 million USD

Pink Flamingos (1972)

A bizarre fat woman (Divine) and her misfit family compete with a Baltimore couple (David Lochary, Mink Stole) to be named the filthiest people alive.

Release date: March 17, 1972 (USA)
Director: John Waters
Budget: 12,000 USD
Screenplay: John Waters
Box office: 7 million USD

MirrorMask (2005)

Helen is fed up with life at her parents' circus and desperately wants to get away. One day she loses her temper and wishes her mother dead - and is mortified to see her cruel wish seemingly begin to come true. She realises that she'd do anything to retract her `curse', but instead finds herself thrown suddenly into a surreal landscape that's by turns beautiful, sinister and scary.

Release date: September 30, 2005 (USA)
Director: Dave McKean
Music composed by: Iain Ballamy
Budget: 4 million USD
Screenplay: Dave McKean, Neil Gaiman

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

In the near future, as America virtually loses the war on drugs, Robert Arctor, a narcotics cop in Orange County, Calif., becomes an addict when he goes under cover. He is wooing Donna, a dealer, to ferret out her supplier. At the same time, he receives orders to spy on his housemates, one of whom is suspected of being Donna's biggest customer.

Release date: July 7, 2006 (USA)
Director: Richard Linklater
Box office: 7.7 million USD
Budget: 8.7 million USD
Screenplay: Richard Linklater, Philip K. Dick

Akira (1988)

In 1988 the Japanese government drops an atomic bomb on Tokyo after ESP experiments on children go awry. In 2019, 31 years after the nuking of the city, Kaneda, a bike gang leader, tries to save his friend Tetsuo from a secret government project. He battles anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader until Tetsuo's supernatural powers suddenly manifest. A final battle is fought in Tokyo Olympiad exposing the experiment's secrets.

Release date: January 1, 1988 (USA)
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Japanese: アキラ
Budget: 1.1 billion JPY

Paprika (2006)

Dr. Atsuko Chiba works as a scientist by day and, under the code name "Paprika," is a dream detective at night. Atsuko and her colleagues are working on a device called the DC Mini, which is intended to help psychiatric patients, but in the wrong hands it could destroy people's minds. When a prototype is stolen, Atsuko/Paprika springs into action to recover it before damage is done.

Release date: March 24, 2007 (USA)
Director: Satoshi Kon
Featured song: The Girl in Byakkoya - White Tiger Field
Music composed by: Susumu Hirasawa

Slipstream (1989)

In a futuristic world savaged by the slipstream wind, bounty hunter Matt snatches a murderer with a price of his head from lawman Will Tasker.
Initial release: June 22, 1989 (Australia)

Director: Steven Lisberger
Screenplay: Tony Kayden
Music composed by: Elmer Bernstein
Producer: Gary Kurtz

Barton Fink (1991)

Set in 1941, an intellectual New York playwright Barton Fink (John Turturro) accepts an offer to write movie scripts in L.A. He finds himself with writer's block when required to do a B-movie script. His neighbor tries to help, but he continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him.

Release date: August 21, 1991 (USA)
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cinematography: Roger Deakins
Awards: Palme d'Or, Cannes Best Actor Award, MORE
Screenplay: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Alice (1988)

In Czech director Jan Svankmajer's surreal adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic children's book, Alice (Kristyna Kohoutova) follows her stuffed rabbit through a portal inside her dresser to be whisked away to Wonderland. While the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat are still present, the familiar magical world and bizarre characters have undergone an unsettling transformation in the director's vision through the stop-motion animation of dead animals, puppets and other assorted objects.
Release date: August 3, 1988 (New York)

Director: Jan Švankmajer
Distributed by: First Run Features
Cinematography: Svatopluk Maly
Producer: Peter-Christian Fueter
Cast: Camilla Power

Destino (2003)

A woman becomes entranced with the image of a man and undergoes surreal transformations.

Release date: December 19, 2003 (USA)
Director: Dominique Monféry
Nominations: Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated)
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Producers: Roy E. Disney, Baker Bloodworth

Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) (1929)

Co-written by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, this silent film was made completely according to surrealist principles and includes some of the most searing and memorable images ever filmed.
Release date: January 30, 2004 (USA)

Director: Luis Buñuel
Budget: 100,000 FRF
Story by: Luis Buñuel
Screenplay: Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí

Angel-A (2005)

André, a small-time ex-convict, owes money to a crime boss who promises to kill him if he doesn't repay him by midnight. After failing to find protection from the American embassy and the French police, a despairing André scrambles onto a bridge over the Seine, intending to leap to his death. He is surprised to see a tall, beautiful girl clinging to a rail on the same bridge, apparently preparing to end her life as well.

Release date: May 25, 2007 (USA)
Director: Luc Besson
Language: French language
Budget: 1.2 million USD
Screenplay: Luc Besson

The Girl on the Bridge (1999)

One chilly night, on a Paris bridge, a girl leans out over the Seine with tears in her eyes, contemplating the icy waters below. Suddenly, a stranger with a penetrating gaze emerges out of the darkness, a man who will change her life. It is Gabor, a once brilliant but now fading performer in need of a partner. He has set his sights on this luckless but oddly alluring Adele, a girl with nowhere to go who is shifting nervously on the edge of a decision.

Release date: July 28, 2000 (New York)
Director: Patrice Leconte
Screenplay: Serge Frydman
Box office: 1.709 million USD

5 FIngers of Death / King Boxer (1972)

A student (Lieh Lo) of kung fu meets resistance on his way to a major Chinese tournament.

Release date: March 21, 1973 (USA)
Director: Jeong Chang-Hwa
Box office: 4 million USD (USA/Canada rentals)
Producer: Run Run Shaw
Initial DVD release: June 19, 2007

Sword of Doom (1966)

Merciless swordsman Ryunosuke Tsukue (Tatsuya Nakadai) is a government assassin in feudal Japan who has no remorse and no moral code. When he is scheduled to participate in a friendly fencing contest, he ends up killing his competitor. Next, after a fight with his own mistress, he murders her and deserts their infant son. Later, while spending the night in a haunted geisha house, he sees the specters of all of his victims and spirals into madness, leaving a bloodbath in his wake.

Initial release: February 25, 1966 (Japan)
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Cinematography: Hiroshi Murai
Screenplay: Shinobu Hashimoto
Distributor: Toho Co., Ltd.

Blade of the Immortal (2017)

Cursed with immortality, a highly skilled samurai in feudal Japan promises to help a young woman avenge the death of her parents. Their mission leads them into a bloody battle with a ruthless warrior and his band of master swordsmen.

Initial release: April 29, 2017 (Japan)
Director: Takashi Miike
Japanese: 無限の住人
Language: Japanese
Box office: 8.4 million USD

From Beyond (1986)

Obsessive scientist Dr. Pretorius (Ted Sorel) successfully discovers a way to access a parallel universe of pleasure by tapping into the brain's pineal gland. When he is seemingly killed by forces from this other dimension, his assistant, Dr. Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs), is accused of the murder. After psychiatrist Katherine McMichaels (Barbara Crampton) and detective Bubba Brownlee (Ken Foree) take the case, the trio risks a return to the other world in order to solve the mystery.

Initial release: October 24, 1986
Director: Stuart Gordon
Box office: 1.261 million USD (US)
Budget: 4.5 million USD
Screenplay: Stuart Gordon, Brian Yuzna, Dennis Paoli

Videodrome (1983)

As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn (James Woods) is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend (Deborah Harry) auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind
Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

Release date: February 4, 1983 (USA)
Director: David Cronenberg
Screenplay: David Cronenberg
Budget: 5.952 million USD
Box office: 2.1 million USD

Naked Lunch (1991)

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee (Peter Weller) and his dead-eyed wife, Joan (Judy Davis), like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway (Roy Scheider), Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.

Release date: December 27, 1991 (USA)
Director: David Cronenberg
Box office: 2.6 million USD
Screenplay: David Cronenberg, Bill Strait

The Science of Sleep (2006)

Soon after the death of his father, a distraught young man (Gael García Bernal) begins a job as a graphic designer, but has little chance to create. His intense dreams begin to overtake his waking life and he becomes increasingly caught up in flights of fancy. His hyperactive imagination then begins to interfere with his courtship of a pretty neighbor (Charlotte Gainsbourg).

Release date: September 22, 2006 (USA)
Director: Michel Gondry
Screenplay: Michel Gondry
Budget: 6 million USD
Languages: English, French, Spanish

Live Freaky! Die Freaky! (2006)

A futuristic nomad scrounging for food in a sun-scorched landscape stumbles upon a book detailing the most-notorious murders in American history.

Initial release: July 8, 2006 (Japan)
Director: John Roecker
Box office: 11,290 USD
Initial DVD release: January 31, 2006 (USA)
Screenplay: John Roecker

Everything Is Illuminated (2005)

A young Jewish-American man obsessed with his family history, Jonathan Safran Foer (Elijah Wood) decides to journey to the Ukraine to find out more about the life of his grandfather. Guided by Alex (Eugene Hutz), a rap-obsessed local, Jonathan ventures into the heartland of the Ukraine seeking to shed light on events that occurred to his grandfather during World War II. Joining Jonathan and Alex is the latter's surly grandfather (Boris Leskin) and a dog named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr.

Release date: September 16, 2005 (USA)
Director: Liev Schreiber
Screenplay: Liev Schreiber
Box office: 3.602 million USD
Budget: 7 million USD

No Escape (1994)

A 21st-century Marine convict sent to a remote island prison called Absolom, lands in the midst of a war between two inmate factions. With corporations controlling the prison system, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome inmates. However, for one man sent to Absolom, it doesn't mean the end.

Initial release: July 9, 1994 (South Korea)
Director: Martin Campbell
Box office: 15.3 million USD
Adapted from: The Penal Colony
Costume design: Norma Moriceau

Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996)

A pharmaceutical scientist creates a pill that makes people remember their happiest memory, and although it's successful, it has unfortunate side effects.
Release date: April 12, 1996 (USA)

Director: Kelly Makin
Box office: 2.654 million USD
Initial DVD release: July 16, 2002
Producer: Lorne Michaels

Amélie (2001)

"Amélie" is a fanciful comedy about a young woman who discretely orchestrates the lives of the people around her, creating a world exclusively of her own making. Shot in over 80 Parisian locations, acclaimed director Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Delicatessen"; "The City of Lost Children") invokes his incomparable visionary style to capture the exquisite charm and mystery of modern-day Paris through the eyes of a beautiful ingenue.

Release date: November 16, 2001 (USA)
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Music composed by: Yann Tiersen
Awards: Crystal Globe, MORE
Languages: French, English, Russian

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

It's 1944 and the Allies have invaded Nazi-held Europe. In Spain, a troop of soldiers are sent to a remote forest to flush out the rebels. They are led by Capitan Vidal, a murdering sadist, and with him are his new wife Carmen and her daughter from a previous marriage, 11-year-old Ofelia. Ofelia witnesses her stepfather's sadistic brutality and is drawn into Pan's Labyrinth, a magical world of mythical beings.

Release date: December 29, 2006 (USA)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Language: Spanish
Featured song: Pan's Labyrinth Lullaby

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

A "metal fetishist" (Shin'ya Tsukamoto), driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman (Tomorowo Taguchi) and his girlfriend (Kei Fujiwara). The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.

Release date: January 1, 1988 (USA)
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Film series: Tetsuo
Music composed by: Chu Ishikawa
Screenplay: Shinya Tsukamoto

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth (Buck Henry), Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions. While developing a method to transport water, Thomas meets Mary-Lou (Candy Clark), a quiet hotel clerk, and begins to fall in love with her. Just as he is ready to leave Earth, Thomas is intercepted by the U.S. government, and his entire plan is threatened.

Release date: May 28, 1976 (New York)
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Story by: Walter Tevis
Cinematography: Anthony B. Richmond
Screenplay: Walter Tevis, Paul Mayersberg

Delicatessen (1991)

Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) is a butcher who owns a run-down apartment building in post-apocalyptic France. The building is in constant need of a handyman, because Clapet routinely butchers them and sells them as food. The latest in the long ling of disposable workers is Louison (Dominique Pinon), a former circus clown desperate for work and lodging. But this time Clapet's plan hits a snag when his young daughter (Marie-Laure Dougnac) falls head over heels for the lovable Louison.

Release date: October 6, 1991 (USA)
Directors: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Cinematography: Darius Khondji
Language: French

The Lobster (2015)

In a dystopian society, single people must find a mate within 45 days or be transformed into an animal of their choice.
Release date: May 13, 2016 (USA)

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Awards: Cannes Jury Prize, MORE
Nominations: Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, MORE
Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou

Meet the Feebles (1989)

Fame-seeking members of the animal kingdom experience the sleazier side of show business in this puppet-filled parody.


Initial release: December 8, 1989 (New Zealand)
Director: Peter Jackson
Budget: 750,000 USD
Box office: 80,000 USD (New Zealand)

Gormenghast (2000)

Gormenghast is a fantasy series by British author Mervyn Peake, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, gothic-like structure.

Fantastic Planet (1973)

This animated tale follows the relationship between the small human-like Oms and their much larger blue-skinned oppressors, the Draags, who rule the planet of Ygam. While the Draags have long kept Oms as illiterate pets, this hierarchy shifts after an Om boy becomes educated, thanks to a young female Draag. This leads to an Om rebellion, which weakens the Draag control over their race. Will the Oms and the Draags find a way to coexist? Or will they destroy each other?


Release date: December 1, 1973 (USA)
Director: René Laloux
Featured song: Déshominisation
Music composed by: Alain Goraguer
Cast: Eric Baugin, Jennifer Drake, Jean Valmont, Jean Topart, MORE
Screenplay: René Laloux, Roland Topor, Stefan Wul, Steve Hayes

Forbidden Zone (1980)

Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo tour the kinky realm of little King Fausto (Herve Villechaize) and his queen (Susan Tyrrell).


Release date: March 21, 1980 (USA)
Director: Richard Elfman
Music composed by: Danny Elfman
Story by: Richard Elfman

Trainspotting (1996)

Heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Begbie (Robert Carlyle), Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Tommy (Kevin McKidd). He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane (Kelly Macdonald), along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.


Release date: July 19, 1996 (USA)
Director: Danny Boyle
Featured song: Born Slippy .NUXX
Screenplay: John Hodge

Santa Sangre (1989)

In Mexico, the traumatized son (Axel Jodorowsky) of a knife-thrower (Guy Stockwell) and a trapeze artist bonds grotesquely with his now-armless mother (Blanca Guerra).

Release date: June 27, 1990 (USA)
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Budget: 787,000 USD
Languages: English, Spanish
Screenplay: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Claudio Argento, Roberto Leoni

Eraserhead (1977)

Henry (John Nance) resides alone in a bleak apartment surrounded by industrial gloom. When he discovers that an earlier fling with Mary X (Charlotte Stewart) left her pregnant, he marries the expectant mother and has her move in with him. Things take a decidedly strange turn when the couple's baby turns out to be a bizarre lizard-like creature that won't stop wailing. Other characters, including a disfigured lady who lives inside a radiator, inhabit the building and add to Henry's troubles.


Release date: March 19, 1977 (USA)
Director: David Lynch
Budget: 10,000 USD
Screenplay: David Lynch
Cinematography: Frederick Elmes, Herbert Cardwell

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

The stages of life are told through multiple sketches and songs by the British comedy troupe. The seven parts of life cover birth, growing up, war, middle age, organ transplants, old age and death. Not all stages are singular: "Part I: The Miracle of Birth" is from the perspective of an ignored woman in labor, and of a Roman Catholic couple with too many children, and "Part VII: Death" encompasses a funeral and heaven. Added are three unrelated skits placed in the beginning, middle and end.


Release date: March 31, 1983 (USA)
Director: Terry Jones
Budget: 9 million USD
Box office: 14.9 million USD

Climax (2018)

When members of a dance troupe are lured to an empty school, drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive the night -- and find out who's responsible -- before it's too late.


Initial release: September 19, 2018 (France)
Director: Gaspar Noé
Cinematography: Benoît Debie
Languages: French, English

Sorry To Bother You (2018)

In an alternate reality of present-day Oakland, Calif., telemarketer Cassius Green finds himself in a macabre universe after he discovers a magical key that leads to material glory. As Green's career begins to take off, his friends and co-workers organize a protest against corporate oppression. Cassius soon falls under the spell of Steve Lift, a cocaine-snorting CEO who offers him a salary beyond his wildest dreams.


Initial release: December 13, 2018 (Brazil)
Director: Boots Riley
Budget: 3.2 million USD
Screenplay: Boots Riley
Producers: Forest Whitaker, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Charles King, Jonathan Duffy, George Rush, Kelly Glenn Williams

Spring Breakers (2012)

College students Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Faith (Selena Gomez), Brit (Ashley Benson) and Cotty (Rachel Korine) are short of the cash they need for a spring-break trip, so they rob a diner and head down to Florida. However, the police soon break up the party and arrest them. The curvaceous quartet are unexpectedly bailed out by a drug dealer and aspiring rap artist named Alien (James Franco). Soon after, three of the four gal pals decide to join Alien in a life of crime.


Release date: March 15, 2013 (USA)
Director: Harmony Korine
Featured song: Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
Budget: 5 million USD

Gummo (1997)

Teen friends Tummler (Nick Sutton) and Solomon (Jacob Reynolds) navigate the ruins of a tiny, tornado-ravaged town in Ohio that is populated by the deformed, disturbed and perverted. When not gunning down stray cats for a few bucks, the boys pass their time getting stoned on household inhalants. Elsewhere, the mute Bunny Boy (Jacob Sewell) dons rabbit ears and is bullied by kids half his age, and sisters Dot (Chloe Sevigny) and Helen (Carisa Glucksman) dodge a pedophile.


Release date: October 17, 1997 (USA)
Director: Harmony Korine
Budget: 1.3 million USD
Box office: 116,799 USD
Screenplay: Harmony Korine

Bronson (2009)

In this drama based on a true story, there's no one tougher or more brutal in the English penal system than prisoner Michael Peterson, aka Charles Bronson (Tom Hardy). First incarcerated after robbing a jewelry store, the married Bronson is sentenced to seven years. But his incorrigible, savage behavior quickly gets him in trouble with guards, fellow inmates and even a dog. The only place where Bronson can't do any harm is in solitary confinement, where he spends most of his time.


Release date: October 9, 2009 (USA)
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Budget: 150,000 GBP (2009)
Box office: 2.3 million USD

The Lighthouse (2019)

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.


Release date: October 18, 2019 (USA)
Director: Robert Eggers
Budget: 4 million USD
Box office: $14.9 million

City Of Lost Children (1995)

Old and decrepit Krank (Daniel Emilfork) has lost his capacity for dreaming and is attempting to fight death by stealing the dreams of children. Krank's cadre of cloned henchmen (Dominique Pinon) snatch 5-year-old Denree (Joseph Lucien) to subject him to the horrific dream-retrieval process. The boy's father, One (Ron Perlman), the hulking strongman of a traveling circus, and his precocious 9-year-old friend, Miette (Judith Vittet), join forces to defeat Krank's minions and save Denree.


Release date: December 15, 1995 (USA)
Directors: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Cinematography: Darius Khondji
Producers: Claudie Ossard, Félicie Dutertre, Arlette Mas, María Victoria Hebrero, François Rabes, José Luis Lopez
Languages: French, Cantonese

301, 302 (1995)

A disappearance prompts an investigation of a relationship between neighbors, a chef (Eun-jin Bang) and an anorexic (Sin-Hye Hwang).


Release date: May 3, 1996 (USA)
Director: Park Chul-soo
Producer: Park Chul-soo
Initial DVD release: January 11, 2005

The Vagrant (1992)

Successful professional Graham Krakowski (Bill Paxton) has just moved into his new home. He is also up for a promotion at work, and his girlfriend is flying into town to visit. However, when a vagrant (Marshall Bell) shows up at his house, his life suddenly changes for the worse. Small mind games quickly escalate, and Graham is framed for murder. As the vagrant lurks around his house and people continue to die, Graham feels as if he can no longer trust anyone, including himself.


Initial release: 1992
Director: Chris Walas
Box office: 5,900 USD
Music composed by: Christopher Young
Screenplay: Richard Jefferies

The Dark Backward (1991)

Life changes for a garbageman/would-be comic (Judd Nelson) when a third arm starts growing out of his back.


Release date: July 26, 1991 (USA)
Director: Adam Rifkin
Screenplay: Adam Rifkin
Music composed by: Marc David Decker
Producers: Brad Wyman, Cassian Elwes

The Boys from Brazil (1978)

Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) clones Hitler 95 times, and hopes to raise the resulting boys in Brazil, giving them childhoods identical to Hitler's. His ultimate plan is to create a band of Nazi leaders that can continue where Hitler left off, forming the Fourth Reich. Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), a Nazi hunter, learns of the plan and is determined to thwart it. When the two meet face-to-face in the home of one of the Hitler clones, it is up to the boy to choose who he will assist.


Initial release: October 5, 1978
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Initial DVD release: December 14, 1999

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

After a painful breakup, Clementine (Kate Winslet) undergoes a procedure to erase memories of her former boyfriend Joel (Jim Carrey) from her mind. When Joel discovers that Clementine is going to extremes to forget their relationship, he undergoes the same procedure and slowly begins to forget the woman that he loved. Directed by former music video director Michel Gondry, the visually arresting film explores the intricacy of relationships and the pain of loss.


Release date: March 19, 2004 (USA)
Director: Michel Gondry
Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman

Gozu (2003)

Gang member Minami respects his brother Ozaki who has always protected him in the past. Tragically however, Ozaki is seen to be going insane. Gang leader Azamawari is unsympathetic to Ozaki's insanity and demands Minami kill his brother.


Release date: July 30, 2004 (New York)
Director: Takashi Miike
Cinematography: Kazunari Tanaka
Screenplay: Sakichi Sato
Producers: Harumi Sone, Kana Koido

Dead Sushi (2013)

A disgruntled researcher injects his former employers' meal with a serum that turns their sushi into flesh-eating monsters.

Initial release: January 19, 2013 (Japan)
Director: Noboru Iguchi
Music composed by: Yasuhiko Fukuda
Screenplay: Noboru Iguchi, Jun Tsugita, Makiko Iguchi
Producers: Mana Fukui, Motohisa Nagata, Yoichi Sakai

Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005)

An outrageous collection of surreal stories largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and their portly Caucasian brother.

Initial release: October 22, 2005
Directors: Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine
Initial DVD release: September 26, 2007 (France)
Producer: Norihisa Harada
Screenplay: Katsuhito Ishii, Shunichiro Miki, Hajime Ishimine

What Did Jack Do? (2017)

"In a locked down train station, a homicide detective conducts an interview with a tormented monkey."

What Did Jack Do? is a 17-minute black-and-white short film directed by David Lynch, which premiered on November 8, 2017, at the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris. It was later released to Netflix on January 20, 2020

Initial release: November 8, 2017
Director: David Lynch
Screenplay: David Lynch
Produced by: Sabrina S. Sutherland
Language: English Language

Mr.Nobody (2009)

In 2092 the last mortal human (Jared Leto) on Earth reflects on his long past and thinks about the lives he might have led.


Initial release: November 6, 2009 (Norway)
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Screenplay: Jaco Van Dormael
Budget: 47 million USD

Donnie Darko (2001)

During the presidential election of 1988, a teenager named Donnie Darko sleepwalks out of his house one night and sees a giant, demonic-looking rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world will end in 28 days. When Donnie returns home, he finds that a jet engine has crashed into his bedroom. Is Donnie living in a parallel universe, is he suffering from mental illness - or will the world really end?


Release date: January 19, 2001 (USA)
Director: Richard Kelly
Featured song: Mad World
Film series: Darko collection
Screenplay: Richard Kelly

Southland Tales (2006)

With the United States under the threat of nuclear attack, the lives of several people converge in a dystopian Los Angeles. Movie star Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) plans his next film with the help of ambitious porn actress Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and troubled policeman Roland Taverner (Seann William Scott). Meanwhile, Marxist revolutionaries, greedy corporations and secretive government agencies pursue their separate agendas among a paranoid populace.


Release date: November 14, 2007 (USA)
Director: Richard Kelly
Budget: 15 million USD
Box office: 374,743 USD
Screenplay: Richard Kelly

The Nines (2007)

Three actors (Ryan Reynolds, Hope Davis, Melissa McCarthy) tackle the principal roles in a trio of stories. In "The Prisoner," a publicist and a neighbor are the only links to the outside world for an actor under house arrest. "Reality Television" charts the production of a TV sitcom. In "Knowing," a video-game designer and his family are stranded in the forest after their car breaks down.




Release date: August 31, 2007 (USA)

Director: John August

Screenplay: John August

Box office: 130,880 USD

Music composed by: Alex Wurman

The Holy Mountain (1973)

A Mexican master (Alexandro Jodorowsky) leads a Christ figure (Horacio Salinas) and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men.

Release date: November 29, 1973 (USA)
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Budget: 750,000 USD
Screenplay: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Languages: English, Spanish

Suicide Club (2002)

Police officers investigate a string of mysterious suicides throughout Japan.

Initial release: March 9, 2002 (Japan)
Director: Sion Sono
Film series: Suicide Club
Screenplay: Sion Sono
Initial DVD release: November 18, 2003 (USA)

Pi (1998)

Numbers whiz Max Cohen (Sean Gullette) is stunted by psychological delusions of paranoia and debilitating headaches. He lives in a messy Chinatown apartment, where he tinkers with equations and his homemade, super-advanced computer. One day, however, Cohen encounters a mysterious number. Soon after reporting his discovery to his mentor (Mark Margolis) and to a religious friend (Ben Shenkman), he finds himself the target of ill-intentioned Wall Street agents bent on using the number for profit.

Release date: July 10, 1998 (USA)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Budget: 60,000 USD
Box office: 3.221 million USD

The Fountain (2006)

A man (Hugh Jackman) travels through time on a quest for immortality and to save the woman (Rachel Weisz) he loves. As a 16th-century conquistador, Tomas searches for the legendary Fountain of Youth. As a present-day scientist, he desperately struggles to cure the cancer that is killing his wife. Finally, as a 26th-century astronaut in deep space, Tom begins to grasp the mysteries of life, love and death.

Release date: November 22, 2006 (USA)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Music composed by: Clint Mansell
Budget: 35 million USD
Screenplay: Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel

Enemy (2014)

A mild-mannered college professor (Jake Gyllenhaal) discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.

Release date: March 14, 2014 (USA)
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cinematography: Nicolas Bolduc
Screenplay: José Saramago, Javier Gullón

Ichi The Killer (2003)

A sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer comes across a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain the enforcer can only dream about.

Release date: May 19, 2003 (New York)
Director: Takashi Miike
Film series: Ichi The Killer
Costume design: Michiko Kitamura
Languages: English, Japanese, Cantonese

Enter The Void (2010)

This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.

Release date: September 24, 2010 (USA)
Director: Gaspar Noé
Featured song: Freak
Cinematography: Benoît Debie
Budget: 13 million EUR

Requiem For A Dream (2000)

Imaginatively evoking the inner landscape of human beings longing to connect, to love and feel loved, the film is a parable of happiness gloriously found and tragically lost. "Requiem for a Dream" tells parallel stories that are linked by the relationship between the lonely, widowed Sara Goldfarb and her sweet but aimless son, Harry. The plump Sara, galvanized by the prospect of appearing on a TV game show, has started on a dangerous diet regimen to beautify herself for a national audience.

Release date: October 27, 2000 (USA)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Featured song: Lux Aeterna
Music composed by: Clint Mansell