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Film: Heathers

Heathers

Winona Ryder and Christian Slater star in the endlessly quotable cult black comedy that subverted expectations of teen movies forever.

  • Comedy
  • 1989
  • 103 mins
  • Michael Lehmann

Film: Daisies

Daisies

Two self-confessed hedonists wreak wanton havoc in VΔ›ra ChytilovΓ‘'s visually spectacular neo-dadaist farce.

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • 1966
  • 73 mins
  • VΔ›ra ChytilovΓ‘

Film: Viva

Viva

Anna Biller's outrageous sexploitation satire follows bored housewife Barbi as she searches for adventure in predatory 1970s Los Angeles.

  • Sex comedy
  • 2008
  • 116 mins
  • Anna Biller

Film: La Dolce Vita

La dolce vita

Federico Fellini’s masterpiece depicting seven hedonistic days in the life of a tabloid journalist (Marcello Mastroianni) as he searches for the sweet life.

  • Drama
  • 1960
  • 175 mins
  • Federico Fellini

Dogtooth

Yorgos Lanthimos' scary, witty tale of a dysfunctional Greek family is original, ingenious and sadly relevant as a study of parent-child relationships

  • Drama
  • 2009
  • 93 mins
  • Yorgos Lanthimos

Film: The Frightened Woman

The Frightened Woman

A rich sadist kidnaps a woman to subject to his elaborate S&M games, but she soon turns the tables... Piero Schivazappa's erotic thriller explodes with eye-popping psychedelic production design.

  • Drama
  • 1969
  • 86 mins
  • Piero Schivazappa

Film: Female Human Animal

Female Human Animal

Josh Appignanesi's art-world psycho-thriller blends reality and fiction to delirious effect, in its tale of an exhibition curator pursued by a mysterious figure.

  • Drama-documentary
  • 2018
  • 74 mins
  • Josh Appignanesi

Film: 8Β½

8Β½

Fellini triumphantly conjured himself out of writer's block with this magnum opus about a film director experiencing his own creative crisis.

  • Drama
  • 1963
  • 138 mins
  • Federico Fellini

Film: Red Desert

Red Desert

Antonioni's mid-career masterpiece stars Monica Vitti as an emotionally anguished young woman embarking on a tentative affair with a businessman (Richard Harris).

  • Drama
  • 1964
  • 117 mins
  • Michelangelo Antonioni

Film: Paris, Texas

Paris, Texas

The late, great Harry Dean Stanton's finest role came as the near-mute Travis, on a journey across America to reunite his family, in Wim Wenders' moving tale of loss and redemption.

  • Drama
  • 1984
  • 145 mins
  • Wim Wenders

Film: Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire

In director Wim Wenders' (Paris, Texas) most metaphysical work, a guardian angel desires nothing more than to be human. Presented in a stunning new restoration.

  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • 1987
  • 128 mins
  • Wim Wenders

Film: L'avventura

L'avventura

Antonioni’s masterpiece of modern alienation, with Monica Vitti as the young woman searching for her friend who's inexplicably disappeared.

  • Drama
  • 1960
  • 137 mins
  • Michelangelo Antonioni

Film: Salon Kitty

Salon Kitty

Before Caligula, Italian provocateur Tinto Brass directed this controversial and transgressive drama, inspired by the true story of a Nazi-run brothel in 30s Berlin.

  • Drama
  • 1976
  • 133 mins
  • Tinto Brass

Film: The Battle of Algiers

The Battle of Algiers

Gillo Pontecorvo’s masterpiece about the last years of French colonial rule in Algeria, seen from the perspective of both the revolutionaries and the French authorities.

  • Drama
  • 1966
  • 121 mins
  • Gillo Pontecorvo

Film: Caravaggio

Caravaggio

Derek Jarman’s unique biopic of the 17th century Italian artist Michelangelo da Caravaggio is a powerful meditation on sexuality, criminality and art.

  • Biopic
  • Historical drama
  • 1986
  • 93 mins
  • Derek Jarman

Film: Suspiria

Suspiria

Dario Argento’s phantasmagoric gothic nightmare blends operatic violence, disorienting dream logic and hyper-real visuals to create a horror classic.

  • Horror
  • 1977
  • 101 mins
  • Dario Argento

Film: Le MΓ©pris

Le MΓ©pris

Jean-Luc Godard conducts an autopsy of love and the creative process, as a boorish film producer dismantles a seemingly strong marriage.

  • Drama
  • 1963
  • 103 mins
  • Jean-Luc Godard

Film: Me without You

Me without You

Anna Friel and Michelle Williams star as two troubled girls whose tumultuous friendship takes many twists and turns.

  • Drama
  • 2001
  • 103 mins
  • Sandra Goldbacher

Film: Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Derek Jacobi and Daniel Craig star as artist Francis Bacon and his muse George Dyer in John Maybury’s darkly exquisite biopic.

  • Biopic
  • 1998
  • 87 mins
  • John Maybury

Film: Kinetta

Kinetta

The first solo feature of acclaimed director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite, Dogtooth) follows the cryptic, bizarre activities of three inscrutable residents of a Greek holiday resort.

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • 2006
  • 94 mins
  • Yorgos Lanthimos

Film: Bicycle Thieves

Bicycle Thieves

Vittorio De Sica’s story of a father and son searching for a stolen bicycle on the streets of Rome is a classic of post-war Italian cinema.

  • Drama
  • 1948
  • 89 mins
  • Vittorio De Sica

Film: Traps

Traps

VΔ›ra ChytilovΓ‘'s dark, post-communist comedy. After a veterinary surgeon is sexually assaulted by two men, she uses her particular expertise in castraton to exact her revenge…

  • Comedy
  • 1998
  • 116 mins
  • VΔ›ra ChytilovΓ‘

Film: Breathless / Γ€ bout de souffle

Breathless [Γ€ bout de souffle]

Jean-Luc Godard’s extraordinary debut feature, an insouciant and iconoclastic crime film that paved the way for the French New Wave.

  • Film noir
  • 1960
  • 90 mins
  • Jean-Luc Godard

Film: Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter

NoΓ«l Coward’s tale of a love affair, thrillingly played out with tight British reserve.

  • Romance
  • 1946
  • 86 mins
  • David Lean

Film: Fear Eats the Soul

Fear Eats the Soul

Fassbinder’s international breakthrough, this unconventional love story combines lucid social analysis with devastating emotional power.

  • Melodrama
  • 1974
  • 93 mins
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Film: Immoral Tales

Immoral Tales

Walerian Borowczyk presents four stories of sexual taboos throughout the ages, in his highly controversial classic of 1970s erotic cinema.

  • Anthology
  • 1974
  • 103 mins
  • Walerian Borowczyk

Film: The Ipcress File

The Ipcress File

The coolest spy of all – Michael Caine’s Harry Palmer – makes his brilliant big screen debut in this landmark British spy thriller.

  • Crime
  • Thriller
  • 1965
  • 108 mins
  • Sidney J. Furie

Film: Gone Too Far!

Gone Too Far!

Riotous urban comedy adapted from the hit Royal Court play, about a Peckham teen affronted by the arrival of his long-lost Nigerian sibling.

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • 2014
  • 88 mins
  • Destiny Ekaragha
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