Chris Marker’s La Jetée is one of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made, a tale of time travel told in still images.

With Solaris, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky created a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself.

Set in a small fictional town in the U.S. during the 1930s, Lars von Trier’s Dogville was filmed in a studio with a minimal set, tells the story of Grace, a young girl on the run from gangsters, who takes refuge in the small mining town of Dogville.

An uncommonly gentle young man, who happens to have scissors for hands, falls in love with a beautiful teenage girl.

Shot in dilapidated industrial settings, seething with rumbles and hisses, peopled with disfigured and eccentric characters and featuring a famously indefinable creature described as a premature baby, Eraserhead propels viewers into a shocking, black & white dreamscape.

Fledging director Luis Buñuel and painter Salvador Dali created this ultimate surrealist film, which is essentially a barrage of striking and irrational images designed to provoke.

Director Terry Gilliam and an all-star cast (headlined by Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro) show no mercy in bringing Dr. Hunter S. Thompson’s legendary Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to the screen, creating a film both hilarious and savage.

With its stunning camerawork and striking compositions, Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc convinced the world that movies could be art. Renée Falconetti gives one of the greatest performances ever recorded on film, as the young maiden who died for God and France.

A psychological thriller set in the world of the New York City ballet, Darren Aronofsky’s stunningly operatic film stars Natalie Portman as a rising ballet star pushing her body and soul to the limit after being cast as the lead in a new, cutting-edge version of Swan Lake.

Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made…

In 1984, Communist East Germany, every kind of human action is strictly controlled and monitored by the government. Captain Gerd Wiesler is one of the top agents of the state police, and for his next mission he must spy on a playwright who may be a threat to the government…

Damiel is an angel perched high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, and dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality to return to earth to be with her…

A doctor becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter, after his wife admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met and chastising him for dishonesty in not admitting to his own fantasies.

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war.

Julie loses her composer husband and their child in a car crash and, though devastated, she tries to make a new start, away from her country house and a would-be lover. But she is haunted by the music that still surrounds her and by new revelations about her husband’s life.

The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback mode by Antonio Salieri – now confined to an insane asylum. Winner of 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director and Actor.

A Czech immigrant (played by Björk who won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for her devastating performance) copes with her encroaching blindness by escaping into musical fantasies.

Idealistic producer Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) has always dreamed of elevating his films into an art form. When he discovers young actor Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg), Jack begins to turn his dreams into reality…

The Night of the Hunter is truly a standalone masterwork. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic is cinema’s quirkiest rendering of the battle between good and evil.