One of several creative peaks collaboratively reached by De Niro and Scorsese, the duo here reunite with Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader for this bruising biopic of boxer Jake LaMotta. A modern classic in moody black and white, Raging Bull is an expansive study of self-destructive masculinity.

Instincts both maternal and carnal clatter like shards of glass in a blender in this uncompromising portrait of a woman on the edge from director Lynne Ramsay. Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in a frenzied pas de deux, Die My Love inflames the exposed nerves of delirium and desire.