
Drive
(2011)The Taxi Driver of the new millennium? Drive has rewritten coolness in cinema. An instant cult classic that adds a twist to the bad-guy-but-good figure, establishing Gosling as a new kind of antihero (and a real human being!). Welcome to a world of intoxicating beauty and sadness. Enjoy the ride.

Bacurau
(2019)When the matriarch of a remote Brazilian village dies, mysterious people immediately descend on the area. As it becomes clear that the villagers are facing the threat of mass murder, they are forced to band together to save themselves.

Thief
(1981)A master safecracker plans his last heist for the sake of a woman but the gangster who hires him won't let go so easily in this tense drama.

Escape from New York
(1981)In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.

The Foreigner
(2017)Weaponizing tropes to neo-feminist ends, Coralie Fargeat fires on all cylinders in this killer film. Adrenalized by the same fascination with transformation that sparks across The Substance, the provocateur filmmaker empowers her heroine to go from Barbie to badass with dangerous, delirious style.

First Love
(2019)Throughout a single night in Tokyo, Leo, a young boxer, and Monica, a sex worker, meet in a whirlwind of romance and accidental drug smuggling.

Cryptozoo
(2021)The story takes place at a mythological zoo in ’60s-era San Francisco, where a Japanese creature with the power to eat dreams escapes and finds itself wrecking havoc against the backdrop of American counterculture.

Leonor Will Never Die
(2022)After being struck on the head by a falling TV, Leonor Reyes lies unconscious in the hospital, where fantasy and reality begin to blur.

Only God Forgives
(2013)Julian, a drug-smuggler thriving in Bangkok's criminal underworld, sees his life get even more complicated when his mother compels him to find and kill whoever is responsible for his brother's recent death.

AliEN0089
(2024)Beetling video-game visuals compete with reality in Valeria Hofmann’s inventive, aesthetically eclectic short, which confers a first-person-shooter perspective on a home invader to chilling effect. Splashy neon color pools like hazardous waste in this pixelated distillation of a toxic gaming scene.