
Mulholland Drive
(2001)After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman with amnesia, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues across Los Angeles in a twisting neo-noir from the mind of visionary David Lynch.

Get Out
(2017)Jordan Peele’s seismic horror-satire is a rare era-defining film: both a mordant send-up of Obama-era liberal racism and an early shot at Trump’s America. Delivering its commentary with bloody aplomb, Get Out distills a nation’s anxieties in the indelible image of “the sunken place.”

Night of the Living Dead
(1968)Un grupo de extraños lucha para defenderse de un ataque de zombis sedientos de sangre mientras se atrincheran dentro de una granja rural.

The Conversation
(1974)Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco’s Union Square, the man manages to record a cryptic conversation between them. Tormented by memories of a previous case that ended badly, Caul sets out to determine if the couple are in danger.

A Single Man
(2009)The first film from famed designer Tom Ford, A Single Man is a highly stylized tale of love and loss in the tradition of Wong Kar Wai’s sumptuous melodramas. With deeply felt performances from Colin Firth and Julianne Moore, and direction to match, the film established Ford as a talent to watch.

We Need to Talk About Kevin
(2011)Flashbacks reveal a woman's calamitous efforts to raise her firstborn son while, in the present, she grapples with the aftermath of his horrific act.

Good Time
(2017)After a botched robbery lands his younger brother in prison, a small-time criminal traverses the depraved underbelly of New York City in search of bail money before the sun rises in this masterful, twisting pulse-pounder.

Holy Spider
(2022)Zar Amir Ebrahimi won Best Actress in Cannes for her performance as a fearless reporter in Ali Abbasi’s gripping serial-killer procedural. Based on a shocking true story, Holy Spider prowls the Iranian night, refusing to pull any punches in its trenchant critiques of misogyny and hypocrisy.

Deep Red
(1975)Home to some of the greatest set pieces Dario Argento ever put on film, this hallucinatory giallo remains one of his most iconic features. Paying homage to Antonioni’s Blow-Up by casting David Hemmings as its leading man, Deep Red is a symbolic masterpiece of prismatic beauty and rapturous terror.

Mean Streets
(1973)While neither Scorsese nor De Niro’s debut, few films have launched young talent with such rousing confidence as this first collaboration. More intimate than their future crime epics, Keitel’s attempts at penance also keep the film of a piece with Scorsese’s later explorations of crises of faith.

The Road
(2009)A father and his son try to keep the dream of civilization alive as they wander through a post-apocalyptic landscape.

Peeping Tom
(1960)A disturbed filmmaker literally kills with his camera in this ahead-of-its-time shocker. Like the same year's Psycho, this film's combination of voyeurism, eroticism and horror repelled some 1960 critics, but its cult reputation soared in later years.

13 Tzameti
(2006)Tension simmers until it reaches an explosive boil in Géla Babluani’s taut, atmospheric noir. Etched in stark monochrome, this story of a hard-on-his-luck Georgian immigrant and his struggles to support his family arches with unexpected twists. A triumph of diabolical filmmaking imagination.

A Most Violent Year
(2014)In 1981, an immigrant family tries to expand their business as rampant violence and corruption threaten to destroy all they have built.

Affliction
(1998)A small-town sheriff investigates the murder of a wealthy businessman, and it resurrects the demons of his own childhood that begin to haunt him.

It Follows
(2015)Ten years before Longlegs, Maika Monroe starred in one of the most frightening films of the 2010s: an excavation of trauma as experienced by America’s suburban youth. With his acute portrayal of teen terror, David Robert Mitchell brings a singularly modern touch to the high-school movie canon.

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.

Calm with Horses
(2020)The loyalties of an ex-boxer-turned-enforcer for a drug-dealing family are tested when his ruthless employers order him to kill for the first time.

Rotting in the Sun
(2023)Getting sucked into an infinite loop of drugs, men and dizzying mystery? That’s one cure for writer’s block! Frolicking and squabbling across the beaches, clubs, and rooftops of Mexico, Sebastián Silva and Jordan Firstman play hilarious versions of themselves in this absurd and sexy meta-comedy.

Bad Tales
(2020)In a Roman suburb, the repressed rage of the children cuts through the community's stifling facade of normalcy with devastating consequences.