
Burning
(2018)A man agrees to watch an ex-neighbor’s cat while she goes on a trip and becomes suspicious of the man she brings back just before her disappearance.

Following
(1999)A voyeuristic writer looking for material enters a world of treachery and deceit when he crosses paths with a thief who takes him under his wing.

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.

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.

Stranger by the Lake
(2013)After winning a prize in Cannes, this thriller quickly became a sensation as the hottest arthouse queer title of the year. Set in the cruising world, it merges eroticism and suspense in a celebration of bodies of all shapes and sizes, engaging in explicit sex under the glinting, menacing summer sun.

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.

The Element of Crime
(1984)A fascination with the extreme is written across all of Lars von Trier’s works, beginning with this mesmeric investigation of criminal minds. Captured in burnt sepia tones expressive of photographic fragments or uncertain memories, the ashen film is also evocative of a changing—crumbling?—Europe.

Meek's Cutoff
(2011)In 1845, a wagon train of three families gets lost in the Cascade Mountains, where they must fight for their survival as they battle the elements.

Nocturama
(2016)A tour-de-force provocation by French auteur Bertrand Bonello, Nocturama imagines a teenage act of terrorism in Paris freed from ideology and motivation. The first half proceeds like a thriller, the second, like a siege film set in a luxe department store.. A seductive portrait of young, lost souls.

Plainclothes
(2025)Writer-director Carmen Emmi handcuffs obsession to power in this confident debut set in ‘90s New York, detecting erotic fixations in homophobic policing. With one furtive eye on William Friedkin’s cult classic Cruising, Plainclothes searches fuzzy videotape surveillance footage for forbidden desire.

The Headless Woman
(2008)One of cinema’s most talented filmmakers, Lucrecia Martel, brings all her powers of sensual, evocative visuals to this dream-like mystery, which plunges fearlessly into the mindstate of a woman—an incredible MarÃa Onetto—on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Nominated for the Palme d’Or.

Pacifiction
(2022)Topping Cahiers du cinéma’s list of best films from 2022, Albert Serra’s mesmerizing epic conjures up the malaise and paranoia poisoning the Edenic calm of sun-soaked Tahiti. Steeped in moral ambiguity, Benoît Magimel’s stunning performance embodies the corruptive power of the imperial state.

Lux Æterna
(2020)As actresses tell stories on the set of a film about witch burning, technical problems, ego, and madness gradually plunge the shoot into chaos.

Queen of Earth
(2015)Catherine absconds to the sun-soaked serenity of her best friend Virginia’s lakeside cabin, quivering with anxiety and seeking refuge from the haunting memories of the past year. But as their painful pasts come slithering into the already-uncomfortable present, their nerves become intertwined.

Madeleine Collins
(2021)In this taut psychological thriller, which seduces with its Hitchcockian intrigue and Chabrolian class critique, Virginie Efira enthralls with her perilous balancing act between multiple identities. Mysterious yet gripping, this portrait of a woman under the influence scales the limits of desire.

Night Moves
(2014)Batman vs Superman's Jesse Eisenberg stars alongside Dakota Fanning (Ocean's 8 and The Twilight Saga) and Peter Sarsgaard (Garden State) as three radical environmentalists that plan to execute a thrilling protest that will ultimately change all of their lives.

Ghost Trail
(2024)Hamid, a Syrian literature professor in Strasbourg, secretly belongs to a refugee network tracking down former regime enforcers. When he recognises the man he believes tortured him, his life tilts into obsession. Communicating through a video game, his group closes in, but doubt gnaws at every step.

Mami Wata
(2023)Drawing from West African folklore, C.J. Obasi’s transfixing fable heeds the siren call of the sea, a space of both rebirth and destruction. Winner of a Special Jury prize at Sundance, LÃlis Soares’s high-contrast black-and-white cinematography conjures a spellbinding vision of aquatic spiritualism.

Shanty Tramp
(1967)The local "tramp" makes waves in the community when she turns down a sleazy evangelist. Upset, he makes sure this doesn't go without trouble.

The Pack
(2022)Eliú serves time at a jungle youth facility for a crime with his friend El Mono. The teens do labor and group therapy; El Mono later arrives.