Cult Masterpieces

4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS : Directed by Cristian Mungiu, is a 2007 film about two students, roommates in a university dormitory, who try to procure an illegal abortion.

#2007

ARMY OF SHADOWS : Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, is a 1969 film, and one of the best movies of its director.

#1969

THE ASSISTANT : Directed by Kitty Green, is a 2019 film, and one of the best movies of that year.

#2019

13 ASSASSINS : Directed by Takashi Miike, is a 2010 film about a group of thirteen assassins, secretly plot to assassinate the murderous leader of a clan.

#2010

THE SHAPE OF WATER : Directed by Guillermo Del Toro, is a 2017 film about a mute cleaner at a high-security government laboratory who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature.

#2017

FOOD, INC. : Directed by Robert Kenner, is a 2008 film about corporate farming, concluding that agribusiness produces food that is unhealthy, in a way that is environmentally harmful and abusive of both animals and employees.

#2008

FISH TANK : Directed by Andrea Arnold, is a 2009 film about a volatile and socially isolated girl, and her relationship with her mother's new boyfriend.

#2009

BRAZIL : Directed by Terry Gilliam, is a 1985 film, and probably the best movie of its director.

#1985

CHILDREN OF MEN : Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, is a 2006 film about a near future, when two decades of human infertility have left society on the brink of collapse.

#2006

LITTLE WOMEN : Directed by Greta Gerwig, is a 2019 film about the lives of sisters during the 19th century.

#2019

HIDDEN FIGURES : Directed by Theodore Melfi, is a 2016 film about women mathematicians who worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration during the Space Race.

#2016

BARTON FINK : Directed by the Coen brothers, is a 1991 film about a young playwright who is hired to write scripts for a film studio, and his relationship with an insurance salesman who lives next door at a run-down hotel.

#1991

THE FIGHTER : Directed by David O. Russell, is a 2010 film about the lives of a professional boxer and his older half-brother.

#2010

LIMELIGHT : Directed by Charlie Chaplin, is a 1952 film, and one of the best movies of its director.

#1952

BABETTE’S FEAST : Directed by Gabriel Axel, is a 1987 film, and one of the best movies of that year.

#1987

REAR WINDOW : Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is a 1954 film, and one of the best movies ever made.

#1954

BABY DRIVER : Directed by Edgar Wright, is a 2017 film about a getaway driver seeking freedom from a life of crime with his girlfriend.

#2017

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THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN : Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig, is a 2016 film, and one of the best movies of that year.

#2016

DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE : Directed by Rouben Mamoulian, is a 1931 film about a possessed doctor who tests his new formula that can unleash people's inner demons.

#1931

BORN YESTERDAY : Directed by George Cukor, is a 1950 film, and one of the most important movies of the 50’s.

#1950

FENCES : Directed by Denzel Washington, is a 2016 film, and one of the best movies of that year.

#2016

THE FAVOURITE : Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, is a 2018 film about the relationship between two cousins, who are vying to be Court favourite of Queen Anne.

#2018

LOVELESS : Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, is a 2017 film about two separated parents, whose loveless relationship has decayed into a state of bitterness and hostility.

#2017

THE COUNTERFEITERS : Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, is a 2007 film about a secret plan by N**i Germany during World War II to destabilize the United Kingdom by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England pound notes.

#2007

THE SECRET OF KELLS : Directed by Tomm Moore, is a 2009 film about the making of the Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript from the 9th Century.

#2009

CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? : Directed by Marielle Heller, is a 2018 film about a woman and her attempts to revitalize her failing writing career by forging letters from deceased authors and playwrights.

#2018

THE MALTESE FALCON : Directed by John Huston, is a 1941 film about a private detective and his dealings with three unscrupulous adventurers, all of whom are competing to obtain a jewel-encrusted falcon statuette.

#1941

HEATHERS : Directed by Michael Lehmann, is a 1989 film about four teenage girls, in a clique at a high school, whose lives are disrupted by the arrival of a misanthrope intent on murdering the popular students and staging their deaths as suicides.

#1989

FARGO : Directed by Joel Coen, is a 1996 film about a pregnant police chief, investigating roadside homicides that ensue after a desperate car salesman, hires two criminals, to kidnap his wife in order to extort a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law.

#1996

FANTASTIC MR. FOX : Directed by Wes Anderson, is a 2009 film about a fox who steals food at night from three mean and wealthy farmers.

#2009

F***Y AND ALEXANDER : Directed by Ingmar Bergman, is a 1982 film about two siblings and their large family in Sweden during the first decade of the twentieth century.

#1982

THE HARVEY GIRLS : Directed by George Sidney, is a 1946 film about Fred Harvey's famous Harvey House waitresses.

#1946

TOP HAT : Directed by Mark Sandrich, is a 1935 film about a dancer, who comes to London to star in a show.

#1935

CAPTAIN BLOOD : Directed by Michael Curtiz, is a 1935 film, and one of the best pirate movies ever made.

#1935

IL POSTINO: THE POSTMAN : Directed by Michael Radford, is a 1994 film about the friendship between a poet and a postman who learns to love poetry.

#1994

AMÉLIE : Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is a 2001 film about a shy waitress, who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better while struggling with her own isolation.

#2001

CITIZENFOUR : Directed by Laura Poitras, is a 2014 film about Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal.

#2014

THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT : Directed by Tarik Saleh, is a 2017 film about the corruption of Egyptian police before the 25 January Revolution.

#2017

ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS : Directed by Louis Malle, is a 1958 film about illicit lovers whose murder plot starts to unravel because of a malfunctioning elevator.

#1958