Directed by Cameron Cairnes and Colin Cairnes | 90 mins | 2013
Soylent Green is people and, sometimes, so is the fertilizer purveyed by brothers Reg and Lindsay Morgan (Damon Herriman and Angus Sampson) in this pungent Aussie horror-comedy, the directorial debut of Cameron and Colin Cairnes ("Lat...

Directed by Emma Benestan | 98 mins | 2024
Cattle outnumber people in the Camargue, a coastal region in France’s south, nearly two to one. Nejma (Oulaya Amamra) is determined to master the local, male-dominated bullfighting tradition—but after a night of partying, she begins to experience disturb...

Directed by Jérémy Clapin | 9 mins | 2004
Clapin’s first short is a game of Tetris as much as it is a love story. It centers on a man whose spine bends at a striking right angle: his eyes can gaze only downwards, his hat perched on the back of his head. The appearance of a woman whose back bends ...

Directed by Harry Kümel | 87 mins | 1971
Profoundly inspired by the spirit of Belgian Surrealist and Symbolist painting, Kümel’s darkly poetic horror film begins with a young newlywed couple waylaid at a grand hotel en route to England, where they fall under the spell of the elegant Hungarian Cou...

Directed by Boris Rodriguez | 83 mins | 2012
Suffering from a dearth of painterly inspiration, fading art star Lars (Thure Lindhardt, fresh from Ira Sachs’ troubled 2012 romance "Keep the Lights On") takes on a teaching gig in a small, snow-blanketed town. There he finds an unlikely muse in Eddie...

Directed by Lukas Feigelfeld | 102 mins | 2017
In conversation with both "The Witch" (2015) and "Antichrist" (2009) but infused with a creeping hallucinogenic quality all its own, Lukas Feigelfeld’s debut feature is a scorcher of a slowburn pagan fable. Shunned by the townsfolk as witches, young ...

Directed by Jessica Hausner | 77 mins | 2004
Jessica Hausner’s eerily enigmatic second feature is suffused with the crystalline chill of its remote alpine setting. It follows Irene, newly employed as a receptionist at Waldhaus, a stately hotel in the woods: The young woman is unsettled to learn t...

Directed by Dario Argento | 106 mins | 1980
Showing Argento’s doubling down on visual logic of dreams, this mystical yarn of alchemy and witchcraft unfolds as a series of lurid setpieces and cryptic clue-drops, largely in a New York apartment building. Resisting explication, the story erupts with...

Directed by Mickey Keating | 70 mins | 2024
Clocking in at a taut 70 minutes, horror maverick Mickey Keating’s ("Darling", 2015) home invasion story is lean, mean, and brutally immersive. Ana (Vero Maynez) travels by bus to the suburb outside of Chicago where her cousin Camila lives, arriving lat...

Directed by Jérémy Clapin | 10 mins | 2012
Clapin followed up his acclaimed short "Skhizein" (2008) with this wordless and unsettlingly ambiguous fable about a boy who encounters a scraggly avian creature while duck hunting with his father. It’s a short whose placid surfaces belie a latent, buddi...

Directed by Sonia Kennebeck | 93 mins | 2023
Between being played by Sydney Sweeney (in "Reality", 2023) and Emilia Jones (in "Winner", 2024), the Air Force veteran and NSA translator-turned-whistleblower finally plays herself in this remarkable documentary by Sonia Kennebeck, executive produced ...

Directed by Alex Thompson | 90 mins | 2022
A hospital is a place where science reigns over religion—but maybe not in the rural town of Greenville, where medical student James (Namir Smallwood) has just been transferred, intending to finish his residency while still recovering from a breakdown at ...

Directed by Jérémy Clapin | 13 mins | 2008
“I am exactly 91cm from myself,” frets Henry, the central figure in this Annecy-and Cannes-awarded account of a life uncentered. After being struck by a meteorite, Henry finds that he must negotiate to the material world—sitting in a chair, opening a win...

Directed by Dario Argento | 119 mins | 1996
Asia Argento, the director’s daughter and a future star in her own right, plays a detective on the trail of a serial killer, who takes advantage of her condition: entering an unconscious or fugue state upon encountering certain artwork. Infusing giallo ...

Directed by Philip Ridley | 96 mins | 1990
A word-of-mouth sensation at Cannes, Philip Ridley’s debut feature is a macabre, magic hour-tinted work of Prairie Gothic—a Lynchian riff on “Days of Heaven,” spiked with intimations of the supernatural. Eight-year-old Seth Dove (Jeremy Cooper) becomes c...

Directed by Yung Chang | 106 mins | 2019
“You’ve got to be neutral and unbiased on the side of those who suffer.” Such was the guiding principle of Robert Fisk, the intrepid British-born correspondent. Through decades of reportage from sites of conflict across the Middle East, he mounted scathing...

Directed by Marisa Crespo and Moisés Romera | 99 mins | 2023
The holiday period can be an alienating one, especially if you’re queer, and/or if a surprise visit to your family home yields the unsettling discovery that a stranger is sleeping in your old room, wearing your clothes, and being doted ...