1. Mulholland Drive (2001)

1. Mulholland Drive (2001)

It's a David Lynch movie.  Mulholland Drive is the monster behind the diner; it's the self-delusional dream turned into nightmare.

2. There Will Be Blood (2008)

A man strikes a pickaxe against a stone wall. Later, after this same enterprising individual has found black gold, taken over a small town, gained the world and lost his soul

3. The Act of Killing (2013)

Hard to watch and impossible to fully comprehend, Joshua Oppenheimer’s radical documentary tracks down some of the men who took part in the Indonesian mass killings of the mid-1960s

4. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Monsters are everywhere in Guillermo del Toro's dark fairy tale, set in post-Civil War Spain. Dreamy 11-year-old Ofelia retreats into an imaginary world

5. Spirited Away (2001)

It's easy to be impressed by vivacious animation, but Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki's timeless fantasia—about a ten-year-old girl

6. In the Mood for Love (2000)

The consummate unconsummated love story of the new millennium, Wong Kar-wai's masterpiece fetishizes early-'60s fashion more thoroughly than several seasons of Mad Men

7. Parasite (2020)

In 2020, director Bong Joon Ho made history when Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars.

8. Stories We Tell (2013)

Sarah Polley’s melancholic investigation of her family’s history begins as a cosy personal journey, then eases into a much scarier proposition:

9. Talk to Her (2002)

Pedro Almodvar's brilliantly eccentric girlfriend-in-a-coma melodrama combines a female matador, silent-film dream sequences and an exquisite depth of insight into the male psyche

10. Nomadland (2021)

rances McDormand steers this unexpected Best Picture winner about a van-dweller who drives across the US badlands in search for a life outside of the broken system

11. Wall-E (2008)

To this day, Wall-E is an all-time great romance. A relationship blossoms between Wall-E and Eve like a plant in a landfill--the world has shipped off to space

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