8 1/2
1963 · Federico Fellini
Fellini's blocked director spins his own chaos into the most dazzling film ever made about filmmaking.
Find it on Amazon →Persona
1966 · Ingmar Bergman
Bergman fuses an actress and her nurse into one unsettling face in cinema's boldest identity riddle.
Find it on Amazon →Stalker
1979 · Andrei Tarkovsky
Tarkovsky's hypnotic trek into the Zone turns a sci-fi quest into a spiritual, mud-soaked pilgrimage.
Find it on Amazon →Beau Travail
1999 · Claire Denis
Denis reforges Melville into sun-scorched Legionnaire ballet and one transcendent final dance.
Find it on Amazon →Mulholland Drive
2001 · David Lynch
Lynch's Hollywood dream fractures into a devastating puzzle-box about desire and delusion.
Find it on Amazon →Woman in the Dunes
1964 · Hiroshi Teshigahara
A man trapped in a sand pit with a widow becomes Teshigahara's shimmering existential parable.
Find it on Amazon →Andrei Rublev
1966 · Andrei Tarkovsky
Tarkovsky's monk-painter wanders a savage medieval Russia toward faith reforged in a bell.
Find it on Amazon →Daisies
1966 · Vera Chytilova
Two anarchic girls wreck everything in Chytilova's gleeful, collage-cut Czech New Wave riot.
Find it on Amazon →The Color of Pomegranates
1969 · Sergei Parajanov
Parajanov paints a poet's life as living tableaux, unlike anything else ever committed to film.
Find it on Amazon →El Topo
1970 · Alejandro Jodorowsky
The acid-Western that birthed the midnight movie, a gunslinger's surreal desert path to enlightenment.
Find it on Amazon →The Holy Mountain
1973 · Alejandro Jodorowsky
Jodorowsky's psychedelic alchemical odyssey overflows with blasphemy, gold, and sheer visionary excess.
Find it on Amazon →Eraserhead
1977 · David Lynch
Lynch's monochrome nightmare of industrial dread and a wailing infant is midnight-movie scripture.
Find it on Amazon →Suspiria
1977 · Dario Argento
Argento drenches a haunted ballet school in impossible reds and shrieking Goblin dread.
Find it on Amazon →Videodrome
1983 · David Cronenberg
Cronenberg's flesh-and-television fever dream prophesied media addiction in oozing latex.
Find it on Amazon →Repo Man
1984 · Alex Cox
Punk repossessors chase a glowing Chevy trunk through Cox's cult sci-fi satire of L.A.
Find it on Amazon →Wings of Desire
1987 · Wim Wenders
Wenders's angels drift over divided Berlin until one falls for a trapeze artist and mortal life.
Find it on Amazon →The Holy Girl
2004 · Lucrecia Martel
Martel's hushed, sensuous coming-of-age simmers with faith and desire in a decaying hotel.
Find it on Amazon →