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Most Popular Films of 2018

The classics that cut through in 2018 – here are the year’s most popular subscription titles.

Lost men, dangerous women and frustrated artists figure big in our subscribers' chart of the year…

Suspiria Suspiria

Horror 1977 101 mins Director: Dario Argento

Dario Argento’s phantasmagoric gothic nightmare blends operatic violence, disorienting dream logic and hyper-real visuals to create a horror classic.

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Under the Skin Under the Skin

Melodrama 1997 83 mins Director: Carine Adler

Carine Adler’s sexy and dark debut, starring Samantha Morton in her first major feature film role.

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The Housemaid The Housemaid

Thriller 2010 107 mins Director: Im Sang-soo

An enigmatic housemaid and her wealthy, totalitarian employer begin an affair that will have disastrous consequences for them both.

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Me without You Me without You

Drama 2001 103 mins Director: Sandra Goldbacher

Anna Friel and Michelle Williams star as two troubled girls whose tumultuous friendship takes many twists and turns.

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Listen Up Philip Listen Up Philip

Drama 2014 109 mins Director: Alex Ross Perry

Jason Schwartzman is a hotshot writer with pathological intimacy problems in this caustic comedy of over-achievement.

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8½ 8½

Drama 1963 138 mins Director: Federico Fellini

Fellini triumphantly conjured himself out of writer's block with this magnum opus about a film director experiencing his own creative crisis.

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Room 237 Room 237

Documentary 2012 103 mins Director: Rodney Ascher

Rodney Ascher's enigmatic essay film weaves together the contrasting theories of five different narrators who believe Stanley Kubrick deliberately buried hidden messages in his 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel.

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The Artist and the Model The Artist and the Model

Drama 2012 105 mins Director: Fernando Trueba

Fernando Trueba's deeply moving meditation on the artistic process and the nature of humanity, with Jean Rochefort as an ageing artist inspired to paint once more.

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Spanking the Monkey Spanking the Monkey

Comedy 1994 95 mins Director: David O. Russell

David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook) made his feature debut in 1994 with this biting black comedy, which caused a stir with its incestuous subplot and portrayal of adolescent restlessness.

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The Seventh Seal The Seventh Seal

Fantasy 1957 96 mins Director: Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman’s best-known film is a brilliant allegorical drama starring Max von Sydow as a knight trying to elude his own death.

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Fantastic Planet Fantastic Planet

Animation & Artists Moving Image 1973 72 mins Director: René Laloux

René Laloux and Roland Topor’s surreal, psychedelic sci-fi animation imagines a world in which humanoid creatures are kept as pets by a race of giants.

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Kwaidan Kwaidan

Horror 1964 183 mins Director: Masaki Kobayashi

This stunningly beautiful anthology of Japanese ghost stories is one of the most meticulously crafted supernatural films ever made.

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Frozen River Frozen River

Crime 2008 93 mins Director: Courtney Hunt

Nominated for two Oscars (Best Actress – Melissa Leo - and Best Original Screenplay) Frozen River is a riveting thriller that raises questions about the borders we construct, between countries, communities and each other.

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Pauline at the Beach Pauline at the Beach

Comedy 1982 95 mins Director: Eric Rohmer

Eric Rohmer's final collaboration with the great cinematographer Néstor Almendros follows a holidaying teenager as she begins to navigate the adult world.