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The Descent

Six friends on a caving expedition get trapped deep underground and discover they are not alone in this visceral, claustrophobic horror.

Horror
2005
99 mins
Neil Marshall

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Hunger

Artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen made his cinema debut with this provocative portrait of Irish republican prisoners defying the British government.

Biopic
Historical drama
2008
96 mins
Steve McQueen

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Metropolis

Fritz Lang’s expressionist, dystopian vision is one of the first science fiction feature films, and is arguably the most influential.

Science Fiction
1927
150 mins
Fritz Lang

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Nosferatu

This influential Dracula adaptation contains some of the most famous images of expressionist film, and remains shocking and stylish after 100 years.

Horror
1922
89 mins
F.W. Murnau

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Beach Rats

Gripping account of repressed sexual desire in a masculine environment, with British newcomer Harris Dickinson as a virulently macho Brooklyn teen.

Drama
2017
98 mins
Eliza Hittman

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Postcards from London

A stylish, sensuous film about a young man’s journey into an unusual form of escort work.

Drama
2018
89 mins
Steve McLean

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The Blood on Satan's Claw

Depraved sexual practices and satanic violence envelop a remote country village in this exciting period horror.

Horror
1971
96 mins
Piers Haggard

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Benediction

Terence Davies’ devastatingly moving, lyrical portrait of the life of celebrated war poet Siegfried Sassoon.

Drama
2021
137 mins
Terence Davies

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Swallowed

It’s drugs, bugs and unrequited hugs in this deliciously grotesque queer body horror from Carter Smith.

Horror
2022
95 mins
Carter Smith

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Théo and Hugo

A brief encounter at a naked sex club in Paris seems to be going well for Theo and Hugo, but a sudden realisation changes everything.

Romance
2016
97 mins
Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau

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Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song

Melvin Van Peebles’ seminal, taboo-breaking Blaxploitation thriller about a young Black man on the run from corrupt cops in 1970s Los Angeles.

Thriller
1971
98 mins
Melvin Van Peebles

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Bushman

Neglected since its release in 1971, Bushman follows a Nigerian student in San Francisco but is interrupted by the arrest of its leading man.

Documentary
1971
75 mins
David Schickele

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A Bittersweet Life

A hitman becomes the target in this ultra-stylish neo noir from Kim Jee-woon.

Action and Adventure
Crime
2005
120 mins
Kim Jee-woon and Doo Hong Jung

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M

Peter Lorre is unforgettable as the compulsive child murderer on the run from both police and criminals alike, in Fritz Lang’s seminal crime film.

Crime
Thriller
1931
111 mins
Fritz Lang

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Volver

Family secrets echo around a Spanish clan, ringing loud enough to rouse the dead, in Pedro Almodóvar's assured melodrama.

Drama
2005
121 mins
Pedro Almodóvar

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Within Our Gates

Oscar Micheaux’s startling silent classic – the earliest surviving feature from an African-American director.

Drama
1919
74 mins
Oscar Micheaux

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Center Stage

Stanley Kwan’s rich and unconventional biopic of the tragic 1930s Chinese film star, Ruan Lingyu, starring Maggie Cheung.

Biopic
1991
155 mins
Stanley Kwan Kam-pang

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Breaking the Waves

A man is injured in an oil rig accident, leaving his wife wracked with guilt, willing to do anything to restore her marriage and relationship with God

Drama
1996
159 mins
Lars von Trier

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Dancer in the Dark

Lars von Trier’s unique and divisive dissection of the American Dream, featuring Björk as an immigrant worker finding escape in musical cinema.

Drama
Musical
2000
141 mins
Lars von Trier

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Beauty and the Beast

Macabre and singular Czech reimagining of the classic fairy tale about a merchant’s daughter held captive by a mysterious winged beast.

Fairy tale
1978
88 mins
Juraj Herz