Revenge A dish best served cold. Dementia Dubbed “the quintessence of gruesomeness”, this noirish psychological horror follows a young woman’s nightmarish evening through Los Angeles. Horror 1953 56 mins John Parker The Balconettes Co-written with Céline Sciamma, Noémie Merlant’s bold film follows three friends as they dispose of the body of an abuser they’ve accidentally killed. Comedy Fantasy 2024 104 mins Noémie Merlant 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 Lost in the Night A young man seeks those responsible for his social activist mother’s disappearance, in this intense thriller from Amat Escalante (Heli, The Untamed). Drama 2023 123 mins Amat Escalante Oldboy Park’s wilfully grotesque fable about an abductee trying to fathom the mysteries of his past. Thriller 2003 120 mins Park Chan-wook Lady Vengeance Following Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy, Park Chan-wook completes his thematically linked trilogy of revenge. 2005 115 mins Park Chan-wook Wild Tales This Oscar-nominated, Almodóvar-produced anthology of six tales of ordinary madness is the most riotously enjoyable portmanteau film since Pulp Fiction. Comedy Thriller 2014 122 mins Damian Szifron The Bad Sleep Well The first film made by Akira Kurosawa's own production company is a dark tale of greed, corporate corruption and revenge. Crime 1960 151 mins Akira Kurosawa Odyssey Gerard Johnson (Hyena, Muscle) delivers a frenzied thriller about an estate agent under intense pressure and out of her depth. Thriller Crime 2025 111 mins Gerard Johnson The Handmaiden Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Stoker) channels Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, to create a sumptuous twisty psychological thriller full of erotic intrigue. Period drama Crime 2016 146 mins Park Chan-wook 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 Audition Takashi Miike burst to prominence with this disturbing tale of a deadly young woman who turns the tables on her middle-aged suitor. Horror 1999 115 mins Takashi Miike Irreversible Gaspar Noé's retina-searing shocker about an assault and its revenge, told in reverse chronology and starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel. Drama 2002 93 mins Gaspar Noé Sex & Fury This wildly violent ‘70s Japanese sexploitation film about a gambler hunting her father’s killers was a key influence on Tarantino’s Kill Bill series. Crime Action and Adventure 1973 89 mins Norifumi Suzuki
Dementia Dubbed “the quintessence of gruesomeness”, this noirish psychological horror follows a young woman’s nightmarish evening through Los Angeles. Horror 1953 56 mins John Parker
The Balconettes Co-written with Céline Sciamma, Noémie Merlant’s bold film follows three friends as they dispose of the body of an abuser they’ve accidentally killed. Comedy Fantasy 2024 104 mins Noémie Merlant
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
Lost in the Night A young man seeks those responsible for his social activist mother’s disappearance, in this intense thriller from Amat Escalante (Heli, The Untamed). Drama 2023 123 mins Amat Escalante
Oldboy Park’s wilfully grotesque fable about an abductee trying to fathom the mysteries of his past. Thriller 2003 120 mins Park Chan-wook
Lady Vengeance Following Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy, Park Chan-wook completes his thematically linked trilogy of revenge. 2005 115 mins Park Chan-wook
Wild Tales This Oscar-nominated, Almodóvar-produced anthology of six tales of ordinary madness is the most riotously enjoyable portmanteau film since Pulp Fiction. Comedy Thriller 2014 122 mins Damian Szifron
The Bad Sleep Well The first film made by Akira Kurosawa's own production company is a dark tale of greed, corporate corruption and revenge. Crime 1960 151 mins Akira Kurosawa
Odyssey Gerard Johnson (Hyena, Muscle) delivers a frenzied thriller about an estate agent under intense pressure and out of her depth. Thriller Crime 2025 111 mins Gerard Johnson
The Handmaiden Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Stoker) channels Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, to create a sumptuous twisty psychological thriller full of erotic intrigue. Period drama Crime 2016 146 mins Park Chan-wook
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
Audition Takashi Miike burst to prominence with this disturbing tale of a deadly young woman who turns the tables on her middle-aged suitor. Horror 1999 115 mins Takashi Miike
Irreversible Gaspar Noé's retina-searing shocker about an assault and its revenge, told in reverse chronology and starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel. Drama 2002 93 mins Gaspar Noé
Sex & Fury This wildly violent ‘70s Japanese sexploitation film about a gambler hunting her father’s killers was a key influence on Tarantino’s Kill Bill series. Crime Action and Adventure 1973 89 mins Norifumi Suzuki