The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue

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

Richly atmospheric, gloriously morbid and menacing Gothic chiller about a child killer in 19th century Germany.

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

David Robert Mitchell’s remarkable, terrifying shocker is a fresh and stimulating meditation on sexual paranoia, steeped in horror cinema history.

A woman accused of murder begins to lose grip on reality, in this psychedelic, Swinging London thriller from cult director Lucio Fulci (The Beyond).

A man who was abducted by aliens returns to his family years later with a sinister purpose, in this outrageously bizarre British horror.

Céline Sciamma’s BAFTA-nominated film about the tentative love between a painter and her subject in 18th-century France.

Fernanda Torres ignites this Oscar-winning drama from Walter Salles, a triumph of hope over tyranny.

I’m Still Here director Walter Salles’ touching BAFTA winner about a retired teacher and young boy who become unlikely travel companions across Brazil

Gael García Bernal excels as a young Che Guevara biking across South America in Walter Salles’ adaptation of the Cuban revolutionary’s journals.

A potent and blood-soaked tale of saints and sinners set at the height of the Sino-Japanese war.

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

Sumptuous historical drama starring Isabelle Adjani and Daniel Auteuil; a thunderous yarn full of dastardly plots, familial hatred and perverse desire

1980s borstal drama – billed as the female Scum – featuring Amanda York and Kathy Burke as inmates in a ruthless women’s prison.

An ungainly cockney chauffeur navigates the seedy streets of London, gradually falling for the elegant and mysterious prostitute who is his passenger.

Reviled upon its release, now reclaimed as a cult classic - one can only submit to the trash-tastic delights of Paul Verhoeven's erotic disasterpiece.

Saoirse Ronan gives a bracing performance as a young recovering alcoholic returning home to Orkney in this moving adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir.

Alan Parker’s elliptical, ethereal adaptation of the acclaimed, ‘unfilmable’ novel by William Wharton, about a boy who dreams of flying.