Kurosawa’s underrated gem of a masterwork is both an emotionally tense domestic drama, and a hot and sweaty police procedural.
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High and Low (1963)
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Category / Criterion Collection
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That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Sexual politics and sociopolitics dovetail in Bunuel’s mesmerising final film, featuring two actresses taking turns to play the female lead.
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Belle de jour (1967)
A bold and stunning effort by Bunuel that explores with psychological depth both sexual repression and expression from the perspective of a sexy but frigid young woman.
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Exterminating Angel, The (1962)
May be at times challenging to watch but Bunuel took down the upper-classes in the kind of sharp comic absurdity that he was known for.
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Sanjuro (1962)
A lighter if lesser effort by Kurosawa, but it is no less entertaining and darkly comic than its companion piece ‘Yojimbo’ (1961).
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Throne of Blood (1957)
Kurosawa’s Noh-influenced take on ‘Macbeth’ is elemental, engrossing and one of the greatest screen adaptations of Shakespeare.
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Orpheus (1950)
Magical yet haunting, Cocteau’s reimagining of the Orpheus myth in France during the Beatnik 1950s is a cinephile’s treat.
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Claire’s Knee (1970)
Arguably Rohmer’s most iconic ‘moral tale’—the plot of an older man’s fetish for a teenage girl’s bare knee makes for great philosophical musings about the nature of lust and love.
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River Called Titas, A (1973)
Now canonized by The Criterion Collection, Ghatak’s beloved tragedy about the poor fishing villages on the banks of the river Titas is meandering to a fault, but is imaginative and poetic.
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I Live in Fear (1955)
One of Kurosawa’s lesser urban dramas that deals with the trauma and anxiety of nuclear annihilation through the eyes of a paranoid old patriarch.
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Eternality Tan 