A haunting blend of morbid realism and the fantastique, Franju’s cult French psychological horror follows a surgeon who, with an accomplice, lures and kills young women for their facial skin, as he attempts to transplant it onto his disfigured daughter.
A family patriarch is convinced after a night’s dream that his daughter-in-law is the incarnation of the Goddess Kali, in Ray’s quietly devastating attack on religious dogma, with 15-year-old Sharmila Tagore’s haunting gaze at the center of a tug-of-war between blind faith and rationalism.
Delon’s star-making turn draws us into a tricky narrative about an even trickier trickster, as themes of impersonation and immorality are explored in this elegant adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’.
A staunch if conniving Catholic wife becomes a husband-cum-taxidermist’s worst nightmare in this ‘60s Mexican cult classic that plunges us into the depths of anger and frustration as well as laying bare the hypocrisy of religious faith in creating false narratives.
Truffaut’s overlooked sophomore feature, a playful crime-noir, is shot with a rare, improvisational style, about a bit-part piano player who unexpectedly gets embroiled with lowly if persistent gangsters.
The eldest daughter of a poor family is forced to become the breadwinner in Ghatak’s masterful ‘Partition’ melodrama about dreams and sacrifices, infused with some of the densest and most evocative use of Indian classical music in Bengali cinema.
A milestone in European art cinema, and an intentionally futile exercise in finding meaning in our seemingly meaningless existence.
The picture that destroyed Powell’s career, this disturbing work about a serial killer who perversely films his victims as they die is now regarded as a major influence on the modern slasher movie, and a provocative exploration of the ills of scopophilia.
Becker’s swansong is one of the most underrated based-on-a-true-story prison escape movies in world cinema—its simple, efficient storytelling style hides a highly-detailed narrative that propels the story forwards through plot and action.
One of Bergman’s quietest films, but therein lies a powerful and existential meditation on religion, vengeance and guilt.
Eternality Tan 