Works as a drinking game ‘midnight B-movie’ for cultists, this teenage-girls-visit-haunted-house psychedelic head trip entertains with its over-the-top and bewildering horror-comedy and creative special effects.
An unclassifiable but whimsically rewarding anti-neocolonialist travelogue that sees the director turn the camera onto himself as he leaves his poor village and discovers how ridiculously modern the Western world is.
A donkey becomes both a gift and a nuisance in an Indian village, as this stirring Tamil film makes pointed observations about the irrational anxieties and delusions of the religiously reliant.
A milestone in revolutionary Latin American cinema, this dialectical Cuban docu-fiction explores the class-crossing romance between a schoolteacher and a factory worker with a vigorous ethnographic and political thrust.
Another showcase of the acting powerhouse that is Gena Rowlands with Cassevetes exploring the theatre milieu as the lead actress of a highly-anticipated play becomes bugged by existential guilt and disenchantment.
De Leon doesn’t hide his unabashedly dreamy approach to the coming-of-age romantic drama, as a college student becomes smitten by a woman, changing each other’s outlook in life.
An endlessly looping piece of cheerful island music envelopes and provides a counterpoint to Duras’ melancholic conversational piece between two women as they reflect on a marriage in tatters.
An older woman and a younger woman connect and find comfort in each other’s strengths as their husbands fail them in this intimate drama by the ever perceptive Marta Meszaros.
Outstanding feature debut by David Lynch, this is as nightmarish and surreal as they come.
Sexual politics and sociopolitics dovetail in Bunuel’s mesmerising final film, featuring two actresses taking turns to play the female lead.
Eternality Tan 