A couple discovers an underground subculture of car crash sexual fetishists in Cronenberg’s most transgressive work, an audacious masterclass of psychosexual filmmaking that portends the post-millennial existential despair and aberrant nihilism.
The first-ever feature made by a Black lesbian filmmaker, this deceptively smart auto-fictive engagement with the ‘absence’ of Black film history and personal identity asks us to recognise the voices that are missing in the age-old narratives that have come to pass.
A young black woman in search of her white biological mother gives Leigh’s heartwrenching if occasionally amusing film the kind of narrative and thematic gravitas rarely experienced in such stories about families in crisis, featuring an all-timer performance by Brenda Blethyn.
Iwai captures vividly the feeling of being nowhere and everywhere at once as his chaotic, genre-blending work of linguistic pluralism explores marginalised lives chasing their rags-to-riches story in an alternative-future Japan.
This neo-noir thriller is a terrific feature debut by the Wachowskis, with its careening twists and turns, and upending of gender codes, as two women must work out a survival plan after an opportunistic ‘heist’ gone wrong.
Yang’s penultimate film could be his bleakest and most pointed attack on the corrupted soul of Taiwanese society—an angry, rough-hewn and surly escapade featuring lowly gangsters, prostitutes, scammers and rich exploiters of the common man.
Two strangers find a special bond through an online cinema forum’s email service in Morita’s progressively emotional take on what it means to connect with another human being in the wake of a lonelier, more technological world.
Woody Harrelson and Courtney Love steal the show in this entertaining textbook biopic on the infamous multi-millionaire publisher of pornographic magazines who fought valiantly against the religious right for the freedom of expression.
Suleiman’s strong debut has everything that we have come to know about his vignette storytelling style, which houses a mildly humorous if sometimes wistful take on the loss of Arab identity in Israel.
A zany if somewhat overzealous romp as this darkly entertaining meta-film about a struggling director (played by a fantastic Leslie Cheung) forced to make a Cat III erotic movie, features Shu Qi in a breakout role.
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