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.
One of Cronenberg’s best films, this Russian-mobsters-in-London crime drama boasts well-developed characters and startling violence, as a nurse inevitably gets too close to exposing the sinister activities of a shady restaurateur.
A man with telepathic ability is recruited to infiltrate a clandestine group led by a nefarious ringleader with a similar ability in Cronenberg’s breakthrough sci-fi thriller that reveals his marked distaste for corporations and authorities that exploit humans and their bodies.
Cronenberg’s critically derided work is a misunderstood if inscrutable piece about the nihilistic reassurance of death and mortality in a world careening towards rigor mortis.
Rankin’s sophomore feature feels like Kaurismaki meets Kiarostami as his surreal, and at times perplexing tale brings us through a hybrid Canadian-Iranian space marked by quaint shophouses and bustling highways.
Cronenberg mixes the weird with the normal in this anti-Hollywood satire that is biting but doesn’t quite touch the clouds.
One of Cronenberg’s very best films, this is a peak culmination of his body horror exploits with a rare emotional and human core to its storytelling.
A sci-fi body horror movie that stands out in Cronenberg’s ‘80s oeuvre for its special effects and just-as-relevant-today commentary on our obsession with the screen.
This beautifully animated adaptation of several Murakami’s texts is talky and philosophical as it flits between surrealism and a sense of groundedness, urging us to find or create meaning in life even when there might be none.
Cote goes for a more naturalistic style in this meandering and ultimately inconsequential attempt at humanising nymphomania, as three hypersexual women reside in a rest home guided by a therapist and her assistant.
Eternality Tan 