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Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Shinya Tsukamoto
A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Tarkovsky
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.
Amélie
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Amélie, une jeune serveuse dans un bar de Montmartre, passe son temps à observer les gens et à laisser son imagination divaguer. Elle s'est fixée un but : faire le bien de ceux qui l'entourent. Elle invente alors des stratagèmes pour intervenir incognito dans leur existence. Le chemin d'Amélie est jalonné de rencontres: Georgette, la buraliste hypocondriaque, Lucien, le commis d'épicerie, Madeleine Wallace, la concierge portée sur le porto et les chiens empaillés, ou encore Raymond Dufayel alias « l'homme de verre », son voisin qui ne vit qu'à travers une reproduction d'un tableau de Renoir. Cette quête du bonheur amène Amélie à faire la connaissance de Nino Quincampoix, un étrange « prince charmant ». Celui-ci partage son temps entre un train fantôme et un sex-shop, et cherche à identifier un inconnu dont la photo réapparaît sans cesse dans plusieurs cabines de photomaton.
Masculin Féminin
Jean-Luc Godard
Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.
Like & Share
Gina S. Noer
Two best friends who create ASMR content together discover a world of personal exploration that leads them both toward harrowing outcomes.
Paris, Texas
Wim Wenders
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Jatuh Cinta Seperti di Film-Film
Yandy Laurens · 2023
A film adaptation writer wants to secretly write his first original screenplay about his true story of falling in love with someone who has recently become a widow.
Woman in the Dunes
Hiroshi Teshigahara
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
Shūji Terayama
An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense familial dysfunction, psychosexual alienation, and existentialist malaise.
Love Exposure
Sion Sono
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
