Release Date: 1992-06-03

Overview: In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.

Rating: 7.4 (2055 votes)

Release Date: 1980-10-09

Overview: A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.

Rating: 8.051 (3685 votes)

Release Date: 1990-08-17

Overview: Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.

Rating: 7 (1773 votes)

Release Date: 2006-12-06

Overview: As a Hollywood actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.

Rating: 7.009 (1164 votes)

Release Date: 1986-09-19

Overview: The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

Rating: 7.612 (3530 votes)

Release Date: 1997-01-15

Overview: A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

Rating: 7.544 (2755 votes)

Release Date: 1989-12-08

Overview: An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for the European VHS market and has an alternate, closed ending.)

Rating: 8.4 (618 votes)

Release Date: 2001-06-06

Overview: Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

Rating: 7.8 (6571 votes)

Release Date: 1973-11-29

Overview: The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.

Rating: 7.5 (946 votes)

Release Date: 2017-02-15

Overview: An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to shape one of cinema's most enigmatic directors.

Rating: 7 (199 votes)

Release Date: 1985-09-20

Overview: A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.

Rating: 7.799 (308 votes)

Release Date: 1987-06-19

Overview: Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common with the object of his affections — including a shared language — his desire to possess Johnny prompts a sexual awakening that results in a tangled love triangle.

Rating: 6.2 (111 votes)

Release Date: 2019-05-01

Overview: The original image or the first image. That of the first film, that of all the promises. The matrix image announcing all those to come. The history of cinema is full of legendary first movies, master strokes rather than test shots. There is a lot to be learned from the early plants of estrean directors who later became great filmmakers.

Rating: 8.125 (4 votes)

Release Date: 1976-09-15

Overview: A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.

Rating: 6.588 (662 votes)

Release Date: 1977-02-01

Overview: An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

Rating: 7.5 (3016 votes)

Release Date: 2001-08-24

Overview: Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.

Rating: 6.666 (580 votes)

Release Date: 2004-03-25

Overview: An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.

Rating: 6.13 (1645 votes)

Release Date: 1983-03-31

Overview: Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.

Rating: 7.312 (1962 votes)

Release Date: 1992-09-15

Overview: A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.

Rating: 8.2 (630 votes)

Release Date: 1974-07-24

Overview: After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.

Rating: 6.891 (890 votes)