Run Lola Run (1998)
Jul 30, 1999Alternate Timelines
Tom Tykwer's visually inventive variant on the alternate timelines theme with Franka Potente trying to replay events to save her boyfriend's life
Arte
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Aug 19, 2001Surreal Vignettes
From Swedish director Roy Andersson, a series of plotless, surreal vignettes pitched with black humour
Womb (2010)
May 5, 2020Cloning Film
The finest film made yet on the subject of cloning. A beautifully directed film that deals with the tricky ethical issues when Eva Green decides to give birth to a clone of her lover Matt Smith and raise him as her son.
Leones (2012)
Oct 18, 2012Deathdream
Group of youths walk through the woods lost then discover why they are there in a genre twist ending you can see coming an hour before. A film that seems to have escaped being about nothing and a hackneyed ending by being slapped with the arts label
The Invisible Guardian (2017)
May 4, 2020Spanish Serial Killer Thriller
The first in a trilogy of Spanish detective thriillers adapted from Dolores Redondo concerning ritual child killings, a serial killer and a Bigfoot creature the suggestion of a local Bigfoot type creature in the background
High Life (2018)
Apr 27, 2019Space Mission
The title suggests a film about stoners more than about a space mission. From acclaimed director Claire Denis, this is less the space realism of Gravity and more akin to Solaris and its mission crew falling apart
The Legacy of the Bones (2019)
Jan 22, 2024Spanish Detective Thriller/Ritual Killings
The second of the films based on Dolores Redondo’s police procedurals, this heads into an admirably dark and perverse place with plenty of jolt twists
The Melies Mystery (2021)
Mar 16, 2026Georges Melies Documentary
A documentary that offers the best discussion of the life of Georges Melies to date. Much of the film is focused on the recent rediscovery of a complete trove of negatives of Melies’s film
Flow (2024)
Dec 28, 2024Animation/Animals on a Journey
A delightful animated film from Latvia made entirely without dialogue, following a group of animals fleeing as their territory is flooded. The winner for my top film of 2024.