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1	I Spit on Your Grave (1977) more movies like this directed by Meir Zarchi featuring Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Richard Pace, Anthony Nicholls Camille Keaton, grand-niece of Buster and star of the thriller Cosa Avete Fatto a Solange?, appears here as Jenny, an aspiring novelist who rents a cabin in the Connecticut woods. Three rednecks at a local gas station and a retarded delivery boy seem quite friendly at first, and many viewers wonder just where director Meir Zarchi is going with the ... see all copies from £9.07! new only from £10.76!
2	Russian Ark (2002) more movies like this directed by Alexander Sokurov featuring Sergei Dreiden, Maria Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, David Giorgobiani, Alexandr Chaban Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov broke boundaries with his dreamlike vision of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russian Ark. It's the first feature-length narrative film shot in a single take (on digital video, using a specially designed disc instead of tape). Russian Ark is shot from the point-of-view of an unseen narrator, as he explores the ... see all copies from £3.53! new only from £10.94!
3	House of 1000 Corpses (2003) more movies like this directed by Rob Zombie featuring Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, Karen Black, Chris Hardwick Taking his cue from such 1970s horror classics as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and The Hills Have Eyes (1977), animated rocker Rob Zombie goes celluloid with the throwback shocker House of 1000 Corpses. Running low on gas as they travel the highways of America in search of the ultimate roadside attraction, a group of teens pull into Captain ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £3.12!
4	Pink Flamingos (1972) more movies like this directed by John Waters featuring Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pearce, Edith Massey Renegade filmmaker and noted aficionado of expressive bad taste John Waters exploded into international infamy with this darkly comic, no-budget parade of the perverse (his third feature film, and first in color), in which plus-size cross-dresser Divine stars as Babs Johnson, a flashy criminal on the lam from the FBI who is hiding out in a trailer ... see all copies from £8.85! new only from £8.85!
5	Lost Highway (1997) more movies like this directed by David Lynch featuring Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Blake, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Robert Loggia Five years after the critical and commercial disappointment of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, director David Lynch returned to the big screen with this cryptic thriller about confused identities and erotic obsession. Fred (Bill Pullman) is an avant-garde jazz saxophonist who shares a luxurious but fashionably barren house with his wife Renee ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £6.59!
6	Helvetica (2007) more movies like this directed by Gary Hustwit featuring Erik Spiekermann, Matthew Carter, Massimo Vignelli, Wim Crouwel, Hermann Zapf In 2005 a number of provocative, award-winning ads appeared that touted the Helvetica font; Gary Hustwit explores the subject protractedly with his feature-length essay film Helvetica. The documentary, produced in 2007 (and thus commemorating the typeface's 50th anniversary) uses the omnipresent font as a lens, through which it examines ... see all copies from £13.51! new only from £13.51!
7	Naked Lunch (1991) more movies like this directed by David Cronenberg featuring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider This cinematic/literary hybrid fuses motifs from Beat writer William S. Burroughs's novel of the same name with elements of the author's biography and plenty of the cerebral alienation and biomorphic special effects fans of creepy cult director David Cronenberg have come to expect. Bill Lee (Peter Weller) wants to write, but he exterminates bugs ... see all copies from £2.51! new only from £20.78!
8	Eraserhead (1977) more movies like this directed by David Lynch featuring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Allen Joseph, Judith Anna Roberts Filmed intermittently over the course of a five-year period, David Lynch's radical feature debut stars Jack Nance as Henry Spencer, a man living in an unnamed industrial wasteland. Upon learning that a past romance has resulted in an impending pregnancy, Henry agrees to wed mother-to-be Mary (Charlotte Stewart) and moves her into his tiny, squalid ... see all copies from £8.32! new only from £8.32!
9	F for Fake (1973) more movies like this directed by Orson Welles featuring Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten, François Reichenbach The final directorial project the legendary Orson Welles completed during his lifetime, F for Fake is less a documentary than an example of cinematic free association on the topic of trickery. Much of the film is in fact drawn from other sources, most notably an unfinished documentary by Francois Reichenbach on the notorious Elmyr de Hory, whose ... see all copies from £11.19! new only from £23.53!
10	My Dinner With Andre (1981) more movies like this directed by Louis Malle featuring Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory A extended conversation between two old friends over dinner proves an unexpectedly fascinating subject for a film in the critically acclaimed My Dinner with André. The talkers in question are André Gregory, a renowned experimental theater director, and playwright and actor Wallace Shawn, both of whom play themselves. The film is not a documentary, ... see all copies from £13.25!
11 view cover	Koyaanisqatsi (1982) more movies like this directed by Godfrey Reggio An art-house circuit sensation, this feature-length documentary is visually arresting and possesses a clear, pro-environmental political agenda. Without a story, dialogue, or characters, Koyaanisqatsi (1983) (the film's title is a Hopi word roughly translated into English as "life out of balance") is composed of nature imagery, manipulated in slow ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £5.24!
12 view cover	The Devil's Rejects (2005) more movies like this directed by Rob Zombie featuring Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, Ken Foree, Matthew McGrory Directed by the prolific Rob Zombie, The Devil's Rejects is a sequel of sorts to 2003's House of 1000 Corpses, and picks up several weeks after House left off. This time, the clash revolves around the tribe of violent lunatics and decidedly valueless family members of the original film, who have come to be known as the "Devil's Rejects." After ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £5.95!
13 view cover	El Topo (1971) more movies like this directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky featuring Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Alfonso Arau, Jose Luis Fernandez, Gerardo Cepeda, Rene Barrera This violent and allegorical Mexican western attracted a cult following in its day. It is the story of El Topo, a gunslinger who sets out for revenge against the outlaws who slew his wife. He ends up getting his revenge and saving the life of a woman who is being terrorized by bandits. She leads El Topo (which means "the Mole" in English) on a ... see all copies from £12.87! new only from £12.87!
14 view cover	Twin Peaks (1989) more movies like this directed by David Lynch featuring Dana Ashbrook, James Marshall, Lara Flynn Boyle, Mädchen Amick, Michael Ontkean, Ray Wise, Sherilyn Fenn, Kyle MacLachlan Also known as "The Northwest Passage," the two-hour pilot episode of Twin Peaks originally aired April 8, 1990. The central plot of the series is set when Pete Martell (Jack Nance) finds the body of high school student Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) wrapped in plastic by the water at the Packard Sawmill dock. As the town slowly gets word of her murder, ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £55.68!
15 view cover	Naqoyqatsi (2002) more movies like this directed by Godfrey Reggio Filmmaker, philosopher and activist Godfrey Reggio completes the film trilogy he began with Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi in this visually striking examination of the impact of technology upon our culture. Naqoyqatsi is a word from the Hopi language which roughly translates as "war as a way of life" or "a life of killing each other," and in this ... see all copies from £9.71! new only from £9.71!
16 view cover	Baraka (1993) more movies like this directed by Ron Fricke Named after a Sufi word that translates roughly as "breath of life" or "blessing," Baraka is Ron Fricke's impressive follow-up to Godfrey Reggio's non-verbal documentary film Koyaanisqatsi. Fricke was cinematographer and collaborator on Reggio's film, and for Baraka he struck out on his own to polish and expand the photographic techniques used on ... see all copies from £3.47! new only from £17.67!
17 view cover	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) more movies like this directed by David Lynch featuring Sheryl Lee, Chris Isaak, David Bowie, Ray Wise, Moira Kelly, Harry Dean Stanton, Kyle MacLachlan David Lynch's prequel to his cult television series "Twin Peaks" concerns the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), whose plastic-wrapped corpse, found floating in a river, was the fulcrum for the television series. During the day in the town of Twin Peaks, Laura is a top honors student at the local high school. By night, she ... see all copies from £3.43! new only from £11.08!
18 view cover	Odyssey: The Mind's Eye Presents Little Bytes (2000) more movies like this This tape collects short films that were produced by computer animation techniques and intended for children. Including some work by Pixar, the creator of Toy Story, each short film is a demonstration of the art of computer animation, with a message about such issues as sharing. Full of music and colorful visuals, this video will probably be ... see all copies from £6.13! new only from £6.73!
19 view cover	Pi (1998) more movies like this directed by Darren Aronofsky featuring Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart, Stephen Pearlman Darren Aronofsky scripted and made his directorial debut with this experimental feature with mathematical plot threads hinting at science-fictional elements. In NYC's Chinatown, recluse math genius Max (Sean Gullette) believes "everything can be understood in terms of numbers," and he looks for a pattern in the system as he suffers headaches, ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £7.43!
20 view cover	Last Year at Marienbad (1961) more movies like this directed by Alain Resnais featuring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff, Francoise Spira A cinematic puzzle, Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad is a radical exploration of the formal possibilities of film. Beautifully shot in Cinemascope by Sacha Vierny, the movie is a riddle of seduction, a mercurial enigma darting between a present and past which may not even exist, let alone converge. The film stars Giorgio Albertazzi as an ... see all copies from £11.78! new only from £11.78!
21 view cover	City of Women (1980) more movies like this directed by Federico Fellini featuring Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers, Donatella Damiani, Jole Silvani In this dream-sequence film, renowned Italian director Federico Fellini expounds at length on the nature, complexities, attitudes, and hang-ups of women and how this all relates to men "hunting" sexual conquests. Snaporaz (Marcello Mastroianni) is traveling in a compartment on a train when he lapses into sleep and dreams the ensuing story. He ... see all copies from £11.78! new only from £25.39!
22 view cover	The State of the Art of Computer Animation (1988) more movies like this This video combines the work of more than thirty computer animators and showcases the advantages of their medium in portraying both static and moving images. Computer generated images can look very real, but are not bound by the laws of physics. Included in the demonstration are videos originally produced for Mick Jagger and Dire Straits. Rob ... see all copies from £2.77!
23 view cover	Female Trouble (1975) more movies like this directed by John Waters featuring Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey A riotously funny bad-taste epic from director John Waters, Baltimore's "Prince of Puke," this sick classic tells the depraved life story of obese criminal Dawn Davenport (Divine), from her bad-girl youth as a go-go dancer on Baltimore's infamous Block to her death in the electric chair. Mink Stole is terrific as Dawn's bratty daughter Taffy, ... see all copies from £7.68! new only from £7.68!
24 view cover	The Mind's Eye (1991) more movies like this directed by Jan Nickman This video collects footage from assorted animated clips to portray the rise of technology. John Bush, All Movie Guide see all copies from £2.77!
25 view cover	Computer Dreams (1987) more movies like this Actress Amanda Pays introduces novices to the world of computer animation. What we have here is essentially a glorified instructional tape, but Pays is enthusiastic, so attention must be paid. As expected, there is palaver aplenty about drive, ram, bytes, and so forth. We also go "inside" computer workings, which was still relatively new cinematic ... see all copies from £3.34!

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