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Naked Lunch (1991)David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch
Former junkie William Lee (Peter Weller) makes ends meet as an exterminator. But when he and his wife Joan (Judy Davis) discover the hallucinatory properties of the powder he uses to kill bugs, they become hooked, and their world is changed forever. Insects speak, typewriters mutate and talk, interdimensional beings reveal themselves, identities fracture and blur; nothing and no one is quite what it seems. When Bill, underthe influence of drugs, or the bugsthat have begun talking to him, shoots his wife, he flees to Interzone, at once a place and a state of mind, where things only get stranger. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm
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The near future: eXistenZ is the ultimate game, brainchild of the hip, hyper and sexually alluring Allegro Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Once downloaded via a bioport implanted into the players' spine, eXistenZ promises an experience that will shatter forever the line between fantasy and reality. At its launch armed fanatics burst in, determined to destroy the game and its creator. Forced to run for her life, Allegra's sole ally is a young security guard (Jude Law). Together they seek refuge in the only place the gaming goddess feels safe - the world where existence ends and eXistenZ begins. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm
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Director David Cronenberg based this controversial and stylish psychological horror on a bizarre true story...Jeremy Irons delivers a disturbing performance as twin Gynaecologists Elliot and Beverly Mantle. Intrigued by the mysteries of sex and anatomy, the brothers grow from inseparable playmates to world-renowned specialists. Sharing their women, Elliot and Beverly seem inseparable. The entrance of Claire (Geneviève Bujold), an actress seeking fertility treatment, changes their relationship forever. Both twins seduce her but shy, sensitive Beverly falls in love and attempts to break free from his charming brother with catastrophic consequences. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske
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The Fly (1986)La mosca
This frightening, but extremely moving and romantic horror film stars Jeff Goldblum as an over-ambitious scientist who accidentally merges with a housefly while conducting a bizarre teleporting experiment. A journalist (Geena Davis) who has fallen in love with him while covering his scientific endeavours suddenly finds herself caring for a horrifying creature whose insect half gradually begins to take over. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz
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The Dead Zone (1983)Stephen King's The Dead Zone
Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) is high-school teacher, a car-crash victim who wakes up from a 5-year coma with the ability to see into people's future. Consequently this extra sensory perception enables Johnny to avert several potential disasters and earns him a degree of local celebrity. After his 5 missing years however, Johnny has lost both his job and his fiance and he longs for his former existence without his new 'gift'. That is until he meets with a local politician and would-be Presidential candidate Greg Stillson (Martin Sheen) and sees future events of genuinely catalysmic proportions. It is only then that Johnny must come to terms with his powers, his conscience, and his destiny. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt
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Nada (1974)The Nada Gang
A small French terrorist group, Nada, kidnaps the American ambassador from a Parisian brothel, secreting him away in an isolated farmhouse while they wait for an answer to their demands. As the police close in on the kidnappers, it becomes apparent that they are less concerned with rescuing the ambassador than they are with eliminating the terrorists and turning the situation to their political advantage. From Chabrol's most revered period of work between 1968 and 1974, this is a classic thriller with a wicked sense of irony. - Director:
- Claude Chabrol
- Cast:
- Maurice Garrel, Lou Castel, Mariangela Melato
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Don't Look Down (2008)No mires para abajo
Tantalising, bold and intensely erotic, cult director Eliseo Subiela's latest film explores the tantric possibilities of sexual imaginations and awakenings. This uncompromisingly explicit film delves into mysticism and spirituality, when the sleepwalking 19-year-old Eloy (Leandro Stivelman) crashes through the roof of a beautiful woman, Elvira (Antonella Costa), who takes him on a journey of sexual discovery into the tantric and therapeutic powers of the Kama Sutra, of which she is an expert. - Director:
- Eliseo Subiela
- Cast:
- Leandro Stivelman, Antonella Costa, Hugo Arana
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Kinetta... a desolate Greek resort town, inhabited during the off-season by migrant workers. In this colourless setting, the film studies the cryptic activities of an inscrutable trio: a plain-clothes cop with a passion for cars, tape recorders and Russian women; a loner clerk who is a part-time photographer; and a hotel maid with aspirations to be an actress. They barely speak, passing the time by staging outlandish re-enactments of local murders. Their efforts are obsessive, the details exhaustive, their purpose... questionable. . - Director:
- Giorgos Lanthimos
- Cast:
- Evangelia Randou, Aris Servetalis, Costas Xikominos
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Max Renn (James Woods) is looking for fresh new content for his TV channel when he happens across some illegal S&M-style broadcasts called "Videodrome". Embroiling his girlfriend Nick (Deborah Harry) in his search for the source, his journey begins to blur the lines between reality and fantasy as he works his way through sadomasochistic games, shady organisations and body transformations stunningly realised by Oscar-winning makeup effects artist Rick Baker. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits
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Pulse (2001)Kairo
Before 'The Grudge', before 'Dark Water', there was 'Pulse', one of the scariest films ever made from the master of Japanese horror, Kiyoshi Kurosawa. At Sunny Planet Sales in Tokyo, a group of friends are concerned about Taguchi, a colleague who owes them a computer disc for a project and hasn't been returning phone calls. When co-worker Michi (Kumiko Aso) visits Taguchi's apartment to check on him, he seems fine. But within minutes, Taguchi has hanged himself. Michi flees the apartment, taking the disc, which may contain the most deadly computer virus ever created... When Taguchi subsequently reappears as a ghostly presence on their computer and video screens, is he trying to contact his friends from beyond the grave or is there something more sinister afoot? Soon, there are more sudden deaths and disappearances within the group, terrifying rooms sealed in red tape, and the appearance of more ghosts as the city of Tokyo - and the world - is slowly drained of life. - Director:
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Cast:
- Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Asô, Koyuki
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Cure (1997)Kyua
A series of murders have been committed by ordinary people who claim to have had no control over their actions, many of them having killed friends, co-workers or even their spouse. There are only two links between each crime: an X carved into the neck of each victim, and a mysterious stranger who seems to have had brief contact with the perpetrator a short period of time before each killing. But to follow these leads and end a seemingly inexplicable wave of terror, police detective Kenichi Takabe (Koji Yakusho) will need to put his own sanity on the line and endure a descent into hell. - Director:
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Cast:
- Masato Hagiwara, Kôji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki
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The story of a team of pioneers undertaking the most important mission in human history. Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey stars as ex-pilot-turned-farmer Cooper, who must leave his family and a foundering Earth behind to lead an expedition travelling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars. - Director:
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast:
- Matthew McConaughey, Bill Irwin, Anne Hathaway
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From director Christopher Nolan, a unique and intriguing thriller that begins with the ultimate act of revenge and backtracks through time to reveal the shocking and provocative reasons behind it. Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) remembers everything up to the night his wife was brutally raped and murdered. But since that tragedy, he has suffered from short-term memory loss and cannot recall any event, the places he has just visited or anyone he has met just minutes before. Determined to find out why his wife was killed, the only way he can store evidence is on scraps of paper, by taking Polaroid photos and tattooing vital clues on his body. Throughout his investigation, he appears to have the help of both bartender Natalie (Carrie-Anne Moss), who may have her own secret agenda and police officer Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) whose friendship is always suspect. As Shelby's fractured memory tries to piece together a chilling jigsaw of deceit and betrayal in reverse, breathtaking twists and surprising turns rapidly occur in the most challenging, original and critically acclaimed thriller in years. - Director:
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast:
- Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
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Last Year in Marienbad (1961)L'Annee Derniere A Marienbad
In a vast and opulent hotel, an unnamed man (Giorgio Albertazzi) attempts to persuade a similarly unnamed married woman (Delphine Seyrig) that they have not only met before, but they were also romantically involved and had planned to escape together. The woman recalls no such encounter and so begins a sensual and philosophical examination into the uncertainty of truth. - Director:
- Alain Resnais
- Cast:
- Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff
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Shivers (1975)They Came from Within
The residents of Starliner Island enjoy a luxurious and opulent lifestyle incorporating the best in country living with the services of the nearby city... until something goes wrong. A strange disease begins to infect the residents causing violent outbreaks of uncontrollable violence combinex with unusual sexual behaviour. 'Shivers' is a thrilling mystery filled with terror and suspense. From its nerve shattering beginning to its alarming conclusion David Cronenberg's classic remains one of cinema's ultimate shockers! - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry
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