Rent The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)

In Luis Buñuel's darkly comic psychodrama, the rich and debonair Archibaldo (Ernesto Alonso), a would-be serial murderer, sees his passions and deadly impulses frustrated at every turn, only to find fate intervening on his behalf. A key work of his Mexican period, Buñuel's extraordinary 'The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz' anticipates his later, more famous films with a gloriously twisted, ambiguous tale of bourgeois hysteria, sin and transgression. Full of pitch-black humour and Surrealist flourishes, the film is an unjustly neglected gem from one of cinema's greatest artists.