Milena Vukotić

Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right under their noses, this perverse, playfully absurd comedy of non sequiturs deftly compiles many of the themes that preoccupied Buñuel throughout his career—from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.

A scoundrel's mission to escape his family and remarry on Mars is hilariously scrubbed when a mishap with a black hole turns his son into an old man.

A notorious seductress enters a gossipy society and entices the husband of a faithful young woman, delighting the gossips and prompting a series of unexpected consequences.

In Andrei Tarkovsky's first film made outside of the USSR, a Russian intellectual conducting research in Italy becomes overwhelmed by a melancholic longing for home. Winner of three awards at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, his late masterpiece is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide.

A wannabe journalist comes across letters sent to Shakespeare's fictional lover Juliet.

After a man wakes up with a ringing sound in his ears and finds a cryptic note on his fridge, it marks the start of a mysterious, life-altering day.