Michael Elphick

A fascination with the extreme is written across all of Lars von Trier’s works, beginning with this mesmeric investigation of criminal minds. Captured in burnt sepia tones expressive of photographic fragments or uncertain memories, the ashen film is also evocative of a changing—crumbling?—Europe.

In this lively ‘80s drama, a middle-aged bloke and his former colleague are trying their luck in the job market. Almost anything goes.

When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike, and it sets out looking for vengeance.

Stuck at her empty English boarding school for holiday break, a student seeks comfort with her lover, who happens to be married to the headmistress.

The ultimate cult British comedy, Bruce Robinson's beloved, semi-autobiographical end-of-youth tale stars Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann as a pair of perpetually soused, unemployed actors in 1960s London who embark on a hilariously misbegotten country getaway.

In the Soviet Union, a Russian police officer is caught up in a twisted murder mystery when three bodies are discovered in Moscow’s Gorky Park.

German brothers come of age during Hitler’s rise to power and find themselves pitted against each other, until their bond and homeland stand in ruins.

Suicidal after his wife leaves him, a timid man hires a strange handyman to do the job for him. But when she returns, the assassin refuses to quit.