Esmond Knight

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.

An adolescent English girl comes of age in India.

A London schoolboy’s surprise transformation marks the final collaboration of great British director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a series of mysterious and bizarre crimes in a small town on the way to Canterbury, England.

A spooky wartime Ealing classic about a group of people seeking shelter in an inn, where all is not what it seems.

A disturbed filmmaker literally kills with his camera in this ahead-of-its-time shocker. Like the same year's Psycho, this film's combination of voyeurism, eroticism and horror repelled some 1960 critics, but its cult reputation soared in later years.