A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.

The Tune

1992

English

6.9

♡ 17

100%

Bill Plympton Director

Jeffrey Knight as Bellhop

Daniel Neiden as Del

Emily Bindiger as Dot

Chris Hoffman as Wiseone / Surfer / Tango Dancer / Note

Del is a song writer for the obnoxious Mr. Mega, and in love with Didi, Mega's secretary. His quest to write a hit tune brings him to the wacky world of Flooby Nooby, where he just might learn to write songs from the heart. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Lynch

2007

English

6.7

♡ 3

60%

behind the scenes

cinema on cinema

Documentary

loss of sense of reality

making of

reality vs fiction

surrealism

Jason S. Director

Krzysztof Majchrzak as Phantom

David Lynch as Self

Jay Aaseng as Self

Weronika Rosati as Woman in factory

Rare glimpse into the fascinating mind of one of cinema's greatest directors. Footage was gathered over a two year period and documents David Lynch's many creative interests as well as his passion for filmmaking. It’s “abstract trip” which reveals new aspects of the personality and the cinematographic vision of one of the exceptional authors of contemporary cinema. Personal portrait of David Lynch and his creative universe.

Damnation

1988

Hungarian

7.6

♡ 16

Béla Tarr Director

Sándor Kaszab as

Károly Hunyadi as

Zoltán Szegvári as

János 'Dixi' Gémes as (as János Gémes)

Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence of the Titanik Bar and its beautiful, haunting singer. But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her husband away...

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

1955

Spanish

7.6

♡ 7

92%

Luis Buñuel Director

Enrique García Álvarez as Chucho

Manuel Dondé as Coronel boda

Jesús Rodríguez Cárdenas as Mensajero del juez

Andrea Palma as Sra. Cervantes

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...

The Grandmother

1970

English

7.1

♡ 12

76%

David Lynch Director

Richard White as Boy

Robert Chadwick as Father

Dorothy McGinnis as Grandmother

Virginia Maitland as Mother

To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.

Archangel

1990

English

6.3

♡ 3

Guy Maddin Director

Greg Klymkiw as Hun

Brent Neale as Lustful Youth / Allied Soldier

Ari Cohen as Philbin

Bif Naked as Russian Soldier

At the height of the October Revolution during the 1919 allied intervention in Arkhangelsk, the exploits of one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles are told, after he is taken in from the cold by a dysfunctional Russian family and mistakes a local woman for his presumed dead lover.

Garfield's Pet Force

2009

English

4.1

♡ 41

42%

Wonjae Lee Director

Fred Tatasciore as Billy / Horned Guard

Jennifer Darling as Bonita / Betty

Frank Welker as Garfield / Garzooka / Monster / Narrator / Spike Guard / Kung Fu Guard / Dog / Lawyer / Keith / Computer Voice

Jason Marsden as Nermal / Abnermal

Nothing in the world can make Garfield get involved in anything besides eating, until the muscular super cat Garzooka comes crashing into Cartoon World from the Comic Book universe with terrifying news. Garfield summons up the willpower to join his superhero Garzooka in a fight to save their worlds.

Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray

6.9

Man Ray Director

Jacques Rigaut as

Robert Desnos as Un autre homme

Kiki of Montparnasse as Une femme

André de la Rivière as Un homme

An immersion into the surreal and dreamlike world of painter, photographer and filmmaker Man Ray (1890-1976), one of the most prolific American visual artists, through four of his short films, brought to life by the atmospheric music of SQÜRL.

The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism

1967

German

5.8

♡ 12

Harald Reinl Director

Karin Dor as Baroness Lilian von Brabant

Christopher Lee as Count Frederic Regula / Graf von Andomai

Vladimir Medar as Pater Fabian

Lex Barker as Roger Mont Elise / Roger von Marienberg

In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor in order to attain immortal life.

Melancholia

2011

English

7.1

♡ 108

79%

Lars von Trier Director

John Hurt as Dexter

Kiefer Sutherland as John

Kirsten Dunst as Justine

Alexander Skarsgård as Michael

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

Gandahar

1987

French

6.9

♡ 15

René Laloux Director

Glenn Close as Ambisextra

Penn Jillette as Chief of the Deformed

Bridget Fonda as Head / Historian

John Shea as Sylvain

On the planet Gandahar where peace reigns and poverty is unknown, this utopian lifestyle is upset by reports of people at the outlying frontiers being turned to stone. Sylvain is sent to investigate this mysterious threat.

Songs from the Second Floor

2000

Swedish

7.5

♡ 21

88%

Roy Andersson Director

Sandy Mansson as Bank executive

Lars Nordh as Kalle

Bengt C.W. Carlsson as Lennart

Gun Fors as Older woman

A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

1964

English

2.8

♡ 3

25%

Nicholas Webster Director

Bryan Lamphere as Gene Poole

Pia Zadora as Girmar

John Call as Santa Claus

Josip Elic as Shim

Martians fear their children have become lazy and joyless due to their newfound obsession with Earth TV shows. After ancient Martian leader Chochem suggests that the children of Mars need more fun—including their own Santa Claus—supreme leader Lord Kimar assembles an expedition to Earth. Once there, they kidnap two children who lead them to the North Pole, then capture the real Santa Claus, taking all three back to Mars in an attempt to bring the Martian children happiness.

The Incredible Shrinking Man

1957

English

7.6

♡ 20

83%

Action

based on novel or book

husband wife relationship

Jack Arnold Director

Frank J. Scannell as Barker

April Kent as Clarice

William Schallert as Doctor Arthur Bramson

Billy Curtis as Midget

A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.

Divinity

2023

English

5.3

♡ 11

57%

Eddie Alcazar Director

Caylee Cowan as Felicity

Moises Arias as Star

Scott Bakula as Sterling Pierce

Bella Thorne as Ziva

Two brothers crash into the decaying Earth to stop a capitalist from manufacturing an immortality serum, which is synthesized utilizing heinous methods and leaving an increasingly dire infertility rate in its wake.

Dr. Caligari

1989

English

6.0

♡ 10

Stephen Sayadian Director

John Durbin as Gus Pratt

Marjean Holden as Patient in Bed

Jennifer Balgobin as Ramona Lodger

Stephen Quadros as Scarecrow

Mrs. Van Houten has shown signs of losing touch with reality, and her husband discusses possible treatment with Dr. Caligari, who says Mrs. Van Houten has a disease of the libido.

The Hidden

1987

English

7.0

♡ 38

76%

Jack Sholder Director

James Luisi as Ferrari Salesman

Clu Gulager as Lt. Ed Flynn

Danny Trejo as Prisoner Jake

Jake as Roy the Dog

When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck is tasked with helping young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher determine the cause.

Faust

1994

Czech

7.4

♡ 10

73%

Jan Svankmajer Director

Antonin Zacpal as

Petr Meissel as

Andrew Sachs as All Voices

Petr Cepek as Faust

A very free adaptation of Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus", Goethe's "Faust" and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. A nondescript man is lured by a strange map into a sinister puppet theatre, where he finds himself immersed in an indescribably weird version of the play, blending live actors, clay animation and giant puppets.