Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Cult > Controversy: 50 Films to Rent
- Man Bites Dog (1992)
- Dir. Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde
Feat. Benoit Poelvoorde
- Disturbing black comedy unravels itself as a media satire but its barbaric humour won't tickle everyone's funnybone. Staged as a documentary, a film…
- Wild at Heart (1990)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd…
- Disturbing, provocative and always stylish, the director parodies himself and many other great film–makers in this mother of all road movies.…
- Ghosts of the Civil Dead (1988)
- Dir. John Hillcoat
Feat. Nick Cave
- Despite the uncompromising, raw depiction of brutal prison life, this film is a non–exploitative essay that ultimately indicts the future of…
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1987)
- Dir. John McNaughton
Feat. Michael Rooker, Tom Towles
- Theatrically banned, this uncut version ranks as one of the more unsettling works ever committed to film. In short, a low–budget masterpiece…
- Liquid Sky (1983)
- Dir. Slava Tsukuman
Feat. Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard
- A geniune punk artefact about an over–sexed woman who unwittingly hosts an alien parasite that kills off her lovers at the point of orgasm. Its…
- Class of 1984 (1982)
- Dir. Mark Lester
Feat. Perry King
- A new school–teacher (Perry King) finds himself intimidated by members of his unruly class – to the point where he must exact brutal…
- Angel of Vengeance (Ms.45) (1981)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Zoƫ Tamerlis, Jack Thibeau
- Surreal drama about a deaf–mute who seeks revenge after two sexual assaults. Taut and disturbing, with minimal dialogue, it has the distinction…
- Scum (1980)
- Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Ray Winstone, Phil Daniels
- Life in a British borstal painted in unflinchingly realistic hues. Clark's deeply affecting indictment of the penal system plays out barbaric rituals…
- Angel Mine (1979)
- Dir. David Blyth
Feat. Derek Ward, Jennifer Redford, Myra De Groot
- A punk, Bunuel–esque social satire in which a married couple escape their material lives through anarchic fantasies, staged as dream–like…
- Driller Killer (1979)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Abel Ferrara
- Somewhat notorious as a 'video nasty' of the 80s video boom, this debut from bad boy auteur Abel Ferrara was perhaps misunderstood (like The Texas…