Loaded with unforgettable visuals, most frames of Valerie and Her Week of Wonders could pass as Hipgnosis album art.

Filmmaker Terry Gilliam recalibrated his career with this 1991 masterpiece, starring Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams.

“Meet Sugar Hill and her zombie hit men… The Mafia has never met anything like them!”

Released in 1959, Bernhard Wicki’s tragic WW2 drama was one of the first such films to emerge from Germany after the war.

Toninio Valerii’s Day of Anger is one of the best Spaghetti entries not directed by Sergio Leone.

Magician charts Orson Welles’ rise from theatre’s enfant terrible to cinema’s wunderkind following his debut feature, Citizen Kane.

After playing Enter the Ninja‘s villain, martial arts star Sho Kosugi returned to play an all-new hero character in 1983’s Revenge of the Ninja, which mustered even more senselessly violent ninja action and baffling plot turns than its predecessor.

Enter the Ninja was likely intended as nothing more than a slapdash cash-in on the 1970s’ martial arts movie craze. (Just look at that shameless, knockoff title!) Practically by accident, however, it was a major international hit, and started the ninja mania of the 1980s.

At first glance, Limelight—written, directed, starring, produced and scored by Charlie Chaplin—looks like a deeply introspective undertaking from the Little Tramp.