Kobayashi's remarkable 'ghost' stories are a beautiful amalgam of traditional Japanese art and subtle direction. The four stories are adaptations of 18th century ghost stories by Lafcadio Hearn and are eerily compelling. Their dramatic impact is all due to subtle visual nuances. Excellent. find out more...

Life is crazy. You're crazy, I'm crazy, we're all crazy. We're all a little bit Minnie, and a little bit Moskowitz. Sometimes it does seem best to be sensible...but then what might you be missing out on? You gotta be you. You don't have to park cars and semi-randomly yell at people, but you can't hide yourself behind a veil (or dark sunglasses) and pretend and act like ever find out more...

Guillermo Del Toro's blockbusting tale of a young girl struggling to make sense of the violent world around her was a big 2006 arthouse hit. Continuing his exploration of the impact of the Spanish Civil War on his generation (it was also the backdrop for his excellent ghost story, The Devil's Backbone) Del Toro's fantasy mixes strong horror with fairytale-style aesthetics to great effect, making Ofelia's escape into an imaginary realm a poignant response to the cruel realities of her existence. find out more...

A young girl draws a picture of a house, which she then visits in her dreams. In it there is a trapped boy, whom she tries to help, but her dreams start coming too close to her home life and her infantile drawings turn into horrific nightmarish landscapes. A tense intelligent psychological drama, perhaps about primal fears of adulthood? find out more...

A straight up ghost story meets the superficiality of the fashion industry in this haunting, eerie tale of a young woman trying to find 'a sign' from her dead twin brother whilst busying herself buying clothes for a stuck up supermodel. Beautifully captured by Assayas, wonderfully performed by Stewart and one that stays with you long after the credits roll. find out more...

A miner wanders the Japanese countryside with his young son, desperately in search of work, his misery compounded by the presence of a mysterious and murderous white suited stranger. The victims of the unknown killer return as wraiths, invisible to the now fearful and suspicious living, but no wiser as to the reason for their misfortune. Pitfall was Hiroshi Teshigahara's first feature, a dark, ghostly drama with its roots set firmly in the impoverished reality of a post-war Japan. This "document find out more...

Psychiatrist Sam Foster takes on a colleague's patient, talented art student Henry, who announces his intention to kill himself at midnight on Saturday. As Sam pursues Henry, hoping to save him, the world around him begins to fracture and distort and Sam's mad world impinges on Henry's rational one. What's the meaning of the flashbacks to a car accident on the Brooklyn Bridge? Why are dead people seemingly alive? A hallucinatory New York becomes a dark, fractured, dislocated landscape. An intrig find out more...

In an unnamed European town, in an unspecified era, live Cynthia and Evelyn. Every day Evelyn cycles to Cynthia’s chateau to work as a lowly maid and every day the cruel, vindictive Cynthia inflicts countless sad find out more...

This mind-bending thriller follows two brothers who receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier. Hoping to find the closure that they couldn't as young men, they're forced to reconsider the cult's beliefs when confronted with unexplainable phenomena surrounding the camp. As the members prepare for the coming of a mysterious event, the brothers race to unravel the seemingly impossible truth before their lives become permanently ent find out more...

Adrien Brody plays an amnesiac Gulf War veteran, who's either had part of his brain blown away, is a restless spirit or an angel, take it your own way, sentenced to life in a mental institution for a brutal killing he may, or may not, have done. There he is subjected to barbaric drug and sensory deprivation treatment during which he finds himself in 2007 with a girl, Keira Knightley, he met once in the past, a future, moreover, in which he discovers he has been dead for 14 years. How did he die? find out more...