Ranking All the Modern Marvel Movies #5 – #1
'A Serbian Film's notoriety preceded its very release, premiering first at SXSW in 2010 in the midnight slot and eliciting a very strong, divisive reaction. The film follows retired porn star Milos, lured back for one last film with the promise of unimaginable fortune -- the kind of money that will take care of his family for the rest of their lives
This documentary makes the top of the list because, as those who have seen it will attest, it's perhaps the best film you could never watch more than once. Released in 2008, this doc from director Kurt Kuenne tells the story of Kuenne's longtime friend and supporter, Andrew Bagby
Darren Aronofsky's portrait of addiction is captivating and deeply disturbing for many reasons. The film follows heroin addicts Harry (Jared Leto), his girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly), and their friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) as they go deeper down the rabbit hole, becoming increasingly desperate to seek out their next high
Michael Haneke remade his own film 10 years later with 2007's 'Funny Games,' starring Naomi Watts and Tim Roth as a couple vacationing at their family's lake house when a pair of well-dressed, preppy young men stop by to borrow some eggs, but end up taking the family hostage instead
Gaspar Noe takes on the rape and revenge genre with this provocative film told in reverse -- a woman (Monica Bellucci) is raped, and her lover (Bellucci's real-life husband Vincent Cassel) seeks out those responsible for the heinous crime so he can exact his horrifying and morally-questionable revenge
Director Paul Greengrass used black box recordings from doomed United flight 93 to recreate the story, as faithfully as possible, of what took place on that plane on September 11, 2001. The unsettling elements are obvious: we know the outcome of this story, but you can't help but hope that it will somehow be different this time
This documentary (the first in a trilogy series) chronicles the lives of the West Memphis Three, three teenage boys from Arkansas who were arrested and convicted of murdering three young boys in the woods
Steven Spielberg's Holocaust masterpiece follows Oskar Schindler (portrayed by Liam Neeson), a German businessman who saves the lives of more than a thousand Jews by giving them work in his factories