The Banshees of Inisherin

A teenager tries to change her dire circumstances in this overwhelming naturalistic drama from the Dardenne brothers, winner of the Palme d'Or and Best Actress awards at Cannes, 1999.

There's real yearning in this bizarre, mind-bending comedy about voyeurism, sex, and the human desire to play God from writer Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze. You can't get much further out of the box than this.

Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles became the thinking teen's heartthrobs with this smart update on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, transposed to a Tacoma, Washington high school.

This deeply personal 1999 California opus is ripe for rediscovery. Mapping the emotional traumas of half-a-dozen major characters as they crisscross the San Fernando Valley in search of either recognition or reconciliation, it's PTA's riskiest gamble.

Megan (Natasha Lyonne) is the perfect All-American Girl, or so she thinks. That is until she’s shipped off to conversion therapy. This pitch black comedy is wrapped in a saccharine bow, featuring the icon herself, RuPaul, as a conversion counsellor.

Veteran Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland takes the bull by the horns to craft a Kafka biopic that's Kafkaesque and then some, artfully layering scenes from Kafka's life and works along with ironic present-day footage for a truly surreal counterpoint.