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Dr. Strangelove
1964 British satire film directed by Stanley Kubrick

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is a 2019 period action comedy film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Bona Film Group, Heyday Films, and Visiona Romantica, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is a co-production between the United States, United Kingdom, and China. It features an ensemble cast led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie. Set in 1969 Los Angeles, the film follows a fading actor and his adrenaline junkie stunt double as they navigate the rapidly changing film industry with the threat of the Tate murders looming.

Fargo
1996 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

Trainspotting
1996 film by Danny Boyle

Monty Python’s Life of Brian
1979 film directed by Terry Jones

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 film directed by Martin McDonagh

Kingsman: The Secret Service
2014 film by Matthew Vaughn

In Bruges
2008 film directed by Martin McDonagh

Kick-Ass
2010 film directed by Matthew Vaughn

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 film by Guy Ritchie

Lolita
1962 USA film by Stanley Kubrick
The Dictator
2012 film by Larry Charles

Poor Things
2023 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

Burn After Reading
2008 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

The Brothers Grimm
2005 film by Terry Gilliam

The Full Monty
1997 film directed by Peter Cattaneo

The Lobster
2015 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

Triangle of Sadness
2022 film directed by Ruben Östlund

Lucky Number Slevin
2006 film by Paul McGuigan

A Serious Man
2009 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

The Death of Stalin
2017 film directed by Armando Iannucci

The Banshees of Inisherin
2022 film by Martin McDonagh

Gosford Park
2001 film directed by Robert Altman

Kick-Ass 2
2013 film directed by Jeff Wadlow

Promising Young Woman
2020 film directed by Emerald Fennell

T2 Trainspotting
2017 film directed by Danny Boyle

Bugonia (film)
Bugonia is a 2025 black comedy thriller film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Will Tracy. An English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan, the film follows two young men who kidnap a powerful CEO, suspecting that she is secretly an alien who wants to destroy Earth. A co-production of the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Korea, and the United States, the film stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone.

Bitter Moon
1992 film by Roman Polanski

Ghost World
2001 film by Terry Zwigoff

Matchstick Men
2003 film by Ridley Scott

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
2020 film directed by Jason Woliner

The World's End
2013 comedy film directed by Edgar Wright

Seven Psychopaths
2012 film by Martin McDonagh

Saltburn (film)
Saltburn is a 2023 dark comedy thriller film written, directed, and produced by Emerald Fennell, starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe and Carey Mulligan. Set in Oxford and Northamptonshire, it focuses on a student at the University of Oxford who becomes fixated with a popular, aristocratic fellow student, who later invites him to spend the summer at his eccentric family's estate.

Cold Pursuit
2019 film directed by Hans Petter Moland

Shallow Grave
1994 film directed by Danny Boyle

Seed of Chucky
2004 film directed by Don Mancini

Love Lies Bleeding
2024 film directed by Rose Glass

The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009 film directed by Grant Heslov

Sexy Beast
2000 film directed by Jonathan Glazer

To Die For
1995 film by Gus Van Sant

Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 film directed by Robert Hamer

The Ladykillers
1955 crime comedy film directed by Alexander Mackendrick

Death at a Funeral
2007 film by Frank Oz

Four Lions
2010 film directed by Chris Morris

Cul-de-sac
1966 film by Roman Polanski

Keeping Mum
2005 film by Niall Johnson

White Noise
2022 film directed by Noah Baumbach

Naked
1993 British film directed by Mike Leigh

O Lucky Man!
1973 film by Lindsay Anderson

Bad Santa 2
2016 film by Mark Waters

The Party
2017 film directed by Sally Potter

Withnail and I
1987 film directed by Bruce Robinson

How I Won the War
1967 film directed by Richard Lester

Death to Smoochy
2002 film by Danny DeVito

Ballad of a Small Player
2025 film by Edward Berger

Ted Bundy
2002 American serial killer film directed by Matthew Bright

Pillion (film)
Pillion is a 2025 romantic dark comedy drama film written and directed by Harry Lighton, based on the 2020 novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. The film stars Harry Melling as a timid gay man and Alexander Skarsgård as an enigmatic biker who start a BDSM relationship.

Frank
2014 film directed by Lenny Abrahamson

Free Fire
2016 film by Ben Wheatley