Jay: Mark Kermode 50 Films to Watch

Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.

When a married American woman ends up in a Vienna hospital after a suicide attempt, an inspector seeks to uncover the cause and eventual demise of her torrid affair with a psychoanalyst.

A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.

A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.

A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.

Two troubled, street-smart boys, Ricky and Curtis, who struggle to navigate a volatile neighborhood. They face challenges in friendships, family and loyalty, as guns become a reality and boys try to be men before they're teenagers.

When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched.

A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.

A teenage girl in a country manor falls asleep while reading a magazine, and has a disturbing dream involving wolves prowling the woods below her bedroom window.

In 17th-century Hungary, elderly widow Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy maintains her misleading youthful appearance by bathing in the blood of virgins regularly supplied to her by faithful servant Captain Dobi.

When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.

Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.

The lives of an English working-class family are told out of order in a free-associative manner. The first part, "Distant Voices", focuses on the father's role in the family. The second part, "Still Lives", focuses on his children.

A controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offsprings in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.

In the face of demise in his values, a socialist in England decides to form a gang and rob banks for a living.

A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.

The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.

After a dinosaur-like beast - awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing - ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it.

A young nun is expelled from a convent because of her extreme devoutness and forms a relationship with a radical Muslim.

As a young child Jack the Ripper's daughter witnesses him kill her mother. As a young woman she carries on the murderous reign of her father. A psychiatrist tries to cure her with tragic consequences.

Against his father's wishes, Pedro, a naive kid from Mexico City, joins the Federal Highway Patrol. His simple desire to do good rapidly comes into conflict with the reality of police work.

An erotic collection of short stories, an anthology comprised of tantalizing tales about sexual desire and its diverse manifestations.