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Philip Marlowe, hardboiled detective, finds himself in laid-back 1970s California, looking for lost cat, his lost client and his lost friend. There is a plot but that's not the point in Robert Altman's vision of Raymond Chandler, brought to life by a wonderful performance from Elliot Gould. 

Marx out of 10? 10 all the way for this Marx Brothers masterpiece. It's got  mangled language, pratfalls and puns a-plenty and still has time to say that war is pointless and borders are imaginary. And it's 90 years old. HONK HONK.

The best film EVER about car sex, serial killing, steroid abuse, oil lactation, self-injury and fireman discos? Well it's certainly in the top ten.

Titane is a weirdfest from start to finish, grounded by two amazing performances. French body horror at its best. Formidable. 

A man who doesn't want to run is being pursued by a man who doesn't want to chase him.

Sam Peckinpah kills the Hollywood Western stone-dead in this dreamy meditation  - when the West and the world are being transformed, what happens to men who can't change? 

Kate Winslet gets in with a cult, Harvey Keitel tries to get her out of it through the power of his personality and a fetching red frock. Jane Campion wrangles the not-inconsiderable sexual heat between them. Smokin'.

Olivia de Havilland is trapped in the slowest elevator in the world - her cries for help are heard by a vicious young hoodlum in the shape of a very scary James Caan, in this 1960s apocalyptic home invasion. 

Love doesn't lift them up where they belong.  

Ghost Dog is a spiritual hit man who's sworn to protect the Mafia goon who saved his life. His best friends are an ice-cream man who speaks no English, a bookish little girl and a flock of pigeons. Oh, and the Mafia like hip hop. Watch this and swoon. 

Bill's not like the rest of his family -he's not blonde, he doesn't want to massage his sister and he feels there's some secret he's not being told. But maybe a nice dinner together will bring them closer. Come hungry!

Colonial misadventure as Michael Caine and Sean Connery give career-best performances in their search to become kings in Victorian-era Afghanistan. The very definition of be careful what you wish for. 

Love and hate, light and dark, good and evil, innocence and guilt, all wrapped up in one of the most luminously beautiful films ever made. Actor Charles Laughton only got one chance to direct a film, and he didn't waste it. We've got LOVE tattooed on both knuckles for this one.

Girls who are boys, who like boys to be girls -  Gilda is film noir at its most deviant. Ignore the "plot" (there isn't much of one), and just enjoy the sexual power games of Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford and the other guy. 

Fear and loathing in NYC. Two visceral and gritty films from the king of Catholic guilt, Abel Ferrara, including a low-budget feminist thrill ride, and Harvey Keitel's best performance. They'll blow you away. 

Do you like Huey Lewis and the News? Then you'll love our take on American Psycho. We're really coming into our own, commercially and artistically. 

Tender love story, queer BDSM and lectures on butterflies - The Duke of Burgundy has something for all the family. 

Our individual picks of the best weird films since 2013. Let's just say there are some disagreements. 

Cross-class power struggles and drug-fuelled paranoia in 60s Chelsea, with Dirk Bogarde and James Fox bringing the gay subtext front and centre in Joseph Losey's unsettling masterpiece. 

Girls just wanna have.... everything.

We compare and contrast the get pissed-destroy punk attitude of 60s Czech women in Daisies, with the time-bending female detectives in Celine and Julie. Who run the world?

Film nor couple (he likes guns, she's just crazy) go on honeymoon. Crime spree ensues. A huge influence on the French New Wave and an incredible film in its own right. 

David Lynch's weird fest, a poison pen letter to Hollywood and an extraordinary Naomi Watts. Hear us rave.