CULT CLASSICS

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TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (1989)
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto | Country: Japan | Runtime: 67min
★★★★★ (5/5)
A "metal fetishist" crashes his car into a salaryman, who begins to transform into a grotesque metal-human hybrid. Shot in stark black and white 16mm with an industrial soundtrack that feels like machinery screaming. The ultimate cyberpunk body horror experience.
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POSSESSION (1981)
Director: Andrzej Żuławski | Country: France/West Germany | Runtime: 124min
★★★★★ (5/5)
A woman leaves her husband and child, descending into madness and an affair with a tentacled creature she keeps in her apartment. Isabelle Adjani's subway scene performance is one of the most intense in cinema history. The Berlin Wall as metaphor for marital breakdown.

SURREAL MASTERPIECES

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THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN (1995)
Directors: Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Country: France | Runtime: 112min
★★★★☆ (4.5/5)
A scientist who cannot dream kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping they will slow his aging process. A circus strongman with a childlike mind teams up with a street-smart orphan girl to rescue his little brother. A visual feast of steampunk aesthetics.
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PI (1998)
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Country: USA | Runtime: 84min
★★★★☆ (4/5)
A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature. Shot in stark black and white with intense, disorienting editing. Mathematics, mysticism, and madness converge in this $60,000 debut film.

CYBERPUNK ESSENTIALS

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BLADE RUNNER (1982)
Director: Ridley Scott | Country: USA | Runtime: 117min
★★★★★ (5/5)
In a dystopian future Los Angeles, a blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who have returned to Earth. The rain-slicked neon-lit streets, Vangelis' haunting score, and the question of what makes us human define the cyberpunk genre.
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AKIRA (1988)
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo | Country: Japan | Runtime: 124min
★★★★★ (5/5)
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath. The animation, the soundtrack, the sheer scale of destruction. Still the pinnacle of anime and cyberpunk storytelling.