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  1. A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's most exciting ideas on personal subjectivity, fantasy and reality, desire and sexuality.

    The sides of The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

    • Slavoj Žižek talking through famous films
    • Rebuilt sets from Hitchcock and Lynch films
    • Psychoanalysis applied to desire and fantasy

    Good for you if

    • you like an excited philosopher talking nonstop about movies.
    • you like strange readings of Psycho, The Birds and Blue Velvet.
    • you love classic Hollywood and want to see it with new eyes.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours of lecture is too much for you.
    • you need a story with people to follow, not one man talking over film clips.

    About: desire · fantasy · cinema

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  2. Severance 2022

    Series

    Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

    The sides of Severance

    • Office workers with their memories split in two
    • The endless white corridors of Lumon Industries
    • A team sorting numbers they don't understand

    Good for you if

    • you like piecing together what Lumon really does.
    • you like goats in an office basement and a waffle party as a reward.
    • you like Mark slowly realising what his other self lives through.

    Bad for you if

    • you need things to move fast from the first episode.
    • you want answers at the end of every season.

    About: work · identity · grief · control

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  3. My Scientology Movie 2016

    Documentary

    After being denied access to the Church of Scientology's headquarters, documentarian Louis Theroux teams up with ex-Scientology official Marty Rathbun to stage re-enactments of alleged abuses within the organization. Theroux soon discovers that the church is watching his every move.

    The sides of My Scientology Movie

    • Louis Theroux shut out of Scientology
    • Actors auditioning to play its leader
    • Cameras filming the man who films them

    Good for you if

    • you like Louis Theroux's deadpan face to face moments.
    • you like actors re-enacting scenes described by former members.
    • you like Theroux being followed and filmed by the people he's filming.

    Bad for you if

    • you want answers, and the church never lets him in.
    • you'd rather not hear former members describe alleged abuse.

    About: control · faith · fear

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  4. Unacknowledged 2017

    Documentary

    Dr. Steven Greer presents brand new top-secret evidence supporting extraterrestrial contact, including witness testimony, classified documents, and UFO footage, while also exploring the consequences of ruthlessly enforcing such secrecy.

    The sides of Unacknowledged

    • Dr. Steven Greer on UFO secrecy
    • Witness testimony and classified documents
    • UFO footage

    Good for you if

    • you like the idea that aliens have already been here.
    • you enjoy pulling at the thread of a government cover-up.
    • you like hearing former military and intelligence insiders tell what they say they saw.

    Bad for you if

    • you need hard proof before you believe in alien visitors.
    • you need momentum, and you get mostly interviews and documents.

    About: secrecy · belief · the unknown

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  5. Enemy 2014

    Película

    Adam es un afable profesor de historia que lleva una vida bastante monótona. Un día, viendo una película, descubre a un actor que es idéntico a él. Obsesionado con la idea de tener un doble, la búsqueda de ese hombre tendrá para él consecuencias inesperadas...

    Las caras de Enemy

    • Un profesor de historia y su doble exacto
    • Un actor que vive al otro lado de Toronto
    • Una araña gigante sobre la ciudad

    Buena para ti si

    • te gusta una película que hay que descifrar después de los créditos.
    • te gusta un final que te deja mirando la pantalla.
    • te gustan las imágenes de sueño, como una araña gigante sobre Toronto.

    Mala para ti si

    • necesitas ritmo, y esta se mantiene callada y brumosa.
    • prefieres no ver escenas de sexo, o la ves con otras personas.

    Temas: la identidad · la infidelidad · el deseo

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  6. Russian Doll 2019

    Series

    Nadia keeps dying and reliving her 36th birthday party. She's trapped in a surreal time loop -- and staring down the barrel of her own mortality.

    The sides of Russian Doll

    • A woman dying again and again at her own birthday party
    • A stranger stuck in the same loop
    • A New York subway train into the past

    Good for you if

    • you like laughing as Nadia dies once more on her 36th birthday.
    • you can't look away from Natasha Lyonne as Nadia, raspy, wry and self-destructive.
    • you like a New York that bends in strange ways.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't face a story about a mentally ill mother and an old childhood wound.
    • you want every rule of the loop explained.

    About: death · mothers and daughters · self-destruction

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  7. Zero Days 2016

    Documentary

    Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commissioned by the US and Israeli governments, this malware was designed to specifically sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme. However, the complex computer worm ended up not only infecting its intended target but also spreading uncontrollably.

    The sides of Zero Days

    • A computer worm aimed at Iran's nuclear program
    • Officials who won't speak on record
    • Alex Gibney chasing who built Stuxnet

    Good for you if

    • you like a true story about the first cyberweapon to break real machines.
    • you want to know how governments wage secret wars with code.
    • you like an investigation that feels like a spy thriller.

    Bad for you if

    • you want things blowing up, and this is mostly interviews and lines of code.
    • you need clear answers, and many people here refuse to give them.

    About: secrecy · cyberwar · state power

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  8. A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious appetite for popular culture, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek analyzes several of the most important films in the history of cinema to explain how cinematic narrative helps to reinforce prevailing ethics and political ideas.

    The sides of The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

    • Slavoj Žižek standing inside scenes from famous films
    • Ideology read through Hollywood
    • Psychoanalysis applied to pop culture

    Good for you if

    • you like a philosopher talking nonstop about films you know.
    • you like ideas you have to work to follow.
    • you want to see how films quietly sell you politics.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit through more than two hours of one man talking.
    • you want a story with people, not a lecture.

    About: ideology · cinema · belief

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  9. Perfect Blue 1998

    Anime

    Rising pop star Mima Kirigoe quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.

    The sides of Perfect Blue

    • A pop singer who becomes an actress
    • A fan website that knows her daily life
    • Murders around her film set

    Good for you if

    • you like a stalker thriller where you can't trust what you see.
    • you like a story where dream, filming and reality blur.
    • you like being scared by your own reflection.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not see a staged rape scene and a nude photo shoot.
    • you can't stand stabbings shown up close.
    • you don't watch anime.

    About: fame · identity · obsession

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  10. Behind the Curve 2018

    Documentary

    Meet the growing, worldwide community of theorists who defend the belief that the Earth is flat while living in a society who vehemently rejects it.

    The sides of Behind the Curve

    • Flat Earth believers at a convention
    • Mark Sargent and his YouTube videos
    • An experiment that does not go their way

    Good for you if

    • you're curious about people who believe the Earth is flat.
    • you like a portrait that takes Mark Sargent and his friends seriously.
    • you like a tight community of believers who find friends, and rivals, in each other.

    Bad for you if

    • you want to laugh at flat Earthers. The film listens to them instead.
    • you need more happening than people talking on camera.

    About: belief · community · science

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  11. The Five Obstructions 2003

    Documentary

    In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starring a man and women sitting in a box while a narrator poses questions about their relationship and humanity. Years later, Danish director Lars von Trier made a deal with Leth to remake his film five times, each under a different set of circumstances and with von Trier's strictly prescribed rules. As Leth completes each challenge, von Trier creates increasingly further elaborate stipulations.

    The sides of The Five Obstructions

    • Jørgen Leth remaking his own short film
    • Lars von Trier inventing the rules
    • One remake made as a cartoon

    Good for you if

    • you like a game between two directors that keeps getting stranger.
    • you're fascinated by Lars von Trier trying to break his mentor.
    • you enjoy two filmmakers sparring across a table.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for the Danish parts.
    • you need to know at the end who won the game between the two men.

    About: creativity · constraints · mentorship

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  12. Above Majestic 2018

    Documentary

    A look at the origins, history and conspiracies behind the "Majestic 12", a clandestine group of military and corporate figureheads charged with reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology.

    The sides of Above Majestic

    • A secret group said to hold alien technology
    • Hidden budgets and black projects
    • Interviews with UFO researchers

    Good for you if

    • you love UFO lore and the strange stories around it.
    • you like digging into the Majestic 12 legend.
    • you enjoy theories about who really pulls the strings.

    Bad for you if

    • you need every claim to hold up to hard evidence.
    • you find more than two hours of interviews too much for one evening.

    About: secrecy · conspiracy · extraterrestrials

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  13. Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.

    The sides of This Film Is Not Yet Rated

    • The board that rates American films
    • A private investigator tailing the raters
    • Directors on the cuts they were asked to make

    Good for you if

    • you want to know how films get their ratings in America.
    • you like a private investigator unmasking the secret raters.
    • you like an investigation with a playful, cheeky tone.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not see the sex scenes shown as examples.
    • you'd rather follow a story than a case file.

    About: censorship · secrecy · double standards

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  14. Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.

    The sides of Serial Experiments Lain

    • A shy schoolgirl who logs on to the Wired
    • A classmate's suicide and the emails she sends afterwards
    • A world where the network and real life blur

    Good for you if

    • you like a quiet, eerie anime where the internet starts to feel haunted.
    • you like piecing together who Lain really is across thirteen strange episodes.
    • you're happy to finish with questions and your own theory.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't watch anime.
    • a teenage suicide at the very start is too much for you.

    About: identity · the internet · loneliness · reality

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  15. A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.

    The sides of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

    • The shoot of Apocalypse Now in the Philippines
    • Footage filmed by Eleanor Coppola
    • A typhoon, a heart attack and a director near breaking point

    Good for you if

    • you like seeing how a famous film almost never got made.
    • you like watching Francis Ford Coppola stake everything on one film.
    • you like the strange scenes of Brando improvising in the dark and Dennis Hopper rambling.

    Bad for you if

    • you want the battles of the film, not the chaos behind them.
    • you find grainy 1970s home footage dated.

    About: obsession · art · ego · madness

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  16. Tim's Vermeer 2013

    Documentary

    Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning a decade, Jenison's adventure takes him to Holland, on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artista David Hockney, and eventually even to Buckingham Palace. The epic research project Jenison embarques on is as extraordinary as what he discovers.

    The sides of Tim's Vermeer

    • An inventor who has never painted
    • A room in Texas rebuilt like Vermeer's
    • Mirrors, lenses and years of patience

    Good for you if

    • you like a theory tested with real lenses and mirrors.
    • you like a centuries old question about how Vermeer painted.
    • you like Dutch painting from the 1600s.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, and months of painting wear you out.
    • you want Penn and Teller's stage comedy. Here they mostly watch a friend paint.

    About: art · obsession · patience

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  17. How To with John Wilson 2020

    Documentary

    In a uniquely hilarious odyssey of self-discovery and cultural observation, documentary filmmaker and self-described "anxious New Yorker" John Wilson covertly and obsessively films the lives of his fellow New Yorkers while attempting to give everyday advice on relatable topics. The awkward contradictions of modern life are eased by Wilson’s candid, unpolished commentary. Building upon Wilson’s previously released "how to" short films, each episode takes wildly unexpected turns but is grounded in John's refreshing honesty.

    The sides of How To with John Wilson

    • An anxious filmmaker secretly filming New York
    • Everyday advice like making small talk
    • Strangers met by chance on the street

    Good for you if

    • you laugh at awkward, deadpan narration over odd street footage.
    • you like an episode about small talk that ends up somewhere you never expected.
    • you like real New Yorkers, filmed as they are.

    Bad for you if

    • you want things to happen fast, and this is a man with a camera walking around the city.
    • you need momentum, and each episode wanders wherever the camera happens to go.

    About: loneliness · city life · awkwardness · connection

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  18. A Trip to Infinity 2022

    Documentary

    Does infinity exist? Can we experience the Infinite? In an animated film (created by artists from 10 countries) the world's most cutting-edge scientists and mathematicians go in search of the infinite and its mind-bending implications for the universe. Eminent mathematicians, particle physicists and cosmologists dive into infinity and its mind-bending implications for the universe.

    The sides of A Trip to Infinity

    • Mathematicians and physicists on infinity
    • Animated sequences from artists in ten countries
    • Hotels with infinite rooms and endless universes

    Good for you if

    • you like your head spinning at the size of the universe.
    • you like a paradox you keep thinking about after the film.
    • you like cosmologists asking if the universe goes on forever.

    Bad for you if

    • you want people and stories, not ideas.
    • you don't like a documentary carried by animation.

    About: infinity · time · the universe

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  19. Tabloid 2011

    Documentary

    One of America's top documentary filmmakers turns his attention to the outrageous and nearly unbelievable story of Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming beauty queen who gained a great deal of notoriety after being accused of kidnapping a young Mormon missionary, restraining him in chains and raping him in 1977 England. The unbalanced McKinney is extensively interviewed, particularly about her ambition to write a memoir telling her side of the tale.

    The sides of Tabloid

    • A former beauty queen telling her side
    • A Mormon missionary who vanished in 1977 England
    • British tabloids racing for the scoop

    Good for you if

    • you like laughing at a true story so strange it sounds invented.
    • you like a real 1977 scandal and the British tabloids that fought over it.
    • you can't look away from Joyce McKinney telling her version with total conviction.

    Bad for you if

    • you need to know at the end who was telling the truth.
    • you can't hear a kidnapping and rape accusation told as a strange, funny story.

    About: obsession · the press · truth

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  20. Mulholland Drive 2001

    Película

    Betty, una joven aspirante a actriz, llega a Los Ángeles para convertirse en estrella de cine y se aloja en el apartamento de su tía. Allí conoce a Rita, una mujer que padece amnesia a causa de un accidente en Mulholland Drive. Las dos juntas deciden investigar quién es Rita y cómo llegó hasta allí.

    Las caras de Mulholland Drive

    • Una morena con amnesia tras un accidente en Mulholland Drive
    • Una aspirante a actriz recién llegada a Hollywood
    • Una llave azul y una caja azul

    Buena para ti si

    • te gusta armar la historia por tu cuenta y luego volver a verla para comprobarlo.
    • aceptas que Lynch nunca te diga qué partes ocurrieron.
    • te gustan un vaquero, una pareja diminuta y un diner llamado Winkie's.

    Mala para ti si

    • necesitas una historia cuya lógica se sostenga de principio a fin.
    • prefieres no ver una escena de sexo larga entre las dos mujeres.

    Temas: la identidad · Hollywood · los sueños

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