Working on The Movies Page

I'm working on my movies page where I list some of the movies that have entertained me, simulated my imagination, or hit me like a runaway train. I have selected these movies in terms of film/cast quality, quality of writing/story, and originality (or bringing something original to a well-established genre).

I'm grouping my recomends in terms of genre: adventure/thriller/crime on one page; comedy on another; war & drama; and on the last page, minor genres: science fiction/fantasy/weird & documtentary.

I'm going to work on a classics page too.

Each film will have a small blurb and/or a link, so that you have an idea if it's for you, but I should emphasize that these films are to be considered R for Restricted, mostly for violence and language but nudity as well. Several are disturbing, I'll try to indicate which.

My choices in books and movies are similar in my gravitation to the strange and the disturbing. Iwonder if it's because I've become inured or desensitized to feeling disgust and shock and I need ... well, Kafka said it best about books but I think it applies for movies as well:

"Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book does not shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we'd be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves. What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. That is what I believe.”
–To Oskar Pollak, January 27, 1904

Is the ice around my heart-sea from too much violence/horror like callouses or scars or does it stem from the banality and dullness of suburbia? Kafka wrote books that do this to a reader. His short stories stab deep into the gut and twist. His novel The Trial is simply brilliant in it's ability to worm into your consciousness and break you up from the inside.

Anyway, let me know if you find a movie you hadn't seen before and really enjoyed.