David Cronenberg
3) The brood
Series
Criterion collection volume 777
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two storylines connect is the shocking and grotesque secret of this bloody tale of monstrous parenthood.
4) Scanners
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Supernaturals with the power to destroy human beings through telepathy are bent on taking over the world while a young artist races against time to stop them.
5) The Fly
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
An eccentric scientist working on matter teleportation accidentally combines his DNA with a fly's when he tests his teleportation machine on himself.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Tom is a loving, well-respected family man from a small Indiana town. When two criminals show up at his diner, Tom is forced to take action and thwart the robbery attempt. Suddenly heralded as a local hero who took the courage to stand up to crime, people look up to Tom as a man of high moral regard. But all the media attention attracts the likes of the mob, who show up at Tom's doorstep. Is it a case of mistaken identity or does Tom have a history...
7) Last night
Publisher
Alliance Atlantis
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Amidst the chaos surrounding the end of the world, Patrick, Sandra, Craig, Jennifer and Duncan all have their own plans as to how they want to spend their remaining hours.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings. Stafford Weiss is a famed TV self-help therapist with an A-list celebrity clientele. Meanwhile, Cristina Weiss has her work cut out managing the career of their disaffected child-star son, Benjie, a fresh graduate of rehab at age thirteen. Yet unbeknownst to them, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town, mysteriously scarred...
9) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection volume 248
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.
10) Existenz
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
A designer of a virtual reality game is hunted by an assassin intent on killing her and destroying her creation.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2012.
Language
English
Description
The relationship between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung and his mentor Sigmund Freud is torn apart when Sabina Spielrein, a troubled but beautiful young woman, comes between them and forever changes the face of modern thought.
14) M. Butterfly
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A French civil service officer risks and then abandons everything in his life in his obsessive pursuit of a enigmatic Chinese opera diva who harbors a secret.
Publisher
New Line Productions
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Likable family man and smalltown diner owner Tom Stall is living his life, minding his own business. Then an act of heroism puts him in the media spotlight. Certain people take notice - Made men from Philly who are dead sure that Stall is the ex-mob assassin they want to find and kill. There may be a real case of mistaken identity, but then again, Tom may actually be a stone-cold killer.
16) Eastern promises
Publisher
Universal Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Semyon heads the syndicate and is the proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant. But his friendliness at the restaurant masks a cold and brutal core. Fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill. But Nikolai's carefully maintained...
17) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
18) Cosmopolis
Publisher
eOne
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Obsessed with getting a haircut from his father's barber, twenty-eight-year-old billionaire Eric Packer's limousine ride across Manhattan turns into an obstacle course that begins to tear his perfectly ordered world apart.
19) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book called...
20) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection volume 248
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A cable operator stumbles into Videodrome, a project using television to cause brain damage and thereby control people.