Inland Empire (
2006) | IMDb:
6.8
As a Hollywood actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.
Starring:
Laura Dern
,
Jeremy Irons
,
Justin Theroux
,
Harry Dean Stanton
,
Karolina Gruszka
,
Peter J. Lucas
Directed by:
David Lynch
Mulholland Drive (
2001) | IMDb:
7.9
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Starring:
Naomi Watts
,
Laura Harring
,
Justin Theroux
,
Ann Miller
,
Mark Pellegrino
,
Robert Forster
The Straight Story (
1999) | IMDb:
8
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. Then he hits on the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
Starring:
Richard Farnsworth
,
Sissy Spacek
,
Harry Dean Stanton
,
Everett McGill
,
Kevin Farley
,
John Farley
Lost Highway (
1997) | IMDb:
7.6
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Starring:
Bill Pullman
,
Patricia Arquette
,
Balthazar Getty
,
Robert Blake
,
Natasha Gregson Wagner
,
Richard Pryor
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (
1992) | IMDb:
7.3
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.
Wild at Heart (
1990) | IMDb:
7.2
Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
Twin Peaks (
1989) | IMDb:
8.9
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for the European VHS market and has an alternate, closed ending.)
Starring:
Kyle MacLachlan
,
Michael Ontkean
,
Mädchen Amick
,
Dana Ashbrook
,
Richard Beymer
,
Lara Flynn Boyle
Blue Velvet (
1986) | IMDb:
7.7
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Starring:
Kyle MacLachlan
,
Isabella Rossellini
,
Dennis Hopper
,
Laura Dern
,
Hope Lange
,
Dean Stockwell
Dune (
1984) | IMDb:
6.3
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.
Starring:
Kyle MacLachlan
,
Francesca Annis
,
Patrick Stewart
,
Linda Hunt
,
José Ferrer
,
Leonardo Cimino
The Elephant Man (
1980) | IMDb:
8.2
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.