1.	View Larger Image	Swimming Pool (Unrated Version) Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance Director: François Ozon
		From Amazon.com In terms of alluring female nudity, Swimming Pool shows a lot, but it's what remains concealed that gives this erotic thriller a potent, voyeuristic charge. With his Hitchcockian handling of secrets and lies, prolific French director François Ozon reunites with his Under the Sand star, Charlotte Rampling, to tell a seductive tale of murder and complicity, beginning when British mystery novelist ... more Buy from Amazon

2.	View Larger Image	Audition Actors: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina Director: Takashi Miike
		From Amazon.com If you want the full sledgehammer-to-the-stomach effect of Audition, stop reading this review now. Just watch it and take the consequences. At first glance, Takashi Miike's jack in the box of a movie works like a romantic comedy: amiable widower Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) decides it's time to find a new wife, and a friend suggests holding a fake audition to ... more Buy from Amazon

3.	View Larger Image	Perfect Blue Director: Satoshi Kon
		From Amazon.com One of the most ambitious animated films to come out of Japan (or anywhere, for that matter), Perfect Blue is an adult psycho-thriller that uses the freedom of the animated image to create the subjective reality of a young actress haunted by the ghost of her past identity. Mima is a singer who leaves her teeny-bop trio to become an actress ... more Buy from Amazon

4.	View Larger Image	Baise-Moi Actors: Karen Lancaume, Raffaëla Anderson Directors: Coralie, Virginie Despentes
		From Amazon.com Not for the faint-hearted. Baise-Moi defies categories--it features pornographic sex scenes and violent shootings, but it won't fit anyone's definition of an erotic thriller. After separately committing murders, two French women join together in a spree of crime and sex. Because both have endured abuse at the hands of men, the movie seems to start as a self-righteous parable--but the women's ... more Buy from Amazon

5.	View Larger Image	The Ninth Gate Actors: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella Director: Roman Polanski
		From Amazon.com The horror of Roman Polanski is not about spectacle and shock but a goose-pimply sense of evil lurking just outside the frame and hidden behind the faces of slightly unsettling characters. For a while it looks like The Ninth Gate, adapted from the novel The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, might recapture the beautiful uneasiness of such masterpieces as Repulsion and ... more Buy from Amazon

6.	View Larger Image	Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me Actors: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise Director: David Lynch
		From Amazon.com Alternately fascinating and frustrating--and no doubt deliberately so on both counts--this controversial Twin Peaks installment (it was roundly booed by mystified audiences at the Cannes Film Festival) appeared in theaters after the series was canceled, serving as both prequel and coda to the whole remarkable Twin Peaks phenomenon. Designed especially for dedicated followers of the series (it would just bewilder anyone ... more Buy from Amazon

7.	View Larger Image	Les Vampires Director: Louis Feuillade
		From Amazon.com This legendary seven-hour silent French serial, one of the earliest and most original gangster films, combines realism and fantasy. Written and directed by Louis Feuillade, Les Vampires concerns an intrepid reporter's pursuit of a strange gang of jewel thieves terrorizing Paris. The gang ambitiously seeks political, psychological, and sexual domination of the city's social elite, with the seductive Irma Vep (an ... more Buy from Amazon

8.	View Larger Image	Diva Actors: Frédéric Andréi, Wilhelmenia Fernandez Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
		From Amazon.com Modern noir meets high opera in the French suspense flick Diva. Delivery boy Jules has an opera obsession. He spends his small disposable income on sophisticated sound equipment and manages to bootleg a live performance of his favorite diva, Cynthia Hawkins (played by real-life opera singer Wilhelmina Wiggins Fernandez). But Jules is spotted making the recording by shady investors who want ... more Buy from Amazon

9.	View Larger Image	Suicide Club (Suicide Circle) Director: Shion Sono
		From Description A wave of unexplainable suicides sweeps across Tokyo after 54 smiling high school girls join hands and throw themselves from a subway platform into an oncoming train. Are the jumpers part of a cult? What is the connection to the website that chronicles suicides...before they happen? And, what is the connection to the Japanese all-girl pop group "Desert?" Suicide Club is ... more Buy from Amazon

10.	View Larger Image	The Transporter Actors: Jason Statham, Qi Shu, Matt Schulze Director: Louis Leterrier
		From Amazon.com Move over, Vin Diesel, because The Transporter, Hong Kong action veteran Corey Yuen's English-language directorial debut, is revving up to steal your thunder. As the other top-billed action star to emerge in 2002, British hunk Jason Statham--previously seen in Snatch, Ghosts of Mars, and The One--plays a hard-driving courier for well-heeled underworld clients. He follows simple rules: (1) Stick to the ... more Buy from Amazon