#29: Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
Psychological Thriller, Surrealist Drama, Mystery, whatever you want to call it:
Mulholland Drive is incredibly unnerving in the best way possible. The film embodies a chilling atmosphere from start to finish. That ever-present sense of foreboding, unexplainable as it is, makes the experience highly unsettling and the performances of Naomi Watts and Laura Harring in the centre of this nightmare compliment it on every level.
#28: Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
A true cult classic,
Donnie Darko is just an amazing experience. It's a bona fide blend of genres, with elements of dark comedy, family drama with, of course, an intense, highly creepy, mind-bending mystery at the forefront. Gyllenhaal's performance is one of incredible diversity, showing an entire spectrum of emotions comprised at various times of simple teen angst, to deep psychological trauma.
#27: An American Crime (Tommy O'Haver, 2007)
A film I think is absolutely incredible that I have no desire to ever see again. The combination of the true story, dramatised from a court case from 1950s Indiana (not that it needed much dramatising), the taut and deeply emotional performances of Ellen Page and Catherine Keener, and the heartbreaking fashion in which the ending is told hit me on a level on which I swear I've never been hit before or since. It's a monstrously difficult watch, but an essential one.