Films
A handsome man wakes up disfigured and can no longer tell which parts of his life are real.
Two neighbors learn their spouses are sleeping together, and circle each other for years.
A fourteen-year-old hires the meanest marshal she can find to hunt the man who killed her father.
A man who cleans Tokyo's public toilets shows what a life pared to its essentials can hold.
Six women go into an unmapped cave, and the dark turns out to be inhabited.
A theater director builds a life-size replica of his city inside a warehouse, and never finishes, and never stops.
Three actors share a Hollywood house while history happens on the television in the next room.
A Berlin thirteen-year-old falls in love, then into heroin, with the same unguarded speed.
A depressed filmmaker and an insufferable influencer collide, and then one of them simply vanishes.
A child tells one lie about something she did not understand, and three lives bend around it forever.
An ex-con tries to matter to a father and a son who both wish he would disappear.
Books
A poor student murders a pawnbroker to test a theory, then has to live inside his own head.
A fifteen-year-old boy runs away from home. An old man who can speak to cats walks toward him.
An innocent man is framed, escapes after fourteen years, and returns rich to ruin the men who buried him.
Bulgakov wrote this in secret, knowing he would never see it published. He burned the first draft.
The novel Werckmeister Harmonies was adapted from. The sentences are paragraphs. The paragraphs are chapters.
A hobbit carries a cursed ring across a fully invented world to destroy it.
A scalp-hunting gang rides the 1850s borderlands while a vast, smiling man watches.
A father and son push a cart south through a dead, ash-covered world.
A journalist interviews scholars to test the historical claims of Christianity.
Five loosely linked books circling a string of unsolved murders in a town on the Mexican border.
Music
The Scottish dream-pop band's peak, gorgeous and warm, with words you can never quite make out.
Cerati's brightest album. Seventeen songs about living in the present, with beats under everything.
The 1991 album that ended hair metal in four minutes and made a punk band the biggest in the world.
Eight years after Diamond Life: slower, sadder, and home to No Ordinary Love.
The Cure's grand sad masterpiece, twelve long songs about love, dread, and turning thirty.
Jazz loops and soft drums from Tokyo. The record the whole lo-fi hip hop genre descends from.
Two French kids made a debut in a bedroom and turned house music into something the world noticed.
The debut where Tame Impala sounds like a great lost record from 1969 made on modern gear.
Nine relaxed guitar songs released at the height of punk, including Sultans of Swing.
The album La Ley made the year after their founder died. The title came from a dream.
Anime
Two sisters move to the country and meet the big quiet spirit living in the woods.
A lone swordsman joins a band of mercenaries led by a man with a terrible ambition.
In a domed city where everything is managed, a question no one was meant to ask gets loose.
Dumas's revenge story, retold in fabric that never stops moving.
A peasant woman, wronged by her lord, makes a deal with the Devil and burns the order down.
Humanity lives behind giant walls because man-eating giants roam outside, until one wall falls.
A man walks the old roads of Japan, tending to encounters between people and creatures called mushi.
A cursed prince walks into a war between a forest and the iron town eating it.
A boy hunts for his missing father and finds a world that keeps raising the stakes.
Two girls bond over drawing manga, and the film follows what that bond costs and gives across the years.
Manga
In a ruined future city, a quiet man turns into a white skeletal monster to fight others like him.
Bram Stoker's Dracula, retold at a Victorian boarding school, with Mina recast as the hero.
Seven short comics from the Blade of the Immortal artist, ranging from a Wild West shootout to oddball comedy.
A shy boy gets bitten by something at night and starts changing into someone he does not recognize.
A group of childhood friends realize a cult is acting out a doomsday plan they invented as kids.
A century-spanning saga of one bloodline's feud, fought with vampires, stands, and impossible poses.
A photographer chases a vanished climber up Everest, and the mountain becomes the only honest answer to why.
Two young terrorists bomb their way across Japan while a giant beast walks south through the country.
Three young men, all stalled by their bodies, find each other through wheelchair basketball.
A teenage boy who wants nothing but an ordinary life is crushed by the people around him.
A man walks alone through an endless machine city, looking for a gene almost no one still carries.
Video Games
A small knight descends into a buried kingdom of insects, looking for something the locals have forgotten.
A run-and-gun boss rush drawn frame by frame to look like a 1930s cartoon.
A Slovakian indie made by one person. Looks like a forgotten 90s RPG, reads like Eastern European literature.
Androids fight machines on an abandoned Earth in a game you have to finish several times to understand.
A man gets a letter from his dead wife asking him to meet her in a town abandoned for years.
A time-travel adventure where a kid and his friends jump across eras to stop the world from ending.
You ride across an empty land and kill sixteen giants. That is the whole game.
The game that taught a generation what a 3D world is supposed to feel like.
A cute cartoon squirrel stars in a foul-mouthed platformer about hangovers, money, and a singing pile of dung.
You and a giant feathered animal try to escape a ruin. The animal does not always listen.
The cel-shaded one, set on a vast ocean where Hyrule is drowned beneath the waves.
The Grand Inquisitor requests an audience.
God has shown Himself in so much of what humanity has made; it is my duty to share the best of it.