Lanthimos’s first solo feature bears, in uncompromisingly lo-fi form, the hallmarks of his singular sensibility as three strangers are drawn together in an obsessive ritual of violence and manipulation.

A mother and father go to elaborate lengths to keep their adult children ignorant of the world outside their home in Lanthimos’s audacious, Oscar-nominated(!) international breakthrough, a brilliantly demented parable of power and control.

This exploration of cryptic and unnatural doings follows a secret society who act as surrogates for recently deceased loved ones—by wearing their clothes, adopting their mannerisms and way of speaking, etc.—in order to help the bereaved adjust to their loss.

In the future, single people are rounded up and sent to a seaside compound, given a finite number of days to find a match, and turned into animals if they fail in Lanthimos’s Cannes Jury Prize winner.

The sins of a father (Colin Farrell) poison an entire family in Lanthimos’s surrealist thriller, a twisted moral tale of supernatural revenge and domestic horror that hits with the force of a Greek tragedy.

The Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz), and her servant (Emma Stone) engage in a sexually charged fight to the death for the body and soul of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) at the height of the War of the Spanish Succession in Yorgos Lanthimos’s wildly intricate and very darkly funny new film.