Watch Requiem for a Dream

Natalie Portman's ballerina cracks under Swan Lake; Aronofsky's backstage horror.

A paranoid mathematician finds a 216-digit number in the stock market; black-and-white, $60,000.

Ethan Hawke as a pastor losing his faith over climate change; Schrader's Bresson film.

Joaquin Phoenix dances down the Bronx stairs; a comic-book film that won the Golden Lion.

A house, a poet and an escalating allegory that empties cinemas; Jennifer Lawrence.

A former ballplayer in 1990s New York is handed a cat and the wrong people's problem.

Mickey Rourke as a broken-down wrestler on the New Jersey circuit; the comeback of both of them.

One love story across a conquistador, a scientist and a man in a bubble with a tree.