The poster makes it look like a sex film — you have to sell tickets — but this slow-building thriller, in which John Malkovich makes an elegantly stylized debut as a director, is concerned with a man's conscience. The man, played with implosive force by Javier Bardem, is a lawyer turned cop who tracks an anarchist through Latin America and finds solace, he thinks, in the arms of his daughter's ballet teacher (Laura Morante). From this tangled web, Malkovich weaves something delicate and devastating.

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.