Lars Von Trier created one of the most provocative films of the 90s - hardcore sex, domestic horror and the injunction to "find your inner spastic". A desperate and vulnerable woman joins a cult of Danish yuppies who are attempting to break free from the confines of 'acceptable' behaviour by pretending to be educationally sub-normal. If the hardcore sex doesn't make you squirm (first erection on film to get a BBFC certificate), the challenge to political correctness certainly will.

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Dario Argento's brutal horror film follows the unfortunate demise of Rose Elliot, a young poet who discovers that her New York opponent belongs to the Three Mothers witches coven. Inferno boasts some stunning set pieces, such as the scene where Rose goes swimming in the flooded basement, and a man being eaten alive by rats. What the plot lacks in cohesion Argento more than compensates for with his highly inventive use of colour and his stomach-churning visual aesthetic.

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