Brazil (1985)
Budget: $15 million
Gross: $9.9 million
This film comes at the highest possible recommendation. It’s one of my top ten favorite films ever made, a dark humor masterpiece that remains untouched to this day. If you’ve never seen it, imagine if a few members of Monty Python made a parody of 1984, except that they remembered all of the dark unimaginable horrors and tortures of 1984 and kept them in the movie.
If that sounds totally bonkers, wait until you see the movie, which includes a dream sequence where the hero fights a ten-foot-tall samurai, and that’s not even close to the weirdest image this movie conjures up. Seriously, if you’re a fan of satire, you have to see this movie.