9º – Secret Beyond the Door (Fritz Lang, 1947)
After the death of her brother, a young woman decides to take a trip with a friend. In the middle of this trip, she will meet and fall in love with a mysterious man, marrying him shortly after. However, not everything is as she expected, and the man’s past and his strange hobbies will put her life in danger. Directed by Fritz Lang, ‘Secret Beyond the Door’ elevates an aura of irresistible mystery, choosing to follow a poetic narrative line in the figure of his central character that gives more weight to the tangle of scenes. A great option for cinema in the 1940s.
8º – Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1971)
A psychologist is sent to a space station to investigate the reasons that drove a crew crazy. Another member of the Russian Andrei Tarkovsky’s filmography on this list, ‘Solaris’, uses a few environments to govern his plot, trying to put the spectator to experience, together with the characters, all the unpleasant and dangerous aura that rules that story.
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