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4. Cronos (1993)

Image: Criterion
Image: Criterion

It’s so weird that some of the best filmmakers in the world make their greatest films early on in their careers. There’s just something about that young passion to finally do something you’ve been dreaming of your whole life. So it’s no surprise that Cronos, Guillermo del Toro’s debut film, remains so fascinating. It’s not quite on the scale of his later movies, but the way it blends horror with huge, questions like that of eternal life and the price you’d pay for it is endlessly fascinating.