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Vincenzo Natali has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2010s.
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A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.
Dir. Vincenzo Natali · With Nicole De Boer, Nicky Guadagni, Maurice Dean Wint

An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.
Dir. Vincenzo Natali · With Jeremy Northam, Kristina Nicoll, Nigel Bennett
A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.
Dir. Vincenzo Natali · With Abigail Breslin, Stephen McHattie, David Hewlett

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
Dir. Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Bruno Podalydès · With Steve Buscemi, Natalie Portman, Willem Dafoe

Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.
Dir. Vincenzo Natali · With Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac
After a terrible day, two good friends and housemates find the outside world converted into a featureless and empty white void.
Dir. Vincenzo Natali · With David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Gordon Pinsent

After hearing a child screaming for help from the green depths of a vast field of tall grass, Becky, a pregnant woman, and Cal, her brother, park their car near a mysterious abandoned church and enter the field, discovering that they are not alone and, for some reason, they are unable to escape a completely inextricable vegetable labyrinth.
Dir. Vincenzo Natali · With Laysla De Oliveira, Harrison Gilbertson, Avery Whitted
Taking all that was great from the first instalment, the movie aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster-paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe.
Dir. Rodney Ascher, Bill Plympton, Erik Matti, Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, Kristina Buožytė, Bruno Samper, Vincenzo Natali, Larry Fessenden, Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo, E.L. Katz, Jen Soska, Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado, Julian Gilbey, Dennison Ramalho, Jerome Sable, Robert Morgan, Sylvia Soska, Hajime Ohata, Sôichi Umezawa, Chris Nash, Todd Rohal, Julian Barratt, Alejandro Brugués, Jim Hosking, Robert Boocheck, Marvin Kren, Juan Martínez Moreno, Steven Kostanski, Wolfgang Matzl · With Eric Jacobus, Julian Barratt, Ian Virgo