Audition
Audition has been heralded as one of the most disturbing horror films of all-time. Widowed father Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) stages a fake audition to meet a potential wife. While the movie seems like a romantic comedy during its first half, the second half is a series of gut-churning, violent, gore-filled sequences in which Asami Yamazaki (Eihi Shiina) is revealed to be a homicidal sadist.
Citizen Kane
At the beginning of Citizen Kane, protagonist Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) dies, his last words being "rosebud." The movie follows a reporter, Thompson (William Alland), who attempts to uncover the mysterious meaning behind Kane's last words. "Rosebud" was the name of Kane's childhood sled, a representation of the innocence that Kane lost when his parents sent him into the city in hopes of making a name for himself.