An essential and overlooked piece of neo-noir, Jonathan Glazer's directorial debut Sexy Beast is one for the ages.

Featuring an ace cast that includes Ben Kingsley in an Oscar-nominated performance, everything from the visuals to the screenplay are impressive from start to finish. Playing out like an inverted version of Michael Mann's Thief, the story follows Gal (Ray Winstone), a retired safecracker living a comfortable life in Spain, who is forced to do one final heist by his former mentor, the completely insane and unhinged Don Logan (Ben Kingsley). Assembling a crack-team of operatives which includes mastermind Teddy Bass (Ian McShane, who steals the show more than once), the job entails robbing an underground vault in London by drilling through the wall of an adjacent Turkish bathhouse.