Newcomer Miles Teller stars as a promising young jazz drummer who is pushed to the edge of his sanity by a sadistic music teacher at a prestigious New York music academy. The frenetic soundtrack and J.K. Simmons' super-aggressive mentoring skills make it an exhausting but brilliant watch.

With the spinoff TV show in its third series, now is a good time to revisit the original film from the Coen Brothers. The darkly comic thriller stars Joel Coen's wife Frances McDormand as a heavily pregnant police officer investigating a number of homicides in a snowy Minnesota town following a bungled kidnapping.

Based on Harper Lee's seminal 1960 novel, this powerful film stars Gregory Peck as fair-minded lawyer Atticus Finch. In spite of local opinion, he takes on the case of a Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of rape by a white woman, in racially segregated Alabama in the 1930s. Essential viewing.

This fascinating film won the 2013 Oscar for best documentary and chronicles two Cape Town music fans' search for their musical idol Sixto Rodriguez, who was rumoured to have killed himself live onstage. Though the American singer-songwriter was never successful in his home country, his albums were huge in South Africa.

Heartwarming without ever being too schmaltzy, this classic 1996 comedy stars Bill Murray in one of his best roles. He plays a cynical Pennsylvania weatherman who finds himself doomed to keep repeating the same day over and over again after covering the local Groundhog Day ceremony.

The best collaboration between Mel Brooks and the late Gene Wilder, this hilarious horror is a pitch perfect parody of the Frankenstein films made by Universal in the 1930s. Wilder plays Frederick Frankenstein (it's pronounced "Fronkensteen") who unsuccessfully tries to distance himself from his mad scientist grandfather's work before eventually following in his footsteps.

Things go badly wrong for a young punk band when they unwittingly book a last-minute gig at a remote neo-Nazi bar and witness something they shouldn't have. This awesome low-budget thriller is wonderfully grisly, but definitely not one for the squeamish.