American Psycho

Patrick Bateman is a young, immaculate Wall Street banker in late-1980s Manhattan whose days of restaurants, business cards and grooming rituals run alongside an account of mounting violence. The film keeps the killings suspended between fact and fantasy, so that even Bateman cannot be sure what he has done.

It sits in a therapist's library as a portrait of narcissism and a mask-like, hollow identity in which consumer ritual and murder become interchangeable and the self behind the surface may not exist at all. It was selected in Competition at Sundance in 2000 and is based on the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.