When it comes to dramatic movies, the trials of a sports athlete is pretty low on the totem pole of interesting subjects. Most of the time, sports movies are designed to show off the human spirit; the ability of a person to overcome whatever obstacles life puts in front of them to achieve their dream of playing sports, often with an emphasis on winning. The common thing to do, though, is to single out a disability that's a hindrance to the individual: honor, self-worth, pride, or dreams. Road to Victory uniquely makes it about the athlete's field performance being affected by his responsibility to other individuals.

How do you survive when a killer wants to kill you with his mind? The Power is a schlocky science-fiction horror film about a man facing a mystery villain with telekinetic powers that pose as a scary threat, as he tries to stay one step ahead of inanimate objects around him turning into weapons and his colleagues dying one by one. The tagline is especially juicy: "You feel it until you can't feel anything at all!"

Luck of the Irish is all well and good, but how about luck of the Spaniard? Or the Jews? They're more powerful than you think. So powerful, in fact, that men would kill for them. You'll find this in Spain's 2001 quasi-fantasy Intacto, a stylishly-shot feature debut from Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who later directed 28 Weeks Later and is currently slated to deliver the BioShock movie.

Driven by the human fallibility of its flawed characters as much as a series of quaint mini-games, Intacto is an introspective thriller with a paranormal premise. Consider, the film asks, that luck operates like any other commodity. It can be won, played with, gambled away or even stolen. What, then, would its seedy underbelly look like? It’s an original and Hollywood-ready premise that would make an easy sci-fi pleaser, hence my surprise that, 8 years later, we still don’t have a more mainstream remake of this gem (not that I’m complaining, mind you).

Poor Michael Powell. One of the most influential British directors of all time—cited as a big inspiration by the likes of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola—releases his most daring film, and the controversy was so intense that it virtually ended his career at the time. Meanwhile, Alfred Hitchcock released a movie with a similar subject matter only three months later and became such a hit that it's now considered one of the greatest horror movies of all time. That movie was Psycho, and you know what? It has nothing on Peeping Tom.

In 1990, a British television channel thought it would be a great idea to parody the typical spousal sitcoms like I Love Lucy with Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. They live next door to an annoying Jewish couple, the wife of which Braun gossips with but the husband a mortal enemy of Hitler’s. Not surprisingly, they received complaints after only one episode and the series was yanked off the air immediately; ironic given its gimmick premise of being a "lost" 50's American sitcom unearthed from a Burbank backlot.