8. Eraserhead
The debut of the one and only David Lynch, Eraserhead is like a morbid fever dream that just happens to feature some of the best black and white photography of the era. The story is classic David Lynch, with a man having to take care of his reptilian offspring. While that incredibly brief synopsis sounds utterly bizarre, I can assure you that while Eraserhead is a very strange film, it is also heartwarming in an odd way. Henry is not exactly a sympathetic character, yet the audience is somehow drawn to his troubles and feels for him when his wife leaves. Eraserhead is also a film that is told mainly through symbolism instead of an outright explainable narrative structure. Watching Henry's trials and tribulations with his "child" is a chillingly surreal representation of parenthood that could only come from a man as brilliantly deranged as David Lynch.