10. Birth (2004)

Featuring one of Nicole Kidman’s greatest, underrated performances, Birth is a delicately unsettling and quiet film that owes as much to Kubrick as it does, perhaps, to Polanski’s 'Rosemary’s Baby'. Directed by Jonathan Glazer with incredible restraint, Birth showcases stellar performances, as well as some great, very Kubrickian use of Steadicam and a heavy dose of quiet coldness. Many scenes center around lush New York City apartments will recall 'Eyes Wide Shut', which also starred Nicole Kidman with then-husband Tom Cruise.

9. Melancholia (2011)

In a handful of days the titular planetoid is set to collide with Earth, destroying all life in the process. Starring Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg as sisters Justine and Claire, Justine is due to get married but her mounting depression drives a wedge between her fiancé, causes her to lose her job, and results in only her sister Claire, alone, as the only one who refuses to give up on her. Lars von Trier has been quoted as saying he was dealing with depression at the time of writing Melancholia, which for anyone who has seen it likely picked up on that straightaway. He borrows a great deal from Kubrick here, with some deft camerawork and choices of classical music. Melancholia is a heavy, harrowing experience anyone who appreciates Kubrick should not pass up.

8. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

With long takes, single-point perspectives, and symmetrical framing, the way Wes Anderson and Stanley Kubrick compose their shots is incredibly analogous. Colorful and fun, The Grand Budapest Hotel seems to be the culmination of Wes Anderson’s skills and many years of practice aligning perfectly for one film, executed with absolute brilliance. The film itself is a feast for the eyes, with some techniques that, since the advent of CGI, are rarely seen on screen anymore. Though the stories they tell couldn’t be more dissimilar; one could argue Wes Anderson is what Kubrick could’ve been if he’d had a happier childhood.

7. Eraserhead (1977)

Cited as Kubrick’s favorite film, David Lynch’s career-making 1977 masterpiece in surrealism shares some DNA with 'The Shining'. There is a tightly wound aspect to Henry that’s not too dissimilar from that of Jack Torrance; though Henry is being cut off from the world by his deformed baby, Jack’s mounting cabin fever is tearing him away from his family. Both films are about isolation and family and how the two, combined, can sometimes lead to growing out of touch with reality. Just in Henry’s case, he doesn’t freeze to death in a hedge maze. But, there is always the reassurance that in heaven, everything is fine.

6. Enemy (2013)

The 2013 mind-bender from director Denis Villeneuve has Jake Gyllenhaal as Adam, a feckless college professor, who notices his exact double in the background of a movie and swiftly becomes obsessed with tracking down his lookalike. It’s easy to think that something considered a masterpiece now was always considered such, but while Enemy will unlikely go down in the annals of film quite like anything of Kubrick’s, when it was first released most of his films were met with mixed receptions. With an eerie opening scene featuring high-heeled women in a dark room stepping on spiders for a clandestine audience’s pleasure, it’s twisty plot, and a serious head-scratcher of an ending, Enemy requires multiple viewings to fully appreciate.

5. Interstellar (2014)

Interstellar harkens back to an age of sci-fi where it was more about discovery and awe of new worlds than dystopian landscapes, though there are some of those too in Christopher Nolan’s 2014 epic. Interstellar takes a lot of cues from '2001: A Space Odyssey'. Most obvious in an amazingly scored scene early in the film where our heroes’ ship is docking with a space station. It could almost be an updated sequence from '2001', with the silence of the vacuum of space as thrusters mutedly blaze and again, when we see Cooper, played by Matthew McConaughey, get jettisoned from his ship and travel through a wormhole. It’s also been pointed out that Christopher Nolan's 'Inception' has an array of Kubrickian motifs, from mazes and a similarly clean, symmetrical framing.

4. Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)

The sci-fi thriller by director Panos Cosmatos, Beyond the Black Rainbow is like a mix of '2001: A Space Odyssey' and 'A Clockwork Orange'. We meet Elana, a young woman imprisoned in the Aboria Institute, a place that promises, in what could possibly be the best example of what-could-possibly-go-wrong slogans, serenity through technology. Adding a haunting synth score and stellar 80s-inspired wardrobe and set design, Beyond the Black Rainbow is a slow-burn horror story that drips atmosphere, an interesting throwback style, and fantastic claustrophobic tension.

3. Ex Machina (2015)

Before his death in 1999, Kubrick had been working on a project called 'A.I. Artificial Intelligence'. It would later be completed by long-time friend Steven Spielberg. It was not well received and while it had elements you’d expect from a Kubrick film, Spielberg’s family-friendly approach to tackling the story made for an inconsistent end result. In 2015, screenwriter and director Alex Garland, famous for his Danny Boyle collaboration with '28 Days Later', went behind the camera with Ex Machina, a superb science fiction film that might be something akin to what 'AI' could’ve been.

2. There Will Be Blood (2007)

Basically the 'Kubrick stare' spread over two hours, Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood sees Daniel Day-Lewis as an oil tycoon driven by greed and a murderous single-sightedness. Long stretches of silence and a careful patience with how things unfold work to lend a great deal of Kubrickian atmosphere to the picture. It’s detached and somber with an ending that hits like a freight train. It’s a reverse '2001: A Space Odyssey': man degrading back to beast and opting for inflicting blunt-force trauma to deal with his problems.

1. Under the Skin (2013)

The second Jonathan Glazer film on this list, Under the Skin stars Scarlett Johannsson as The Woman, an alien sent to Earth to lure men to be turned inside out and have their innards sent back to her home planet. Under the Skin is about as Kubrickian as a movie could be without bearing the director’s name. Terrific camerawork, an eerie score, and a dour atmosphere helped greatly by Scotland’s drizzling rain and overcast skies. Not to be missed.