Michael Haneke's Cache is the DVD pick of the week. Video tapes of the street outside your window, a menacing postcard: Haneke has the power to frighten you without blood or gore.
1. Caché (Hidden)
Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche play a successful literary couple that is being terrorized by mysterious video tapes in Michael Haneke's discomfitting drama Caché Haneke explores the nature of guilt, secrecy, class privelege - and fear; Caché was the winner of the 2005 European Film Award, and received the Best Director prize at the 2005 Cannes film festival. The DVD contains a documentary about Hanake and a Behind the Scenes featurette.
2. Time of the Wolf
Michael Haneke perhaps deserves a prize for the most accomplished producer of discomfort. Time of the Wolf (2003) offers a devastating portrait of post-apocalyptic life in rural France. Isabelle Huppert (who also stars in the highly disturbing/erotic 2001 Haneke film The Piano Teacher) gives a marvelous performance as a wife and mother who fast adjusts to her chilling surroundings.