Léolo (1992)

A 12-year-old in working-class Montreal decides he cannot possibly belong to his family and invents a far more exotic origin involving a Sicilian tomato. Jean-Claude Lauzon turns that fantasy into a surreal, half-autobiographical film that is by turns grotesque, lyrical and painfully funny. It is not an easy watch, and some scenes are deliberately repellent, but nothing else on this list looks or sounds like it. Time named it one of the ten best films of 1993. Lauzon died in a plane crash in 1997, so this was his last feature.