Three fabulous movies I recommend renting during the long Memorial Day weekend. All three movies came out last fall during Oscar season, but with exception of Pan’s Labyrinth, none received much attention from the general public.

Breaking and Entering, directed by Anthony Minghella, portrays a London architect (Jude Law) who, dealing with a troubled marriage, has a love affair with the mother of thieving boy (Juliette Binoche). The movie is beautifully done and really intriguing. Jude Law always does well as the sensitive, conflicted protagonist.

Pan’s Labyrinth, written and directed by Guillermo del Torro, is the highest grossing Spanish language film to date but ain’t your typical fairytale. It’s a dark story about a girl’s wild imagination during fascist Spain of the 1940s. All the Oscars it won this year should tell you something. Don’t worry about the subtitles, the film is so good that you almost forget you’re reading them after about 20 minutes into it.

Little Children, directed by Todd Field and starring Kate Winslet, is a film you should only watch if you have time on your hands, and be prepared to be a little creeped out. The movie has two different, intertwining storylines, one about an unhappy suburban housewife and “househusband” who have an affair, the other about a convicted sex-offender moving into the same suburban neighborhood and causing mass-paranoia in the community. The film is strange, but thought-provoking, and overall worth seeing.