Instead of making you scroll endlessly through a sea of titles, the indie streamer MUBI does something daring: It puts its own perspective front and center—no algorithms allowed. Here’s a selection of the collections the app’s curators have put together to champion films they love.

This collection widens your perspective with films by female auteurs who traverse genres. Director Coralie Fargeat’s darkly satirical The Substance looks at toxic beauty standards, while Andrea Arnold’s Bird is a coming-of-age tale about a resilient young girl in the English countryside who finds beauty in the broken, thanks to an unlikely, free-spirited confidant.

These films chronicle love affairs from electrifying beginnings to the most bitter of breakups. Two lonely souls stumble into love in Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s deadpan and unexpectedly funny rom-com Fallen Leaves, while 45 Years paints a piercing portrait of a married couple (played by Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay) whose 45th anniversary is upended by a letter from the past.

Couldn’t make it to Cannes? Many of the festival’s celebrated films are streaming on MUBI, including I Am Not a Witch, which explores superstition, power, and patriarchy through one girl’s lens. You’ll also find a trove of selections from Sundance, the SXSW Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and many others.

Misunderstood upon their release, these idiosyncratic flicks found a second life over time. Check out Tarsem Singh’s visually arresting The Fall and Ed Wood Jr.’s disastrously entertaining Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Dip into directors’ lesser-known, early-career experiments for a glimpse at the origins of their signature styles. Years before captivating audiences with Spirited Away, legendary Japanese filmmaker and Studio Ghibli cofounder Hayao Miyazaki directed Yuki’s Sun. Or stream Sophia Coppola’s 14-minute directorial debut Lick the Star.