Pink Flamingos

In which drag icon Divine eats real dog poo from the ground to prove how disgusting she can be. It’s not big and it’s not clever, but it is one of the most famous scenes in underground cinema. John Waters, your crown as the king of trash remains untarnished.

La Grande Bouffe

A cause célèbre of its time, Marco Ferreri’s 1973 satire is the age-old tale of rich aristocrats and their prostitute pals who retreat to the countryside and gorge themselves to death with a feast of chicken legs, orgies and mash. A darkly funny and gruelling examination of decadence’s logical endpoint.

Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life

François Rabelais would be proud of Monty Python’s Mr Creosote sequence, a gleeful celebration of vomit and viscera. Creosote is a rotund upper-class grotesque who loves food and throwing up on his inferiors. His waiter in an upmarket restaurant overfeeds the glutton to literal bursting point, watching as his greedy guts explode over well-dressed patrons.

Little Otik

Jan Švankmajer’s food phobia is well documented, and it’s ever-present in one of his few feature-lengths, turning a pleasant meal between family members into a series of deeply unpleasant close-ups as food is shovelled into mouths like innards into a threshing machine.

Daisies

Vera Chytilová’s anarchic 1966 comedy-drama uses fine dining and food consumption for plenty of subversive fun, from satirising the rich to meditating on hedonism. But the film’s finest sequence finds its female leads chopping phallically shaped foodstuffs to mock their expectant male lovers. You’ll never look at a cucumber the same way again.

Flux Gourmet is in cinemas from Friday 30 September.