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As the AIDS epidemic tears through their community, the members of ACT UP Paris are fighting for survival. One day, as outspoken radical Sean (Nahuel Perez Biscayart) strikes up a conversation with shy newcomer Nathan (Arnaud Valois), they have no idea that their lives are about to change forever. From the writer of Palme d'Or winner The Class, Robin Campillo, and based on his own experiences, this vibrant and deeply emotional drama rus..
Special FeaturesIn Shogun-era Japan, the powerful and sadistic Lord Naritsugu threatens to shatter the country’s fragile peace and plunge it once more into war. Determined to stop him at all costs, an elite group of renegade samurai – each with their own deadly skill – plot his downfall. Massively outnumbered, the thirteen fearless warriors must face Naritsugu’s lethal army in a monumental and bloodily violent showdown. Featuring stun..
Directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener), from an original screenplay by Peter Morgan (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland), 360 is a subtle, striking and suspenseful tale of love in the 21st century. Beautifully weaving the lives of different characters from across the globe into a single, mesmerising narrative, this "masterfully constructed" (Screen Daily) film boasts "excellent performances" (Metro) from i..
Kate Mercer (Charlotte Rampling) is planning a party to celebrate her 45th wedding anniversary. One week before the celebration, however, a letter arrives for her husband, Geoff (Tom Courtenay), containing news that reawakens troubling and long-hidden memories. Though Kate continues to prepare for the anniversary, she becomes increasingly concerned by Geoff's preoccupation with the letter and the ensuing revelations about his past. By t..
Kate Mercer (Charlotte Rampling) is planning a party to celebrate her 45th wedding anniversary. One week before the celebration, however, a letter arrives for her husband, Geoff (Tom Courtenay), containing news that reawakens troubling and long-hidden memories. Though Kate continues to prepare for the anniversary, she becomes increasingly concerned by Geoff's preoccupation with the letter and the ensuing revelations about his past. By t..
Chilean drama co-written and directed by Sebastián Lelio. The film follows transgender waitress Marina Vidal (Daniela Vega) in the devastating aftermath of her 57-year-old husband Orlando (Francisco Reyes)'s sudden death. Moonlighting as a nightclub singer, Marina soon finds herself having to process her grief whilst becoming the focus of everyone's suspicions surrounding her husband's untimely death. Looked upon as a murderer by the in..
Based on the true story of Resistance fighter Andre Devigny, who was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Nazis during the Second World War, the film reconstructs his actual cell at the Lyons fortress of Montluc, and follows his meticulous plan to escape. This totally involving and thrilling tale of courage and faith is all the more authentic for his use of non-professional actors and Bresson's spare style. A key film of Bresson's i..
Based on the true story of Resistance fighter Andre Devigny, who was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Nazis during the Second World War, the film reconstructs his actual cell at the Lyons fortress of Montluc, and follows his meticulous plans for escape. This totally involving and thrilling tale of courage and faith is all the more authentic for its use of non-professional actors and Bresson's spare style.Special Features Rober..
The final part of his highly acclaimed 'Living' trilogy, Roy Anderson's A Piegon Sat On A Branch Reflecting Upon Existence takes another sly, humourous and wholly original look at the absurdity of life. Two travelling salesman who trade novelty items traipse glumly from one joke shop to another failing to make a living, teacher-student relationships repeatedly become inappropriate at a flamenco dance lesson, and King Charles XII of Swed..
Gaspard (Melvil Poupard), a bored young man on holiday in Brittany, is invited to a party by Margot while he is waiting for his classmate Lena, with whom he believes he is in love. At Margot's party Gaspard meets another girl, Solène, who is also attracted to him. When Lena arrives too, Gaspard is forced to choose between the three girls...
Two adolescents meet and cautiously fall in love in beautiful surrounds during the peak of an idyllic Swedish summer. Oblivious to social boundaries, they innocently create their own milieu un contrast to the distorted relationships, disillusionment, and world-weariness of adult life around them. Andersson's feature debut is a sunny, optimistic work that has drawn comparison to the early films of Ingmar Bergman...
Joachim Lafosse co-writes and directs this French family drama starring Bérénice Bejo and Cédric Kahn. The film follows married couple Marie and Boris (Bejo and Kahn) as they decide to separate and get a divorce after 15 years together. But Boris can't afford to move out so he is forced to remain living with his wife and their twin girls. Although Marie owns the house, Boris believes he is entitled to his share of its value due to all o..
The deadpan wit of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki has made him a cult sensation. This collector's edition features digitally remastered presentation of three of his most acclaimed features.Drifting Clouds: Among Kaurismaki's finest films, 'Drifting Clouds' follows the dwindling fortunes of restaurant hostess Ilona and her tram driver husband Lauri, who find themselves unemployed at the same time. Embarking on an unforgiving search ..
Steve Hoover directs this documentary following the activities of Ukrainian Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko, or 'Crocodile Gennadiy'. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the establishment of the independent Ukraine devastated much of what infrastructure and political and social services existed previously. As a result of a rise in poverty and child homelessness many children became addicted to injecting a mixture of cold medicine and alcohol..
Examining the close bond shared by an elderly couple when one of them begins to suffer from an illness, Amour tells a heart-rending story of sacrifice, devotion and the limits that love can drive us to. Featuring breath-taking, award-winning performances from its two leads, Amour is one of the most honest, intimate and deeply affecting portraits of love ever committed to film. The second film to win Michael Haneke (director of Hidden an..
A sweeping tale of ill-fated romance and cross-channel relationships, Anne & Muriel is the second Truffaut adaptation of a Pierre Roche novel (after Jules & Jim). Jean-Pierre Leeaud plays Claude, a young Parisian who meets two English girls – Anne, a sculptress, and Muriel, a schoolteacher – on a turn-of-the-century trip to Wales. This meeting will spark a menage-a-trois spanning over 20 years, during which time alliances will be formed..
Michael Stone (David Thewlis), a husband, father and successful motivational speaker, is crippled by the mundanity of his life. On yet another business trip he checks into a clinically commonplace hotel once more. But this time a chance meeting with Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh), an unassuming, small-town sales rep, throws the dullness into dissaray and Michael feels he may have actually met someone who can make a change. From the mind of..
Michael Stone (David Thewlis), a husband, father and successful motivational speaker, is crippled by the mundanity of his life. On yet another business trip he checks into a clinically commonplace hotel once more. But this time a chance meeting with Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh), an unassuming, small-town sales rep, throws the dullness into dissaray and Michael feels he may have actually met someone who can make a change. From the mind of..
Grieving for the loss of their infant son, a couple(Willem Dafoe - Inside Man, Spider-Man 3 and Charlotte Gainsbourg - I'm Not There, The Science of Sleep) retreat to the solace of their remote woodland cabin to repair their troubled marriage. But once there, nature itself turns against them and a terrifying journey into violence and chaos begins. From the extreme imagination of acclaimed director Lars von Trier (Dogville, Manderlay), ‘..
Grieving for the loss of their infant son, a couple (Willem Dafoe – Inside Man, Spider-Man 3) and Charlotte Gainsbourg – (Melancholia, The Tree) retreat to the solace of their remote woodland cabin to repair their troubled marriage. But once there, nature itself turns against them and a terrifying journey into violence and chaos begins. From the extreme imagination of acclaimed director Lars von Trier (Dogville, Manderlay), ‘Antichrist’..
Debut film-maker Dan Kokotajlo writes and directs this British drama focusing on a community of Jehovah's Witnesses in north-west England. In Oldham, middle-aged single mother Ivanna (Siobhan Finneran)'s worst fears are realised when her eldest teenage daughter Luisa (Sacha Parkinson) begins to question her faith and then gets pregnant after starting college. If her mother and sister cannot convince her to return to The Truth, they face..
In ancient China, on the edge of a vast desert, swordsman Ouyang Feng (Leslie Cheung) lives the life of a vagabond, controlling a network of deadly assassins. Pitiless and cynical, his heart has long been wounded by a love he neglected then lost. But as seasons, friends and enemies come and go, he begins to reflect back upon the origin of his solitude. Action-packed and visually dazzling, with an all-star cast of Hong Kong cinema greats..
In a dark, claustrophobic apartment a sick elderly woman is accompanied by her son, her nurse and her lover and a former teacher who is now unemployed. She relies on them, as they do on her, for a place to live. None are able to leave whilst finding no solace in remaining in the apartment and scheme to find ways of manipulating the others to get some kind of personal gain. In the process everyone's darkest secrets are revealed. A landma..
When Babette, a beautiful and mysterious French refugee, arrives in a remote Danish town the tight-knit, puritanical community begrudgingly let her in, providing her with shelter and work. But after the town patriarch passes away and Babette insists on preparing a feast in his honour, a magical world of sensory revelations is thrown open to the villagers, changing their lives forever... Evoking the work of other great Scandinavian direc..
Shipping captain Marco (Vincent Lindon, Anything For Her) receives a phone call from his sister, urgently calling him back to Paris. Her husband has committed suicide, her daughter is missing and the family business has gone under. She holds her husband's business partner, Edouard Laporte, accountable and Marco sets out to expose his treachery. But, as he begins to scratch under the surface, Marco discovers a dangerous underworld of vio..
Following The 400 Blows, Antoine & Colette (a 32-minute short also included on this disk) and Stolen Kisses, Bed & Board is the fourth installment in the ‘Antoine Doinel Series’. Here, Antoine is entering into full adulthood, now that he has married and is expecting a child. However his life is far from stable, as steady employment remains at arm’s length and an affair with a beautiful Japanese woman threatens to destroy his marriage. D..
Adopted by his grandmother, Madame Souza, Champion is a lonely little boy. Noticing that the lad is never happier than on a bicycle, Madame Souza puts him through a rigorous training process. Years go by and Champion becomes worthy of his name. Now he is ready to enter a world- famous cycling race, the Tour de France. However during this cycling contest, two mysterious men in black kidnap Champion. Madame Souza and her dog Bruno set out..
Out of Stock1976: A timid sound engineer (Toby Jones) arrives in Italy to work on a mysterious horror film, mixing bloodcurdling screams with the grotesque sounds of hacked vegetables. But as the onscreen violence seeps into his consciousness reality and fantasy become blurred and a nightmare starts to awake… Daringly original and masterfully constructed, this inspired homage to 70s Giallo horror is a devastating assault on the eyes, ears and brain..
While holidaying in Berlin, Australian photographer, Clare (Terrsa Palmer, Hacksaw Ridge) meets Andi (Max Riemelt, Sense8), a charismatic local man and there is an instant attraction between them. But what initially appears to be the start of a romance, takes an unexpected and sinister turn when Clare wakes up the following morning to discover Andi has left for work and locked her in his apartment. An easy mistake to make, of course, ex..
Australian thriller directed by Cate Shortland. While backpacking around Germany, Australian photojournalist Clare (Teresa Palmer) finds herself wandering the streets of Berlin looking for adventure when she meets local English teacher Andi (Max Riemelt). A passionate, whirlwind romance ensues between the pair but Clare begins to wonder what she's let herself in for when she awakens one morning to find herself imprisoned in Andi's apart..
Madec (Oscar winner Michael Douglas) is a rich, ruthless and extremely successful businessman who is also an avid game hunter. Searching for a new trophy to add to his collection, he hires young tracker Ben (Jeremy Irvin, War Horse, The Railway Man) as his guide through the Reach, a vast and hostile basin in the Mojave Desert. But when the excursion takes a tragic turn for the worse, Madec knows his money and reputation are at stake and..
From the filmmakers behind the Oscar nominated Embrace Of The Serpent comes their latest epic, Birds Of Passage, a tale about indigenous traditions and the corrupting forces of wealth and power, set against the backdrop of the Colombian marijuana boom of the 1970s. A film of both gangsters and spirits, corruption and fratricidal war, this is a thrilling depiction of the origins of the drug trade told through the story of an indigenous W..
Out of StockA hilarious comedy from the director of 'Life is a Miracle', Emir Kusturica's 'Black Cat White Cat' is a riotous mix of farce, romance and crime. Set within a community of gypsies, it tells a story of dodgy deals, family ties, young love and magical occurrences. Zare is a young man in love with the beautiful Ida, but his crooked father, having botched up a black market deal, intends to marry him off to the sister of a powerful gangster ..
15-year-old Adele (a spine-tingling performance from Adele Exarchopoulos) feels like an average teenager, with school, friends, parents and boys taking up most of her time and thoughts. That is until a chance encounter with a beguiling blue-haired girl (a luminescent Lea Seydoux) turns her world upside down, forcing her to question her desires and assert herself as a woman and as an adult. Jaw-droppingly frank in its sexual content, mes..
This collection from the acclaimed South Korean director tracks the trajectory of his impressive and successful career. It includes his first feature Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), which garnered a cult following before achieving critical acclaim and commercial success with his subsequent three films, also included in the boxset: the subversive and darkly comic crime thriller Memories of Murder (2003), his breakout monster film The Hos..
Bess McNeill (Emily Watson) lives a calm and quaint Christian life amongst the Scottish Highlands. Despite the unease of her local community and church, she marries the love of her life, a Norwegian oilrig worker, Jan (Stellan Skarsgaard), who is often away working for long periods of time. Lonely and besotted, Bess prays for his quick return. A wish that is granted when an accident occurs on the rig paralysing Jan. He is flown back to ..
Award-winning satirical comedy set against the backdrop of the Kosovan war of 1999. A Nato train loaded with weapons is brought to a halt by Doiaru (Razvan Vasilescu), the local, corrupt chief of a Romanian train station, after it trundles through his sleepy hamlet. Having no official documents, and with only a verbal understanding from the Romanian authorities, the train soon becomes the target for locals intent on exploiting the situa..
Agnes Varda's classic Cleo from 5 to 7 from 1962 manages to successfully capture Paris at the height of the sixties in this intriguing tale expertly presented in real time about a singer (played to perfection by Corinne Marchand) whose life is in turmoil as she awaits a biopsy test result. As well as featuring memorable cameos from director Jean-Luc Godard and actress Anna Karina, it also includes an appearance and an impressive score f..
Set within a Catholic community deep in the south of Italy, Corpo Celeste is the story of 13 year-old Marta and her struggle to settle in an unfamiliar city after ten years growing up in Switzerland. Bright-eyed, restless and feeling very much an outsider, she clashes with her family and Sunday School teacher as she begins to question the catechism of the Catholic Church and shape her own life for the first time. Marta's journey is trac..
Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr directs this bleak, brooding meditation on inner conflict and existential angst, filmed entirely in black and white and replete with Tarr's trademark long takes and lingering camerawork. Miklos B. Szekely stars as Karrer, a listless, introspective man who plods his way through his colourless life in quiet desperation. The only light in his life is the bar he frequents, and the beautiful singer (Vali Kerekes..
When her estranged rabbi father suddenly passes away, Ronit (played by Oscar-winner and co-producer Rachel Weisz) returns from New York to the north London Orthodox Jewish community that rejected her years previously after a scandalous transgression. Ronit’s presence immediately courts further controversy when she runs into Esti (Rachel McAdams), the wife of her strictly religious cousin Dovid (Alessandro Nivola) and the woman for whom ..
Autobiographical drama written and directed by Chilean film-maker Alejandro Jodorowsky. The film follows Jodorowsky (Adan Jodorowsky/Jeremías Herskovits) from his teenage years, where he longs to become a poet despite the objections of his oppressive father (Brontis Jodorowsky), to ingratiating himself into Chile's artistic scene at the bohemian Café Iris in downtown Santiago in the 1940s. It's there that he befriends fellow poets inclu..
Triple bill of early work from celebrated French arthouse director Eric Rohmer. 'Le Signe Du Lion' (1962) is Rohmer's directorial debut - a cautionary tale of an American in Paris (Jess Hahn) who believes himself astrologically privileged. On the promise of a possible upcoming inheritance from a dead aunt, he starts spending money he doesn't have and has to reap the whirlwind when it fails to materialise. 'Le Boulangerie De Monceau' (19..
Rohmer's delightful film explores the highs and lows of a trio of twenty-something love affairs in the French capital. With a fine cast of exceptional young actors, each story uses as a backdrop a variety of stunningly photographed locations, among them Montparnasse, the Marais and the city's many parks and gardens. This triptych combines all those themes cherished by Rohmer aficionados: seduction, elegant language and love for a city c..
Welcome to Club Exotica, a place where fantasies can become reality but where illusion runs amuck. Here, in a murky underworld of lust and longing, a lonely accountant named Francis falls for Christina, one of the dancers. Although Christina is already involved with someone, the club owner pushes her towards Francis and a dangerous game of deceit and duplicity begins… A multi-layered and mysterious portrayal of lives shaped by desire an..
Iconic film maker Agnes Varda and photographer JR share a passion for images and how they're created, displayed and shared; Varda through cinema. JR through his emotionally arrested outdoor installations. Inspired by this connection, they set out in JR's photo booth-enhanced truck, exploring the villages and small towns of rural France and meeting its humble residents - all the while creating large-scale portraits plastered across uncon..
Iconic film maker Agnes Varda and photographer JR share a passion for images and how they're created, displayed and shared; Varda through cinema. JR through his emotionally arrested outdoor installations. Inspired by this connection, they set out in JR's photo booth-enhanced truck, exploring the villages and small towns of rural France and meeting its humble residents - all the while creating large-scale portraits plastered across uncon..
Italian family drama about a rotten loan shark horning his way into a young couple's wedding. This critically beloved third film by Italian director Paolo Sorrentino is said by many to be his best work to date. Geremia De Geremei (Giacomo Rizzo) is sleazy and thoroughly disagreeable old loan shark who lives with his bedridden harridan of a mum. Friendless and socially inept, he horns in on a young couple whose parents are forced to borr..
Bittersweet family portrait by French director Mia Hansen-Love. Gregoire Canvel (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) is an independent film producer who balances the never-ending demands of his professional life with a full and happy private life, spending his weekends at his country house with his wife Sylvia (Chiara Caselli) and three young daughters. But as his company spirals towards bankruptcy, he loses his grip and, feeling utterly trapped,..
When a man is murdered all the clues point to Julien Vercel as the prime suspect. He knew him, his fingerprints are on his car and, as the police eventually discover, he was having an affair with Julien's wife. However, Julien’s secretary Barbara Becker is sure something is not quite right with this state of affairs and begins her own investigation into the matter. The last film that Truffaut ever made, Finally, Sunday is an inspired di..
Francois Truffaut's final film is comedy thriller with a Hitchcockian theme. Shot in the style of a classic American thriller - in crisp black and white - a company boss is accused of murdering his wife and her lover, and the evidence seems to support this. Whilst he is hiding from the police, his secretary takes on the role of detective and she uncovers illicit love affairs, prostitution rings and skeletons in everyone's closets before..
The acclaimed new film from Academy Award winning director Andrea Arnold tells the startlingly original and brutally honest story of 15 year-old Mia, brilliantly played by British Independent Film Award winner Katie Jarvis. A feisty and fiercely independent outside, Mia is ostracised from her friends and lives uneasily with her volatile mother (Kierston Wareing - The Taken) in a tough Essex estate from which she longs to escape. But the..
The sun is beaming and the ski slopes are spectacular for Thomas, his wife Ebba and their two children. However, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant an avalanche suddenly bears down upon the happy diners. As the wall of snow gets ever closer, Tomas makes a split-second decision in a moment of panic that will engulf and shake his relationship with his wife and children and leave him struggling to reclaim his role as the family pa..
Francofonia is the story of two remarkable men, Louvre director Jacques Jaujard and Nazi Occupation officer Count Franziskus Wolff-Metternich - enemies then collaborators - whose alliance would be the driving force behind the preservation of museum treasures. From the master director of Faust and Russian Ark comes a fascinating exploration of the relationship between art and power, the Louvre Museum as a living example of civilization, ..
The unforgettable original version of acclaimed filmmaker Michael Haneke's classic exploration of screen violence is an uncompromising, sometimes uncomfortable but never less than compelling experience. Arriving at their remote lakeside holiday home, a middle class family are alarmed by the unexpected arrival of two young men who soon begin to subject them to a twisted and horrifying ordeal of terror. With characteristic mastery, Haneke..
Whilst at their lakeside holiday home, a middle class couple (Naomi Watts and Tim Roth) and their young son are surprised by the unexpected arrival of two handsome men dressed in gleaming tennis whites (Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet). These men go on to subject them to the most cruel, twisted and horrifying ordeal of terror and torture. However, this is not a simple slasher movie. With his renowned creative flair for originality, Haneke..
Gloria (Julianne Moore) is a free-spirited divorcee spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor. One evening, she meets Arnold (John Turturro) and finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of harmonising this new life with an old past. From Oscar winning director by Sebastian Lelio (A Fantastic Woman, Disobedience) comes a rom..
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger, mentally handicapped brother in prison, Constantine "Connie" Nikas (Robert Pattinson) embarks on a twisted odyssey through the city's underworld in an increasingly desperate and dangerous attempt to get him out. Over the course of one adrenaline blitzed night, Connie finds himself racing against the clock to save his brother and himself. Anchored by a career-defining performance from Rober..
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger, mentally handicapped brother in prison, Constantine "Connie" Nikas (Robert Pattinson) embarks on a twisted odyssey through the city's underworld in an increasingly desperate and dangerous attempt to get him out. Over the course of one adrenaline blitzed night, Connie finds himself racing against the clock to save his brother and himself. Anchored by a career-defining performance from Rober..
Romeo, a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study abroad in the UK. But on the day before Eliza's first entrance exam to university, she is assaulted in an attack which threatens to jeopardise her entire future. Now Romeo has a decision to make: there are ways of solving her predicament, but not without betraying the moral princ..
Romanian drama written, produced and directed by Cristian Mungiu. In a small town on the outskirts of Cluj, surgeon Romeo Aldea (Adrian Titieni) lives with his wife Magda (Lia Bugnar) and 18-year-old daughter Eliza (Maria-Victoria Dragus). Having been raised her whole life to get to university and out of her hometown, Eliza stands on the cusp of being accepted to study psychology at an English university if she can first pass her final ..
When her mother falls ill under mysterious circumstances, young Eve (Fantine Hardiun) is sent to live with her estranged father's wealthy relatives in Calais. But trouble is brewing, as a series of intergenerational back-stabbings threaten to tear the family apart. Meanwhile, distracted by infidelities and betrayals, they fail to notice that their new arrival has a sinister secret of her own. Master auteur Michael Haneke (Amour, The Whi..
Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Mathieu Kassovitz star in this French drama written and directed by Michael Haneke, following the Laurent family as they experience a number of trials and tribulations.Upset with her mother, young Eve (Fantine Harduin) leaves her in a coma by poisoning her.Meanwhile, her aunt, Anne Laurent (Huppert), becomes embroiled in a costly legal battle after one of her employees is injured in an ac..
Simon is a young surfer who heads down to the beach one morning to catch some early waves. But on the way home an accident occurs. Now entirely hooked up to life-support, Simon's existence is little more than an illusion to his grieving parents. Meanwhile, in Paris, a woman awaits an organ transplant that will give her a new lease on life and it's Simon's parents who have to make the most difficult decision any parent can make. Based on..
Simon is a young surfer who heads down to the beach one morning to catch some early waves. But on the way home an accident occurs. Now entirely hooked up to life-support, Simon's existence is little more than an illusion to his grieving parents. Meanwhile, in Paris, a woman awaits an organ transplant that will give her a new lease on life and it's Simon's parents who have to make the most difficult decision any parent can make. Based on..
A collection of three of the best French thrillers of recent years. 'Hidden' (2005) is a slow-burning mystery that raises some ghosts of France's recent past from writer-director Michael Haneke. Georges (Daniel Auteuil) is a successful TV presenter, married to Anne (Juliette Binoche). Their idyllic, middle-class life is suddenly derailed when Georges starts receiving tapes through the post, from someone who has been secretly filming him..
This utterly compelling psychological thriller from Michael Haneke - one of cinema's most daring, original and controversial directors - stars Daniel Auteuil as Georges, a television presenter who begins to receive mysterious and alarming packages containing covertly filmed videos of himself and his family. To the mounting consternation of Georges and his wife (Juliette Binoche) the footage on the tapes - which arrive wrapped in drawing..
This utterly compelling psychological thriller from Michael Haneke - one of cinema's most daring original and controversial directors - stars Daniel Auteuil as Georges, a television presenter who begins to receive mysterious and alarming packages containing covertly filmed videos of himself and his family. To the mounting consternation of Georges and his wife (Juliette Binoche) the footage on the tapes - which arrive wrapped in drawings..
Holy Motors is a fascinating, visually striking labyrinth of interwoven fantasies that follows the mysterious Monsieur Oscar (played in jaw-dropping style by the miraculous Denis Lavant) who, over the course of a single day, takes on 10 bizarre guises, ranging from a gangster and ageing millionaire to a troubled parent and anarchic tramp. With impressive supporting cast including Eva Mendes and Kylie Minogue, Holy Motors was the toast o..
After a minor incident in her village, nine-year-old Shula is exiled to a travelling witch camp where she is told that if she tries to escape she will be transformed into a goat. As she navigates through her new life with her fellow witches and a government official who exploits her innocence for his own gain, she must decide whether to accept her fate or risk the consequences of seeking freedom. This has Bemba, Nyanja and Tonga languag..
After a minor incident in her village, nine-year-old Shula is exiled to a travelling witch camp where she is told that if she tries to escape she will be transformed into a goat. As she navigates through her new life with her fellow witches and a government official who exploits her innocence for his own gain, she must decide whether to accept her fate or risk the consequences of seeking freedom. This has Bemba, Nyanja and Tonga languag..
The lives of a beautiful divorcee and a troubled detective intersect during the investigation of a brutal murder on the grimy, rain-soaked streets of London. Embroiled in a tangled web of passion, intrigue and deceit, the pair soon find themselves in too deep in this dark, brooding and atmospheric psychological thriller. Featuring a stellar cast, including Charlotte Rampling (Melancholia, Swimming Pool), Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspect..
Luc Jacquet writes and directs this French documentary about global warming. The film follows the work of French scientist Claude Lorius who has undertaken more than 20 polar expeditions to Antartica since the 1960s and has been warning the world about the dangers of global warming ever since. Although he has had to argue to prove global warming's existence throughout his career, the 82-year-old continues his calls for action having eve..
From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowksi (Last Resort, My Summer of Love) comes Ida, a poignant and powerfully told drama about 18-year-old Anna, a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, who is preparing to become a nun when she discovers that her real name is Ida and her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation. This revelation triggers a heart-wrenching journey into the countryside, to the family house and into the secr..
Pawel Pawlikowski directs this award-winning Polish drama set in a convent in the 1960s. When Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska), an orphan who was brought up by the nuns of the convent, decides she wants to take her vows, she is told that first she must visit her only living relative, Wanda (Agata Kulesza). As Wanda reveals to Anna that her real name is Ida Lebenstein and that she is actually Jewish, Anna starts to rethink her whole life. As t..
The new film from Paolo Sorrentino, the acclaimed director of The Consequences of Love and The Family Friend, is a riveting talk of political intrigue and organised crime, based on the extraordinary life of Guilio Andreotti. Italian Prime Minister no less than seven times, Andreotti's long career was dogged by persistent accusations of conspiracy, Mafia connections and state-sponsored terror. Epic in scope and featuring a commanding per..
Katja's (Diane Kruger), life is torn apart when her husband and young son are suddenly killed in a bomb attack. A police investigation point to a pair of young neo-Nazis as the key suspects, but a lack of evidence fails to fully incriminate them, Katja is forced to take matters into her own hands and her hunt for justice begins to take increasingly dangerous and unexpected turns. Winner of the best Actress award at Cannes 2017, the 2018..
A determined 12 year old boy named Ivan joins a Russian partisan regiment as a scout due to his uncanny ability to slip quickly through enemy lines undetected. But as his missions become increasingly dangerous he is pulled from duty, something which he is quick to protest against because Ivan has an ulteriour motive – to avenge the death of his family at the hands of the Nazis. Andrei Tarkovsky’s first feature film is regarded as one of..
French drama from debut film-maker Léonor Serraille. After splitting up from her boyfriend of ten years, photographer Joachim Deloche (Grégoire Monsaingeon), 31-year-old Paula Simonian (Laetitia Dosch) returns to Paris after a long absence in an attempt to make a fresh start. As she tries to redefine herself, independent of Joachim, Paula explores a number of open avenues as she searches for a job, a place to live and some new friends i..
Spanning two decades at the start of the 20th century, Jules & Jim follows the lives of two inseparable friends – timid German, Jules (Oskar Werner), and gregarious Parisian, Jim (Henri Serre) – and their shared love of the beautiful, capricious Catherine, played in mesmerising, luminous style by Jeanne Moreau. Overcoming the destructive rift of World War I the trio create a new life for themselves, away from the structures imposed by s..
Peter Strickland's startlingly original directorial debut centres around Katalin Varga, who, after being banished by her husband and her village, is left with no other choice than to set out on a quest to find the real father of her son, Orban. Taking Orban with her under another pretence, Katalin travels through the Carpathians where she decides to re-open a sinister chapter from her past and take revenge. The hunt leads her to a place..
Marine Vacth (Jeune et Julie) plays Chloe, a young woman who falls in love with her psychoanalyst Paul (Jeremie Renier). When they decide to move in together, everything seems perfect until a series of discoveries lead her to suspect that he may be living a double life. As she searches for the truth, Chloe's investigations plunge her into a dark and bewildering world of smoke, mirrors and doppelgangers - where nothing is as it seems, an..
Marine Vacth (Jeune et Julie) plays Chloe, a young woman who falls in love with her psychoanalyst Paul (Jeremie Renier). When they decide to move in together, everything seems perfect until a series of discoveries lead her to suspect that he may be living a double life. As she searches for the truth, Chloe's investigations plunge her into a dark and bewildering world of smoke, mirrors and doppelgangers - where nothing is as it seems, an..
A timeless masterpiece of love and yearning, L’Atalante was the only full-length film made by Jean Vigo before his tragic early death. Yet is considered to be one of cinema's very greatest works. Dita Parlo stars as a young bride who begins married life aboard her husband’s barge on the Seine. But within the boat’s cramped confines, shared with a small crew (including the eccentric Pere Jules, memorably played by Michel Simon) and an ab..
October 1921: Constance, Lady Chatterley, and her husband Clifford have been living at Wragby Hall on the Chatterley estate in the heart of Englands mining country for a year or two.Four years earlier, and just a few months after they married, Clifford, who was serving as a lieutenant in the British Army, returned from Flanders permanently paralysed from the waist down. Winter has descended on everything. Constance whiles away monoto..
Charlie Plummer and Steve Buscemi star in this US drama based on Willy Vlautin's novel about a teenage boy's friendship with an old racehorse. The film follows 15-year-old Charley Thompson (Plummer) as he moves to Portland, Oregon with his dad Ray (Travis Fimmel). Drawn to the local racetrack, despite his lack of riding experience, Charley is hired to help out for the summer by owner Del (Buscemi). He quickly strikes up a bond with the ..
Boy Meets Girl: The debut feature film, from Leos Carax which follows the faltering relationship of an aspiring filmmaker and a suicidal young woman. A beautiful blend of black humour and gentle romance that heralded Carax's luminous career. The Night Is Young: Denis Lavant plays Alex, a young punk who becomes involved with a veteran criminal gang plotting to steal a serum that cures a disease that is killing lovers. But when Alex falls..
Adèle Haenel and Kévin Azaïs star in this French coming-of-age comedy. Mild-mannered Arnaud (Azaïs) is looking forward to a carefree summer of hanging out with friends in his small coastal town and working alongside his brother for the family's carpentry business. But after he meets tomboy Madeleine at a self-defence demonstration his plans change when he learns he will be working on her parents' house. As he becomes increasingly infatu..
Isabelle (Juliette Binoche) is a stylish and accomplished artist living in Paris. Divorced and looking to find true love at last, she meets a handsome, kind and intelligent younger man who she thinks might finally be the one. But when he calls their affair a mistake and returns to his wife, Isabelle must again face the issue of mid-life loneliness. Sifting through former lovers, new admirers, jealous friends and chance encounters, will ..
Isabelle (Juliette Binoche) is a stylish and accomplished artist living in Paris. Divorced and looking to find true love at last, she meets a handsome, kind and intelligent younger man who she thinks might finally be the one. But when he calls their affair a mistake and returns to his wife, Isabelle must again face the issue of mid-life loneliness. Sifting through former lovers, new admirers, jealous friends and chance encounters, will ..
The new film from Andrey Zvyagintsev, the visionary director of The Return and The Banishment, tells the tragic tale of Kolya, who employs a lawyer friend to help fight his case for ownership of the land on which he and his family live when the nefarious town mayor attempts to seize it. But standing up against such men begins a whirlwind of dire consequences, infusing every area of Kolya's life and all he holds dear. A visually arrestin..
Master filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (Youth, The Great Beauty) teams up once again with longtime collaborator Toni Servillo (Il Divo) to reveal the scandalous and, until now, unseen private life of Italy’s most infamous politician, Silvio Berlusconi. Told from the point of view of a corrupt pimp, Loro depicts a world of unbridled hedonism and greed for power with a wickedly satirical sting. Biopics don’t come more unauthorised than this!..
Master filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (Youth, The Great Beauty) teams up once again with longtime collaborator Toni Servillo (Il Divo) to reveal the scandalous and, until now, unseen private life of Italy’s most infamous politician, Silvio Berlusconi. Told from the point of a corrupt pimp, Loro depicts a world of unbridled hedonism and greed for power with a wickedly satirical sting. Biopics don’t come more unauthorised than this!Special ..
Niall McCann writes and directs this documentary that chronicles the success of Scottish independent music in the 1990s. The story begins in Glasgow in 1994 when local rock band The Delgados formed independent record label Chemikal Underground to release their first single. After some initial success, the label was able to expand and signed a number of up-and-coming acts, including Mogwai, Arab Strap and Franz Ferdinand, which brought u..
From acclaimed director Jessica Hausner (Lovely Rita, Hotel) Lourdes centres on Christine (Sylvie Testud - La Vie en Rose), a young woman who's been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order to escape her isolation, she joins a party to Lourdes - the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees mountains, where they undertake a journey in hope of finding spiritual comfort or bodily cure. But as the trip develops, Christine's ..
From acclaimed director Jessica Hausner (Lovely Rita, Hotel) Lourdes centres on Christine (Sylvie Testud - La Vie en Rose) , a young woman who’s been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order to escape her isolation, she joins a party to Lourdes - the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees mountains, where they undertake a journey in hope of finding spiritual comfort or bodily cure. But as the trip develops, Christine’s..
The French provocateur behind Enter the Void and Irreversible returns to our screens to our screens with the hotly anticipated and daring sexual odyssey, Love - a kaledoscopic journey into a whirlwind of romance, orgies and betrayal unlike anything you've seen before. Murphy, an American living n Paris, wakes up on New Year's Day to a frantic phone call. His ex-girlfriend, Electra, has been missing for months and her mother fears the wo..
In the fifth and final film surrounding the character of Antoine Doinel, Truffaut resurrects his history and back-story as he falls in love with Sabine who works at the local record shop. What Antoine doesn't realise is that as his relationship with Sabine progresses his former loves Christine and Colette will play a crucial role in his life once again. Because love is never simple. A culmination of romance, comedy and the journey of An..
The final film in François Truffaut's autobiographical 'Antoine Doinel' series, which follows the director's screen alter ego from adolescence (in 'Les Quatre Cents Coups') to the complications of married life here. Separated from his wife, novelist Antoine is having an affair with Sabine (Dorothee). When seeing off his son at a train station, he spots his first love, Colette (Marie-France Pisier), and jumps into her carriage. Colette i..
Jessica Hausner directs this German coming-of-age drama. Barbara Osika stars as Rita, a moody, insolent teenager on the verge of womanhood whose confused sexual awakening leads her to seduce both a much younger schoolboy (Christoph Bauer), and a bus driver (Peter Fiala). As her efforts to break out of her solitude and the claustrophobic atmosphere of her bourgeois Catholic family life isolate her more and more, her state of mind veers i..
