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Robin Campillo co-writes and directs this French drama centred on the AIDS epidemic in the 1990s. The film follows a group of activists as they try to effect change as part of the ACT UP movement in Paris. Frustrated by the government and the pharmaceutical industry's lack of action, the guerrilla group stages a number of public protests as they try to agree on a strategy and its passionate members struggle with their own experiences wi..
Robin Campillo co-writes and directs this French drama centred on the AIDS epidemic in the 1990s. The film follows a group of activists as they try to effect change as part of the ACT UP movement in Paris. Frustrated by the government and the pharmaceutical industry's lack of action, the guerrilla group stages a number of public protests as they try to agree on a strategy and its passionate members struggle with their own experiences wi..
Takashi Miike directs this larger-than-life samurai adventure set in mid-19th century Japan. Koji Yakusho stars as respected samurai warrior Shinzaemon Shimada, who gathers together 13 skilled assassins to bring down the evil Lord Naritsugu (Goro Inagaki), a merciless killer who gets his kicks from brutally murdering women and children. The film ends with a 45-minute battle sequence in which the 13 assassins take on an army of 200 men, ..
In 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 stunning action sequ..
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 it..
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..
The friendship between two girls is tested to its absolute limits in this utterly compelling drama set in the twilight years of Communist-era Romania. Gabita (Laura Vasiliu), young and naive, is pregnant. She turns to her more pragmatic room mate Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) for help and a meeting is arranged in a downtown hotel with the shady Mr Bebe (Vlad Ivanov). Entering a dangerous and illegal underworld where the stakes are high and ..
The friendship between two girls is tested to its absolute limits in this utterly compelling drama set in the twilight years of Communist-era Romania. Gabita (Laura Vasiliu), young and naive, is pregnant. She turns to her more pragmatic room mate Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) for help and a meeting is arranged in a downtown hotel with the shady Mr Bebe (Vlad Ivanov). Entering a dangerous and illegal underworld where the stakes are high and ..
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..
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..
French drama directed by François Truffaut. The film follows Stanislas Prévine (André Dussollier), a sociologist, who, while researching a book, interviews murderess Camille (Bernadette Lafont), who tells him the story of her life. Put in a reform school as a child for suspected patricide, and later transferred to an orphanage, Camille escaped and tricked a young man called Clovis (Philippe Leotard) into marrying her. After attempting t..
Stanislas, a young sociologist researching a book on women criminals, travels to a prison to interview Camille, an inmate incarcerated for murdering her lover, husband and supposedly her father. Upon meeting, Stanislas discovers Camille to have a surprising air of innocence and soon finds himself becoming enraptured by her charms. But all that glitters isn’t gold – and sometimes it’s actually cold, hard steel... A rare foray into pitch-..
After fleeing his native country, a European monarch seeks refuge in New York City. It is here that he meets Rupert, a ten-year-old boy whose parents are imprisoned communists, and takes him under his wing. but doing so can have unwanted consequences in 1950s America. Chaplin delivers another sharp satire that bites into every point of the sociopolitical spectrum, from idealistic communism to idolatry consumerism. Special Features Chap..
After fleeing his native country, a European monarch seeks refuge in New York City. It is here that he meets Rupert, a ten-year-old boy whose parents are imprisoned communists, and takes him under his wing. but doing so can have unwanted consequences in 1950s America. Chaplin delivers another sharp satire that bites into every point of the sociopolitical spectrum, from idealistic communism to idolatry consumerism. Special Features Chap..
Robert Bresson writes and directs this 1950s French drama based on the memoirs of André Devigny. Lieutenant Fontaine (Francois Leterrier), a member of the French Resistance, is imprisoned and condemned to death by the Nazis. The film follows his attempts to escape from his cell at Montluc with the help of his teenage cellmate, François Jost (Charles le Clainche)...
Robert Bresson writes and directs this 1950s French drama based on the memoirs of André Devigny. Lieutenant Fontaine (Francois Leterrier), a member of the French Resistance, is imprisoned and condemned to death by the Nazis. The film follows his attempts to escape from his cell at Montluc with the help of his teenage cellmate, François Jost (Charles le Clainche)...
The final part of his highly acclaimed 'Living' trilogy, Roy Andersson's A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence takes another sly, humorous 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 Sweden..
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..
In the mid-18th century, English princess Caroline Mathilda is due to be married to King Christian VII of Denmark. Keen to be a dutiful wife and Queen, Caroline's hopes are soon dashed when she discovers the King's true madness, but she soon finds herself enraptured by the King's physician who also happens to be a radical libertarian. They embark upon a passionate love affair that would not only shake their own lives but bring the kingd..
In the mid-18th century, English princess Caroline Mathilda is due to be married to King Christian VII of Denmark. Keen to be a dutiful wife and Queen, Caroline's hopes are soon dashed when she discovers the King's true madness, but she soon finds herself enraptured by the King's physician who also happens to be a radical libertarian. They embark upon a passionate love affair that would not only shake their own lives but bring the kingd..
This highly acclaimed Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning film is a suspenseful and intelligent drama that details the manipulations and confrontations brought into play when a couple's marriage painfully breaks down. Boasting a range of superb performances from the ensemble cast, writer/director Asghar Farhadi's finely observed film not only highlights the fractures and tensions at the heart of Iranian society but transcends its set..
This highly acclaimed Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning film is a suspenseful and intelligent drama that details the manipulations and confrontations brought into play when a couple's marriage painfully breaks down. Boasting a range of superb performances from the ensemble cast, writer/director Asghar Farhadi's finely observed film not only highlights the fractures and tensions at the heart of Iranian society but transcends its set..
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Krzystof Kieslowski took several years to complete his mammoth project of filming his Dekalog, each infused with a very personal motivation and dealing with conflicting opinions relating to the imperfections in both the ancient and modern legal codes. A Short Film About Killing is based on the Fifth Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Kill and is a psychological vivisection of the brutal and senseless murder of a taxi driver by a young drifte..
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Krysztof Kieslowski’s A Short Film About Love was expanded from one of the most lyrical episodes in Dekalog, his celebrated cycle of short films based on the Ten Commandments. A young man falls in love with an older woman who lives across the courtyard in the same Warsaw apartment block. He watches her and her succession of lovers until she becomes aware of his spying and confronts him with a sexual invitation. Featuring a superb scor..
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...
Marie was supposed to elope to Paris with her fiance Jean but the unexpected death of his father prevents him meeting her at the station and she ends up heading to the City of Light by herself. Once Jean finally makes it there he finds Marie in the arms of a rich and decadent playboy and events take a tragic turn. Highly accliamed by filmmakers from Lubitsch to Scorsese, this brilliant yet subtle Parisian fresco reveals the dramatic gen..
Marie was supposed to elope to Paris with her fiance Jean but the unexpected death of his father prevents him meeting her at the station and she ends up heading to the City of Light by herself. Once Jean finally makes it there he finds Marie in the arms of a rich and decadent playboy and events take a tragic turn. Highly accliamed by filmmakers from Lubitsch to Scorsese, this brilliant yet subtle Parisian fresco reveals the dramatic gen..
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..
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is the stunning inside story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundary between art and politics. Over three years acclaimed filmmaker Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to Ai as he prepared for exhibitions, spent time with his family and eventually came to blows with the Chinese government. Her detailed, intimate and stirring portrait provides a nuanced explora..
Over three years acclaimed filmmaker Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to Ai as he prepared for exhibitions, spent time with his family and came to blows with the Chinese government. Her detailed, intimate and stirring portrait provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary China and one of its most compelling, amusing, impassioned and original public figures. "Lively, informative, funny and inspirational" (Philip French, The 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 f..
Aki Kaurismaki's deadpan, ironic and idiosyncratic films have established him as one of modern European cinema's most accomplished filmmakers. This box set presents four of his remarkable and highly acclaimed features. Crime and Punishment: Kaurismaki's first feature follows the descent into crime of Rahikainen, a slaughterhouse worker and former law student, who murders a businessman and then begins a tense game of cat and mouse with t..
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..
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos helms this psychological drama about a self-formed group of therapists who impersonate the recently deceased to help their clients through the grieving process. During the process, bereaved clients are given the chance to act out their feelings of love, anger or sexual frustration towards those they have lost. Aggeliki Papoulia stars as Monte Rosa, a lonely young nurse who starts working for the group for..
Quirky comedy thriller directed by Hal Hartley. Isabelle Huppert plays a nyphomaniac ex-nun pornographer who's never had sex but falls in love with Thomas (Martin Donovan), an amnesiac pornographer who is on the run from Holland after ripping off some corporate clients. Meanwhile his wife Sofia (Elina Lowensöhn) is in New York escaping from her husband and seeking help from a homicidal accountant...
Sharp and witty but shot through with resonant tragedy, celebrated indie auteur Hal Hartley’s Amateur is a twisted metaphysical thriller that has been hailed as one of his greatest works. An ex-nun (Isabelle Huppert), trying to turn her hand to writing pornography, meets Thomas (Martin Donovan), a recovering amnesiac in search of his estranged wife. The two set out in search of Thomas’ past but soon discover a trail of secrets leading t..
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..
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 heartbreaking story of a toxic love affair across the decades, Catherine Corsini’s beautiful An Impossible Love is as emotionally raw as it is elegantly shot. 1960: Rachel (Virginie Efira) is working as a secretary when she begins a passionate but stormy affair with the callous Philippe (Niels Schneider). When their liaison results in the birth of a daughter, Philippe refuses to acknowledge her. While Rachel’s love for her daughter is..
Based on the life of a medieval painter, Andrei Rublev depicts the man's journey through 15th-Century Russia and the life of his art in an ever changing climate of religious and political upheaval. Heavily censored at the time of its release, Tarkovsky’s second film is a meditation on art, religion, creativity and brutality and features some of the most poetic scenes in cinema, shot in glorious black & white by master cinematographer Va..
Andrei Tarkovsky directs this epic historical drama about the life of 15th-century icon painter Andrei Rublev. Rublev (Anatoli Solonitsyn) lives in a world consumed by feudal violence and human degradation, and the turmoil he sees all about him makes him lose the will to speak. After many years of silent travelling around medieval Russia, he meets a young boy who has taken charge of the construction of a large silver bell, and in him di..
A real-life crime thriller in the tradition of Mesrine and Gomorrah, Angels Of Evil tells the riveting story of the notorious Italian mobster Renato Vallanzasca (Kim Rossi Stuart, Romanzo Criminale). Featuring breathless pacing and stunning action set-pieces, the film tracks Vallanzasca'a rise to the top of the crime scene in 1970s Milan through a series of daring heists and the ruthless use of brute force to despatch his rivals. Speci..
A real-life crime thriller in the tradition of Mesrine and Gomorrah, Angels Of Evil tells the riveting story of the notorious Italian mobster Renato Vallanzasca (Kim Rossi Stuart, Romanzo Criminale). Featuring breathless pacing and stunning action set-pieces, the film tracks Vallanzasca'a rise to the top of the crime scene in 1970s Milan through a series of daring heists and the ruthless use of brute force to despatch his rivals. Speci..
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..
François Truffaut's second adaptation of a Henri-Pierre Roche novel (the other being 'Jules et Jim') is also about a menage-à-trois, although this time set in nineteenth century Wales. Claude (Jean-Pierre Léaud), an aspiring young French writer, spends a holiday on the Welsh coast with an English family and falls in love with the two daughters, Ann (Kika Markham) and Muriel (Stacey Tendeter)...
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..
Charlie Kaufman writes and co-directs this stop-motion animated comedy drama, based on his own play. The film follows self-help author and motivational speaker Michael Stone (voice of David Thewlis) as he travels to Cincinnati, Ohio to promote his latest book. Despite making his living as an inspirational guide to others, Michael is in the middle of an existential crisis and suffers from an unusual condition where he observes everyone a..
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..
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..
After the unanimous acclaim received from her debut feature (Unrelated), director Joanne Hogg returns to similar themes in this sharply observed and often comical exposure of a middle class family at breaking point. With her son Edward (Tom Hiddleston - Unrelated) about to embark on a volunteer trip to Africa, his mother gathers the family together for a getaway in their holiday home on idyllic Tresco, one of the Isles of Scilly. Howeve..
45 Years - 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..
Collection of four British dramas. In '45 Years' (2015), during the run-up to their 45th wedding anniversary, Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff Mercer (Tom Courtenay) are rocked by the news that the body of Geoff's former fiancée has been discovered in the Swiss Alps, 50 years after she disappeared on a walking holiday with Geoff. Although Kate knew of Geoff's first love he kept their engagement a secret. As Geoff reminisces about his..
A Separation - The stand out film of the 2011 Berlin Film Festival and winner of the the Golden Bear, A Separation is a suspenseful and intelligent drama that details the manipulations and confrontations brought into play when a couple's marriage painfully breaks down. Boasting a range of superb perfomances from the ensemble cast, writer/director Asghar Farhadi's finely observed film not only highlights the fractures and tensions at the..
Collection of four Oscar-winning foreign films. The Iranian drama 'A Separation' (2011), which won the 2012 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, highlights the far-reaching effects of an acrimonious divorce. Middle-class couple Nader (Peyman Moaadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) plan to immigrate to Europe with their eleven-year-old daughter Termeh (Sarina Farhadi). But when Nader decides to stay behind to care for his father who is..
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days: The friendship between two girls is tested to its absolute limits in this utterly compelling drama set in the twilight years of Communist-era Romania. Gabita, young and naive, is pregnant and turns to her more pragmatic room mate Otilia for help. Entering a dangerous and illegal underworld, the young women are set for a life changing experience that neither will easily forget. Blue Is The Warmest Colour - 15-..
Collection of four films which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The Romanian drama '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days' (2007) takes place over the course of one day in 1987. When college student Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) falls pregnant, her kind-hearted friend, Otilia (Anamaria Marinca), helps her to get an abortion from the shady Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov). In Ceausescu's totalitarian Romania however, abortion and contraception are ..
