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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..
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..
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 solatry consumerism. Special Features Chapl..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..
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), ‘..
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..
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..
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-..
The 400 Blows - The first feature film from legendary cinematic pioneer Francois Truffaut that changed film history. 13-year-old Antoine Doinel can't seem to do anything right. His dysfunctional parents yell at him, his spiteful school teacher picks on him and luck just never goes his way. Despite his efforts at patience, one day it all becomes too much and Antoine takes his chances on the streets of Paris. Three Colours : Blue - When ..
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..
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..
1976: 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..
Two best friends who grew up together in an orphanage are emotionally reunited after years apart. Voichita has taken religious orders while Alina wants them to both relocate to a new life of freedom in Germany. While staying together in Voichita’s remote and austere nunnery their relationship and sexuality begin to tear apart the tight-knit fabric of the sect, resulting in a terrifying act that would send a shockwave through the church...
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..
Leos Carax's brilliant feature debut, fully restored and remastered, follows the relationship of an aspiring filmmaker (Denis Lavant - Holy Motors) and a suicidal young woman (Mireille Perrier). Using bold, mesmeric black-and-white imagery to stunning effect, Boy Meets Girl is a blend of black humour and gentle romance that heralded Carax's luminous career. Special Features Introduction By Denis Lavant, On Set 'In The Kitchen'..
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 ..
Atom Egoyan himself stars as a Canadian photographer sent to Armenia to document historic churches for a calendar commission in this haunting, beguiling and poignant romantic drama. Taking his Armenian wife with him as a translator, the couple’s relationship begins to unravel as she becomes more and more drawn to her ethnic roots and to their local guide. A bold, precise and sometimes painfully honest depiction of love, loss and the str..
From acclaimed director Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us) comes the story of a couple's apparent chance meeting in beautiful Tuscany. He (William Shimell) is a British author in town to talk about his new book. She (Juliette Binoche) is a French gallery owner in search of originality. Together they tour the local galleries, cafes and museums and discover that nothing is quite what it seems and truth, like art, i..
Wandering the city streets, the Little Tramp happens upon a blind flower girl who mistakes him for a wealthy gentleman, and manages to save and befriend a drunken millionaire who is trying to drown himself in the river. A world of disenchanted bourgeoisie, where social structure and class are misconceived and questioned at every turn, City Lights has gone down in history as not only one of Chaplin's best films but one of the best ever c..
Clouds of Sils Maria follows the story of Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche), an acclaimed actor who is asked to perform in a new production of the play that made her famous twenty years prior. But rather than reprise the role of the alluring young protagonist - now to be performed by an up-and-coming starlet (Chloe Grace Moretz) - Enders will be playing the role of the older, obsessive Helena. Departing to the Swiss Alps with her loyal pe..
In Malgoska Szumowska's frank and sexually explicit drama, Academy Award winning actress Juliette Binoche plays Anne, a well-off, Paris based mother of two and journalist for Elle, who is collating testimonials for an article about student prostitution. Her meeting with two fiercely independent young women, Alicja (Joanna Kulig) and Charlotte (Anais Demoustier), are profound and unsettling, moving her to question her most intimate convi..
The exalted cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (The Holy Mountain, El Topo) returns with a follow up to The Dance of Reality as he continues to reimagine his youth spent as an aspiring poet with gloriously surreal strokes of imagination. In 1940s Santiago de Chile, 20-year-old "Alejandrito" Jodorowsky vows to become a poet against the will of his disciplinarian father. Leaving home, he is introduced to the inner circle of the artistic ..
Vincent Gallo (Tetro, Buffalo '66) stars as a Middle-Eastern insurgent captured by US forces and transported to a secret detention centre somewhere in Europe. When the vehicle he is riding in crashes, he escapes into a snowy wilderness, a world way from the desert home he knew. Forced into extreme survival mode, and relentlessly pursued by an army that does not officially exist, he must confront the necessity to kill in order to survive..
Etre Et Avoir is a charming and intimate portrait of a single-class primary school in rural France and its inspirational teacher. Ranging in age from four to ten, the small handful of pupils are taught by the remarkable and wise Georges Lopez, whose patient and enlightened methods highlight a genuine affection for his young charges. Offering a touching and absorbing look at the heart of a village community, director Nicolas Philibert’s ..
The new film from acclaimed British director Joanna Hogg (Archipelago, Unrelated), Exhibition is an bold, honest and engrossing portrayal of a relationship and a complex, revealing investigation into communication, memory, architecture and the artistic process. When artists D (Viv Albertine) and H (Liam Gillick) decide to sell the home that they have loved and lived in for two decades, they begin a difficult process of saying goodbye. T..
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..
Wong Kar-Wai's matchlessly stylish and enigmatic urban thriller was originally planned as one of the storylines in his classic Chungking Express, but grew to become an accomplished feature in its own right. Set in the neon-lit cityscape of contemporary Hong Kong, 'Fallen Angels' tells the parallel stories of the unrequited love between a professional hit-man and the agent who arranges his jobs, and also follows the mute ex-con who makes..
A disaffected young man named Van travels to a nursing home to visit his elderly, neglected grandmother, Armen. There he meets Aline, a young phone-sex worker caring for her mother in the adjacent bed. After discovering that his father, Stan, has been using old family videotapes to film himself having sex, Van sets out on a mission to put family affairs in order. But he soon finds himself in way over his head... A black comedy of mixed ..
Alexander Sokurov's daring interpretation of Goethe’s classic tale is a startling, mesmerising and hallucinatory descent into the dark recesses of the human psyche. Dr Faust is a restless scholar, bored and disgusted by the filthy, mundane and money-driven society he inhabits. But after meeting a mysterious moneylender and a beautiful young girl his fate is irrevocably altered, sending him on a spiralling path of lust, greed and the wil..
Eighteen-year-old Shira, an Orthodox Hassid living in Tel Aviv, is looking forward to marrying a handsome, promising boy of her own age. But when her elder sister dies in childbirth and the father considers leaving Israel to re-marry, Shira’s mother proposes a union between her daughter and son-in-law to keep her only grandchild in the country. Shira must then make the terrible choice between her heart’s desire and her family duty. As t..
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..
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 outsider, Mia is ostracised from her friends and lives uneasily with her volatile mother (Kierston Wareing - The Take) 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, ..
In a small German town in 1919, Anna repeatedly visits the grave of her fiance, Frantz, who was killed in battle during World War I. One day she spies a mysterious young Frenchman Adrien, also laying flowers at the grave. She enquires about his business there and he explains he was a friend of Frantz. The pair became increasingly close and Anna becomes more and more intrigued by Adrien's history with her fiance. Long buried secrets are ..
Set during the German occupation of Paris in 1942, Free Men stars Tahar Rahim (A Prophet) as Younes, a young Algerian rogue who is arrested for black marketeering. In police custody he is given an ultimatum - either face an indefinite time in prison or become a spy for Nazi intelligence at the local Mosque, which is suspected of sheltering Resistance fighters and Jewish fugitives. As Younes goes deep undercover at the Mosque, he is draw..
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..
Sally Potter's latest film is an evocative and beautifully shot portrait of post-war Britain, as seen through the eyes of Elle Fanning's impressionable young teenager, Ginger. Finding herself increasingly estranged from her stay-at-home mother (a luminous Christina Hendricks), Ginger becomes drawn into the exciting yet volatile world of her radical activist father (Alessandro Nivola). However, her close friendship with the fiery Rosa (a..
Acclaimed filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love returns, following the critically acclaimed Father Of My Children with this loosely auto-biographical account of what she has described as the "defining and central" part of her adolescence. Touching and tender yet heartbreakingly powerful, it perfectly captures the complexities and emotional intensity of teenage passion with a graceful, lyrical touch that has won over audiences and critics alike. In ..
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..
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..
