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An intricately constructed, intriguing blur of reality, virtual reality and metaphysical fantasy, The Nines unfolds in three separate but connected movies, featuring the same actors in different ...

This Is England tells the story of Shaun (Thomas Turgoose), an 11 year old kid growing up in the North of England. Set during the summer holidays of 1983, it follows his journey from a shaggy...

Within the audience of a rock concert at Brixton Academy, American student Lisa meets Matt, and so begins their highly charged, passionate relationship... The first sexually explicit British film...

A male Parisian driving school owner who complains of feeling run down goes to see his doctor and is pronounced four months pregnant...

An artist, Ku, lives with his mother near an abandoned fort. One night, investigating strange noises, he meets the beautiful Yang who is living there. She is being pursued by agents of an...

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's second feature following the award winning 'Bye Bye Africa' offers confirmation of the arrival of a visually assured and highly sophisticated talent in world cinema. Set in...

Jonathan Demme's outstanding documentary on Jean Dominique, a Haitian radio journalist and human rights activist. Jean Dominique, whose Radio Haiti was celebrated in his native land, provided a...

Berlin, 1943-44. Two young women form an deep and intense relationship against the backdrop of the double threat of bombing raids and persecution. For one of them, married and a mother of four...

A collection of five films starring the iconic, icy blue-eyed Alain Delon, one of the most iconic figures in recent French cinema history. This set has films from the key phases of his career,...

Shunji Iwai's rites of passage movie focuses on the growing pains of a group of schoolchildren whose sole solace in the Japan's pervasive pop cyber culture is in the faceless celebrity singer...

The first box set in a series that collects the most outrageous works of the prolific Spanish director.

Features four films from director Pedro Almodovar. In 'Flower Of My Secret' a fiction writer on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and unable to turn to her family for help, finds solace in a...

Three stories: Octavio is a young aimless loser who lives in a barrio and has an obsessive crush on his sister-in-law, Susana, who is married to Ramiro, an abusive hoodlum. Meanwhile, Daniel, a...

In this gritty prison drama, Edward Furlong plays Ron Decker, a handsome, athletic 25-year-old and the product of a comfortable Beverly Hills upbringing. He has been sentenced to spend at least...

The first feature film ever to be made in the Inuktitut language, spoken by the Inuit tribes of Northern Canada, telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and...

In war-torn Shogunate Japan, Azumi (Aya Ueto) is a beautiful young girl who has been trained from childhood with nine other orphans to become a fearless assassin. Martial arts master Gessai ...

Luo and Ma, the sons of ‘reactionary intellectuals’, are sent to a remote mountain village for ‘re-education’ through hard labour in the fields and down a coal mine. Both fall for the...

A dark, compelling thriller adapted from crime scribe Ruth Rendell's 'The Tree of Hands', 'Betty Fisher and Other Stories' sees renowned French director Claude Miller (An Impudent Girl, La Petite...

Based on the true-life, best-selling memoirs of Brian Keenan and John McCarthy, Blind Flight tells the harrowing, but ultimately uplifting, story of the Irish teacher and the English journalist...

Chinese manual labourers, perpetually exploited by greedy coal mine owners, find their own ways of fighting back... This debut feature written and directed by Yang Li is a multiple award...

Vivianne Denvers is a well-known film actress who has many male admirers. At the premiere of her latest picture she is pursued by Beaufort, a rather large government official. To get away from...

In an oeuvre permeated with ambivalence toward bourgeois life, director Jean Renoir speculates on the result of the abandonment of those values in BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING. Producer Michel Simon...

School's out, and so are the zombies! It's a hard life when you're only seventeen, in love and one of the walking dead. Tssk - kids, eh?

Landmark French movie that turns the tragi-comic story of small time criminal Michel Poiccard/Laszlo Kovacs (Belmondo) obsessed with both Bogart and an aspiring American journo (Seberg), into a...

The remarkable feature film debut of Nir Bergman, Broken Wings tells the story of recently widowed Dafna and her increasingly estranged four children. Five year old Bar suffers from feelings of...

From the director of 'City Of God', comes 'City Of Men', a television spin-off series chronicling the struggle of Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha) and Acerola (Douglas Silva) trying to avoid the drug...

The fifth and undeniably most accessible of French auteur Eric Rohmer's Moral Tales, Claire's Knee (LeGenou de Claire, 1970) concerns Jerome (Jean-Claude Brialy), an affianced diplomat who bumps...

François Pignon, the world's most boring man, pretends to be gay in order to save his job. His bemused colleagues struggle to come to terms with his hitherto secret sexuality - whilst others see...

Oliver Stone's fascinating documentary on his meeting with Cuban Communist leader Fidel Castro. From three days filming in Cuba, Stone edited down more than 30 hours of interviews and...

Guillermo Del Toro's directorial debut, Cronos combines a surreal and distinctive take on the classic vampire yarn with an allegory about US/Mexican relations.

The life and times of Robert Crumb - controversial cartoonist and the creative genius behind such classics as "Keep on Truckin", "Fritz The Cat" and "Mr. Natural." A riveting, revealing portrait...

Following his escape from his Nazi captors, a Finnish sniper struggles through no-man's-land as he attempt to find the required tools to remove his heavy shackles. He happens upon a farm where a...

From acclaimed Mexican horror maestro, Guillermo Del Toro, comes The Devil's Backbone, a truly terrifying spine-tingler combining state of the art special effects with towering performances from...

Based on a novel by George Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest marked the first in Director Robert Bresson’s so-called “prison trilogy” (followed by Pickpocket and A Man Escaped). The film...

A young postal messenger's secret recording of his operatic idol gets him into unimaginable depths of trouble when the bootleg is accidentally switched with a surveillance tape. As a pair of...

Eddie (Kim Bodnia) and Maria (Maria Bonnevie) enjoy an idyllic life in their remote countryside farmhouse. But their happiness is threatened by the arrival of Kullmann (Mikael Persbrandt), an old...

Duck Season (Temporada de Patos) is a wonderfully observed coming of age comedy by first time Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke which delves into the restless energy of adolescence.

Zapa is a young locksmith who works in a quiet, sleepy part of Buenos Aires. Life is slow and the hours pass slowly untill one day he is sent on a job opening a safe in an office only to find...

"We latch onto a cross-section of kids, from playground demi-gods to a quietly nerdy girl, and have time to get a sense of who they are on the point of becoming before the killers (Alex Frost,...

Film director Edgar is planning a new production. He meets Elle, who he is sure would be perfect for the lead role, but there is something strangely familiar about her. In flashback, we learn...

The true story of a young Jewish boy, Salomon Perel, who flees East at the start of Word War II and falls into the hands of the Germans where he pretends he is of Aryan German origin.

Michael Moore's bold reflection on the current state of America, including the powerful role oil and greed may have played after the 9/11 attacks. In this provocative exposé, Moore tells the...

In the aftermath of World War II bombing, two orphaned children struggle to survive in the Japanese countryside. To Seita and his four-year old sister, the helplessness and indifference of their...

For young, gifted art student Angelique, love has a name: 35-year old cardiologist Loic. The only problem is that the object of her affections is not only a father-to-be but happily married... to...

A charming and affecting tale charting the fortunes of three small town heroes pursuing their dreams, Carlos Sorin's Historias Minimas offers further evidence of the current riches to be found in...

Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient In This World follows young Afghan Jamal (impressive newcomer Jamal Udin Torabi)and his older cousin Enayat ...

Jane Birkin stars as petite waitress Johnny, who lives and works at a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She falls for gay garbage-truck driver Krassky (Joe Dallesandro), who is...

A collection of films from famed actor and independent director John Cassavetes comprising: Shadows (1959): A depiction of the struggle of three black siblings to survive the mean streets of...

Black comedy from Pedro Almodovar about a make-up artist and her relationship with a philandering American writer living in Madrid. Features the usual roster of Almodovar comic stalwarts such as...

Winner of three Oscars, this harrowing epic true story is rereleased in a special two-disc collectors edition.

A characteristically unflinching, daring and contentious work, Nick Broomfield's 'Kurt and Courtney' sheds fascinating new light on the life and death of Nirvana leader and iconic generational...

Simply exuding confidence from the word go, L'APPARTEMENT is a stylish and sexy combination of love story and thriller in which one man is caught up in the passion-driven fates of three women....

Responsible for causing a scandal on its domestic release, this bruising portrait of disaffected youth confirmed its writer/director Mathieu Kassovitz as the wunderkind of French cinema....

Is it or isn't it based on the last few days of Kurt Cobain? Like, whatever, dude. Still, it's one of Gus Van Sant's greatest films and we love it.

Bernardo Bertolucci's epic film tells the incredible story of Pu Yi, who in 1908 at the age of three, became ruler of nearly half of the world's population. He was the "Son of heaven", "Lord of...

"There is no better way to start a film than to have a young naked Spanish man having a ten minute fiddle! And then to fill the rest of your movie with a murderous, tempestuous gay love affair...

Shocked by the death of a friend, three men try to take their lives in hand. A gay man falls under the spell of a young woman. A happily married man encounters a wonderful French woman at the...

'Le Secret' stars the luminous Anne Coesens as Marie, a married woman who senses that her life lacks a certain spark, until a chance encounter with Bill West (Tony Todd), a mysterious American,...

Lost In La Mancha may be the first "un-making of" documentary. In a genre that exists to hype films before their release, 'Lost In La Mancha' presents an unexpected twist: it is the story of a...

Based on award winning novel 'O Matador' by Patricia Mel, 'The Man Of The Year' boasts intense performances from Brazilian film and TV superstars Murilo Benicio and Clausia Abreu. A startling...

In Cranesport, Maine, former teacher Justin McLeod (Gibson) has been an outsider since the day he arrived in the peaceful village. For the last seven years, his hideous scarred face and the...

A delirious mixture of black comedy, film noir and love sory, Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's rapturously received The Man Without A Past triumphed at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, carrying...

This twisted, brave, funny film from Pedro Almodóvar takes an unflinching look at the link between sex, death, and religion. Antonio Banderas stars as Ángel, a sensitive student of matador...

Me and You and Everyone We Know is a poetic and penetrating observation of how people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating and contemporary world. Christine Jesperson is a lonely...

This is a true story... 1986 to 1991: in a small town outside Seoul, over the course of six years 10 women are raped and murdered in a radius of just 2km. Against a backdrop of air raid drills...

1942: British soldier Jack Celliers (David Bowie) arrives at a Japanese POW camp run by the disciplinarian Yonoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto), who believes the prisoners are cowards because they have...

The head chef at swish Hamburg restaraunt The Lido, Martha Klein's perfectionism and obsession with good cooking leaves little free time for romantic entanglements. However, when her sister...

critically acclaimed masterpiece from the mind of David Lynch, creator of 'Twin Peaks' and 'Inland Empire'. Los Angeles, city of angels. Amnesiac and wounded, a mysterious femme fatale wanders...

A truly inspiring documentary that's also filled with human drama, larger-than-life personalities, and triumph over daunting odds - like any great sports story. But 'Murderball', also known as...

Part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish netherworld of the Interzone, pursuing a mysterious project that leads him to confront...

From talented young Argentinian director Fabian Bielinsky comes this thrilling and widely praised cinematic debut. Set in Buenos Aires over the course of 24 hours, Nine Queens is a taut, highly...

Divided into three "kingdoms" -- Enfer (Hell), Purgatoire (Purgatory) and Paradis (Paradise) -- Notre Musique is an indictment of modern times.

Based on the autobiographical novel by Stefanie Zweig, this is the story of Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer living in Germany during the Third Reich. He takes his family away from Germany to live...

Adapted from the hugely acclaimed, best-selling novel by Marc Dugain, writer-director Francois Duperyon's The Officer's Ward is an insightful, honest and profoundly moving meditation on love,...

Visionary director Guillermo del Toro creates a unique, richly imagined epic with Pan's Labyrinth, a gothic fairy tale set against the postwar era of Fanco's Spain. Pan's Labyrinth unfolds...

Visionary director Guillermo del Toro creates a unique, richly imagined epic with Pan's Labyrinth, a gothic fairy tale set against the postwar era of Franco's Spain. Pan's Labyrinth unfolds...

From Michael Powell, the acclaimed director of a Matter of Life and Death and The Red Shoes, comes one of the most controversial films ever made in Britain, and a masterpiece of psychological...

The notorious Pepe Le Moko is a wanted man: women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him, and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam in Algiers' labyrinthine Casbah, Pepe...

A handsome, wealthy bachelor has a sexy girlfriend and all the finest things money can buy. His envious friend, on the other hand, has nothing but his charm, good looks and a wickedly sinister...

From master animator Hayao Miyazaki comes a fantastical tale of action and adventure above the clouds. In 1930s Balkans, only one pilot rules the skies: Porco Rosso, a talented pilot who, due to...

A beautifully realized tale of civilization versus nature, Princess Mononoke is a true epic by Japan's master animator Hayao Miyazaki.

Pre-dating the Ring trilogy, Dark Water and The Grudge this is one of the scariest films ever made from the master of Japanese horror, Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress-up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the Highlands. In the process they...

Roger, a man who believes he's God's gift to women finds his nephew on his doorstep looking for lessons in how to lose his virginity. A planned night out on the town looking for action finds...

Experienced manservant Barrett (a superbly sinister Dirk Bogarde) starts working for foppish aristocrat Tony (James Fox) in his smart new townhouse. Much to the chagrin of Tony's girlfriend ...

Amidst the economic collapse of the post-Soviet era, three generations of Georgian women live together in Tblisi, each hanging on the arrival of the latest letter from the beloved man of the...

Set in rural Spain just after Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, Victor Erice's debut film The Spirit Of The Beehive is a remarkable story of a child's innocence amid post-war traumas....

From one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the history of animated cinema comes the most acclaimed film of 2002, winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin and the 2003 Oscar for Best Animated Film...

"Do me a fucking favour. Shut up, listen and learn!" Fresh out of filmschool into the world of Hollywood naive Guy can't take being dominated by his boss and turns the table....

"By turns unnerving and numbing, Alexandre Aja's "Switchblade Romance" opens with two young women, Marie (Cécile de France) and Alex (Maïwenn), driving on an emptied-out highway. On a study...

A perceptive and revealing portrait of contemporary Iran set in Tehran, 'Ten' begins with a beautiful and articulate female driver picking up her young son from school. After boldly revealing in...

A fire in their nursing home, left Thomas convinced that the two friends were accidentally switched in the melee and that he should have been born into Alfred's wealthy family. As he ponders what...

Despised by vampires for his profession and by humans for the blood in his veins, 'D' relentlessly pursues his prey...for a price.

The film that continues to serve as the benchmark for Clouzot's magnificent career. 'The Wages of Fear' established the writer-director on a truly international level after carrying off major...

Gloria is a typical Madrid housewife with problems. Her husband is obsessed with an ex-Nazi chanteuse; of her two sons, one has discovered the benefits of dope dealing while the other is a...

Based on terrifying true events, this movie is an unforgettable, shocking and genuinely scary horror flick - guaranteed to have you on the edge of your seat.

Passion has no boundaries... Sally (Orlando) Potter's latest is delivered entirely in iambic pentameter - think how Shakespeare used to write, kids - and totally unforgettable.