Isabelle Huppert and Michel Serrault star in Claude Chabrol’s comedic crime caper that sees a con-artist couple hoping to fleece a businessman of a suitcase full of cash. More…
Is Nagisa Oshima’s controversial 1975 classic In the Realm of the Senses thought provoking pornography or beautifully filmed sadomasochistic art? You decide. More…
In 1978 Nagisa Oshima followed up his controversial In The Realm of the Senses with Empire of Passion, a traditional ghost story spliced with elements of eroticism. More…
František Vláčil’s Marketa Lazarová is set in the Middle Ages and tells of a feudal lord’s daughter who’s kidnapped and then becomes the mistress of one of the robbers. More…
Filmed entirely from the dashboard of an Iranian woman’s car, Ten is a tremendous achievement of minimalist cinema by Kiarostami, one of the world’s greatest directors. More…
Directed by and starring the showman of Hindi cinema, Raj Kapoor, Awara’s themes are pretty hefty and leading lady Nargis is compelling and captivating as a young lawyer. More…
Art film, Stalinist propaganda or something else entirely? We look at Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible and some of the questions raised by academic Joan Neuberger. More…
Bernardo Bertolucci’s first feature as director is this 1962 murder mystery told from several different accounts by suspects being interrogated at the police station. More…
Vittorio De Sica’s neo-realist fable sees a kind and cheerful young man bringing hope to the lives of a group displaced people as they build homes and form a community. More…
Writer and director Pedro Almodóvar looks at love, obsession and romantic idolisation in Talk To Her, a film about two men caring for their comatose girlfriends. More…
What does a dying man do when he knows there’s no cure? Waste what little precious time he has left wallowing in grief for himself or try to live as best he can? More…
From the combined minds of Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet comes Last Year At Marienbad; a surreal, mysterious, extraordinary and beguiling masterpiece of cinema. More…
De Sica’s comedy in the post-war economic boom in Italy sees Roman businessman Giovanni is in dire financial straits with only one option – to sell his eyeball. More…
Patrick goes back to his roots and rediscovers Kabhi Kabhie, a Bollywood classic starring Amitabh Bachchan, which has been on his mind for almost 25 years. More…
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s West German love story is set against a backdrop of social inequality and raises questions about selfishness, immigration and loneliness. More…
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