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Nathalie (Nathalie X) (MA15+) 2003
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Catherine (Fanny Ardant) is an attractive woman with a great career and a seemingly solid marriage to Bernard (Gérard Depardieu), her husband of 25 years. Their lives seem to be going well until Catherine discovers that Bernard is having an affair. Realising that she does not really know her husband...
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Masterworks Of Abbas Kiarostami, The: Taste of Cherry (PG) 1997
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A beautiful meditation on life and existence, THE TASTE OF CHERRY follows a day in the life of Badii (Homayoun Ershadi), an affluent middle-aged man who has lost his instinct for living. Surrounded by the bustling vitality of Iranian working life, Badii approaches several people with a request to he...
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2 Or 3 Things I Know About Her (M) 1966
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What do you know about her? Indeed, who is she? In Jean-Luc Godard's seminal 1966 film, 'her' is Paris, 'her' is his lead actress Marina Vlady and 'her' is her character Juliette, her is physical love, the cruelty of neocapitalism, the death of human beauty, the circulation of ideas, the Vietnam war...
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Living and the Dead, The (TBC) 2006
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Close to bankruptcy, ex-Lord Donald Brocklebank (Roger Lloyd-Pack- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) is forced to sell the sprawling mansion he lives in with his wife and schizophrenic son James (Leo Bill - 28 Days Later). Lady Nancy Brocklebank (Kate Fahy) has taken seriously ill and Donald must...
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Kika (R18+) 1993
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Young cosmetologist Kika is called to the mansion of rich American Nicholas in order to make up the corpse of his stepson Ramon. As it turns out, Ramon is not actually dead and he begins an affair with Kika. However the path of true love never does run smooth and the pair must survive the threats of...
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Five Obstructions, The (M) 2003
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With The Five Obstructions , notoriously mischievous director Lars von Trier performs yet another cinematic experiment. This time around, the Danish prankster tries to outwit his mentor, director Jorgen Leth, forcing him to remake his classic 1967 short, "The Perfect Human," five different tim...
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Tom White (M) 2004
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Tom White (Colin Friels) is at breaking point as an architectural draftsman, his middle class life overpowering him. His impotent fury is as confusing to him as to his workmates and his wife Helen (Rachael Blake). When he slips out of his world and wanders into the urban undergrowth of Melbourne, To...
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Emile (M) 2003
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Starring two-time academy award nominated Sir Ian McKellen, Emile is the poignant exploration of an older man’s struggle to reconnect with his past. From the director of Johnny (1999) and Lola (2001) comes the third chapter of films dealing with a character’s search for identity at a critica...
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3 Needles (M) 2005
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In South Africa, Clara (Chloë Sevigny) is a young, inexperienced but optimistic nun living among the Pondo tribe on the Wild Coast. While her mission is to save the souls of the rapidly dying Africans, Clara becomes embroiled in a futile struggle to help a family of orphans.
When Jin Ping (Lucy L...
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Rashomon (M) 1950
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In ancient Japan, a woman is raped and her husband killed. RASHOMON is played out by giving us four stories- with every story revealing different points of view. The question remains - just which version is the truth?
RASHOMON was remade with Paul Newman as THE OUTRAGE (1964) and also credited by...
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Mary (M) 2005
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Mary Magdalene: disciple of Jesus, possessor of the Holy Grail and the catalyst of Abel Ferrara's latest film, Mary, where characters are forever and positively linked by her spirit and mystery.
Tony Childress (Matthew Modine), an infamous, egotistical and obsessive actor/director plays the lead r...
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Father and Son (PG) 2003
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Father (Andrej Shetinin) and Son (Alexei Nejmyshev) live together in a rooftop apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own private world, full of memories and daily rituals. Sometimes they seem like brothers. Sometimes even like lovers. Following in his father's footsteps, Alexei attends...
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AE Fond Kiss (MA15+) 2004
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In Glasgow, Scotland, the Pakistani parents of Casim Khan have decided that he is going to marry his cousin Jasmine. Unfortunately, Casim has just fallen in love with his younger sister's music teacher Roisin. Not only is she 'goree', a white woman, she is also Irish and catholic, things that may no...
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Earth Will Tremble, The (La Terra Trema) (G) 1948
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Based on director Luchino Visconti's vision of a peasant uprising, this haunting film details a Sicilian fishing village's battle to rebuild their post-war society in the face of an exploitative wholesaler. Visconti's purest excursion into neorealism and a masterpiece of post-war Italian cinema, La ...
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Farewell To Harry (PG) 2002
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A down-and-out writer, Nick Sennet, runs into Harry, a man that, legend has it, died long ago. Together they attempt to revitalize a defunct factory as well as their lives.
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