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From the elusive mind of Oscar nominated writer/director Lars Von Trier (Dogville, Antichrist) comes this dark and mystifying tale starring Kirsten Dunst in a role that won her Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival.Melancholia is Lars Von Trier's first

This utterly compelling psychological thriller from Michael Haneke - one of cinema's most daring, original and controversial directors - stars Daniel Auteuil as Georges, a television presenter who begins to recieve mysterious and alarming packages contain

A village in Protestant northern Germany. 1913-1914. On the eve of World War I. The story of the children and teenagers of a choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families: the baron, the steward, the pastor, the doctor, the midwife, the tenan

Winner of the Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2009, Andrea Arnold's acclaimed film Fish Tank scooped the 2010 BAFTA for Outstanding British Film.In Fish Tank, 15 year old Mia's life is turned on its head when her mum brings home a new boyfriend. Director

The year is 1844. A young lord rapes and kills with impunity by virtue of his political connections. Though the era of the Samurai is fading, an honest government official covertly enlists thirteen swordsmen to assassinate this sadistic lord before he can

The stand out film of the 2011 Berlin Film Festival and winner of the Golden Bear, A Separation is a suspenseful and intelligent drama detailing the fractures and tensions at the heart of Iranian society. Written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, the film

Adapted from a story by 'Out of Africa' author Isak Dinesen, it tells the story of a 19th Century religious community on Denmark's remote and windswept coast. Into this austere environment comes Babette, a mysterious refugee from France's civil war. When

Taking its cue from Nietsche's famous encounter with a mistreated horse on Via Carlo Alberto, The Turin Horse depicts the aftermath of this seemingly innocuous but destructively profound confrontation. Following a man and his daughter in their daily routi

1976: Een timide geluidstechnicus uit het landelijke Surrey arriveert in Italië om te werken aan een mysterieuze horrorfilm, waarin hij de taak heeft bloedstollende krijsen te mixen met groteske geluiden van groenten die gehakt worden. Maar wanneer het ge

Leos Carax keert terug naar de bioscoop met Holy Motors na een pauze van 13 jaar. Holy Motors is een briljante, visueel in het oog springende film, die één van de meest geprezen kanshebbers was op het Filmfestival in Cannes in 2012.

The final film of acclaimed director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The story of a sailor named Querelle (Brad Davis), who turns on his drug-smuggling partner and murders him. He then goes to a notorious brothel run by the rapacious Lysiane (Jeanne Moreau),

Jep Gambardella, a 65-year-old journalist and once promising novelist, spends his easy life among Rome's high society in a swirl of rooftop parties and late-night soirees. But when he learns of the death of his friend's wife - a woman he loved as an 18-ye

Arriving at their remote lakeside holiday home, a middle-class family are alarmed by the unexpected arrival of two young men who soon begin to subject them to a twisted and horrifying ordeal of terror.With characteristic mastery, Michael Haneke turns the

The first instalment of the late Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy on Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, the three colours of the French flag. Blue is the most sombre of the three, a movie dominated by feelings of grief. As the film begins, a

The final section of the late Krzysztof Kieslowski's acclaimed Three Colours trilogy (preceded by Blue and White) is the least likely of the three to stand alone, and indeed benefits from a little familiarity with the first two parts. Nevertheless, it's a

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 husban

Following a four-year separation, Ahmad returns to Paris from Tehran, upon his French wife Marie's request, in order to finalize their divorce procedure. During his stay, Ahmad quickly discovers the conflicting nature of Marie's relationship with her daug

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne continue to mine the lives of individuals faced with potentially tragic consequences in this powerful drama.Oscar winner Marion Cotillard is impressive as Sandra, a woman who returns to work after suffering from depression to

If revenge was always a dish best served cold it would get boring pretty quickly. From producer Pedro Almodóvar (The Skin I Live In, Bad Education) comes six stories, each exploring a different facet of vengeance and the various brilliant, mad, toe-curlin

Whilst on a ski holiday in the French Alps, a family are suddenly hit by what looks to be a deadly avalanche and the father-and-husband makes a cowardly run for it, abandoning his wife and two children. However, when it turns out to be a false alarm he ha

Following Songs from the Second Floor and You, the Living, Roy Andersson's award-winning film (Best Film, Venice 2014) forms the third part of a loose trilogy about life, death and what it means to be a human being.Sam and Jonathan are two travelling sale

Een verlegen maar ambitieuze filmstudent krijgt een intense, emotioneel beladen relatie met een charismatische maar onbetrouwbare oudere man.

From the critically acclaimed Lars Von Trier, Antichrist explores the relationship of a married couple after they lose their son to a tragic accident. The mother (Charlotte Gainsbourg) descends into a deep depression and her husband (Willem Dafoe) a thera

A film star comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career.

17 year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) embarks on a mission to find her father after he uses their family house as a way of securing his bail and disappears without a trace. Faced with the possibility of losing her home and being turned out into the Oz

Artificial Eye

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Artificial Eye

A multi-layered, enigmatic portrait of the employees and patrons of a Toronto strip club, Atom Egoyan's bold erotic thriller is a stunning combination of directorial flair and keen, humanistic insight.

Artificial Eye

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Artificial Eye

Featuring an astonishing Oscar-nominated performance by Emily Watson, Lars von Trier's powerful Breaking the Waves tell the story of Bess, a naive young woman who marries Jan, a handsome oil-rig worker. Their marital bliss is cut when an accident on the r

Artificial Eye

By turns profoundly moving, viscerally shocking, intellectually resonant and surprisingly funny, this collection of four films by Lars von Trier contains a selection of some of the most dazzling, daring and devilish works of cinematic art from one of the