All About My Mother
(1999) [M]

A birthday treat turns into heart-rending tragedy for single-mother Manuela when her teenage son is killed in a car accident after a performance of A Streetcar Named Desire starring his favourite actress Huma Roja. Determined to exorcise her overwhelming guilt, Manuela goes to Barcelona to...  More

The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant (Fassbinder on Sex)
(1972) [M]

Fassbinder on Sex combines three of Fassbinder's most risque and self-reflexive films, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Fox and his Friends and In a Year with 13 Moons, which offer the maverick filmmaker's unique views about sex and the nature of sexuality.

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Satyricon
(1969) [M]

"My ambition has always been to restore fantasy to the cinema," revealed renowned Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. And so he did in this feverishly brilliant succession of grotesque and macabre images which make the fantasies of his films 8? and Juliet of the Spirits seem as child's play....  More

The Decameron
(1971) [R]

The first of Pasolini's colourful, entertaining and highly erotic Trilogy of Life films based on famous story cycles (to be followed by The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights, The Decameron contains ten stories based on the fourteenth century works of Giovanni Boccaccio.

Capturing the...  More

Last Tango In Paris
(1972) [R]

While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their...  More

Ma Mere
(2004) [R]

Ma mère takes place in the Canary Islands, where the film's family shares a home. The mother Hélène (Isabelle Huppert), cool and in charge, and her teenaged son Pierre (Louis Garrel), a pious Catholic back from boarding school, discuss his father's infidelity; the next they hear, he is dead in...  More

The Isle
(2000) [MA]

Recalling both the erotic tension and the surrealist imagery of Woman of the Dunes, Kim Ki-duk's film is set near a remote lake where men come far and wide to fish on anchored rafts. Running a little bait-and-tackle shop is the earthy -- almost feral -- young lass Hee-jin (Seoh Jung), who...  More

Aimee and Jaguar
(1999) [M]

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women. One of them, Lilly Wust (Juliane Köhler), married and the mother of four sons, enjoys the privileges of her stature as an exemplar of Nazi motherhood....  More

8 1/2 Women
(1999) [R]

A startling and challenging voyage into the taboo worlds of sex and death from Peter Greenaway. When wealthy Swiss architect Philip Emmenthal (John Standing) takes financial control of a group of Pachinko game parlours in Japan, and puts his strange son Storey (Matthew Delamare) in charge, his...  More

Anatomy Of Hell (Anatomie de L'Enfer)
(2004) [R]

Over the course of her career as a writer and filmmaker, Catherine Breillat (ROMANCE, FAT GIRL) has never shied away from controversial topics, using both mediums to explore her strong feminist opinions. Joining a generation of similarly taboo-breaking French directors such as Francois Ozon and...  More

Big Doll House
(1971) [MA]

Director Jack Hill (COFFY, SPIDER BABY) launched both a cycle of women-in-prison films and the stardom of Pam Grier with this sexy, funny, thrilling exploitation classic. At a prison farm in the Philippines, new girl Collier (Judy Brown) is locked up with bitter lesbian Grear (Grier), rebel girl...  More

Don Juan ou Si Don Juan etait une femme
(1973) [MA]

In what was her last feature film, Brigitte Bardot sizzles as a calculating nymphet in this feminised version of the Don Juan story. A lusty seductress who placates her boredom by preying on vulnerable men - a married politician, a jilted folk singer who ends up slashing his wrists - Bardot is at...  More

Last House on the Left
(1972) [R]

Wes Craven's (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream) notorious film debut is a grimly affecting portrait of human evil infiltrating a middle-class household. Adapted from Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring, this no-budget horror shocker sees four escaped cons kidnap, rape, torture and finally...  More

The Big Bird Cage
(1972) [R]

Kidnapped during a nightclub shootout and thrown into a concentration camp for women Terry (Anita Ford) is subjected to sadistic cruelty from guards and fellow prisoners. Terry's only hope of escape from "The Big Bird Cage" lies in fellow inmate Blossom (Pam Grier) and her revolutionary allies -...  More

The Dreamers
(2003) [R]

Set among the rebellious currents of 1968 Paris, Bernardo Bertolucci's THE DREAMERS centers on three university students who adore the Cinematheque Francaise, and are fascinated by '60s culture--the music of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, the films of Jean-Luc Godard, and the writings of Susan...  More

Nathalie
(2003) [MA]

Catherine thinks she’s in control, Marlene is just doing her job and Bernard just wants his wife back. When Catherine (Fanny Ardant) finds her husband Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is having an affair, she doesn’t want revenge… she wants to share the experience, but in secret and in full...  More