Western
(1997)

Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives the Spaniard a lift. Their mutual attraction...  More

The Ice Storm
(1997) [M]

Set against a backdrop of deceit and wife swapping in the 1970s, The Ice Storm is an extraordinary tale of sexual jealousy. Ben Hood (Kevin Kline) is having an affair with his neighbour Janey (Sigourney Weaver). His wife (Joan Allen) is fast losing patience with his clumsy lies. Meanwhile his...  More

Happy Together
(1997) [M]

Lai and Ho, arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong as lovers, but Ho leaves for Buenos Aires to become a good-time boy. Lai attempts to regain his emotional state but finds that he is consumed with the dream of being "happy together" once again with Ho. Wong Kar-Wai, winner for Best Director at...  More

The Sweet Hereafter
(1997) [M]

A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer (Ian Holm) visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is...  More

Taste of Cherry
(1997) [PG]

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...  More

Microcosmos
(1996) [G]

Take an incredible journey with Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou through a meadow on an ordinary summer's day. By the use of Macrovision and extraordinary sound we get a bug's eye view of the world in miniature.  More

Crash (1996)
(1996) [R]

The controversial film by David Cronenberg that won the 1996 Won Jury Special Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Advertising executive James Ballard and his wife Catherine lead complex, if hollow sexual lives. However in a near fatal car crash with Dr. Helen Remington, Ballard finds himself being...  More

Breaking The Waves
(1996) [R]

Lars Von Trier's challenging Breaking The Waves is set in the early 1970s. A naive young girl, Bess (Emily Watson), living in a small community on the north west of Scotland, falls in love with oil-rig worker and man-of-the-world Jan (Stellan Skarsgard). Despite local opposition they marry and...  More

Secrets And Lies
(1996) [M]

Nominated for 5 Oscars and winner of 3 BAFTA awards, Mike Leigh’s hilarious, bittersweet comedy is an unmissable and moving slice of real life. Secrets and Lies centres around Cynthia, a sad, unmarried mother who works in a factory and lives in a shabby terraced house with a confrontational...  More

Shanghai Triad
(1995) [M]

`Shanghai Triad" may be the last of the collaborations between the Chinese director Zhang Yimou and the gifted actress Gong Li. The story of a gang boss in 1930s Shanghai and his willful, troublesome mistress, it's seen through the eyes of a small boy from the country who loses his innocence in...  More