Artificial Eye

Lars von Trier's controversial exploration of depression, guilt and sexuality stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a couple grieving the death of their young son. The mother is initially...

Andrea Arnold writes and directs this tale of fatal attraction which won the Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year at the 2010 BAFTA Awards. 15-year-old Mia Williams (Katie...

The directorial debut of British filmmaker Peter Strickland, this Romanian-language drama is based on a traditional Transylvanian ballad. Hilda Peter stars in the title role as a young woman who...

Intimate and inventive autobiographical portrait of acclaimed experimental French director Agnes Varda. A member of the French New Wave and married to fellow director Jacques Demy, Varda pioneered...

Four films by Nouvelle Vague director Agnès Varda. 'The Beaches of Agnés' (2008) is an intimate and inventive autobiographical account of Varda's life. A member of the French New Wave and married...

Michael Haneke won the 2009 Cannes Palm d'Or for this two-and-a-half hour black and white study of German rural village life in 1913. Focusing in particular on the austere and often brutal...

Laurent Cantet directs this French drama based on the book by teacher Francois Bégaudeau, which chronicles a year in the life of an inner-city Parisian high school with a high intake of pupils from...

A trilogy of stories by Eric Rohmer that explore the misunderstandings and misconceptions that can dog twenty-something love affairs. Each story is shot against the backdrop of Paris, which becomes...

In Iran, two twelve-year-old sisters have lived all their lives as prisoners of their impoverished father and blind mother. The father reasons that he is protecting his offspring from the world, but...

The collected films from French director Eric Rohmer's six-part 'Moral Tales' cycle, which spans almost a decade from 1963 to 1972. In 'Suzanne's Career' (1963), a young student finds himself...

Marco Bellocchio directs this Italian drama based on the true story of Benito Mussolini's secret first wife and son, who were hidden away by the fascist Italian leader and both went on to die in...

Agnes Varda directs this early 1960s French realist drama. While waiting for the result of a medical test, French singer Cleo (Corinne Marchand) spends a couple of hours - shown in real time -...

Jean-Louis Trintignant stars in this black-and-white French drama, the third in Eric Rohmer's cycle of six 'moral tales'. Jean-Louis (Trintignant) is a 34-year-old Catholic engineer and mathematician...

Drama centred around a family of white French settlers in Africa. When coffee plantation owner Henri Vial (Michel Subor), his son Andre (Christophe Lambert) and his ex-wife Marie (Isabelle Huppert)...

Debra Granik directs this tense drama based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell, set in the poverty-stricken backwoods of the Ozarks. Jennifer Lawrence stars as 17-year-old Ree Dolly, who is forced to...

British filmmaker Joanna Hogg writes and directs this drama set in the Scilly Isles, painting a portrait of a middle class English family under strain. When Edward (Tom Hiddleston) announces his...

This semi-documentary exploration of the complexities of a marital relationship marks the directorial debut of French New Wave filmmaker Agnes Varda. Set against the backdrop of daily life in the...

French drama written and directed by Agnès Varda. The film tells the story of the final few weeks in the life of drifter Mona Bergeron (Sandrine Bonnaire), who feels incapable of participating in...

French film-maker Agnès Varda directs this drama charting the friendship of two women against the backdrop of the feminist movement of the 1960s and '70s. When middle-class teenager Pomme (Valérie...

French New Wave film-maker Agnès Varda directs this drama exploring the complex and devastating effects of an extra-marital affair. François (Jean-Claude Drouot), a happily-married carpenter with a...

Documentary from French film-maker Agnès Varda examining the lives of those who live off the grid in France. Gleaning is the act of gathering the leftovers from a harvest after the main, profitable...

Asghar Farhadi directs this highly-acclaimed Iranian drama, which won the 2012 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, about the far-reaching effects of an acrimonious divorce. Middle-class couple...

Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay directs this adaptation of the bestselling novel by Lionel Shriver. Tilda Swinton stars as Eva, the afflicted and angst-ridden mother who fails to bond with her son...

Andrea Arnold ('Red Road', 'Fish Tank') directs this gritty, pared-down version of Emily Brontë's classic Gothic novel. Heathcliff (Solomon Glave/James Howson), a runaway slave boy, is brought back...

Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski helms this Paris-set psychological thriller adapted from the 2007 book by Douglas Kennedy. American novelist Tom Ricks (Ethan Hawke) arrives in Paris in the vain...

The Dardenne brothers write and direct this Belgian drama about an eleven-year-old boy in search of a family. In an attempt to escape the state-run care home he has ended up in, rebellious pre-teen...

Juliette Binoche stars in this French drama about female students who turn to prostitution to fund their university studies. Anne (Binoche) is a professional journalist writing an article about...

Hungarian maestro Bela Tarr directs this black and white drama set in the early 19th century and inspired by a story about the German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. According to the tale,...

Inventive horror in which a sound engineer working in the confines of an Italian movie studio becomes dangerously absorbed in his work. The tale is set in the 1970s, when Italian horror films,...

Collection of six features from acclaimed filmmakers the Dardenne brothers. In 'The Kid With a Bike' (2011), an eleven-year-old boy is in search of a family. In an attempt to escape the state-run...

Leos Carax directs this surrealist French drama starring Denis Lavant, Kylie Minogue and Eva Mendes. Monsieur Oscar (Lavant) is a man of many identities. Driven around Paris by his chauffeur, Celine...

Writer/director Gabriel Axel's Oscar-winning film is set in 19th-century Denmark. Babette (Stéphane Audran), a chef and refugee from France's civil war, finds herself in a remote Danish hamlet...