Foreign

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 arrival of a social worker sees an attempt made to...

Graphicallly violent, BAFTA-winning prison drama from acclaimed French director Jacques Audiard ('Read My Lips', 'The Beat That My Heart Skipped'). Sentenced to six years in a brutal French prison, 19-year-old petty criminal Malik El Djebena (Tahar...

1970s 'giallo' Euro-horror written and directed by Lucio Fulci. Florinda Bolkan stars as Carol Hammond, a troubled young woman who experiences a series of bizarre sexual dreams in which she indulges in perverse sexual activities with her neighbour Julia...

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 consumed by jealousy and resentment over his friend's...

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 insane asylums. Giovanna Mezzogiorno stars as Ida, a young...

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 - wandering through the streets of Paris. Along the way she...

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 who has set his sights on Francoise (Marie-Christine...

Russian-French comedy drama. Aleksei Guskov stars as Andrei Filipov, a once-celebrated conductor of the prestigious Bolshoi Orchestra who was sacked from the post 30 years previously for hiring Jewish musicians, and has worked in the menial role of...

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) find themselves caught up in the turmoil of a rapidly...

Director Roy Andersson's Special Jury Prize-winner at Cannes in 2000. A man burns down his furniture store. A huge traffic jam clogs the streets of the city. Hordes of people arrive at the airport with their possessions piled high on luggage trolleys...

Kim Jee-Woon directs this brutally visceral Korean revenge thriller. When his pregnant fiancee becomes the latest victim of maniacal serial killer Kyung-chul (Min-sik Choi), secret agent Dae-hoon (Byung-hun Lee) takes the law into his own hands and sets...

Luc Besson writes and directs this comic fantasy adventure adapted from Jacques Tardi's graphic novels of the 1970s. Set in the early 20th century, the film tells the colourful tale of popular novelist and adventuress Adele Blanc-Sec (Louise Bourgoin),...

Emotional drama from director Guillaume Canet in which a group of friends try to escape their problems by going on a trip to the seaside together. Eric (Gilles Lellouche), Vincent (Benoit Magimel), Max (Francois Cluzet), Marie (Marion Cotillard) and...

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 Mediterranean fishing village of La Pointe Courte, 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 ordinary society. Beginning with her death, the film...