Foreign

Karel Zeman co-writes and directs this fantasy adventure starring Milos Kopecky as eccentric adventurer Baron Munchausen. After coming across young astronaut Tonik (Rudolf Jelínek) on the moon, the Baron decides to take him back to Earth to meet a...

Catalan historical drama co-written and directed by Lluís Miñarro. The film follows ruler Amadeo I (Alex Brendemühl) as he attempts to establish himself as the King of Spain in the early 1870s. After being elected during a period of violent social...

Low-budget Romanian drama co-written and directed by Cristi Puiu. Struggling entrepreneur Ovidiu (Alexandru Papadopol) is approached by a local crime lord with a job offer. Tempted by the prospect of earning some quick cash, Ovidiu and his two friends...

Historical drama directed by Albert Serra. As his life comes to an end, Giacomo Casanova (Vicenç Altaió) travels to the mountains of Carpathia to seek out young peasant girls with whom he can satisfy his sexual desires. When he arrives, however, he...

Oldrich Lipsky's one-of-a-kind Czech black comedy employs an ingenious twist - telling the life story of a philanderer and condemned murderer entirely in reverse: from his 'birth' at the guillotine, to his departure as an infant. Starring the great...

Second Run presents a selection of essential works by Polish filmmaker and iconoclast Jerzy Skolimowski, one of international cinema's most prolific and celebrated filmmakers. This special edition box set contains three features - Walkover (1965),...

A manifesto for a new generation of young filmmakers, Pearls of the Deep is one of the delights of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Based on stories by Bohumil Hrabal, the film is a compendium of five films each demonstrating the differing styles of five...

Based on true events, and reflecting the Stalinist terror of the early 1950s, Ryszard Bugajski's harrowing film was banned under martial law in Poland, but survived and thrived on underground VHS through a copy smuggled out by the director at great...

With delirious visuals conjured by cinematographer Jaroslav Kucera (Daisies, Diamonds of the Night) and often described as 'the last film of the Czechoslovak New Wave', Juraj Herz's delirious tale of terror is a surreal phantasmagoria of dark desires and...

Eduard Grecner writes and directs this Slovakian drama. Set during medieval times, reclusive potter Martin Lepis (Radovan Lukavsky), who the villagers refer to as Dragon, returns to the mountain community that ousted him years before for a crime he...

Classic Hungarian drama directed by Károly Makk. Luca (Mari Töröcsik)'s husband has been arrested by the secret police. As she cares for his sick mother (Lili Darvas), she can't bear to tell her the truth, and so she weaves a story that he is in...

Collection of two films directed by Vojtech Jasny. His debut feature 'Desire' (1958) intertwines four stories of Czech rural life. 'All My Good Countrymen' (1968) explores the lives of seven friends in a small Moravian village following the socialisation...

Czech filmmaker Jiri Menzel directs this comedy drama set in a labour camp in 1950s Communist-run Prague. The film tells the stories of the various characters interned in the labour camp-cum-scrapyard, who have been deemed counter-revolutionary and...

Vera Chytilová writes and directs this surrealist Czech comedy centred around the lives of two teenage girls known as Marie I and Marie II (Jitka Cerhova and Ivana Karbanova). When the girls come to the conclusion that since the world is bad they should...

Collection of three Hungarian classic dramas. 'Merry-Go-Round' (1956) stars Mari Töröcsik and Imre Soós as a young couple in love who wish to marry, but her father has arranged her marriage to an older, wealthy farmer. In 'Current' (1964), a group of...