Adapted from Zola's novel, this powerful tale concerns a triangle of love and murder in which a train driver becomes passionately involved with a femme fatale. With its images of trains and railways as symbols of human destiny this is a visually arresting film; Gallic and tragic. find out more...

A truly remarkable adaptation of Woolf's novel. Tilda Swanton is enthralling as the androgenous and ageless Orlando seeking love in a 400 year odyssey; from the finery of Elizabeth the First's court, through the Civil War, the early colonial period, the literary salons of 1750, by which time Orlando is a woman, the Victorian era of property, and finally to the present day. Potter's direction adds a marvellous period feel. Superb, this is a magical story . find out more...

A daring and beautiful adaptation of Shakespeare's classic love story. Clare Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio give dazzling performances as the star-crossed lovers who try in vain to bring their warring families together. Combining Elizabethan text with an urban, futuristic setting. Highly recommended! find out more...

Lily Bart is a beautiful and charming young socialite who is beginning to realise the tenuous nature of her world. She has reached a point within it where she must take the first steps on a path that will define the rest of her life, but despite Lily's intelligence and opportunities she seems incapable of making the right decision and her world begins to slide irredeemably towards tragedy. The House Of Mirth is a sumptuous adaption of Edith Wharton's novel, faithful to the novel, intelligent and find out more...

Erika Kohan teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory and though in her late thirties still lives with her monstrous and repressive mother, with whom she shares a tempestuous relationship. Erika has constructed an aloof and unapproachable aura which enables her to remain emotionally disconnected from those around her, but one of her students is about to introduce her to a world of passion and unleash an explosion of need and desire. 'The Piano Teacher' is an intense story of emotional and sexuall find out more...

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed; looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others; present also in memory are Marcel's beloved moth find out more...