Luna's vision of rural Spain is as witty and sexy as anything Almodovar has done in recent times. This superb farce centres around a beautiful young girl, her mother (a whore),and the machinations of her fiancee's mother. Sex, humour underwear and ham in equal measure! The finale is exqusite. find out more...

Ferreri's outrageous and satirical farce, with four bored rich and repressed men hellbent on killing themselves in a protracted orgy of eating and sex. Life bores them, and maybe death will provide a release. Shades of Sade and an obvious influence on Greenaway. Both funny and distasteful. Top! find out more...

Mike Leigh serves up another delicious slice of frighteningly real British family life. Alison Steadman is outstanding as the suburban mother of teenage twin daughters, one a plumber, the other a heavily depressed and anti-social bulimic. Stark, hilarious, tragic but ultimately uplifting. Brilliant British film making. find out more...

Tita's heart is broken when she is forbidden to marry the man she loves because of a family tradition. When her sister instead marries her lover her anger goes into her magical cooking. A wonderfully inventive and touching story, with superb visual flourishes - a beautiful, colourful fable.. find out more...

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Life is crazy. You're crazy, I'm crazy, we're all crazy. We're all a little bit Minnie, and a little bit Moskowitz. Sometimes it does seem best to be sensible...but then what might you be missing out on? You gotta be you. You don't have to park cars and semi-randomly yell at people, but you can't hide yourself behind a veil (or dark sunglasses) and pretend and act like ever find out more...

An awesomely shot, sci-fi-like tableau of the high technologies and production line techniques involved in the modern food production industry. Shot with a Nietzschean eye to the beauty of man's mastery of nature and with a dry Germanic sense of humour "Our Daily Bread" may ignore both the damage to nature and the cruelty involved in these processes, but it sure makes fabulous art and great cinema. find out more...

Gyorgy Palfi's grotesque tale of three generations of men, including an obese speed eater, an embalmer of gigantic cats, and a man who shoots fire out of his penis. find out more...

Every night the sadistic, tasteless thief dines in the most extravagant restaurant, whilst the wife meets the lover in the "bathroom". A savage indictment of 1980s Britain (champagne louts) and a gastronomic nightmare amongst a lavish set with camerawork to match. This film has a profound impact. find out more...

A superb and involving drama, exquisitely filmed, set in 50s Saigon. We follow the silently beautiful Mui in her capacity as servant girl to a rich family. The family's financial difficulties mean she must leave the only life she knows but the change brings love. Achingly, painfully beautiful. find out more...