The highly eccentric and totally brilliant Alexandro Jodorowsky doesn't make films like anybody else. Directed, written by and starring the man himself "El Topo" is a violent, surreal, quasi-religious Western, if that makes sense (which like the film it doesn't). AJ plays the nomadic lone gunslinger of the title, mostly shooting people for the first half, before being reincarnated as the comedian-cum-holyman protector of a community of deformed outcasts. No doubt some would attempt to read all s find out more...

In 1920s Los Angeles, Alexandria, a five-year-old girl hospitalized from a fall, strikes up an unlikely friendship with Roy, a Hollywood stuntman shattered by a near fatal movie set accident and his lover's betrayal. To pass the time he tells Alexandria the epic tale of the tyrannical Governor Odious and the five remarkable heroes determined to defeat him. But as the line between reality and fantasy begins to dissolve Alexandria realises how much is truly at stake. Filmed over four years in eigh find out more...