A brilliant reworking of Alice in Wonderland by surrealist Czech filmaker Jan Svankmajer. Alice, the only human in the film, falls into a terrifying Wonderland populated by animated puppets and full of truily bizarre visuals; she changes size, becomes her own doll, when the White Rabbit loses his stuffing he simply secures his gaping chest with a safety-pin and eats the sawdust, eggs crack to reveal skulls, rolls sprout nails, steaks crawl..... but the very best scene is definitely the tea party find out more...

It becomes apparent early on when viewing Belladonna of Sadness that this film is quite unique. Certainly the first, and possibly the only animated film that might be classified in the pinku genre. But even though the film is supposedly animated, nothing seems to be moving at first. You instead see a series of elegantly designed still drawings depicting a harmonious wedding find out more...

A childless couple ‘adopt' a tree stump that resembles a small boy and the wife's desperately needy love transforms the inanimate into the living. Unfortunately little Otik's appetite is considerably more advanced than the average baby and soon the adorable little chunk of wood is devouring the neighbourhood. Adapted from a Czech folk tale, Little Otik is a deliciously dark and imaginative film. find out more...

In the near future, a revolutionary new psychotherapy treatment called PT has been invented. Through a device called the "DC Mini" it is able to act as a "dream detective" to enter into people's minds and explore their unconscious thoughts. Before the government can pass a bill authorizing the use of such advanced psychiatric technology, one of the prototypes is stolen. In the wrong hands the DC Mini can be used to completely annihilate a dreamer's personality while they still sleep, so scientis find out more...

This 2-disc DVD set celebrates the work of the amazing master craftsmen and identical twin animators The Quay Brothers, who have produced a unique body of work and made a major contribution towards establishing the puppet film as a serious adult art form. find out more...

A man is shipwrecked on a deserted island and encounters a red turtle, which changes his life. No dialogue, just super slow cinema. Very pretty but ideologically unbalanced - in the gender stakes. It's either a beautiful work of art or a sexist yawn: you decide.

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On the eve of her wedding the beautiful opera singer Malvina is mysteriously killed and abducted by the malevolent Dr Droz. Felisberto, an innocent piano tuner, is summoned to Droz's secluded villa so that he can service the doctor's strange musical automatons and little by little he learns of Droz's plan to stage a "diabolical opera". The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes is the breathtakingly beautiful second film from the brothers Quay, a strikingly original fairytale. find out more...