From the writer of Let the Right One In comes a mesmerising and genre-defying dark fairy-tale set in modern-day Sweden. Tina is a customs agent with a nose for trouble. She can literally smell human emotions, which is a handy talent for sniffing out suspicious border crossers. But when a mysterious male traveller's scent confounds her, she's faced with hugely disturbing insights about who she is and what she wants. Academy Award nominated and winner of Un Certain Reg find out more...

The story of Lancelot and Guinevere's adulerous affair and its catalyst in the collapse of Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table. Loosely adapted from the Lancelot-Grail cycle and the works of Chrétien de Troyes, the film portrays Arthurian legend stripped bare, unglamourous and bloody, the characters cruel and proud. It's beautiful, mesmerising, haunting, uplifting, amazing, stylish - all the things you would expect from a masterpiece. find out more...

This movie is a magical adventure whitch features elves, demons and other mythical creatures. By killing every unicorn in the world Darkness, the personification of evil, plans to turn the pastoral Eden, where this story takes place, into an Arctic wasteland. Fortunately, sprightly Jack (Tom Cruise in his first important role) and his friends, are disposed to do everything to save the world and princess Lili, whom Darkness intends to make his wife, from the hands of this evil monster. Tim Curry 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...

Cocteau re-works the Greek myth in contempory terms as Death, a beautiful woman, helps the poet Orpheus rescue his lover from hell. Imaginative, memorable, baffling and beautiful. One of the most poetic movies in the history of cinema. find out more...

Anders Ronnow-Klarlund has pulled off something of a coup here. Billed as the first 'fully integrated' puppet feature, though the seminal Team America must have come a close second. Strings treads a very different terrain to the Parker/Stone collaboration though. The tone is more evocative of classical myth from one of the ancient civilisations. It deals with suicide, piety, long burning grudges, hidden identity, political corruption, greed, sexual desire and destiny. The style is reminscent of find out more...

Jeff Bridges is a hard drinking fallen-celebrity who is rescued from a mugging by a homeless maniac, and in next to no time he finds himself drawn into the man's world and on a quest for the Holy Grail. It's tragic, it's funny, it's a New York story and a Terry Gilliam fantasy. Stunning find out more...

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...

This film, from the Thai experimental film-maker who calls himself Joe, was the Quentin Tarantino led jury's surprise selection for the 2004 Cannes Film Festival Prix du Jury. The film is of two halves, Tropical Malady and A Spirit's Path or, if more directly translated from Thai, Strange Creature and Spirit. find out more...