At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...

Anya Taylor-Joy gives a wonderful performance in the title role of this Jane Austen adaptation as a well-meaning but proud young woman who enjoys playing match-maker without proper concern for the feelings of those involved. Bill Nighy plays Emma's father to perfection. Fans of the book will be pleased.

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A literally cursed lady and her adopted daughter live in isolation in their small domicile in the breathtaking North Asian Arctic tundra. Always fearsome of contact with 'murderous' fellow humans from an unexplained dystopic external world, they sled, they kayak and they hunt, but their life is thrown into chaos by the discovery of a seriously injured army runaway. find out more...

Plucked from obscurity (well, Tilbury Town Railway Station mid argument with her boyfriend to be more accurate), Katie Jarvis plays Mia, a bored teen who lives on a council estate with her drunken mother and younger sister. This is the second feature film from British critics' darling list of directors, Andrea Arnold, this time exploring teen angst and depravity to great cinematic effect, popular and critical acclaim. This DVD release also includes Arnold's Oscar winning short film 'WASP', ofte find out more...

Told partially in flashback we learn of a married Japanese man, Kengo, who is sent to manage forests in Indochina, during WW2. Here he meets a young typist, Yukiko, who falls hopelessly in love with him. Despite his promises when he returns to Tokyo it is to his wife that does so and he continues having heartless affairs, while Yukiko is forced to become the mistress of a GI and then a rich businessman, anything to survive. find out more...

Tilda Swinton takes the star turn as the wife of filthy rich Milanese industrialist Tancredi Recchi and much of the film takes place in their opulent mansion. It is here that sexual attraction, romance and personal/female liberation will lead to a family crisis for these members of the haute bourgeoisie.
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Perhaps Antonioni's most beautiful film and certainly one of his most accomplished. The search for female protagonists for the film within the film mirrors life as the central film-maker's attempts to find a partner prove equally elusive. Two women from different social and sexual milieu, two extraordinary key sequences, the first enshrouded in thick fog and the other in the desolation of the Venetian lagoon, metaphors abound with enigmatic sequences. Highly individualistic. find out more...

In Agnes Varda's directorial debut she faithfully portrays the complicated relatioship between a married couple (exceptiionally played by Sylvia Monfort and Philippe Noiret) set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean town. Shot with a documentary feel, the film also focuses on the daily struggles of the locals, and was radical enough to later be considered as one of the progenitors of the French New Wave.

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A superb study by the brilliant Sayles of a married woman who realises she is gay. She falls in love with Ruth, is shunned by her husband and straight friends, and suffers huge emotional upheaval. Sparkling dialogue, tender characters, superb acting and some real comedy. A touch of directorial genius. find out more...

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