A sweaty and atmospheric adaptation of Carson McMullen's novel, 'The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter', a bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post. Major Penderton's wife is having an affair with his superior officer, a situation that the Major seems strangely unconcerned by, and much more. It is on one sultry evening when adulterers and cuckolds join together for drinks that the repressed desires and emotions of those present are finally given vent. Reflections In A Golden Eye i find out more...

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse's finest hour, a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko, played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine, who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo's very modern post-war Ginza district. Sly, resourceful, but trapped, Keiko comes to embody the conflicts and struggles of a woman trying to establish her independence in a male-dominated society. A profoundly moving masterpiece. find out more...