Marguerite is a beautiful and wealthy young socialite trapped in a life of decadent despair, unable to find a way of escape she stumbles from one drug induced sexual encounter to the next culminating in a stylishly dated but extravagant S&M party. Camille is a hefty dose of art house porn, deeply fashion conscious, emotionally existential and vacuous, it is suitably reflective of its time. An intriguing curiousity, or 'Emanuelle' with balls. 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...