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...

Cross-dressing club-kid Eddie vies with a rival drag-queen for the favours of drug-dealing cabaret-manager Gonda in this unflinching and often brutal portrayal of Japanese gay subculture. Matsumoto achieves a line between pathos and hilarity that makes Funeral Parade of Roses utterly unique; a feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks (not to mention a direct influence on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange). In addition this psychedelic era film is a gay play on the O find out more...

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Seventeen-year-old Pierre has little experience of his aloof mother until the tragic death of his father, an event that finds him seduced by the dark, illicit world of his remaining parent. Helene has little in the way of a mothering extinct, instead she has devoted her life to exploring the darkest boundaries of sexual indiscretion, and she sees in her son a pupil to be inducted into the world of the 'free'. 'Ma Mere' is a disturbing libertarian tale of obsession and immorality, powerful, unner find out more...