It becomes apparent early on when viewing Belladonna of Sadness that this film is quite unique. Certainly the first, and possibly the only animated film that might be classified in the pinku genre. But even though the film is supposedly animated, nothing seems to be moving at first. You instead see a series of elegantly designed still drawings depicting a harmonious wedding find out more...

Not for the squeamish, this stylish, steamy, seriously suspenseful thriller was considered one of the best films of the year when it was made and it was the big screen debut of the directors of the Matrix. When ex-con Corky moves into the building also housing Caeser and his moll Violet things are about to get twisted. Violet calls Corky, the building's butch handyperson, and takes it from there. Some illicit sex, $2 million of the mob's money and several severe beatings later the trap is set find out more...

A remarkable remake of the 1942 classic. Kinski is electric as the virgin sex-kitten/femme fatale who develops serious claws when sexually aroused and is caught between her racial duty to mate with her cat person brother and her more normal desire for a local zoo-keeper. Seductively exotic erotica. Brilliant. find out more...

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...

A shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while constructing a machine to masturbate himself, the newsreader has her own sexual fantasy involving a large carp, another woman makes dough balls, which she grotesquely ingests before bed, need we go on? A strange and cerebral outing for those that really should get out more, did we say out, perhaps stay in would be a better idea. This said there is plenty of material here to discuss with friends and psychiatrists. Oh, did I mention the voodoo-chicken find out more...

David Cronenberg puts the human psyche under the microscope here, with the central characters seemingly hypnotised by their own dark compulsions. James and Catherine have an open relationship, proudly regaling each other with the ice-cold details of their latest extra-marital exploits, but a head-on crash involving Holly Hunter provides the catalyst for James's erotic obsession with auto accidents and, after hooking up with Vaughan, who re-stages celebrity car crashes, and his lover, who wears l find out more...

A portmanteau of 7 short films linked by the common theme of sex. The first is quite bizarre, a series of Balkan myths about sex, some acted out, some in cartoon, real myths or performance art? The second is art based round the male genitalia and its primary function. The fourth, longest and, probably, the best is the Larry Clark one about a bunch of male teens who've answered an ad for a role in a porn flick. It's about them, their attitudes toward sex, their gropings with female porn stars and find out more...

The theme for these three shorts is desire – a comfortable mode for Wong Kar-Wai whose ‘The Hand' offers a miniature version of his swooningly gorgeous, chronologically choppy impressionism; an apprentice tailor is bowled over by Gong Li's imperious 60s courtesan to whom, despite a reversal of fortune, he remains a devoted supplicant for decades. Set in 1955 Soderbergh's chamber piece ‘Equilibrium' is the lightest and wittiest of the three; Robert Downey Jr is a neurotic ad exec with recurring d find out more...

The 'Exotica' is a seedy strip joint in the outskirts of Toronto, where Eric, DJ and MC, watches nightly as his ex-girlfriend Christina performs a provocative schoolgirl routine. Regular customer Francis garners favours, Thomas goes through a series of interesting situations involving his pet shop, a gruff taxi-sharing stranger, unexpected tickets to the opera and smuggled eggs of a rare bird...... multiple story lines unfold in a splendid tangle of cutbacks, forward and backward references and find out more...

Starring Tilda Swinton in this twisted and dark tale of an attorney consumed by desire. In her determination to fulfil her wild fantasies, she becomes emotionally detached and it's only a matter of time before those close seek revenge. A bizzare film about power and sex. Not for the faint hearted! find out more...