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...

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An American-German returns to the FDR in 1945 to work as a waiter on a new train, the previous one having been derailed but finds the changes superficial and the new consumerism cloaks sinister unbroken threads from the past. Haunting and hypnotic, literally. An art-house must-see.

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Jackie's job is sitting in front of a bank of TV screens watching the good folk of Glasgow go about ther business. She spies on kids who fight, dogs who walk, cleaners who dance and drunken young couples who grab quickies behind lock-ups. Jackie is depressed, resigned to sadness, damaged, and it won't be till the end of the film that we uncover her past tragedy. Then into her screen steps Clyde, a man we quickly sense is dangerous, a man she starts to flirt with and a man conected to that traged find out more...

Kieslowski's harsh, abrasive story focuses on two killings, a brutal murder followed by an execution, and both events are laid out without emotion. We as viewers are trapped in the bleak tunnel of the murderer's vision, and are given nothing so helpful as motive. Bleak, terrifying and brilliant. find out more...

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"Josephine Decker has created a new style of thriller that employs allegory, incorporates touches of David Lynch as well as Magritte -esque imagery. Decker's setting of a remote farm feels like a metaphor for what turns out to be hell. The raw and emotional (and yes, sometimes funny) dialog tells a story that can seem familiar at points but really is meant to keep you guessing and off balance. I really enjoyed how the undertones of this film came to life through her very deft contrast of the find out more...

An entomologist, searching for insects in the desert, becomes trapped in a large escape-proof sandpit with a desirable, but inarticulate, woman, and a taught sexual tension gradually builds between them. On such a slight plot the film develops into an exploration of eroticism and the attraction between man and woman. An unusually cruel and suspense filled thriller. find out more...