Dir.: Krzysztof Kieslowski; Cast: Miroslaw Baka, Krzyztof Globisz | Poland 1988, 84 min. So powerful was the effect of Krzysztof Kieslowski's graphic description of violence in eighties Warsaw that the Polish authorities...

Dir: Jean Becker | Wri Sébastien Japrisot | Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon, Jenny Clève, Michel Galabru, François Cluzet, Edith Scob | France 133’ Isabelle Adjani plays a sensual...

Dir: Leslie Arliss | Cast: James Mason, Wilfred Lawson, Tucker McGuire, Joyce Howard | UK Gothic Horror 79' Although he directed some of the biggest British box office successes of the...

Dir: Hal Ashby | Cast: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern | Drama US One of director Hal Ashby’s biggest hits (second only to Shampoo) is a compelling and uncompromising tale...

Dir.: Catherine Breillat | Cast: Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stevenin, Francois Berleand, Rocco Siffredi | France 1999, 84/99 min. Catherine Breillat, novelist and filmmaker, has been a victim of censorship (and misinterpretation) from the...

Dir.: Robert Altman; Cast: Sandra Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, Sudie Bond; USA 1982, 102 min. The terrible box-office receipts for Popeye forced director Robert Altman to sell Lion’s Gate and his...

Dir: Elia Kazan | Drama | US Elia Kazan's first film, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn shows that the filmmaker's great empathy for his characters was already quite evident at this early juncture, and...

Dir: John Guillermin | Script: Bryan Forbes | Cast: M E Clifton Jones, John Mills, Maureen Connell, Cecil Parker, Patrick Allen, Leslie Philips, Barbara Hicks, Sidney James, John Le Mesurier,...

Dir.: Herbert Wilcox; Cast: Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Marius Goring, Peter Ustinov, Alfred Schieske; UK 1950, 124 min. Directed by Herbert Wilcox (1890-1977) and scripted by Warren Chetham-Strode after the book...