Based on the true tale of Phoolan Devi, a lower caste girl sold into marriage as a child, raped by her husband and forever abused by members of higher castes, until she flees to join the male-dominated world of the bandits, becomes their leader and a political heroine for the masses. Superb/watch. find out more...

Returning to themes he had touched upon in his earlier films Polanski develops the idea of Pinter's "two people in a room and then a third enters" with a couple on a remote island invaded by two on-the-run gangsters. Gradually the power positions shift... underlined with great black humour. find out more...