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...

Life is crazy. You're crazy, I'm crazy, we're all crazy. We're all a little bit Minnie, and a little bit Moskowitz. Sometimes it does seem best to be sensible...but then what might you be missing out on? You gotta be you. You don't have to park cars and semi-randomly yell at people, but you can't hide yourself behind a veil (or dark sunglasses) and pretend and act like ever find out more...

14-year-old Nadav's life is more than such a young lad should be expected to have to deal with; a family that has rent itself asunder, a dying father and a mother who fails to maintain any responsibility for herself, let alone her son. Redemption comes in the form of Aunt Nina, a beautiful, compassionate and recently widowed woman that Nadav moves in with, and briefly, until a new man enters her life, the boy's world is idyllic. Nina's Tragedies is a touching and perceptive drama from the ever e find out more...

A visually striking and powerful exploration of the "Oedipus" myth so loved by Freud, which draws on the director's own experience and the timeless themes of mythology. In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Edipo and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Edipo that he is destine find out more...

A chillingly effective study of mental breakdown and neurosis. Terrified by everything, but especially sex, a Belgian girl in London murders her boyfriend, and her landlord when they try to break through her barriers and help her. A grim journey into the depths of a deranged mind. Riveting. find out more...

Katrina, an attractive out of control 19-year-old with no sense of the boundaries of acceptable behaviour, is the key character in 'Suburban Mayhem'. Born to be a casualty, abandoned by her junkie teenage mum, raised by a weak father and with an older brother a convicted killer, Katrina, already an uncaring mother, manipulates and spits out all those around her. She needs the dosh to pay for her brother's hopeless appeal and Dad's finally not going to give her everything she wants, but he does o find out more...

After being caught drawing an obscene comic book, a group of Catholic school friends plan a prank to make them local legends. An intelligent, thoughtful and well acted coming of age drama that effectively mixes animated flights of fantasy with the real characters. find out more...

Bernardo Bertolucci paints another ravishing (if slightly too lush) portrait of adolescent awakenings and youthful exuberance. Set in Paris, 1968, amid the social turmoil and student protests, the film charts the relationship of three characters: Isabelle and Theo (sister and brother) and American student Matthew. Their mutual obsession for film of all forms and periods brings them together, and a lot of the films pleasure (for movie fans, anyway) derives from find out more...

Geremia is a loathsome, physically deformed loan shark surviving off people who borrow money and by laying down the sort of terms your friendly high street bank can only dream of. Geremia poses as the friend of the family whilst bleeding them of every penny that he can. However, when a poor couple approach for cash for their beautiful daughter's wedding Geremia is smitten, utterly undeterred by the haughty contempt of the bride to be. ‘The Family Friend' is a stylish delight with a hypnotically find out more...

From the director of Rushmore comes the story of Royal Tenenbaum and his idiosyncratic family. Having separated from his wife ten years ago, Royal has been estranged from his strange children and wants to make up for some lost time. A little white lie gets Royal back into his family home but all will not go as he plans. Richie used to play tennis professionally until a breakdown on the court; Margot, a chain-smoking playwright has an unseemly marital past and an even dimmer present, while widowe find out more...