Roberto Benigni stars and directs this award littered Chaplinesque comic fable. In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido, an imaginative man, turns to humour, pretending that the Holocaust is a game and tha find out more...

This story begins on the day that the New York Times first reported the outbreak of Aids, and centres on a small group of friends whose lives will never be the same again. A film about life, love, suffering and survival, and winner of the 1990 Audience Award at the US Film Festival. 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...

Vittorio De Sica's award-winning masterpiece, Miracle in Milan, is one of the watershed films of the Italian cinema renaissance. find out more...

Adapted from the novel by George Barnanos, 'Mouchette' tells the story of the alienated teenage girl of the title. Neglected by her terminally ill mother and her abusive, alcoholic father, ostracised at school, with the insinuating glances of the villagers and her gruelling domestic duties, Mouchette's chance encounter with a local hunter sets her on a downward spiral that can only end in tragedy. An angry yet compassionate denunciation of a rural society corrupting and undoing an unorthodox ang find out more...

The story of a young couple, bored of each other and their marriage, going out on the town and finding partners to fulfil their romantic fantasies. But could they already have what they're looking for? A romantic musical, with brilliant sets and great music from Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle, terrific looks, walls dissolve, scenes play in wry tandem, and the dance routines move nimbly into neon-tinged fantasies. A sequence of brilliant tableaux, a tale of love lost and refound, spun with high-tech find out more...

Secrets And Lies; time bombs that can shatter a family's respectable suburban veneer. But painful memories between an estranged mother and daughter slowly lead to a powerful friendship and healing force within their fractured family. Very funny, truthful and involving. Brilliantly acted and directed. find out more...

German folklore pervades this romantic tale of a man deciding to murder his wife and then changing his mind, in the end spending an enjoyable day with her. Dreamlike lyricism underlies the moral fable, achieving images of undeniable emotion and beauty. A silent, perhaps THE silent classic. find out more...

Sumptuous adaptation of Edith Wharton's period drama set in the NY high society of the 1880s. Day Lewis plays the gentleman set to be married to May in the wedding of the year, but increasingly fascinated by the beautiful Countess Olenska. Decor reflects and oppresses characters, posture, gesture, glance and witty ironic narration convey not only individual psychology but the ideals of an entire etiquette-obsessed elite. Tragedy awaits. Awesome; one of the best period adaptations ever made, both find out more...

A strange and highly acclaimed story of two women, born at the same time, in Paris and Prague. Despite being of different parents and backgrounds, their lives develop in eerily similar ways, culminating in their gradual subconscious realisation of each others existence. Cryptic and absorbing. find out more...