Giuseppe Tornatore directed this grand-scale portrait of life and love over several decades in the small town in Sicily where he was born. We see a number of important historical events through the eyes of young Peppino, watching the fortunes of his town and his family rise and fall. While open to accusations of nostalgia, superficiality and indulgence the film is something of a feast for the senses.
A rambunctious family saga the kind they don't, and probably shouldn't, make any more. find out more...

Set in the Palestinian occupied territories we follow our central character as he struggles to maintain a meaningful relationship with the woman he loves under the watchful glare of an Isreali checkpoint. "Divine Intervention" is a marvelously offbeat movie, part satire, part farce, frequently surreal, but through it all a perceptive and thoughtful observation of a conflict that as yet defies solution. find out more...

Set during the reign of Louis XV, Fanfan La Tulipe, a known womaniser and skilled swordsman is forced by his countrymen to marry his latest conquest, but on his way to the wedding he encounters a 'fortune teller' who tricks him with predictions of marrying a Princess, so he enlists in the Kings army to follow his fortune. A swash-buckling romantic comedy directed with finesse by Christian Jacque. find out more...

Grant is in uncharacteristic mode as a skiving, drunken bum seeing out WW2 on a South Sea island. Bribed into coast watching for the Aussie Navy, he takes to his task quite happily until the arrival of a shapely French schoolteacher and her seven small charges. A light-hearted saccharine romance. find out more...

Luka is a quiet un-confrontational man contentedly serving out his days as a railway find out more...

A delightful and highly acclaimed drama that tenderly depicts the plight of a small group of Italian soldiers marooned on an idyllic and isolated Greek Island during WW2. They all become entranced by its beauty and people, as the War rolls on without them. Superbly filmed, lighthearted and romantic. find out more...

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Following his escape from his Nazi captors, a Finnish sniper struggles through no-man's-land as he attempt to find the required tools to remove his heavy shackles. He happens upon a farm where a war widow is tending a wounded deserter from the Red Army and so begins a perceptive and thoughtful human drama. find out more...

Hassan Kadam is a culinary ingénue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. When Hassan and his family, led by Papa, move to a quaint village in the South of France with the grand plan of opening an Indian restaurant, they are undeterred by the fact that only 100 feet opposite stands a Michelin starred classical French eatery.

However upon encountering the icy proprietress, Madame Mallory, the Kadam family realise they may have bitten off more than they can chew. Ou find out more...

Emil Kovac is a former Serbian ‘death squad’ soldier obsessed with hunting down his nemesis, Colonel Benjamin Ford, a US soldier who was part of an American armed incursion into Yugoslavia. Ford has now retired and lives a reclusive lifestyle in the Appalachian Mountains. What ensues is a deadly game of cat and mouse between to embittered old war dogs. In a word...awful; though Travolta’s ability to take a dollop of European accents, flavour with a selection of North African find out more...