Ep 7, Remember—An Oath can be Amputated; Franz has lost his right arm, but is looked after by Eva and her boyfriend. find out more...

Ep 10, Loneliness Tears Cracks of Madness Even in Walls; Mieze can't have children, but Eva tells her that she'll have a child by Franz for Mieze to raise. Frank gets freaked by the idea, thinking Mieze's trying to dump him on to Eva, and then a rich client turns up to take Mieze away for 3 days. find out more...

Ep 13, The Outside and the Inside and the Secret of Fear of the Secret; Franz tells Eva that Mieze has left him. Meck gets injured in a bank robbery and Franz helps him out. Meck leads the police to Mieze's body. find out more...

Loosely adapted from Steinbeck's tragic tale of two unlikely friends travelling from place to place during the 'great depression'. Malkovich is superb as the simpleton Lennie whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of a beautiful but bored, young woman into their lives. find out more...

Set in 1930s California, this adaptation of Steinbeck's novel ‘Of Mice and Men' paints a bold, vivid picture of life in the depression era and tells the tragic tale of George and Lenny two itinerant farm hands searching for a safe haven from the cruelties of the world. find out more...

Set in the Sino-Japanese war, Yasuzo Masumura's black-and-white anti-war film tells of an army nurse who sexually services an amputee and falls in love with a drug-addicted surgeon. This can't be recommended to the squeamish, but neither can its nuanced eroticism nor its passionate, unpredictable moral focus, be easily shaken off. Comparable with Altman's MASH, it suggests a less comic treatment of the same theme, how to preserve one's humanity in impossible circumstances, but its ethics are con find out more...

A man deformed by a rare illness is taken up and patronised by fashionable London society - another freak show for the elephant man to be exhibited in. David Lynch's highly individual style here perfectly complements the film's material. A dark and brooding, yet sympathetic and sentimental film. find out more...

Quasimodo (Lon Chaney) is the hideously distorted hunchback bell-ringer and servant of the cruel Jehan, brother of Dom Claude, the archdeacon of the famous Parisian cathedral of Notre Dame. find out more...

Following an early and promising political career, Franklin Roosevelt, the only US president to be elected three times, was stricken with polio at 39 years of age. This film follows his struggle with paralysis, the refuge he took in an obscure and run-down Georgia health spa, the place in which he found the opportunity for peace, solace and the will to continue, and the family pressure to return to public life and politics. Perhaps the most significant battle he fought with the stigma of paralys find out more...

A somewhat cliched period drama set in 1930s Shanghai. Russian refugee Sofia works as a 'hostess' in a nightclub, where she develops an odd relationship with an ageing blind American diplomat, and together they open a new club. Unfortunately the chemistry between them is poor and the movie somewhat lifeless. find out more...