"I am dying in time to the splash of their oars - if arms as steady as these had embraced me in life...". This film is Jarman's vision of the life of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573 - 1610). Caravaggio revisits periods of his tempestuous life in a series of deathbed flashbacks and prose-poem voice-overs, focusing particularly on the intense relationship between himself and a couple who model for him in Rome, Lena and Ranuccio. This sexual and violent love triangle eve find out more...

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This is the story of a young Anglicised Pakistani and his erstwhile fascist ex-schoolmate, Johnny. Together they run a dilapidated laundrette, given to Omar by his rich uncle, and decide to turn it into a veritable palace, despite the hostility of Johnny's skinhead friends and Omar's cousin. find out more...

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Absorbing, atmospheric portrayal of a suave, decadent man's decline and fall when his man-servant wreaks subtle havoc from below the stairs. Class-warfare at its unsettling and British best! find out more...

Ken Russell, an over-the-top director, takes a bash at DH Lawrence, an over-the-top author. The two perfectely compliment each other in this fine screen version. find out more...