At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...

Forget that this is a Scorsese movie, 'cos there's not a gangster or a grifter in sight. Stunningly shot, this is the visually breathtaking account of the early life of the 14th Dalai Lama, starting with his discovery by Buddhist monks in the northern Tibet of 1935. Meticulously detailed but well-paced, it's a rich, riveting movie with a powerfully haunting soundtrack from Philip Glass. find out more...

Godard does 'serious' with his attempt to make some sense of the Algerian Situation in the late 50s and France's role in it's future, following events through the proverbial 'little soldier', Bruno, a young Frenchman living in Geneva, who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group, and meets and falls in love with a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group. Complications ensue when the man is suspected by the members of his terrorist group of being a double agent. find out more...

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A highly acclaimed and influential account of Algeria's turbulent past made in psuedo-documentary style. The tense plot surrounds the rise of nationalist organisations in '54 and the French government's attempts to quell them. This film was the prototype for most political thrillers of the 1970s. find out more...

Against a backdrop of the 1953 Anglo-American plot to overthrow democracy in Iran and reduce it to an autocratic police state, four women meet in a beautiful orchard to discuss life. They are the wife of a right-wing general, a prostitute, a compliant woman eager to wear the chador and marry and, the focal point of the movie, a liberal, politically aware 30-year-old with a devout Muslim brother.
Adapted from the book by Shahrnush Parsipur there is a touch of magical realism to 'Women Wit find out more...