A Ship Bound For India

Original title: 
Skepp Till India Land
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Country: 
Sweden
Year: 
1947
Powerful, suggestive love triangle, between a hunchback sailor, his drunkard father the captain and a chorus girl. more >>

And Now For Something Completely Different

Original title: 
Monty Python´s And Now For Something Completely Different
Director: Terry Gilliam, Ian MacNaughton
Country: 
UK
Year: 
1971
Monty Python's Flying Circus is regarded as a milestone in British comedy. more >>

Ariel

Original title: 
Ariel
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Country: 
Finland
Year: 
1988
Ariel is dedicated to the memory of Finnish reality. more >>

Aunt Zita

Original title: 
Tante Zita
Director: Robert Enrico
Country: 
Italy
Year: 
1968
Robert Enrico's follow-up to his fine "les aventuriers" casts the same actress, Joanna Shimkus, as the heroine with Katina Paxinou as Aunt Zita. more >>

Bed & Board

Original title: 
Domicile Conjugal
Director: François Truffaut
Country: 
France
Year: 
1970
Antoine Doinel is 26 and happily married to Christine. Whilst his wife gives violin lessons, Antoine works for a florist, dyeing flowers. more >>

Comedian Harmonists

Original title: 
Comedian Harmonists
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Country: 
Germany
Year: 
1997
Berlin, 1927. Six ambitious young men join forces to pursue a unique creative vision. more >>

Confidentially Yours

Original title: 
Vivement Dimanche!
Director: François Truffaut
Country: 
France
Year: 
1983
When his wife’s lover and then his wife are both murdered, estate agent Julien Vercel is the prime suspect. more >>

Conversation Piece

Original title: 
Gruppo di famiglia in un interno
Director: Luchino Visconti
Country: 
Italy, France
Year: 
1974
A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in Rome. more >>

Cul-de-Sac

Original title: 
Cul-de-Sac
Director: Roman Polanski
Country: 
UK
Year: 
1966
Eccentric black comedy in which two gangsters on the run take refuge in an old castle on a desolate island and find their nemesis in the effeminate owner and his voluptuous wife. more >>

Daisies

Original title: 
Sedmikrásky
Director: Vera Chytilová
Country: 
Czechoslovakia
Year: 
1966
The first lady of Czech cinema, Vera Chytilová, tells a grotesque tale of two girls who decide to toe the line set by the "decadent" world and act accordingly. more >>

Dreams

Original title: 
Kvinnodröm
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Country: 
Sweden
Year: 
1955
The story revolves around two women in the fashion business, one photographer and one model. more >>

Escape from Yesterday

Original title: 
La Bandera
Director: Julien Duvivier
Country: 
France
Year: 
1935
Jean Gabin is unforgettable as a French Legionnaire relentlessly pursued by his criminal past – and a fellow-soldier who seems to know a little too much about it. more >>

For a Price - Machine Gun McCain

Original title: 
Gli intoccabili
Director: Giuliano Montaldo
Country: 
Italy
Year: 
1969
Released from jail upon the intervention of a high-ranking Mafioso, Hank McCain gets mixed up in a plan to rob the Royal Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. more >>

General Della Rovere

Original title: 
Il Generale Della Rovere
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Country: 
Italy, France
Year: 
1959
Genoa, 1943. Grimaldi is a swindler, pretending to be a colonel in the Italian army. more >>

Hunger

Original title: 
Svält
Director: Henning Carlsen
Country: 
Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Year: 
1966
“Carlsen has made an excellent screen adaptation of Knut Hamsun’s famous first novel” Bloomsbury Foreign Film guide more >>

I Am Curious Blue

Original title: 
Jag Är Nyfiken – en film i Blått
Director: Vilgot Sjöman
Country: 
Sweden
Year: 
1968
No, this is NOT a sequel to ”I Am Curious – Yellow”: both movies were shot and edited parallel. more >>

I Am Curious Yellow

Original title: 
Jag Är Nyfiken – en film i Gult
Director: Vilgot Sjöman
Country: 
Sweden
Year: 
1967
By the two “Curious”- movies Vilgot Sjöman – deep inside himself a prejudiced Puritan - focused his curious, and sometimes furious, camera eyes on Swedish society in general. more >>

I Want To Go Home

Original title: 
Je veux rentrer à la maison
Director: Alain Resnais
Country: 
France
Year: 
1989
Joey Wellman is an American cartoonist, visiting an exhibition in Paris. more >>

In the Fields of Dreams

Original title: 
Unelma karjamajalla
Director: Teuvo Tulio Tulio
Country: 
Finland
Year: 
1940
Amidst gorgeous images of the Finnish countryside—clouds bursting with sunlight, the shimmering surface of a lake, and butterflies hovering over lush flowerbeds—Tulio crafts an exquisite melodrama depicting the Christian culture of the Finnish peasantry. more >>

It Rains On Our Love

Original title: 
Det Regnar På Vår Kärlek
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Country: 
Sweden
Year: 
1946
Ingmar Bergman’s second feature film (after Crisis), is an artistically mature drama of young love, with a tragic background. more >>

Knife in the Water

Original title: 
Nóz w wodzie
Director: Roman Polanski
Country: 
Poland
Year: 
1962
Polanski's first feature is a model of economic and imaginative filmmaking. more >>

La Vie de Bohème

Original title: 
Boheemielämää
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Country: 
Finland
Year: 
1992
Rodolfo, a refugee from Albania and a great painter, Marcel, a great French poet, and Schaunard, a great Irish composer, become acquainted by chance while chasing each on the same battlefield, by every imaginable means, a beast called the fivefranc coin. more >>

Larks On A String

Original title: 
Skrivánci Na Niti
Director: Jirí Menzel
Country: 
Czechoslovakia
Year: 
1990
Larks on a String is a 1990 Czech film directed by Jirí Menzel. more >>

Life Is A Bed Of Roses

Original title: 
La Vie Est Un Roman
Director: Alain Resnais
Country: 
France
Year: 
1983
1919, a castle, a count. The aristocrat proposes to all his guests a unique experience, which puts everyone in a state of permanent happiness. The experience turns into a tragedy. more >>

Love Eternal

Original title: 
L'Éternel Retour
Director: Jean Delannoy
Country: 
France
Year: 
1943
”Love Eternal” is a dramatic update of the Tristan and Isolde legend, scripted by Jean Cocteau, under the watchful eyes of the German Censor. more >>

Loving Couples

Original title: 
Älskande Par
Director: Mai Zetterling
Country: 
Sweden
Year: 
1964
The personal histories of three women and their love in pre-1914 Sweden. more >>

Mein Kampf

Original title: 
Den Blodiga Tiden
Director: Erwin Lester Lester
Country: 
Sweden, Germany
Year: 
1960
Shockwaves were sent – like carpet-bombs – over unprepared filmgoers when this film appeared on the screens fifteen years after the end of World War II. more >>

Mélo

Original title: 
Mélo
Director: Alain Resnais
Country: 
France
Year: 
1986
1926. Romaine seduces Marcel Blanc, a violinist and a friend of her husband Pierre. She also tries to poison Pierre, and gets suspected by her cousin Christiane. more >>

Miss Julie

Original title: 
Fröken Julie
Director: Alf Sjöberg
Country: 
Sweden
Year: 
1951
A young noble lady and a servant fall in love during midsummer night’s eve in the screen version of August Strindberg’s classic naturalistic play. more >>

Night Games

Original title: 
Nattlek
Director: Mai Zetterling
Country: 
Sweden
Year: 
1966
On the night before his marriage, a young man and his fiancee return to the castle where he grew up. more >>

One Summer of Happiness

Original title: 
Hon dansade en sommar
Director: Arne Mattson Mattson
Country: 
Sweden
Year: 
1951
Legendary, award-winning Swedish classic. A 17 year-old farm girl who falls in love with a big city student visiting the idyllic countryside. more >>

Orpheus

Original title: 
Orphée
Director: Jean Cocteau
Country: 
France
Year: 
1950
Jean Cocteau updates a classic to a compelling modern allegory. more >>

Repulsion

Original title: 
Repulsion
Director: Roman Polanski
Country: 
UK
Year: 
1965
Repulsion is a stunning depiction of the mental and emotional disintegration of a young Belgian woman left alone in a Kensington apartment. more >>

Shadows In Paradise

Original title: 
Varjoja Paratiisissa
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Country: 
Finland
Year: 
1986
The terrifying mouth of a garbage crusher - the sea crushing upon the shore - a few kisses and the tragicomic life in a metropolis. more >>

So Close To Life

Original title: 
Nära Livet
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Country: 
Sweden
Year: 
1958
Three seemingly different women meet at a maternity ward. more >>

The 39 Steps

Original title: 
The 39 Steps
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Country: 
UK
Year: 
1935
The original version of the classic comedy thriller, starring legendary British heart-throb, Robert Donat, was a highlight of Hitchcocks career. more >>

The Cross of Love

Original title: 
Rakkauden risti
Director: Teuvo Tulio Tulio
Country: 
Finland
Year: 
1946
This film is similar to The Way You Wanted Me in its depiction of a provincial girl who is seduced, abandoned, and then rejected by her entire village. more >>

The Girls

Original title: 
Flickorna
Director: Mai Zetterling
Country: 
Sweden
Year: 
1968
This modern drama of marriage and females is starring some of Ingmar Bergman favourite actresses. Includes fantasy scenes skilfully directed by Mai Zetterling. more >>

The Lady Vanishes

Original title: 
The Lady Vanishes
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Country: 
UK
Year: 
1938
During a journey aboard a Trans-Continental Express, a young woman strikes up an acquaintance with a middle-aged English governess. Later, the governess mysteriously disappears from her compartment. more >>

The Legend Of Paul And Paula

Original title: 
Die Legende Von Paul Und Paula
Director: Heiner Carow
Country: 
East Germany
Year: 
1973
Paul and Paula is one of the most popular of all East German films. It's a romantic and ironic view of love with a plea for individual freedom. more >>

The Match Factory Girl

Original title: 
Tulitikkutehtaan Tyttö
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Country: 
Finland
Year: 
1990
”The Match Factory Girl” is an astonishingly stylish work. It proves that simplicity is best, both morally and stylistically. more >>

The Naked Night

Original title: 
Gycklarnas Afton
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Country: 
Sweden
Year: 
1953
Among the real connoisseurs, this film is considered one of the finest gems; an early, expressionistic master-piece. Vibrantly vital, rule-breaking, paving the way for the establishing of Swedish film as Art... more >>

The Phantom Wagon

Original title: 
La Charrette Fantôme
Director: Julien Duvivier
Country: 
France
Year: 
1939
The creaking wheels of the phantom carriage ridden by Death himself – and driven by the hapless man who dies at the stroke of midnight on New Year's eve – provide the sinister backdrop for this rare French fantasy film. more >>

The Soft Skin

Original title: 
La Peau Douce
Director: François Truffaut
Country: 
France
Year: 
1964
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca, with a young daughter, Sabine. On a business trip to Lisbon, he meets an air hostess, Nicole, to whom he is instantly attracted. more >>

The Song of the Scarlet Flower

Original title: 
Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta
Director: Teuvo Tulio Tulio
Country: 
Finland
Year: 
1938
The Finnish lumberjack culture is romantically depicted in this moving classic based on the book by Johannes Linnankoski. more >>

The Swimming Pool

Original title: 
La Piscine
Director: Jacques Deray
Country: 
France
Year: 
1968
The atmosphere of false serenity mastered in this tragedy brought international recognition to Deray and reunited former Schneider Delon couple on screen with undeniably electric results. more >>

The Thursday

Original title: 
Il Giovedi
Director: Dino Risi
Country: 
Italy
Year: 
1963
Risi is considered to be one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana and a annalist of the bitter sentimentality and lighter side of Italy's post-war economic boom. more >>

The Very Late Afternoon Of A Faun

Original title: 
Faunovo Velmi Pozdní Odpoledne
Director: Vera Chytilová
Country: 
Czechoslovakia
Year: 
1983
A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. more >>

The Way You Wanted Me

Original title: 
Sellaisena kuin sinäminut halusit
Director: Teuvo Tulio Tulio
Country: 
Finland
Year: 
1944
In one of Tulio’s most brutal melodramas, Maija, an innocent country girl, is seduced, abandoned, and driven to prostitution. more >>

Tommy (The Who)

Original title: 
Tommy
Director: Ken Russell
Country: 
UK
Year: 
1975
The Who's 1969 rock opera, about a deaf, dumb and blind child who is eventually cured and becomes a rock celebrity, is given a characteristically flamboyant film treatment by Ken Russell. more >>

Witness In The City

Original title: 
Un Témoin Dans La Ville
Director: Edouard Molinaro
Country: 
Italy, France
Year: 
1959
”Witness in the City” is a psychological drama about a man (Lino Ventura) whose psyche changes into that of a serial killer. more >>