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Vermiglio Vermiglio

Drama 2024 120 mins Director: Maura Delpero

Unfolding against the stunning backdrop of a remote Italian mountain village, Maura Delpero’s film is a hauntingly beautiful period tale of family life gradually torn apart.

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Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth

Period drama 2017 89 mins Director: William Oldroyd

Florence Pugh shines in this exceptional British debut of a young wife's need for freedom, whatever the cost.

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The Handmaiden The Handmaiden

Period drama 2016 146 mins Director: Park Chan-wook

Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Stoker) channels Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, to create a sumptuous twisty psychological thriller full of erotic intrigue.

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Tchaikovsky's Wife Tchaikovsky's Wife

Drama 2022 144 mins Director: Kirill Serebrennikov

Award-winning director Kirill Serebrennikov (Petrov's Flu) charts the tumultuous relationship between the 19th-century composer and his wife, in this poignant and powerful biopic.

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Red Beard Red Beard

Drama 1965 180 mins Director: Akira Kurosawa

Kurosawa’s episodic, poignant story of a 19th-century doctor (Toshiro Mifune) working in a clinic for the poor and his tumultuous friendship with a young intern.

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Aguirre, Wrath of God Aguirre, Wrath of God

Historical drama 1972 94 mins Director: Werner Herzog

This early masterpiece from Werner Herzog stars Klaus Kinski as a power-crazed explorer in sixteenth-century South America who leads a band of conquistadors through the Amazon in search of El Dorado.

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Caligula: The Ultimate Cut Caligula: The Ultimate Cut

Period drama 2023 178 mins Director: Tinto Brass

Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren star in one of the most controversial films in cinema history, presented here in an entirely new cut compiled from the original rushes.

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The Draughtsman's Contract The Draughtsman's Contract

Period drama 1982 107 mins Director: Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway became a director of international status with this witty, stylised, erotic country house murder mystery.

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Maurice Maurice

Drama 1987 140 mins Director: James Ivory

Merchant Ivory’s landmark adaptation of E M Forster’s classic LGBTQ+ novel and a precursor to the James Ivory-scripted Call Me By Your Name.

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The White Ribbon The White Ribbon

Drama 2009 143 mins Director: Michael Haneke

Michael Haneke's Cannes prizewinner, set in a pre-WW1 German village, explores the oppressively strict social conditions that gave rise to Nazism

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Smiles of a Summer Night Smiles of a Summer Night

Comedy 1955 109 mins Director: Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman’s Cannes prize-winning comedy assembles various couples in a country house in 1900.

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The Juniper Tree The Juniper Tree

Fantasy 1991 79 mins Director: Nietzchka Keene

A teenage Björk stars in this Brothers Grimm adaptation, which finds witchcraft thriving in the wilds of medieval Iceland.

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Liberté Liberté

Drama 2019 138 mins Director: Albert Serra

Albert Serra’s opulent exploration of the limits of the erotic imagination is realised in this radical and subversive cinematic experience.

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Anne and Muriel [aka Two English Girls] Anne and Muriel [aka Two English Girls]

Drama 1971 130 mins Director: François Truffaut

Truffaut adopts a detached, delicate tone in treating the troubled ménage-à-trois that develops between a young French writer (Léaud) and two English sisters in the early 1900s.

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Caravaggio Caravaggio

Biopic 1986 93 mins Director: Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman’s unique biopic of the 17th century Italian artist Michelangelo da Caravaggio is a powerful meditation on sexuality, criminality and art.