Spirou

It’s the annual firemen’s ball in a small Czech town, and the organisers decide to liven up the usually dull event with a raffle and a beauty contest. But with the former plagued by thievery and the latter by bribery, the event rapidly descends into farce and that s before a fire breaks out… The […]

This monumental mid-nineteenth-century epic from Jan Troell charts, over the course of two films, a Swedish farming family’s voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world. Movie legends Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann give remarkably authentic performances as Karl Oskar and Kristina, a couple who […]

The Crown, created by Peter Morgan, follows Queen Elizabeth through the late 1950s and early ‘60s as she struggles to navigate a world that’s changing around her. She must face the challenges of a new era, from the Suez Canal crisis to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, while preserving both the monarchy and her […]

All eight episodes from the first season of the US drama starring James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Beginning in the 1970s, the show chronicles the legalisation and rise of the porn industry in New York City. Owing money to the Mob, Frankie and his twin brother Vincent (both Franco) decide to enter the newly-legal pornography […]

In a small German town in 1919, Anna mourns every day at the grave of her fiancé, Frantz, who was killed in battle during World War I. One day she spies a mysterious young Frenchman, Adrien, also laying flowers at the grave. Together they begin to bond over their shared grief, though Anna is intrigued […]

Zucchini är en ovanligt modig liten pojke och inte alls någon konstig gurka som man kan tro. När hans mamma dör känner han sig ensammast i hela världen. Men det är innan han träffar sina nya kompisar på barnhemmet. Simon, Ahmed, Jujube och Alice har alla sina historier och verkar först ganska tuffa. Men snart […]

Donald (Brendan Gleeson) lives on Hampstead Heath. Emily lives on its edge (Diane Keaton). They seem to have little in common, but when developers want to remove Donald from his home the two find themselves fighting alongside each other. Inspired by a true story, Joel Hopkins’ (Last Chance Harvey) gentle comedy drama profits from the […]

With this film, the audacious Ken Russell vaulted onto the international stage, drawing on the psychosexual radicalism of D. H. Lawrence’s classic novel to shatter taboos in his own time