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Highlighted works

  • Twelve Monkeys

    Twelve Monkeys

    The imagination of director Terry Gilliam meets the star power of Bruce Willis in a fantasy inspired by Chris Marker’s haunting short film La Jetée.

  • The House of Mirth

    The House of Mirth

    An exemplary literary adaptation by Terence Davies that relates the decline of a society beauty in late 19th century New York.

  • Howards End

    Howards End

    A Merchant Ivory masterpiece, starring Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter.

  • Aliens

    Aliens

    A reluctant Ellen Ripley is persuaded to venture back into outer space in search of marauding aliens, this time accompanied by a crack military team.

  • Brazil

    Brazil

    Terry Gilliam’s fantastical satire of bureaucracy gone mad is one of the most visually imaginative works in modern cinema.

  • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

    Guy Ritchie’s debut feature, about an upstart card player who loses half a million in a rigged game and has a week to raise the cash.

  • The Remains of the Day

    The Remains of the Day

    This adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker-winning novel about a repressed and dutiful butler continued the Merchant-Ivory team’s run of handsome, awards-laden period pieces.

  • Life is Sweet

    Life is Sweet

    The urge to remain individual within a family, and the relationship between the personal and the entrepreneurial, are among the themes that inform Mike Leigh’s touching comedy.

  • Secrets & Lies

    Secrets & Lies

    The downtrodden life of a working-class, middle-aged single mother is transformed by the unexpected arrival of a figure from her distant past.

  • Monty Python's Life of Brian

    Monty Python's Life of Brian

    With brilliant gags and robust production values, the legendary comic troupe riff on the life of Christ to satirise religious faith.

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