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Deep End

Jerzy Skolimowskiโ€™s darkly comic and utterly compelling story of teenage infatuation in a run-down swimming pool.

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A poignant birthday party exposes a series of family tensions in Lila Avilรฉsโ€™ outstanding follow-up to The Chambermaid. Test1 & Test2;Test3 * Test4; Test5 % Test6; Test7ยฃTest8

Afire

Fires rage around a pompous novelist and his awkward desires in Christian Petzoldโ€™s sharp comedy drama.

Gone Too Far!

Riotous urban comedy adapted from the hit Royal Court play, about a Peckham teen affronted by the arrival of his long-lost Nigerian sibling.

The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future

Francisca Alegrรญa brings together family trauma and ecology into a poetic journey of rebirth. A mysterious and poetic tale on our collapsing ecosystem and finding balance.

Lynn + Lucy

A lifelong friendship is tested by tragedy in this atmospheric and intense first feature from acclaimed British shorts director Fyzal Boulifa.

Cross-Roads

Christopher Lee in perhaps his earliest supernatural screen role, as a ghost who returns from the grave to seek revenge.

Theorem

Pasoliniโ€™s classic about a handsome, enigmatic stranger (Terence Stamp) who arrives at a bourgeois household and seduces an entire family.

The Frightened Woman

A rich sadist kidnaps a woman to subject to his elaborate S&M games, but she soon turns the tables... Piero Schivazappa's erotic thriller explodes with eye-popping psychedelic production design.

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