The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husbands restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpr
Goltzius and the Pelican Company (2012)
Goltzius and the Pelican Company (2012) Hendrik Goltzius, a late sixteenth-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books.
The Pillow Book (1996)
The Pillow Book (1996) As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies, and her sexual odyssey (and the creation
8 ½ Women (1999)
8 ½ Women (1999) After his wife dies, 55-year-old businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight and a half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child
The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
The Baby of Mâcon (1993) A movie about the corruption in all levels of society. A baby is born from a supposed-to-be virgin woman, so a chain of hysteria about divine intervention in the birth takes place.
The Draughtsmans Contract (1982)
The Draughtsmans Contract (1982) Mr. Neville, a cocksure young artist, is contracted by Mrs. Herbert, the wife of a wealthy landowner, to produce a set of twelve drawings of her husband's estate, a contract which extends much further than either the purse or the sketchpad. The sketches themselves pr
The Belly of an Architect (1987)
The Belly of an Architect (1987) An American architect arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibition for a French architect, Boullée, who is famous for his oval structures. Through the course of 9 months he becomes obsessed with his belly, suffers severe stomach pains, loses his wife, exhibition, his
Nightwatching (2007)
Nightwatching (2007) The year 1642 marks the turning point in the life of the famous Dutch painter, Rembrandt, turning him from a wealthy respected celebrity into a discredited pauper. At the insistence of his pregnant wife Saskia, Rembrandt has reluctantly agreed to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Mi
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Drowning by Numbers (1988) Tired of her husband's philandering ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is covered up. Her daughters are having similar problems with relationships, and tend to follow their mother's example, and th
The Greenaway Alphabet (2017)
The Greenaway Alphabet 2017 An intimate portrait of painter and filmmaker Peter Greenaway, directed by his wife Saskia Boddeke Together with his daughter Pip, Greenaway formulates an alphabet that represents his personality and thoughts about art and life
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985) Identical twins Oliver and Oswald Deuce lose their wives in a car crash caused by a white swan. The brothers, who are zoologists, become obsessed with the death and decay of animals. They both have a relationship with Alba, the driver of the crashed car, who loses first on
Prosperos Books (1991)
Prosperos Books (1991) An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015) The venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few - if any - directors who can be elevated to such heights. On the back of his revolutionary film Battleship Potemkin, he was celebr
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985) Identical twins Oliver and Oswald Deuce lose their wives in a car crash caused by a white swan. The brothers, who are zoologists, become obsessed with the death and decay of animals. They both have a relationship with Alba, the driver of the crashed car, who loses firs