Movies

  • 1994
    Rose Red

    Rose Red

    Rose Red

    8.81994HD

    Simon Pummell's (Bodysong) visually ravishing sci-fi thriller exploring the future of virtual reality and the desire to transcend human limits. The...

    Rose Red
  • 1995
    Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

    Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

    Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

    7.61995HD

    Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other...

    Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
  • 1982
    Crystal Gazing

    Crystal Gazing

    Crystal Gazing

    71982HD

    Experimental drama set in London during the Thatcher administration involving four characters: Neil, a science-fiction illustrator; Kim, a woman rock...

    Crystal Gazing
  • 1997
    Death and the Mother

    Death and the Mother

    Death and the Mother

    6.11997HD

    Black-and-white, etched-wood animation tale about the Grim Reaper. In a remote forest, Death in disguise calls on a woman and her baby daughter.

    Death and the Mother
  • 1977
    Riddles of the Sphinx

    Riddles of the Sphinx

    Riddles of the Sphinx

    4.81977HD

    In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and...

    Riddles of the Sphinx
  • 1984
    The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

    The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

    The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

    6.91984HD

    In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff...

    The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
  • 1981
    Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy

    Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy

    Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy

    6.31981HD

    An unusual documentary from the Brothers Quay and Keith Griffiths about the history of the Punch and Judy puppet show.

    Punch and Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy
  • 1985
    This Unnameable Little Broom

    This Unnameable Little Broom

    This Unnameable Little Broom

    6.21985HD

    Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man.

    This Unnameable Little Broom
  • 1988
    Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

    Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

    Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

    6.61988HD

    Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.

    Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
  • 1986
    Street of Crocodiles

    Street of Crocodiles

    Street of Crocodiles

    6.61986HD

    A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.

    Street of Crocodiles
  • 1974
    Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons

    Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons

    Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons

    6.61974HD

    Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman...

    Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons
  • 1987
    Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye

    Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye

    Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye

    81987HD

    This documentary, made seven years after the death of legendary filmmaker and kinetic artist Len Lye, tells Lye's story: from being a young boy...

    Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye
  • 1981
    The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode

    The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode

    The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode

    6.71981HD

    Using the tricks of the Flemish playwright's own trade--puppetry, masks, and a Breughelesque sense of bizarre carnival, the collaborators succeeded...

    The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode
  • 1996
    The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry

    The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry

    The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry

    3.31996HD

    Documentary about John Davis, a businessman who as chairman oversaw the decline of the Rank Organisation.

    The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry
  • 1983
    Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti

    Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti

    Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti

    6.21983HD

    An unconventional portrait of painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti. Simple in style but complex in its analysis, it explores the...

    Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
  • 1982
    Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929

    Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929

    Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929

    6.21982HD

    Igor: The Paris Years, one segment of a larger biographical program created for Channel 4 on the life and times of Igor Stravinsky, finds the...

    Igor Stravinsky: The Paris Years Chez Pleyel 1920-1929
  • 1979
    Phoelix

    Phoelix

    Phoelix

    81979HD

    An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing naked in a club, meet and exist in fantasy and...

    Phoelix
  • 1996
    Red

    Red

    Red

    6.51996HD

    In 1977, young Xiao Mei leaves China for the UK to enter into an arranged marriage. Speaking no English and feeling distant from her Elvis-obsessed...

    Red
  • 1997
    Robinson in Space

    Robinson in Space

    Robinson in Space

    71997HD

    Robinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified "problem of England." The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson,...

    Robinson in Space
  • 2010
    Not Waving, But Drowning

    Not Waving, But Drowning

    Not Waving, But Drowning

    02010HD

    Not Waving, But Drowning materialises the experience of Indian refugees during their arrest and detention by the harbour police in Zeebruges,...

    Not Waving, But Drowning