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Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One

Based on Literature · World Cinema · Culture

In Portugal- one European country in crisis- a film director proposes to build fictional stories from the miserable reality he is immersed in. However, failing to find meaning in his work, he cowardly runs away and leaves the beautiful Scheherazade to stand in his shoes. She will require enthusiasm …

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

Based on Literature · World Cinema · Drama

In Portugal- one European country in crisis- a film director proposes to build fictional stories from the miserable reality he is immersed in. However, failing to find meaning in his work, he cowardly runs away and leaves the beautiful Scheherazade to stand in his shoes. She will require enthusiasm …

The Cherry Orchard

Based on Literature · Period Drama · World Cinema

Anton Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD is the timeless story of an aristocratic Russian family torn apart by buried secrets and changing times. Stars Alan Bates and Charlotte Rampling.

Lady Chatterley

Based on Literature · World Cinema · Period Drama

Pascale Ferran's intelligent, deeply moving, and exquisitely photographed Lady Chatterley brings D.H. Lawrence's most celebrated and notorious literary work to the screen.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Based on Literature · Romance · Drama

Sex becomes sport as Valmont and Juliette manipulate each other into having extra-marital affairs. Juliette points Valmont towards the 16-year-old Cécile, since she has eyes on Cécile’s prospective fiancé Court.

Pasolini

RT Certified Fresh · Based on Literature · World Cinema

The Roman life and the imaginary worlds of Pier Paolo Pasolini intermingle in Abel Ferrara’s retelling of the final days in the life of the fifty-year-old filmmaker and writer (played by Willem Dafoe), in a lovely, haunting film that draws on his last interview and envisages scenes f…

Scarlet

Based on Literature · World Cinema · Period Drama

One of contemporary cinema’s most versatile talents, Pietro Marcello follows his dramatic breakthrough Martin Eden with an enchanting period fable that delicately interweaves realist drama, ethereal romance, and musical flights of fancy.

A Woman's Life

Based on Literature · Period Drama · World Cinema

Adapted from the novel Une vie by Guy de Maupassant, Stéphane Brizé’s follow-up to his Cannes and César Award winner The Measure of a Man explores the restrictive social dictates and moral codes of marriage and family in 19th century Normandy.