Krampack (15) (2000)

Director: Cesc Gay

Starring: Fernando Ramallo, Jordi Vilches

Aka Nico & Dani. Exploring themes of adolescent sexuality and gay feelings between two young friends, its humour and lack of preaching make it a surprisingly fulfilling coming-of-age drama (90Mins)

Realm of the Senses, The (18) (1976)

Director: Nagisa Ohima

Starring: Tatsuya Fuji, Elko Matsuda

Straddling the bridge between art and pornography, it is a testament to director Oshima that Ai No Corrida was distributed at all. An explicit study of sex and death, the subject matter was so controversial in Japan that cans of film were smuggled to France to be processed. It is fortunate that such resilience and determination surrounded the production, for Ai No Corrida is a masterpiece that fuels the exquisite formalism of Japanese cinema with fatalistic erotic power, giving the film a universal and eternal significance. (98Mins)

Dont Look Now (15) (1973)

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Starring: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland

Roegs best film, and arguably the best film ever made, "Dont Look Now" is a stunningly well crafted analysis of a married couple who, devastated by the loss of their young daughter, go to Venice to try to reconstruct their lives. Perfect performances by Sutherland and Christie as the leads, a chilling screenplay rife with forboding and exquisite photgraphy of an Italian winter combine to immerse the viewer in a story that spirals town to a terrible conclusion. (106Mins)

Mulholland Drive (15) (2001)

Director: David Lynch

Starring: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring

In this uniquely textured film, ingenue Naomi Watts slowly makes sense of amnesiac moll Laura Elena Harring, while on the other side of town, black-clad director Justin Theroux is being pressured by entertainment industry heavies into casting a mystery actress in his new movie. The first hour-and-a-half is as funny and as scary as an episode of Twin Peaks, but in an instant, the characters shuffle roles and we start to watch a film in negative, the flipside of the entertainment industry: perennial losers turn winners, and the once bold and beautiful become overnight tragic heroines. Only those who choose to stay outside the dream factory - the pimps, killers and derelicts - remain as they were, untouched by fame. (140Mins)

Beast, The (La Bete) (18) (1975)

Director: Walerian Borowczyk

Starring: Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Pierre Benedetti

Controversial, shocking and frequently very funny, this is also filmed with Borowczyks painterly eye to the fore. An American heiress discovers the hidden history of the family she is marrying into on the eve of her wedding. The graphic scenes of the beasts couplings with its human prey are blatantly allegorical - emphasising the similarities between human sexuality and animalistic behaviour but proved too much for the arbiters of taste and decency, with the complete film only surfacing after a hiatus of 25 years. Although the numerous sequences of the beast chasing corseted ladies through the undergrowth invoke the spirit of Benny Hill rather than any more profound social commentary, this still remains one of the most bizarre filmic experiences that you could ever imagine. By thoroughly entertaining the cineaste it fully justifies its unique position within the pantheon of perverse arthouse cinema in which it resides. Approach with caution but enjoy with abandon!! (94Mins)