Climates (2006)

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Starring: Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner 'Distant'. Beautifully drawn and meti... Read more

Fanfan la Tulipe (1952)

Director: Christian-Jaque

Starring: Genevieve Page, Gerard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida

Set in 18th-century France, this romantic farce stars Gerard Philipe as the charming peasant Fanfan. After joining King Louis XV's army in order to av... Read more

Heartbeat Detector (2007)

Director: Nicolas Klotz

Starring: Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Lou Castel, Mathieu Amalric, Michael Lonsdale, Edith Scob

This chilling corporate thriller from France follows company psychologist Simon Kessler (Mathieu Amalric) who is assigned with investigating a CEO who... Read more

The Sicilian Girl (2009)

Director: Marco Amenta

Starring: Veronica D'Agostino, Gerard Jugnot, Mario Pupella, Carmelo Galati

A gripping based-on-fact drama about 17-year-old Rita Atria, who back in 1991 came forward to denounce the mafia violence that had claimed the lives o... Read more

My Friends My Loves (2008)

Director: Lorraine Levy

Starring: Vincent Lindon, Pascal Elbe, Virginie Ledoyen, Florence Foresti, Bernadette Lafo...

French romantic-comedy escapism with an 'Odd Couple' set-up. It is set, and filmed, in South Kensington, in a small French enclave known as, of course... Read more

Swann in Love (1984)

Director: Volker Schlondorff

Starring: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon

Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti and Alain Delon star in Volker Schlondorff's ("The Tin Drum") engrossing, visually stunning, sexy film based on Marcel Prou... Read more

The Voyage (1974)

Director: Vittorio De Sica

Starring: Ian Bannen, Richard Burton, Sophia Loren

In turn-of-the-century Sicily, aristocratic scions Adriana (Sophia Loren) and Cesar (Richard Burton) have loved one another for years, but Adriana acc... Read more

The Day the Universe Changed (1985)

Starring: James Burke

Presented by veteran BBC historian and science reporter James Burke, this series explores influences of discoveries and shared knowledge and perceptio... Read more

Five Miles to Midnight (1963)

Director: Anatole Litvak

Starring: Anthony Perkins, Gig Young, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Sophia Loren

Lisa (Sophia Loren) marries Robert (Anthony Perkins), a domineering, jealous American and becomes trapped in a violent marriage. Much to her relief, R... Read more

The Giant of Marathon (1959)

Director: Jacques Tourneur

Starring: Mylene Demongeot, Steve Reeves, Daniela Rocca

Steve Reeves, cinema's most famous muscleman, stars as the real life hero of Greek history. In 'The Giant of Marathon', Reeves plays Philippides, an O... Read more