The Big Bird Cage
(1972) [R]

Kidnapped during a nightclub shootout and thrown into a concentration camp for women Terry (Anita Ford) is subjected to sadistic cruelty from guards and fellow prisoners. Terry's only hope of escape from "The Big Bird Cage" lies in fellow inmate Blossom (Pam Grier) and her revolutionary allies -...  More

Last House on the Left
(1972) [R]

Wes Craven's (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream) notorious film debut is a grimly affecting portrait of human evil infiltrating a middle-class household. Adapted from Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring, this no-budget horror shocker sees four escaped cons kidnap, rape, torture and finally...  More

Big Doll House
(1971) [MA]

Director Jack Hill (COFFY, SPIDER BABY) launched both a cycle of women-in-prison films and the stardom of Pam Grier with this sexy, funny, thrilling exploitation classic. At a prison farm in the Philippines, new girl Collier (Judy Brown) is locked up with bitter lesbian Grear (Grier), rebel girl...  More

Anatomy Of Hell (Anatomie de L'Enfer)
(2004) [R]

Over the course of her career as a writer and filmmaker, Catherine Breillat (ROMANCE, FAT GIRL) has never shied away from controversial topics, using both mediums to explore her strong feminist opinions. Joining a generation of similarly taboo-breaking French directors such as Francois Ozon and...  More

8 1/2 Women
(1999) [R]

A startling and challenging voyage into the taboo worlds of sex and death from Peter Greenaway. When wealthy Swiss architect Philip Emmenthal (John Standing) takes financial control of a group of Pachinko game parlours in Japan, and puts his strange son Storey (Matthew Delamare) in charge, his...  More

Aimee and Jaguar
(1999) [M]

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women. One of them, Lilly Wust (Juliane Köhler), married and the mother of four sons, enjoys the privileges of her stature as an exemplar of Nazi motherhood....  More

The Isle
(2000) [MA]

Recalling both the erotic tension and the surrealist imagery of Woman of the Dunes, Kim Ki-duk's film is set near a remote lake where men come far and wide to fish on anchored rafts. Running a little bait-and-tackle shop is the earthy -- almost feral -- young lass Hee-jin (Seoh Jung), who...  More

Last Tango In Paris
(1972) [R]

While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their...  More

The Decameron
(1971) [R]

The first of Pasolini's colourful, entertaining and highly erotic Trilogy of Life films based on famous story cycles (to be followed by The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights, The Decameron contains ten stories based on the fourteenth century works of Giovanni Boccaccio.

Capturing the...  More

Satyricon
(1969) [M]

"My ambition has always been to restore fantasy to the cinema," revealed renowned Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. And so he did in this feverishly brilliant succession of grotesque and macabre images which make the fantasies of his films 8? and Juliet of the Spirits seem as child's play....  More

All About My Mother
(1999) [M]

A birthday treat turns into heart-rending tragedy for single-mother Manuela when her teenage son is killed in a car accident after a performance of A Streetcar Named Desire starring his favourite actress Huma Roja. Determined to exorcise her overwhelming guilt, Manuela goes to Barcelona to...  More

Romance
(1999) [R]

Schoolteacher Marie is unhappy with her staid boyfriend, and begins a process of sexual experimentation. Gradually Marie gives herself to others, and then to anyone who wants her. First it's Paolo, an Italian, then Robert, an eccentric SM master. But Robert shows her something truly dangerous. *MR  More

36 Fillette
(1988) [R]

A night in the life of a young woman who wishes to learn and experience more of life. The men she meets have as much to learn from her as they can offer her, or more.  More

Salmonberries
(1991) [M]

Singer K.D.Lang makes her acting debut in this moving parable of impossible love and the struggle for identity. Stunningly shot in remote north-western Alaska, the film sees Kothebue (Lang), an androgynous, inarticulate Alaskan pipeline worker, search out her family origins in a small town...  More

The Adjuster
(1991) [R]

A reflection about what makes everyone's life unique, through the story of Noah's family. Noah is an adjuster, having sex with his customers. His wife Hera watches pornographic movies for the Board of Censors. They live with their son Simon and Hera's sister in a show-flat. One day, they meet...  More

In The Realm Of The Senses
(1976) [R]

Based upon a true incident in 1930s Japan, Nagisa Oshima's controversial film effectively skirts the borderline between pornography and art - making Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris of four years earlier look like children's programming in comparison. The story concerns servant and...  More

The Silence Of The Lambs (2 Disc Set)
(1991) [MA]

Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster deliver sensational Oscar®-winning performances in this "shockingly powerful thriller" (New York Magazine). "Stunning" (Los Angeles Times) and "spellbinding" (The Hollywood Reporter), this terrifying masterpiece garnered five Academy Awards®, including Best...  More

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
(1989) [R]

At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence, and gluttony. But when the cook (Richard Bohringer), a thief (Michael Gambon), his wife (Helen Mirren) and her lover (Alan Howard) all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and...  More

Happiness
(1998) [R]

From the director of Welcome To The Dollhouse comes a wickedly comic and confronting tale of perversity and the desire in contemporary suburbia. Set in New Jersey, Happiness interweaves the stories of three sisters. The hippiefied lost soul Joy Jordan, the self loathing best-selling author...  More

Prick Up Your Ears
(1987) [M]

'Prick Up Your Ears' is a celebration of the outrageous playwright Joe Orton (Gary Olman), and his love affair with Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina), which concluded with their violent and premature deaths. Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) was one of the 1960s golden boys, from working class Leicester...  More

The Story Of O
(1975) [R]

The Story of O is based on the hugely successful S&M novel that has been read by millions of people worldwide. The author Pauline Reage tells the story of a beautiful young woman known only as 'O', who is taken by her lover Rene to a chateau near Paris. There she is trained in bondage and sexual...  More

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex * But Were Afraid To Ask!
(1972) [M]

Woody Allen pushes the frontiers of comedy by consolidating his madcap sensibility and wickedly funny irreverance with his developing penchant for visually arresting humour. Giving complete indulgence to the zany eccentricity of his medium, Allen rises to the occasion with several hysterical...  More

Color Me Lurid
(1966) [M]

Four short films by George Kuchar. 'Hold Me While I'm Naked', 'The Mongreloid', 'Forever And Always' and 'A Reason To Live'.  More

The Garden
(1990) [R]

A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and...  More

Death In A French Garden (Peril en la demeure)
(1985) [R]

A shy guitar teacher becomes involved in sex, murder, kidnapping and robbery, when he goes to stay at Tombsthay mansion as a tutor. French dialog with English subtitles.  More

Night Zoo
(1987) [R]

Marcel, recently released from prison, attempts to rebuild his relationship with his girlfriend Julie (now a prostitute) and especially his father Albert (who thinks he's been away on a long trip abroad), while being pursued by two corrupt cops (one of whom bears a longstanding grudge against...  More

Merci La Vie
(1991) [R]

Camille, a naive schoolgirl meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses Camille discovers Aids and the fear that she may have picked up...  More

The Best Of Out
(1989) [M]

The TV series 'Out on Tuesday' won the Audience Award at the 1989 San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.  More

Gay Classics ("Un Chant d'Amour"; "Looking For Langston"; "Flames of Passion" )
(2000) [R]

A collection of 3 classic short films with gay themes. Un Chant D'Amour (1950) 26 mins. Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication. The complete, uncut version of Jean Genet's...  More

Sebastiane
(1976) [R]

300 A.D. : the Roman Sebastianus is exiled to a remote outpost populated exclusively by men. Weakened by their desires, these men turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs. However, Sebastianus becomes the target of lust for a homosexual centurion, but he rejects the man's advances.  More