Passport to Cinema

Barry Lyndon

Stanley Kubrick follows the fortunes of an 18th century Irish adventurer.

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Francis Ford Coppola's opulent, romantic and operatic vision of vampirism vs Victorian repression.

The Diary of a Chambermaid

Luis Buñuel's reworking of Octave Mirabeau's radical novel is a sulphurous vision of perversion, polite savagery and bourgeois decay.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Rouben Mamoulian directs perhaps the greatest screen version of Stevenson's classic study of the duality within.

In the Realm of the Senses

A former prostitute becomes involved in an intense all-consuming affair in Nagisa Oshima's sexually explicit portrayal of erotic obsession.

Pola X

A modern update of Herman Melville's most controversial and least-known work.

The Saragossa Manuscript

A young officer journeying through the Spanish desert during the Napoleonic Wars stumbles into a world of seduction and death.

The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick's acclaimed cinematic exploration of the central mysteries of existence.