Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his…

Four erotic tales from in various historical eras. The first, ‘The Tide’, is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousin stranded on the…

In 1920s Bagheria, Giuseppe ‘Peppino’ Torrenuova works as a shepherd to financially help his poor family. Over the next fifty years, Giuseppe’s life, as well as the life of the…

Frankie Dymon’s Death May be Your Santa Claus (1969), arguably Britain’s first and only example of a ‘black power’ movie, in which themes of sexual and political identity encircle one…

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with…

Deep fractures within a family dynamic begin to surface during a getaway to the Isles of Scilly.

A stressed out lawyer and mother of three gets her yuletide wish when she wishes to see what her life would be like if she had chosen to pursue her…

In a 1940s New York, two Jewish teenage boys are determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their families.

A Brooklyn postal worker follows her Egyptian boyfriend to Cairo where she takes belly-dancing lessons from a legendary but disgraced Egyptian dancer.

Lean, mean Texas Ranger Jack Benteen locks horns with a former friend, Cash Bailey, now a ruthless drug kingpin. Though they’re on opposite sides of the law, they share a…

A film adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, based on a popular stage production by the Royal Shakespeare Company. A small boy dreams the play, which unfolds in a surreal landscape of…

Ethan learns he carries the spirit of a warrior who battled dragons in 16th-century Korea — and one day he’ll find a tattooed girl carrying the spirit of that warrior’s…