It has been 30 years since Marianne saw Johan, her ex-husband. She travels out to his remote country cottage and discovers a family in despair. Pitiless semi-autobiographical and supposedly final film from Swedish master Ingmar Bergman
Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, and directed by his former lover Liv Ullmann, Faithless is an old-fashioned European arthouse movie, which charts the depths of pain caused by marital infidelity
Award-winning tale of an exiled film director (Harvey Keitel) who returns to Greece intent on locating three cans of film shot by the pioneer of Balkan cinema. The search takes him through a troubled
A troubled film director (Keitel) voyages through the Balkans in search of a lost fragment of film history: three undeveloped reels shot in 1905 by a Greek cinema pioneer. Keitel's impassioned, angst
A troubled film director (Keitel) voyages through the Balkans in search of a lost fragment of film history: three undeveloped reels shot in 1905 by a Greek cinema pioneer. Keitel's impassioned, angst
Ullmann's directorial debut set in Denmark at the turn of the century is a suitably austere effort. Sofie (Mynster) lives with her large Jewish family and is happy enough as an unmarried spinster of
The intellect meets the flesh in this opulent adaptation of The Tempest from director Peter Greenaway
Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliet Binoche star in this adaptation of Milan Kundera's renowned novel
The final film in the trilogy of period films, after Mephisto (1981) and Colonel Redl (1984), starring the magnetic Brandauer as a doomed character at odds with the powers that be. Here he is an Aust
An explicit, sexually charged biopic of Swedish novelist Agnes von Krusenstjana (Ekbland) whose brief, turbulent life was cut short at the age of 46. Zetterling's film takes in her rebellion against
The first film Tarkovsky made outside Russia and the second-to-last in his all too short career. A visionary depiction of spiritual longing
Winner of four Oscars, Bergman's fantastical family saga follows a year in the life of a young Swedish boy at the turn of the last century. Visually dazzling and endlessly thought-provoking
A harassed and horny Swedish housewife relieves her frustrations by frequenting a bar patronized by Yugoslav labourers. She takes one of them for her lover but eventually murders him. A potent brew o
Portentous dramatization of the bizarre relationship between Nietzsche (Josephson), his Jewish friend Paul Rees (Powell) and a Russian girl, Von Salome. (Sanda). Nietzsche comes over as a jealous soc
Powerful study of a marriage in all of its various phases from the master of melancholy, Ingmar Bergman
Spiritual death and decay are placed under the microscope by cinema's master of pessimism, when three estranged sisters reunite around one of their death-beds
The bleak portrayal of a man who decides to flee human company and meets a woman living in a non-existent past. Classic Bergman
The film's title refers to the time when nightmares come, in this case in the mind of an artist (von Sydow), living alone with his wife (Ullmann) at their island summer home. He is subject to terribl
Bergman's first colour effort is also one of his rare comedies, and one of his less memorable movies. In a hit-and-miss satire which uses the world of classical music as its backdrop, Kulle is the st
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