Mystery

Normal

Gaspar Noé presents the film that taught us in the most shocking way that "Time destroys everything" tests its endurance in straight storytelling. Does its sweeping impact change at all?

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The infamous film of the evergreen provocateur Gaspar Noé, which went down in history, among other things, for the reverse narration from the end to the beginning, is presented here in reverse, i.e... normally.

Irreversible: The Straight Cut

Gaspar Noé’s shocking film that divided the audience and was as hated and loved as very few others, is still a provocative and brutal masterpiece on the savagery of human nature and the unfruitfulness of revenge.

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A woman is molested and savagely raped in an underpass. Her lover and her ex will look for the man who did it seeking revenge. A story in an “irreversible” sequence of events, from the end to the beginning.

Irreversible

Spanish filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo composed in 2007 and in just his first feature film an unforgettably exciting cinematic puzzle that plays with space-time and the viewer's certainties, one of the Spanish thrillers that broke the borders of his country and created a new cinematic movement.

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A man accidentally enters a time machine and travels, almost an hour, into the past. The journey will trigger a series of unexpected and strange events with unforeseen consequences, as the man is confronted with himself, among other things.

Timecrimes

"If you want to win the lottery you have to make the money to buy a ticket" says Jake Gyllenhaal, who is prepared to do anything for his lottery ticket. Atmospheric, paranoid thriller about the world of media, nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor and an Oscar for Original Screenplay.

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Louis Bloom is desperately looking for work, until he discovers the underground and ephemeral world of police reporting in Los Angeles. He will work with a TV crew and meet Nina, a veteran of the "sport", who will help him experience success. Frantically searching for hot news that will skyrocket the ratings, he turns into a morally questionable journalist who will do anything for a scoop.

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Nomination for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2015

Nightcrawler

Sardonic British humour meets a blend of horror, mystery and thriller in this black comedy anthology series in which beloved British stars get caught up in strange, unexpected and creepy adventures with unpredictable outcomes.
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Welcome to "Inside No.9", where the ordinary and the mundane meet the bizarre and the macabre. A game that reveals hidden secrets, a strangely haunted house, a West End dressing room soaked in blood. Nothing can prepare you for the dark, mysterious and twisted tales that lurk here.

Inside No. 9

The "difficult second film" for Laszlo Nemes after the triumph of his debut, "Son of Saul", is equally masterful. It’s a superbly orchestrated, suffocating descent into existential hell through the entropic streets of Budapest in 1910, just before World War I.

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Budapest, 1913. A young girl arrives in town, hoping to work as a milliner in the legendary hat shop that once belonged to her parents, but the new owner won’t hire her. Meanwhile, preparations are being made in the store to welcome some prominent visitors. A man approaches the girl, looking for someone who has her last name, but she doesn't know him. Refusing to leave town, she starts looking for the stranger who might be the only link to her lost past.

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Official Selection | Venice Film Festival | 2018
FIPRESCI Prize | Venice Film Festival | 2018

Sunset

The crime thriller is transformed through its socially-minded attentiveness, and the two stellar protagonists, Cassel and Duris, give it their all in a story of many implications and even more twists.

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Α teenage boy disappears and his family is frantic. An experienced but overworked police detective takes over the case and starts investigating the missing young man, but seems reluctant to deal with his own 16-year-old son. When the boy's teacher finds out about the disappearance, he shows a keen interest and offers to help the police with their investigation. The case comes closer to a solution, yet things are not what they seem to be.

Black Tide

If sex could - literally!- kill. With one of the top horrors of the 21st century, David Robert Mitchell stands as a proud successor to John Carpenter, and Maika Monroe is transformed overnight into a new, brooding scream queen.

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When teenage Jay sleeps with her new boyfriend, Hugh, for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim through sexual intercourse. Jay's friends don't believe her seemingly paranoid ravings, until they too begin to see the threat where no one else sees anything...

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Official Selection - Critic's Week | Cannes Film Festival | 2014

It Follows

Claude Chabrol meets the heights of his ‘60s filmography with this suspenseful gem full of playfulness and lethal passion. Isabelle Huppert in one of her 7 collaborations with the director and Anna Mouglalis in one of her first on-screen appearances.

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A famous pianist and the CEO of a chocolate factory get married, the second time for both of them. The pianist has a teenage son from his previous marriage, whose mother died at birth. A young pianist enters their lives claiming to be his real daughter. That’s when the new wife’s Machiavellian character comes to play…

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Best Film | Louis Delluc Prize | 2000

Nightcap

The labyrinthine world of Cold War espionage is exemplarily captured in Thomas Alfredson's already classic adaptation of John Le Carré's book of the same name. BAFTA Award for Best British Film and three Oscar nominations

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At the height of the Cold War, a veteran agent returns to active duty to expose a Soviet spy operating within British intelligence.

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Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay | Oscars | 2012
Nomination for Best Leading Actor (Gary Oldman) | Oscars | 2012
Best Adapted Screenplay | BAFTA | 2012
Best British Film | BAFTA | 2012

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The books of British author Julian Barnes, infinitely sharp and rooted in real life, are ideal for the big screen. Here, a magnificent cast breathes life into his homonymous novel, creating a cinematic chamber piece about our unreliable memory and the past that often haunts us.

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A man in his 70s lives a secluded and quiet life, until dark well-kept secrets from his past come to the surface. They force him to reflect upon the mistakes of his youth, the truth about his first love and the consequences of decisions that were made a whole lifetime ago.

The Sense of an Ending

Forgotten for years and banned by the Islamic regime, this gem of the Iranian new wave reveals a hypnotically stylized mystery and period drama, combining Kubrick, Parajanov, Gothic horror and Persian tradition.

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After the death of his wife, a corrupt merchant plans to get rid of his stepdaughter and heir to the estate. The young girl, a modern and emancipated woman, asks her maid for help, unaware that the latter is a player on both sides.

Chess of the Wind

Nikos Papatakis' explosive directorial debut made it to Cannes in 1963, was likened to Bunuel's best works, never won an award for fear of nationalist organizations and remains to this day an unparalleled cinematic poem.

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Two sisters work as maids in an isolated farmhouse unpaid, due to their bosses' financial difficulties. The announcement of the sale of the house brings them to the brink of insanity and they end up slaughtering their employers.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1963

Les Abysses

Before "Zodiac", there was Bong Joon-ho's "Memories of Murder". The 4 Oscar winning director of "Parasites" captures the true story of Korea's first serial killer murders, as two detectives follow the murderer's trail. One of the top Korean movies of all time.

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In 1986, two unsuspecting detectives take on the case of a double murder in a South Korean province. But when the killer strikes several times again, detectives realize they're on the hunt for the country's first recorded serial killer. Based only on their instinct and skills, the two detectives attempt to solve the puzzle by combining the evidence at their disposal, in a thriller based on true events. Oscar winner Bong Joon-Ho's first collaboration with the star of "Parasites", Song Kang-ho.

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Best Director | San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2003
Best New Director | San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2003

Memories of Murder

The always unpredictable Christian Petzold proves why he is the most interesting German director of his generation with a charming adaptation of a relatively unknown myth of his country in the ever-changing Berlin cityscape. Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.

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Undine is a historian specialising in the urban development of Berlin. When the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth that gave her her name awakens and commands her to kill the man who betrayed her, then return to the water.

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Golden Bear | Berlin Film Festival | 2020
Best Actress (Paula Beer) | Berlin Film Festival | 2020
FIPRESCI Prize | Berlin Film Festival | 2020
Best Actress (Paula Beer) | European Film Awards | 2020

Undine

Somewhere between mainstream and Festival-awarded cinema, the ever-unexpected Olivier Assayas ("Personal Shopper") directs Maggie Cheung as a fictional version of herself, in a delightful satire of French cinematography and a bold mix of genres that resists every convention and categorization.

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Director Rene Vidal's career is already in decline when he decides to shoot a remake of "Les Vampires". For the lead role of Irma Veep (which is an anagram of the word “vampire”) he hires the Hong Kong based actress Maggie Cheung who does not speak French at all. In the chaotic set, Maggie, who wears a latex suit similar to Katwoman's, is faced with conspiracy, supernatural egos and erotic downfalls. The project is one step away from complete chaos.

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KNF Award | Rotterdam International Film Festival | 1997

Irma Vep

The great David Lynch's first feature film, a black and white legend that has rightly remained for decades an enigmatic cinematic nightmare that happily eludes any logical explanation.

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A man in a post-apocalyptic industrial city. His perpetually angry girlfriend. Their horribly deformed baby who keeps screaming. The insanity within a black and white nightmarish space begins.

Eraserhead

Bohemian Paris in the '50s, conspiracies, Cold War paranoia. In the beginnings of Nouvelle vague, the great Jacques Rivette with his first feature film, puts post-war Europe under the microscope through a mystery film about a group of twenty-year-old intellectuals who may be hiding many secrets.

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Jacques Rivette's provocative directorial debut follows a young literature student who becomes friendly with a group of twenty-year-old intellectuals in Paris, when they are brought together by the suicide of a common acquaintance. The mystery film depicts the bohemian Parisian life of the late '50s, framed within the collective social disillusionment of post-war Europe.

Paris Belongs to Us

Combining the epic dimensions of a myth with the hallucinatory atmosphere of a dream, Iranian Bahram Beyzaie's film, banned for decades, is a visually sublime masterpiece that invents its own parable to critique the socio-political conditions of the country in the 1970s.

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A young man arrives unconscious in a canoe on the shore of the Persian Gulf. After recovering, he claims he doesn't remember who he is. He falls in love with a beautiful peasant girl and gets married. After years of peace, strangers come from the sea looking for him and attack the village.

Stranger and the Fog

Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco continues his incisive exploration of the modern human condition, moral decay, and individual responsibility in a world rife with inequality, through the clinically enigmatic portrait of a man in deep existential fatigue, suspended between desire, guilt, and resignation.

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At a luxurious seaside resort in Acapulco, the family tranquility of a wealthy European man is shattered by sudden news of a death. Withdrawn and silent, he chooses never to return and sinks into a purposeless life on the fringes of the city.

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Official Selection - International Competition | Venice Film Festival | 2021

Sundown

In his second film in London, after the beloved Match Point, Woody Allen once again puts Scarlett Johansson at the centre of a mystery comedy that combines the filmmaker's trademark humour with his concerns (and, more importantly, his phobias) about mortality.

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When an American journalism student in London attends the show of a  magician called Waterman, she is visited by the ghost of a famous journalist, revealing that the amiable aristocrat Peter Lyman is in fact a serial killer. Immediately she, along with Waterman, takes it upon herself to get a press scoop.

Scoop

In a delightful tribute to his favourite film noir, Woody Allen weaves with his trademark humour a mystery comedy that takes us back to the American cinema of the 1940s.

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In 1940s New York, an insurance company detective who claims to have never missed a case falls victim to a hypnotist and unknowingly commits a series of thefts, for which he then investigates to find the culprit

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

Andrew Haigh (All Of Us Strangers) takes a break from heart-wrenching dramas about the complexities of human relationships and moves to the small screen with an epic series about redemption and survival in the Arctic landscape, starring the exceptional duo of Jack O'Connell and Colin Farrell.

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A disgraced former military doctor embarks on a poignant journey by boarding a whaling ship as its designated surgeon, heading toward the unforgiving Arctic. As he sets sail, the story unfolds, revealing a profound quest for redemption that gradually transforms into a gripping struggle for survival.

The North Water

What is reality, and what is a dream? And what if the two cannot be disentangled? Alain Resnais weaves an immortal cinematic enigma, one of the great monuments of the seventh art, in which memories, visions, and dreams are brought to life through black-and-white imagery of spellbinding beauty.

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An anonymous man lays siege to an anonymous woman in a tower at Marienbad, amid a gathering of idle aristocrats. He insists that they met in the same place a year earlier and that they shared a brief yet fierce love affair. He tells her that she had promised him they would meet again one year later. She denies it, maintaining that she remembers nothing of the sort. The man does everything in his power to persuade her, inundating her with details connected to their supposed romance.

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Golden Lion | Venice Film Festival | 1961
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 1963

Last Year at Marienbad

Reminiscent of early Guillermo Del Torro, Issa Lopez unravels a dark tale about the scars of childhood trauma, through an aesthetic of fantasy and magical realism. After the success of this film, Lopez actually now works with Del Torro and mega-producer Jason Blum for her next film.

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A haunting horror fairytale set amidst Mexico’s drug war. A group of orphans, armed with three magic wishes, run to escape the ghosts that haunt them and the cartel that killed their parents.