One of Svankmajer's major full-length surrealist films,
Faust gives Goethe's story a modern, surrealist spin. The protagonist, confronted
by a pair of mysterious-looking chaps handing out leaflets at a Prague street corner
soon finds himself playing Faust in a macabre theatrical production, deep in a dilapidated warehouse-cum-stage. This is a showcase of Svankmajer's trademark puppetry and grotesque animations - a delightfully weird film to challenge your perceptions of the quotidian and ordinary - or not.

Definitely one of my very favourite films. This is an elegantly told story of two violin-makers and good friends who are driven apart by jealousy when one of them announces his engagement to a beautiful violinist (Beart). Ravel provides the soul-rending musical accompaniment to an emotionally-engaging masterpiece.

A marvellously inventive black comedy about the anarchic future where the underground, vegetarian Troglodytes continually wage war against cannibalistic surface-dwellers. Louison, an ex-circus clown answers an ad for a handyman and comes to work for a butcher, quite unaware that he is next on the menu. The butcher's daughter falls in love with him and enlists the aid of the Troglodytes to save Louison from her father and the building's meat-starved residents. Truly hilarious and eccentric.

A young woman works for the French resistance during WWII and after that, finds herself trapped in a dull desk job in London, and with an equally dull but well-meaning diplomat boyfriend. Unable to adjust herself to the banalities of everyday life after the war, she is driven to delusional madness while hankering for that 'something more meaningful' in life. Brilliant dialogue and outstanding performances from the cast.

A delightful, light-hearted comedy about a widowed chef and his three daughters in modern-day Taipei. The youngest girl inadvertently steals her friend's boyfriend, while the eldest daughter, repressed and delusional, seeks solace in opera and religion. Middle daughter, glamorous and successful, struggles to find her own identity in the midst of failed relationships and a high-flying career. Meanwhile, daddy has some other plans....