Dames & Sea Smoke

River of Desire

March 2023 •Portuguese

Three brothers find themselves sharing a home with the alluring new wife of the middle sibling. As they become infatuated with the same woman, a complex and enthralling tale ensues in this tropical paradise.

Cascade

June 2022 •English

After a close friends suicide; Will, a Punk and Post-Punk musician living in the US is struggling with doubts about his relationship, his identity and ultimately what he wants to do in life. Will becomes isolated, reliant on substances and is sent down a path of pain, suffering and existential terror.

Little Women

December 1994 •English

With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, male friends start to become a part of the household.

The Lover

January 1992 •French

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.

Cursed Desires

May 2023 •Spanish

A girl frustrated by her work begins to realize that she has the power to make her wishes come true. All this leads to a tragic end, not only for her but for all humanity, which she will not be able to remedy.

Twilight

November 2008 •English

When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated cautions, Bella can't stay away from him, a fatal move that endangers her own life.

Le Divorce

August 2003 •English

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.

Needful Things

August 1993 •English

A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.

Eve

June 2019 •English

Embark yourself to embrace temptation with Anna Henderson, a blogger getting out of town to work on her latest article on sexuality. Alone in her mountain retreat she finds out much about her own desires, as it becomes harder and harder to differentiate dream from reality.

9 Songs

July 2004 •English

Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.

I Have Dreamed Of You So Much

November 2015 •French

Based on the poem of Robert Desnos "J'ai tant rêvé de toi" A film about The Horizon and his impossible love...

Don't Leave Me

November 2015 •Spanish

Laura and Luis. Two characters mired in contradiction: she wants to go back to him but attacks and rebuffs him; he doesn’t want her back, but there he is, at her place, taking off his jacket. A story of heartbreak, where a woman mistakes desire for the need to fill an endless void.

Lorna

September 1964 •English

Lorna and Jim have been married for a year but Lorna remains sexually unsatisfied. While he's at work, she is raped by an escaped convict, then becomes lustfully involved with him.

The Xposé

May 2014 •Hindi

This is a dramatic chain of events in the most glamorous ,swinging era of Hindi films... the 1960s. It was a decade when film stars tasted success and carried their larger than life screen image on to real life with unbridled pomp and splendour. It was during this time that two ambitious films were made... Ujwal Nirmal Sheetal and Reena Mera Naam. The latter became a runaway hit while the former was struggling at the box office.

Naughty Spot

October 2021 •French

It's Tonio's first time in Corsica. He wanders across the island and on dating apps until stumbling upon the Oracle, a user who tells him about gay life in Corsica. Their conversation is reenacted with an actor who seems to connect deeply with the Oracle's story.

Homecoming

July 2009 •English

A jealous woman plots revenge after her former beau returns to their hometown with a pretty new girlfriend.

Lolita

September 1997 •English

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

The Silence

September 1963 •Swedish

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

The Piano Teacher

September 2001 •French

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

Deseo carnal

August 1978 •Spanish