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UK boutique focused on world cinema and Asian film. Young label with a strong curatorial sensibility. Worth following closely as the catalog builds.

Films where Radiance Films is the community-recommended best release.

Cutter's Way(1981)

6.5

dir. Ivan Passer

S-Tier

Alex Cutter is a boozy, belligerent and deeply cynical Vietnam veteran whose encounter with a landmine during the war has left him minus an eye, a leg and an arm. When his drifter playboy friend Richard Bone is falsely accused of murder, Cutter sets out for revenge in his own inimitable style.

Radiance Films · 4K + Blu-ray

Daughters of Darkness(1971)

6.2

dir. Harry Kümel

S-Tier

Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary.

Radiance Films · 4K + Blu-ray

The Inquisitor(1981)

7.5

dir. Claude Miller

S-Tier

Martinaud, an illustrious notary suspected of being the perpetrator of two horrendous crimes, voluntarily agrees to be questioned by Inspector Gallien on New Year's Eve. What initially is a routine procedure, soon becomes a harsh interrogation that seems to confirm the initial suspicions.

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In My Skin(2002)

A-Tier

After a disfiguring leg injury, a young woman develops an unsettling secret relationship with her own body in which pain is pleasure, mutilation is love and hungers of the flesh have a mind of their own.

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On My Skin(2018)

8.0

dir. Alessio Cremonini

A-Tier

The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime and mysteriously found dead during his detention. In one week's time, a family is changed forever.

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Palindromes(2005)

6.2

dir. Todd Solondz

A-Tier

Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.

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Deadly Circuit(1983)

6.1

dir. Claude Miller

A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.

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Hi, Mom!(1970)

6.3

dir. Brian De Palma

Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with making films leads him to fall in with a radical 'Black Power' group, which in turn leads him to carry out a bizarre act of urban terrorism.

Radiance Films · Limited Edition

Mississippi Mermaid(1969)

6.6

dir. François Truffaut

A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a French woman he does not know. The woman that arrives does not look like the picture he received, but he marries her anyway.

Radiance Films · 4K Ultra HD

Paris Je T'aime(2006)

6.8

dir. Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.

Radiance Films · Restored

Simon of the Desert(1965)

7.6

dir. Luis Buñuel

Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.

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The Exterminating Angel(1962)

7.9

dir. Luis Buñuel

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.

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The Matador(2005)

6.3

dir. Richard Shepard

The life of Danny Wright, a salesman forever on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal territory when he wanders into a Mexican bar and meets a mysterious stranger, Julian, who's very likely a hit man. Their meeting sets off a chain of events that will change their lives forever, as Wright is suddenly thrust into a far-from-mundane existence that he takes to surprisingly well … once he gets acclimated to it.

Radiance Films · Limited Edition

Vampire's Kiss(1989)

5.9

dir. Robert Bierman

A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction.

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Viridiana(1962)

7.7

dir. Luis Buñuel

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

Radiance Films · Restored