Esmond Knight

A fascination with the extreme is written across all of Lars von Trier’s works, beginning with this mesmeric investigation of criminal minds. Captured in burnt sepia tones expressive of photographic fragments or uncertain memories, the ashen film is also evocative of a changing—crumbling?—Europe.

An adolescent English girl comes of age in India.

After the murder of her lover Julius Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and war.

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a series of mysterious and bizarre crimes in a small town on the way to Canterbury, England.

A disturbed filmmaker literally kills with his camera in this ahead-of-its-time shocker. Like the same year's Psycho, this film's combination of voyeurism, eroticism and horror repelled some 1960 critics, but its cult reputation soared in later years.