10 of the world's greatest directors were commissioned to creat short pieces based on the world's greatest opera music. Erotic, demented, funny, poignant, extravagant, and outrageous, the result is breathtaking and totally unique.

Bobby (Christian Bale) runs away from home to escape his violent stepfather. He's taken in by a reclusive older man (John Hurt) until the two of them must confront Bobby's stepfather. Christian Bale is a standout in this dark moral fable.

The classic George Orwell story set in a world where absolute conformity in action, word and thought including loyalty to Big Brother is demanded. In 1984, the world is divided into three vast states, whose inhabitants are dominated by all powerful governments. Winston, a worker, starts an illegal love affair with Julia, and becomes the target of a brain-washing campaign to force him to conform.

John Hurt gives a bravura portrayal of British gay icon Quentin Crisp, focusing on Crisp's emigration to the United States and the final years of his life.

In a town in medieval France, a 17-year-old girl named Alais is given a mysterious book, filled with depictions of a labyrinth and rumored to hold the secrets of the Holy Grail.