Screenplay: Paul Bowles

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Alida Valli · Farley Granger · Massimo Girotti · Rina Morelli

Plot In 1866, in the spring of Venice, an underground rebel movement against the Austrian occupation in Italy is getting stronger. The married Countess Livia Serpieri (Alida Valli) sees her cousin...

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Debra Winger · John Malkovich · Campbell Scott · Jill Bennett

Plot The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby travels aimless through Africa, searching for new experiences that could give new sense to their relationship. But the flight to distant regions...

Direction Sara Driver

Cast Suzanne Fletcher · Evelyn Smith · Luc Sante

Plot A haunting adaptation of a 1948 short story by Paul Bowles about a woman who escapes from an asylum.

Direction Jennifer Baichwal

Cast Paul Bowles · William S. Burroughs · Allen Ginsberg · David Herbert

Plot The film is a portrait of American writer and composer Paul Bowles.

Direction Storm Thorgerson

Cast Bernard Hill · Phil Daniels · Patrick Barlow · John McEnery

Plot How drugs have influenced artistic production in the course of the last 200 years, focusing on major European and American literary figures and visual artists.