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The trailblazing late photographer Helmut Newton had a defining impact on the worlds of fashion and art.

When Italian composer Giacomo Puccini is accused of sleeping with his maid, the scandal threatens to destroy his life and career. This biopic intercuts with director Tony Palmer's efforts to stage Puccini's last opera.

A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.

A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television. With its story of a condemned highwayman, it brings to life the greed, lust and corruption of low-life London.

After the dead hear their cemetery is going to be sold as a building site, they ask Johnny to stop it.

A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy. He's on the go from L.A., to Paris, to Monte-Carlo, to Berlin, where he was a youth until he escaped from the Nazis in 1936. We see him on shoots, interviewing models, and discussing his work. It's not art and it's not good taste, he tells students. We meet June, his Australian-born wife, whom he married in 1948. Three actresses talk about working with Newton and how posing is different from acting. A heart attack in 1973 helps Newton re-focus, resulting in more personal photographic projects.

Works, legend and murders of Carlo Gesualdo, a notorious Italian composer and murderer from the 16th century.

At death's door, George Frederic Handel reflects, rages, and narrates his life. From his womanizing youthful days, to his rise in fame as a composer, God Rot Tunbridge Wells! pulls no punches in this wild romp of a biopic.

Portrait of the world-renowned French ballerina Sylvie Guillem, who joined the corps de ballet of the Paris Opera when she was just fifteen.

The film is about a very special moment in the famous composer's artistic life. Composing with innovative minimalism for films as memorable as "The Draughtsman's Contract", "The Ogre", "Man on Wire", and most famously for Campion's "The Piano", he has reached an international audience. But now, Michael Nyman is about to become a filmmaker himself. Featuring unprecedented access to the composer and his working life, this film shows one of the great composers of our time in all his diversity and endless energy. From London to Berlin, in Mexico, Poland, the Netherlands and Portugal the film is also a journey through the musical world today. It shows Michael Nyman, the musician, in his concerts with The Michael Nyman Band and live collaborations with other internationally known musicians or orchestras. But throughout his journeys, this film discovers Nyman's increasing passion for filming and photography. Witnessing the development of his visual works from the very first moment of inspiration, it gives a unique insight into Michael Nyman's personal views, his thoughts and emotions; his world.

Swedish production with multi-national cast, shot entirely on location in the Greek islands and on the Greek mainland.

The first comprehensive study of German artist Otto Dix looks at the life and work of the maligned German artist, blacklisted by the Nazis for his depictions of the horrors of war.

In a small village in England, Peter Grimes is unable to become a part of the community. Because his apprentice drowned at sea, he has incurred the wrath and distrust of the townspeople.

The painter and graphic artist Willi Sitte is considered one of the most important and at the same time one of the most controversial contemporary artists. Critics accuse him of his past as a GDR cultural functionary.

An exceptional six concert series of works by Pytor Tchaikovsky. Recorded at the Alter Oper Frankfurt, Germany under the baton of leading Russian conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev with The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and guest international soloists.

Rodney Greenbergs's portrait of Lalo Schifrin. From his origins in Argentina to Los Angeles today. Lalo the composer, conductor and pianist is best known for award winning film and television scores such as Cool Hand Luke, Bullit, The Fox and Mission Impossible Theme, amongst many others. The documentary includes film clips from these classics and his own relections of over thirty years of work in music. At the featured concert performance in Cannes, France conducting the Orchestre National de Lyon he is joined by the legendary performers Dizzy Gillespie, Grady Tate, Ray Brown and Julia Migenes.