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20: 30: 40
Three women, three stages in life, one city.

Ae Fond Kiss
Dangerous liaison between a lapsed Irish Catholic and a first generation Pakistani Muslim.

After The Day Before
Rural life turns out to be anything but idyllic.

Anatomy Of Hell
French intellectual take on kinky sex between a gay man and a suicidal woman.

Arahan
Comedy chop-socky with serious martial arts moves from South Korea.

Blinded
A Danish backpacker faces sinister consequences after his work on a rundown farm leads to romance.

Buena Vida Delivery
A guy moves in with a girl, only to find she comes with a family - and business - attached.

Chain
An agit-prop study of consumerism and teenage despair in the US heartland of the big sell.

Checkpoint
A documentary about checkpoints between Israel and Palestine.

Coffee And Cigarettes
Series of sketches based around coffee and cigarettes, featuring a collection of the great and the good from the indie side of Hollywood.

Comme Une Image
A young woman finds herself torn between idolising her father and hating him for his indifferent attitude towards her.

Control
A bizarre fictional insight into the idiosyncratic lives of Budapest’s underground train inspectors.

Dead Man's Shoes
An ex-army man strolls into town, seeking revenge on his disabled brother's assailants.

Dear Frankie
Mother of a nine-year-old deaf boy pays a stranger to be dad for a day.

Dear Pillow
The adventures of a sex starved 17-year-old porn mag abuser.

Demi-Tarif
Abandoned kids scam a life of shoplifting, scamming restaurants and eating junk.

Far Side Of The Moon
Two brothers, a perpetual student and a gay weatherman, come to terms with life after mum dies.

The Gift
The old man, the prostitute and the dog that dies.

The Green Hat
A hard-edged drama about dysfunctional relationships and man’s need for acceptance and love.

Guerrilla: The Taking Of Patty Hearst
The short, violent life of The Symbionese Liberation Army.

Hero
Visually ravishing fable of maverick warriors in ancient China.

Hillside Strangler
Alleged biopic of serial killing cousins who posed as cops in California.

Inside I'm Dancing
Anarchic behavior in a care home leads to freedom and independence for two disabled Irishmen.

The Last Train
All quiet on the Eastern Front.

Los Muertos
An ex-convict's journey up river in deepest Argentina.

The Machinist
Christian Bale lives in the subconscious of a mentally frail insomniac.

Machuca
Friendship blossoms across the class divide in the classrooms of Chile.

Mamay
A mysterious pastiche of Ukrainian mythology and folklore mixed with a Romeo and Juliet style love story.

Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster
The fall and rise of a veteran heavy metal band.

The Motorcycle Diaries
Coming of age drama based on the writings of a young Che Guevara.

My Summer Of Love
Sad, lonely girl finds happy, lovely girl and has a cuddly, kissy time.

Natural City
Futuristic action-packed, robot-serviced, Blade Runner-esque thriller from South Korea.

Oldboy
A revenge drama from South Korea creates a mystery for the long term prisoner who is released. Now out to own as part of the box set.

The Ordeal
A passing crooner is kidnapped by a loony in the woods.


How to be the next big thing in Hollwood and screw up.

Passages
A young couple, disillusioned with student life, take off on a search for special mushrooms that could land them a fortune.

Peace One Day
One man goes on a global pilgrimage in search of world peace for a day.

Pearls And Pigs
Comedy featuring four heavy-drinking misfit brothers who find a new meaning in their lives when their half sister moves in with them and discovers a lucrative, hidden talent.

Primer
Two garage engineers, working with super conductors, stumble across a side-effect that opens infinite opportunities for time travel.

Primo Amore
A blind date between bald bully and wholesome girl reconstituted as an Italian art movie.


Casual sex, a mastectomy, marital disintegration leads a depressed actress to take her life.

The Purifiers
Futuristic gang war chopsocky Scottish vigilante action packer.

Purple Butterfly
Secret loves and violent action of resistance fighters in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation.

The Ramones: End Of The Century
Documentary on the legendary rockers who never had a Top 40 hit.

Rewind
Nameless Korean video store manager leads an uneventful life, pursued by women.

Riding Giants
Everything you will ever want to know about surfing.

Saved!
High school comedy takes a side-swipe at Christian fundamentalism after a teenage girl becomes pregnant to her gay pal.

Skinned Deep
Middle American freaks kill passing strangers in disgusting and bloody ways.

Somersault
Sexually awakened 15-year-old escapes to an Australian ski resort and lives off her wits.

Le Souffle
Harsh coming of age drama set in rural France.

Spy Bound
Inside the lives of France's best secret agents.

Stage Beauty
To be or not to be a woman on the London stage, circa Pepys, Charles II and 1660.

Summer Clouds
A couple find their fidelity tested on summer holiday.

Super Size Me
Documentary filmmaker acts as guinea pig in fast food experiment.

Taipei 21
A twenty- something couple struggle with their relationship in modern Taiwan.

Take My Eyes
Domestic abuse and its aftermath, Spanish style.

A Thousand Dreams Such As These
Three friends live through a decade of political turmoil in India.

Tokyo Godfathers
Animated tale of three vagrants in Tokyo who find a baby and look after it.

Trauma
A man traumatised by the death of his wife becomes implicated in the death of a pop star.

United
Light-hearted comedy, where one man’s obsession with playing for Manchester United threatens to tear up his relationship.

Untold Scandal
Korean retelling of the French classic Les Liaison Dangereuses.

Violent Summer
Set in the summer of Mussolini’s demise, a tempestuous love affair ensues between the widowed wife of a naval hero and a younger dodge drafting dandy.

War
Mysterious end-of-the-world black-and-white study of life after nothing.

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
Documentary about the ground-breaking TV channel.

Zelary
A nurse, working for the Resistance in Prague, 1943, escapes to the Moravian mountains.


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