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24 City
Blend of fiction and documentary looks at a Chinese munitions plant scheduled for conversion into luxury apartments.

2 Birds
A group of teenagers experiment with ketamine and find themselves out of their depth.

The Age Of Stupid
Docudrama about a future archivist looking back on the events that devastated Earth.

American Teen
The kids are not all right.

Anvil! The Story Of Anvil
Documentary tracks the attempts of rock band Anvil to 'make it' 20 years after their were first hailed as the "demi-gods of Canadian metal".

Awaydays
Tragic romance, based on Kevin Sampson's book about Tranmere Rovers hooligans in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Ballast
An emotionally frayed family find their lives torn apart in a small Mississippi Delta town.

Bart Got A Room
It's tick-tock, tick-tock for Danny as the prom approaches, and he still doesn't have a date...

Blue Eyelids
A pair of lonely people come together in offbeat romance.

Breakfast At Tiffany's
A writer falls for his mysterious socialite neighbour. Re-issue.

Bronson
Examination of the life of Britain's self-titled "most dangerous criminal".

Cherry Blossoms
A couple threatened by illness undertake a strange journey together, but a stranger one is to come.

The Children's Hour
Two teachers' lives are ruined by accusations of lesbianism.

Christmas With Dad
A family prepare for Christmas.

The Class
Quasi-documentary about a group of Parisian school kids.

The Control Master
What happens when a powerful device falls into the hands of scientist-turned-villain Doctor Moire?

Deadgirl
After two teenagers find a dead girl in the basement of a disused mental asylum, the boundary between right and wrong becomes sickeningly blurred.

Disgrace
The complex social life of an English professor forms a mirror for a complex country.

The Dungeon Moor Killings
Two young filmmakers searching for big cats suddenly find themselves being hunted.

Eldorado
A car dealer and a hapless burglar go on a road trip across Belgium.

Encounters At The End Of The World
The infamous director Werner Herzog visits the Antarctic, determined not to make a movie about penguins.

Everlasting Moments
Discovering photography provides an abused woman with a new way of experiencing life.

Fawn
From contours and shadows, the indistinct impression of a girl emerges from faint images that bode ill.

Fermat's Room
Someone wants four mathematicians out of the equation. Plus read our exclusive interview with

Fire
The original oblivious firestarter.

First Place
A champion relentlessly insisting on 'being a champion' whilst the universe couldn't care less.

Flame And Citron
Two resistance fighters face treachery and are torn over their feelings for a beautiful woman.

Flash Of Genius
A part-time inventor devotes his life to suing the Ford Motor Company for stealing his idea.

Four Nights With Anna
A crematorium worker becomes obssessed with a beautiful nurse.

Franklyn
Futurisic thriller which paints a picture of London in which there is no separation between Church and State.

Funny Face
A fashion photographer discovers a sales girl's ability as a model and makes her a star.

Good
An examination of the people who thought of themselves as 'good', yet allowed the Nazis to rise to power.

Grace
A baby presumed dead in the womb is miraculously born alive. Maybe.

Gran Torino
Foul-mouthed racist pensioner stands up to gang leaders in his neighbourhood.

The Grocer's Son
A man finds himself revisiting his past after he has to take on the job of running his father's grocery van.

Hell's Pavement
A young girl experiences the child care and fostering system, where good intentions don't always lead to good results.

Household Gods
Alone at home, but haunted by other voices: six people in six rooms somewhere in London.

Hush
Cat and mouse thriller sees a young couple fall foul of a trucker on the motorway.

Il Divo
The life and times of notorious Italian politician Guilio Andreotti.

In The Loop
Politicians spin while they're winning on the brink of a Middle East war. Plus read our interview with .

Is Anybody There?
An elderly magician reluctantly entering a retirement home bonds with an inquisitive young boy and persuades him life is for living.

I Sell The Dead
A grave robber looks back on the life he has led and the unburied bodies that haunt his memories.

Jeffrey And The Dinosaurs
A short documentary about a man whose struggle to overcome daily obstacles has produced an astonishing universe of outsider science fiction.

Johnny Mad Dog
As civil war rages in an unnamed African country, the lives of a boy soldier and a young girl fleeing the fighting become intertwined.

Laila's Birthday
A moving, often funny tale of a Palestinian taxi driver trying to get home in time for his daughter's birthday.

Last Chance Harvey
An awkward American visiting London for his daughter's wedding falls head over heels for a younger woman.

Let The Right One In
A touching story of first romance... with a side-serving of horror.

Love You More
Two schoolkids get amorous while listening to the new Buzzcocks single.

Ma Bar
What drives a 73-year-old powerlifting champion?

Mark Of An Angel
A mother caught up in a custody battle becomes obsessed with another woman's child.

Marley & Me
A family struggle to live with the world's worst dog, who is loveable but just won't behave.

My Life Inside
Documentarian tracks an illegal Mexican immigrant as she is tried for murder.

New Town Killers
A skint teenager realises his life may be on the line after entering into a deadly game of hide and seek.

Nosferatu
F W Murnau's silent adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
Documentary charting a key moment in Aussie cinema.

O'Horten
An engine driver adjusting to retirement has a series of strange adventures.

One Eyed Monster
An alien monster wreaks havoc on a porn movie set.

Outlander
Vikings and spacemen and alien monsters, oh my!

Paris 36
A group of workers try to take over their music hall when it's threatened with closure, but the arrival of a beautiful new singer leads to tragedy.

Prince Of Broadway
An illegal immigrant and his boss try to do the right thing when unexpectedly asked to care for his young son.


A black comedy focusing on the dysfunctional relationship between a mother and daughter.

Rat
A rat in a bathtub sips on a glass of wine and by candle light attempts to tell stories.

Religulous
Comedian Bill Maher champions scepticism in an age of rising religious fundamentalism.

Sabrina
Rags-to-riches meets ugly-duckling story.

September
Marvin is not going anywhere. Into this forgotten corner of English countryside and motorway services arrives an extraordinary young girl, changing his world forever.

Shifty
Twenty-four hours in the life of a Muslim crack dealer and a friend from his past.

Song Of Sparrows
This Iranian morality tale deals with an ostrich farmer who loses his job and is forced to travel to and from the city.

Synecdoche, New York
The story of a theatre director's drive to produce his masterwork.

Three Miles North Of Molkom
Spiritual fulfilment meets simple-minded satisfaction in a clash of ideologies.

Time Is Running Out
A little world is in trouble. One man tries to stop the inevitable.

Toggle
A young girl explores an animated cityscape.

Tulpan
A man dreams of becoming a shepherd in the Kazakhstan steppe, but is there room for such dreams in the modern world?

Tyson
Intimate portrait of the heavyweight boxer.

The Unborn
A young woman is gradually possessed by a malignant spirit that has haunted her family since her grandmother was in a concentration camp.

The Unforgiven
Gritty John Huston western about heritage and race.

Worlds Apart
The world of a dutiful daughter and Jehovah's Witness unravels when she falls for a non-believer.

The Wrecking Crew
Examination of the influential group of LA-based session musicians who worked alongside many of the greats, including Elvis Presley and The Byrds.


News & Features Repo

Jean-Pierre Améris talks about his comedy Romantics Anonymous.

Michel Hazanavicius, the Dardennes and others on cinematic and fairy tale influences.

McQueen, Fassbender, Cronenberg, Durkin, Olsen, Payne talk about clothes and authenticity

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