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1234
Wry comedy drama about an indie musician's dreams of success and romance.
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24 City
Blend of fiction and documentary looks at a Chinese munitions plant scheduled for conversion into luxury apartments.
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57,000 Kilometres Between Us
A teenager struggles for connections - both real and virtual - as her step-father presents an airbrushed version of their lives online.
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Adoration
An orphaned boy reimagines the mysterious death of his parents as a terrorist atrocity.
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Afterschool
A boy at an exclusive American private school becomes increasingly obsessed with watching video clips on his computer.
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American Teen
The kids are not all right.
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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".
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Awaydays
Tragic romance, based on Kevin Sampson's book about Tranmere Rovers hooligans in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
As protests against the West German government of the late 1960s become increasingly violent, a group of young left-wingers decide to take direct action.
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Ballast
An emotionally frayed family find their lives torn apart in a small Mississippi Delta town.
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Beirut Open City
An Egyptian filmmaker based in Beirut tries to make an expose of the Lebanese security agencies, but finds that he, too, is under scrutiny.
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The Betrayal
The epic story of a family forced to emigrate from Laos after the chaos of the secret air war waged by the US during the Vietnam War.
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Better Things
Award-winning short filmmaker makes his feature debut with a story of fractured relationships.
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Blind Loves
The complexities of love and relationships as experienced by various visually impaired people.
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Bronson
Examination of the life of Britain's self-titled "most dangerous criminal".
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The Brothers Bloom
Swindling siblings lure an eccentric heiress into their elaborate scheme.
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Bullet In The Head
Avant-garde thriller invites audience to piece together the narrative.
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Captive
Two Russian soldiers force a Chechen prisoner to act as guide – and begin to develop a bond with him.
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Che: Guerilla
Second episode in Soderbergh's meditation on the Argentine-born revolutionary, focussing on his time in Bolivia.
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Che: The Argentine
First part of Soderbergh's epic, sees the revolutionary take on Batista.
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A Christmas Tale
Ensemble drama about a family brought together - and, possibility on course to be torn apart - by the illness of their matriarch.
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The Class
Quasi-documentary about a group of Parisian school kids.
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Dean Spanley
A dean recounts tales of his past life... as a dog.
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Delta
A precarious love affair evolves on the Danube delta.
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Easy Virtue
When a young Englishman takes his American bride to meet his family sparks soon fly.
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Eldorado
A car dealer and a hapless burglar go on a road trip across Belgium.
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Firaaq
The story of how the Hindu-Muslim riots that ravaged Gujarat in 2002 altered the lives of a number of different characters.
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Franklyn
Futurisic thriller which paints a picture of London in which there is no separation between Church and State.
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Frost/Nixon
Timely restaging of the Frost/Nixon televised interview and duel of wits.
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Frozen River
Two women enter an uneasy partnership to smuggle illegal immigrants from Canada to the US.
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Genova
In a foreign city, a young girl begins to catch glimpses of the mother she lost in a car crash.
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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
A documentary tribute to the legendary creator of gonzo journalism.
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Goodbye Solo
An unlikely relationship between a grumbling old-timer and a Senegalese taxi driver.
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The Good, The Bad, The Weird
Manchurian homage to Sergio Leone sees unlikely protagonists vie over a treasure map.
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Helen
A missing girl's police reconstruction prompts her proxy to fill in the psychological gaps in herself.
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Home
Change knocks on a French family’s front door when a motorway opens up outside their house.
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Hunger
Examination of the events leading up to and during Bobby Sands' 1981 hunger strike. Winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes.
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I Am Alive
A young Italian worker, persuaded by his friend to take on a one-off ‘nightwatchman’ job for easy money, finds the reality is more macabre – and complex – than he expected.
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I Love Sarah Jane
A 13-year-old will stop at nothing to win the heart of the girl of his dreams.
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Il Divo
The life and times of notorious Italian politician Guilio Andreotti.
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Incendiary
A London mum tries to cope with the grief of the loss of her family in a terror attack.
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Involuntary
Offbeat drama exploring the compelling nature of peer pressure.
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I Know You Know
A young boy harbours suspicions that his father is a spy.
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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.
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Laila's Birthday
A moving, often funny tale of a Palestinian taxi driver trying to get home in time for his daughter's birthday.
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Last Time In Clerkenwell
Birds go bonkers.
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The Last Thakur
As a Muslim politician and a Hindu landlord compete for power in an isolated Bangladeshi village, a stranger with a rifle pursues his own deadly agenda.
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Lazy Days
A group of thirtysomething slackers come of age.
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Leaving
A battered wife tries to find the courage to leave her husband.
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Let's Talk About The Rain
A self-centred politican has to deal with the politics of relationships when she returns to her home town.
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Lion's Den
Waking covered in blood in an apartment where one man is dead and another badly injured, with little memory and no alibi, a pregnant woman must learn to deal with imprisonment.
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Love Live Long
A Gumball Rally driver forms a potentially dangerous relationship with a mysterious woman.
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Love You More
Two schoolkids get amorous while listening to the new Buzzcocks single.
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The Market
A small-time black market trader tries to change his ways.
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Mid-August Lunch
A carer desperate for money is persuaded to look after other people's mothers as well as his own, but discovers unexpected pleasure in it.
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Momma's Man
A man in mid-life crisis retreats to his parents' loft.
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Mumbler
Blaring and showy horror flick goes for the throat.
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My Olympic Summer
A discovery prompts a filmmaker to re-examine his parents' relationships.
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New Town Killers
A skint teenager realises his life may be on the line after entering into a deadly game of hide and seek.
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Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist
Two young people are thrown together one night, as they search for their favourite band's secret gig.
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Nights And Weekends
A twenty-something couple struggle with a long-distance relationship.
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Nine-Ball
A man who struggles to communicate learns a lesson from his son.
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Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
Documentary charting a key moment in Aussie cinema.
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Of Parents And Children
A retired scientist and his adult son reflect on life during their regular walk around the outskirts of Prague.
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Of Time And The City
A portrait of 20th Century Liverpool.
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Quantum Of Solace
Bond is back... and this time it's personal.
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Quiet Chaos
A bereaved husband decides to spend each day waiting for his daughter outside her school, discovering a new world in the process.
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Rachel Getting Married
A young woman's wedding arrangements are disrupted by the arrival of her demanding, obnoxious, and painfully vulnerable sister.
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Religulous
Comedian Bill Maher champions scepticism in an age of rising religious fundamentalism.
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Revanche
An accidental shooting leads to a search for revenge.
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Salt Of This Sea
The odyssey of a US-born Palestinian woman who travels back to the land of her forebears.
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The Secret
Film noir sees a journalist get wind of a location of "a secret" with the power to kill.
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The Secret Life Of Bees
A young girl, escaping from her tyrannical father in Civil Rights era South Carolina, finds a very different surrogate family.
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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.
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Shifty
Twenty-four hours in the life of a Muslim crack dealer and a friend from his past.
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The Silence Of Lorna
A young immigrant in a sham marriage finds herself unexpectedly torn when the gangsters who arranged it want her junkie husband dead.
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Slumdog Millionaire
Tale of love and longing across the decades, seen through a streetkid growing up in India.
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Synecdoche, New York
The story of a theatre director's drive to produce his masterwork.
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Teza
Ethiopian idealist finds you can go home again, at a cost.
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This Way Up
Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.
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Three Blind Mice
Three sailors face up to their future and their past on an eventful night out in Sydney.
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Tokyo!
Three off-beat visions of the famous city.
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Tony Manero
The story of a psychotic fiftysomething and his obssession with John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever.
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Tricks
A young boy sets out to prove that a man he sees at the station is really his lost father.
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Tulpan
A man dreams of becoming a shepherd in the Kazakhstan steppe, but is there room for such dreams in the modern world?
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Two Lovers
A man struggles with his emotions as his founds tentative relationships with two women.
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Tyson
Intimate portrait of the heavyweight boxer.
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Uprise
A man meets a pregnant woman in a hospital... but have they met before?
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Two young American girls on holiday in Barcelona become romantically involved with a Spanish painter.
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Waltz With Bashir
Animated documentary exploring the psychological aftermath of the First Lebanon War.
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Warlords
Nineteenth century battle epic about blood brothers who find their bond is tested.
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The Wednesdays
An elderly couple find and unusual way of spicing up their relationship.
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Wendy And Lucy
Drama about a young woman's attempts to find her lost dog.
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Wonderful Town
A local woman falls in love with an architect and unwittingly inspires jealousy in a small Thai town recovering from the 2006 tsunami.
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Yah Chayka!
Poet and musician combine forces in an experimental film comprised of stills and music.
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Movies out this week include :
A Dangerous Method
Bombay Beach
Carnage
Casablanca
Chronicle
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Man On A Ledge
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Rampart
Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace
The Muppets
Young Adult
Other Films Out Now
Latest reviews:
If Not Us, Who?
Shadow Dancer
How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire
Sergeant
Three Walls
Fini
Repressed
Possessed
Shirin
Decapoda Shock
Birth Of A Nation
Kin
We, the Masses
Twiggy
Midnight In Paris
The Cat 'O Nine Tails
Girl Model
Beauty
Position Among The Stars
Bill Cunningham New York
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