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When she discovers that her daughter has dyslexia, an ordinary Chinese mother is ready to cross an ocean in order to ensure that she gets the specialist help she needs.
The day of a trans boy's Christian confirmation ceremony is stressful for him and his mother in different ways.
A portrait of pioneering gynaecologist Denis Mukwege and the clinic in which he helps women who have been left with severe injuries following rape.
Summoned to the Mount Saviour convent deep in the Scottish Highlands following the mysterious death of her priest brother, a woman finds herself increasing convinced that he did not commit suicide, and starts her own investigation as the nuns prepare a consecration ceremony to purify the holy site, which may harbour a dark secret.
A teenager is forced to choose between a charismatic young man he meets in a detention centre and his own sense of moral integrity.
Observations of daily life in a world where men's and women's roles are reversed.
The story of a Japanese reality TV star left naked in a room for more than a year, tasked with filling out magazine sweepstakes to earn food and clothing.
Locked in a mysterious room and commanded by an unknown voice, Eileen must complete several tasks in order to save her daughter’s life. As the tests and the stakes intensify to the point where succeeding seems well nigh impossible, Eileen is forced to discover she has some unexpected skills and kinetic powers.
One day, when a struggling screenwriter steps out to buy dog food, he stumbles into a mysterious convenience store where he discovers he can find anything his heart desires.
Considering the way that economically disadvantaged communities suffer the brunt of natural disasters.
Vincent Price demonstrates how to cook dishes from around the world using easy-to-access 1970s ingredients.
A veteran police officer is trapped in the body of a baby. An environmental protection officer is overwhelmed by the challenges of fatherhood. Together they fight crime.
A lonely girl discovers a fantastic hidden world, but all is not as it seems - 15th anniversary reissue.
Scientists and astronauts bore to the centre of the earth to repair faulty electro magnetic field.
A young FBI agent returns to his hometown intending to bring down the Dixie mafia.
A man taking new medication begins to see monsters around him in positions of power, controlling the world - but are they real or is he hallucinating and at risk of becoming a monster himself?
Daniel who experiences a spiritual transformation in a Youth Detention Centre. The crime he commits prevents him from applying to the seminary... but Daniel has no intention of giving up his dream.
After witnessing the apparent abduction of her mother by aliens as a child, Aurora joins the UFO cult The Cosmic Dawn.
Nicholas, a ten-year-old with Down Syndrome, has a grand collection of costumes his mother made him, but as he and his resentful and troubled cousin David find out, just because it’s make-believe doesn’t mean it’s not real.
George Jones invites country music superstar Troyal Brooks out on the town in Nashville the night before George is to be cryogenically frozen in 1994.
Aa adaptation of the Dumas classic in which a man betrayed and left to rot in prison escapes, acquires a fortune and sets out in pursuit of justice - or revenge.
Three children learn to take care of one another during their mother's absences, as she tries to find a better way of living.
Young Lucas lives with his religious aunt in a quiet country town. But this little agitated life is with the days counted when the charitable aunt announces the arrival of another nephew Mario, just out of jail.
The lives of three cousins intertwine across decades despite one of them being taken away from her family as a child.
A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.
Troy and his young transgender son Joe are on the run from his conservative mother in the Montana wilderness, with a detective in hot pursuit.
Groups of Wild West settlers, outlaws and native tribespeople have to band together when faced with an alien threat.
The bounty-hunting Cowboy Be-Bop team go all out to stop a would-be bio-terrorist.
Cecilia and her children travel to her ageing father’s dairy farm after he has a heart attack. Back in her childhood home, Cecilia is met by her mother, a woman dead for many years, whose presence brings to life a painful past chorused by the natural world around them.
Trapped in their Hollywood Hills home, a family fight for survival when caught between a raging wildfire and a pack of savage coyotes.
A horde of murderous crab monsters descend on a sleepy coastal town on Prom night, and only a ragtag group of outcasts can save the day.
As part of a fishing community's annual ritual, a young boy must kill his first crab in order to become a man and gain his father's approval.
Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves by the pool on a scorching summer day.
A tale of misguided love and obssession in an isolated girls' school in the Thirties.
The story of young fighters taking part in the Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament.
After being caught up in a violent crash, a quiet man with a struggling marriage discovers a cult of car crash sex fetishists.
A son looks for paternal acceptance as he grows up in Sixties and Seventies Quebec.
A 77-minute, one-scene, no-cut action sequence in which samurai Miyamoto defeats 588 enemies, one after the other.
Creation Stories tells the unforgettable tale of infamous Creation Records label head Alan McGee; and of how one written-off young Glaswegian upstart rose to irrevocably change the face of British culture.
A real life science fiction story devoted to the world of myxomycetes, or fungus-like ‘slime moulds’.
A company develops technology which can give people the impression they're talking to their dead loved ones, but the lead researcher finds himself increasingly troubled by the results.
After an unexpected death in the family, a mother and son struggle to find spiritual healing at a beachfront summer home.
When a glamorous but talentless young actress is accused of murdering a sleazy producer, her aspiring lawyer friend spies a money-making opportunity.
Gael Garcia Bernal is a priest in Mexico who falls in love with a beautiful teenager.
The story of a lasting bond formed between an unjustly arrested Black man, Gary Duncan, and Richard Sobol, his young Jewish attorney.
A theatre critic enlists a glamorous young actress in a desperate scheme.
A babysitter takes her young charges on a hike, unaware that mysterious alien critters have crash landed and started devouring every living thing they encounter.
Deep in the English countryside, Lisa and George prepare for their wedding at a Tudor mansion. But an angry crocodile lies in wait, determined to ruin their big day.
Documentary about The Pogues frontman.
The stone age family encounter another family with a very different way of life who remember Guy from his early childhood.
This land of ours Max Keegan on the ancient conflicts underlying The Shepherd And The Bear
Home truths Marijana Janković on Balkan representation, and the immigrant question of belonging
The division belle Suzannah Herbert on facing the US' troubled history and making Natchez
Spin-off alchemy Claude Schmitz on bringing back cop pairing for Conrad & Crab – Idiotic Gems
Past crime Christoffer Boe on creating a world for his period mystery Special Unit - The First Murder
It Was Just An Accident screenwriter arrested in Iran Jafar Panahi speaks out
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BAFTA nominations One Battle After Another and Sinners almost neck and neck
Critics' Circle Awards One Battle After Another wins fight
Oscars Sinners dominates the nominations
