Nightmare Alley

Two women connect across generations this week in Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers, a former soldier gets out of his depth with a mother and daughter in Amulet, and the rivalry between humans and nature is explored in Taming The Garden. Three men imprisoned by the Apartheid regime attempt to Escape From Pretoria - see our interview with director Francis Annan - while a teacher finds her job on the line in Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn - check out our insider's guide. A con-man carny meets a dangerous woman in Guillermo Del Toro's Nightmare Alley, while Kenneth Branagh sets a family tale in the Belfast of his childhood, and Firouzeh Khosrovani creates a documentary portrait of her parents in Radiograph Of A Family. There are also family connections at the heart of Memory Box, a young woman discovers the dark side of Sixties London in Last Night In Soho, and an unlikely friendship forms in Even Mice Belong In Heaven. A boy chooses the wrong car in which to go on his First Date, a girl faces persecution in The Last Thing Mary Saw, while a horror legend is celebrated in Boris Karloff: The Man Behind The Monster, and footage from a famous expedition can be seen in South - Sir Ernest Shackleton's Glorious Epic of the Antarctic.

• Parallel Mothers
• Boris Karloff: The Man Behind The Monster
• Last Night In Soho
• Memory Box
• Nightmare Alley
• Belfast
• Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn
• Even Mice Belong In Heaven
• The Last Thing Mary Saw
• Taming The Garden
• Radiograph Of A Family
• Escape From Pretoria
• Amulet
• South - Sir Ernest Shackleton's Glorious Epic of the Antarctic