101 Reykjavik
A hedonistic young man gets more than he bargained for when a Spanish flamenco dancer moves in with he and his mother.
6ixtynin9
A girl finds that coming into money unexpectedly can be murder.
Aberdeen
A woman is forced to confront her past and present on a trip to see her dying mum.
Addicted to Solitude
Documentary tracks two women in post-apartheid South Africa.
Amores Perros
Interlinking stories, connected by a car crash and dogs.
Audition
A widower becomes infatuated with a shy ex-ballet dancer and her mysterious past.
Anatomie
An anatomy student encounters creepy goings on at med school.
Billy Elliot
Young lad from up north finds freedom through ballet.
Benjamin Smoke
Documentary about an outsider musician.
Blinker
Intelligent adventure film for kids with its heart in the right place.
A Brief History of Errol Morris
Documentary about the non-fiction film-maker.
Caesar's Park
A filmmaker documents her new neighbourhood.
Chuck And Buck
An emotionally retarded man has sexual obsession for his childhood friend.
Code Unknown
Self-consciously obtuse drama.
County Kilburn
Feel-good comedy about an Irish barman in a dead end job.
Cut
Slasher parody about a film set that's a real killer.

D

Dark Days
Documentary following the people who survive in the New York underground.
Dancer In The Dark
A Czech migrant saves for an eye op for her son while dreaming of Hollywood song and dance numbers.
Deep In The Woods
Horror tale revolving round retellings of Little Red Riding Hood.
De Grote Vakantie
Documentary following the director's battle with prostate cancer.
Les Diseurs de Verite
Intense drama about the plight of a political refugee.
Djomeh
A young Afghani in Iran tries to woo a prospective bride.
Drole de Felix
Gay man goes on road trip to see his dad.
The Earrings Of Madame De...
A countess sells her earrings, little realising the huge impact the move will have on her life.
Everything Put Together
A woman's life begins to unravel after her baby dies.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
A thoroughly entertaining romp through the life and times of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker.
Empty Days
Two people from opposite ends of the social scale, both previously laid off from very different positions at the same company meet in the supermarket.
Eu Tu Eles
A woman has to keep the peace between her three hubbies and four kids.
The Exile
Charles II's attempts to elude the Roundheads.
Extension Du Domaine De La Lutte
Bleak look at life for single men in the modern world.
Faithless
A woman tells the tale of her infidelity.
Gaea Girls
Investigation into a school for female wrestlers in Japan.
George Washington
A rites-of-passage for black kids in small town North Carolina.
The Gleaners And I
Director Agnes Varda goes in search of those who live on what others leave behind.
Girlfight
18-year-old girl from Brooklyn learns to become a boxer.
Gohatto
A period tale of Samarai warriors and their obsessions with honour, love and death.
Groove
Relationships are formed and broken at a San Francisco rave.
Hollow Man
Modern take on the Invisible Man sees Kevin Bacon do a disappearing act.
The House Of Mirth
A New York socialite faces financial ruin after falling victim to the rumour of an affair.
Hidden Whisper
Three Mother/daughter relationships receive eloborate cinematic analysis in a beautiful but overlong drama.
Hotel Splendide
Black comedy about a dark and dreary hotel spa.
Human Resources
Clever son of factory worker returns to work for the management.

I

In The Mood For Love
The history of a love affair that never was.
The Irrefutable Truth About Demons
Anthropologist falls foul of satanic cult.
I Love
Lonely soldiers make for revealing viewing in this involved documentary.
The Jaundiced Eye
Documentary about two gay men's struggle to overturn convictions for child abuse.
The Junction
A lonely young romantic running the signal box at a dilapidated station plans her escape from her small town in this touching little drama.
Keeping The Faith
Love triangle between a workaholic businesswoman, a rabbi and a Catholic priest.
The King Is Alive
The social order starts to break down after bus travellers become stranded.
Koroshi
After losing his job, Hawazaki becomes a paid assassin of other unemployed men.
Krampack
Spanish teenage rites-of-passage summer holiday discovery of sexuality.
Legacy
The true life traumas of one amazing family and their struggle out of the housing projects that have so badly affected their lives.
Letter From An Unknown Woman
A woman falls for her neighbour and maintains her unrequited love down the years.
Life Doesn't Scare Me
Four girls come of age in a movie about love, sex and friendship.
Lista de Espera
A group of Cubans create a socialist utopia when they are stranded in a bus station.
The Little Vampire
American kid in Scotland makes friends with vampire boy.
Last Resort
A Russian and her son strive to cope with claiming political asylum in the UK.
Lola Montes
Colourful and genuinely revolutionary film, which shows off the considerable imagination and technical prowess of the director. Newly restored version is being show at NYFF 2008.
Love And Sex
On-off relationship between an artist and a writer.
Love At First Hiccough
A Danish American Pie, this keenly observed and wickedly funny romantic comedy is a real winner.
The Low Down
Lives and loves of a group of twentysomethings.
The Luzhin Defence
A chess player falls for a socialite.

M

Marshal Tito's Spirit
Communism resurrected in a sweet Croatian Ealing style comedy.
Me And Isaac Newton
A documentary exploring the inspiration which drives a remarkable group of seven scientists.
Miss Julie
A count's daughter is seduced by a footman.
My Heart
Tragic story sees a woman recall her life.
Nurse Betty
A waitress becomes obsessed with chasing her soap opera dreams after witnessing her husband's murder.
One Day In The Life Of Andrei Arsenevich
Documentary about director Andrei Tarkovsky.
One Life Stand
Life is tough for a single mum in a Glasgow tenement.
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Chain gang escapees in Deep South emulate a comic Odyssey.
Our Song
Three teenage girls coping with growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
The Price Of Milk
Romantic and fantastical cow farming odyssey.
Purely Belter
Two kids bunk off school and come up with scams to make cash for a Newcastle season ticket.

R

Ring 0
Prequel to the infamous Ring cycle.
Ring 2
Effective sequel to the original Ring.
Rio Escondido
A woman heads to her husband's home town after she begins to suspect he is cheating on her.
Ring
A cursed video that spawned a thousand sequels and remakes makes its debut.
La Ronde
The love lives of a series of inter-related characters.
The Season Of Men
Tunisian women spend 11 months of the year together on an island without their men.
Shiri
Excellent and enjoyable action flick with high body count - think Korean Nikita.
La Signora Di Tutti
The story of a woman who has lived a scandalous life.
Simon Magus And The Nine Lives Of Thomas Katz
Two films by director Ben Hopkins.
Some Voices
Love story between ex-mental health patient and pregnant Scots girl in London.
Tell Me Something
Multiple murders appear connected to a mysterious girl.
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
A misfit schoolkid dreams of being a footie star.
Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her
Disparate lives of five Californan women in search of something else.
Timecode 2000
Experimental film, using split-screen to tell its story about the day in the life of Hollywood folk.
A Time For Drunken Horses
A young Kurdish boy must support his family in Northern Iran.
Titus
Modern reworking of Shakespeare's revenge tragedy.

V

Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
Sex and romance in Seoul.
Water Drops On Burning Rocks
A businessman seduces a twentysomething man, only for trouble to ensue after he moves in with him.
You Can Count On Me
A drifter brother returns home to stay with sister and eight-year-old son in upstate New York.
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