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A hedonistic young man gets more than he bargained for when a Spanish flamenco dancer moves in with he and his mother.

A girl finds that coming into money unexpectedly can be murder.

A woman is forced to confront her past and present on a trip to see her dying mum.

Documentary tracks two women in post-apartheid South Africa.

Interlinking stories, connected by a car crash and dogs.

A widower becomes infatuated with a shy ex-ballet dancer and her mysterious past.

An anatomy student encounters creepy goings on at med school.

Young lad from up north finds freedom through ballet.

Documentary about an outsider musician.

Intelligent adventure film for kids with its heart in the right place.

Documentary about the non-fiction film-maker.

A filmmaker documents her new neighbourhood.

An emotionally retarded man has sexual obsession for his childhood friend.

Self-consciously obtuse drama.

Feel-good comedy about an Irish barman in a dead end job.

Slasher parody about a film set that's a real killer.
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Documentary following the people who survive in the New York underground.

A Czech migrant saves for an eye op for her son while dreaming of Hollywood song and dance numbers.

Horror tale revolving round retellings of Little Red Riding Hood.

Documentary following the director's battle with prostate cancer.

Intense drama about the plight of a political refugee.

A young Afghani in Iran tries to woo a prospective bride.

Gay man goes on road trip to see his dad.

A countess sells her earrings, little realising the huge impact the move will have on her life.

A woman's life begins to unravel after her baby dies.

A thoroughly entertaining romp through the life and times of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker.

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.

A woman has to keep the peace between her three hubbies and four kids.

Charles II's attempts to elude the Roundheads.

Bleak look at life for single men in the modern world.

A woman tells the tale of her infidelity.

Investigation into a school for female wrestlers in Japan.

A rites-of-passage for black kids in small town North Carolina.

Director Agnes Varda goes in search of those who live on what others leave behind.

18-year-old girl from Brooklyn learns to become a boxer.

A period tale of Samarai warriors and their obsessions with honour, love and death.

Relationships are formed and broken at a San Francisco rave.

Modern take on the Invisible Man sees Kevin Bacon do a disappearing act.

A New York socialite faces financial ruin after falling victim to the rumour of an affair.

Clever son of factory worker returns to work for the management.

Three Mother/daughter relationships receive eloborate cinematic analysis in a beautiful but overlong drama.

Black comedy about a dark and dreary hotel spa.
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The history of a love affair that never was.

Anthropologist falls foul of satanic cult.

Lonely soldiers make for revealing viewing in this involved documentary.

Documentary about two gay men's struggle to overturn convictions for child abuse.

A lonely young romantic running the signal box at a dilapidated station plans her escape from her small town in this touching little drama.

Love triangle between a workaholic businesswoman, a rabbi and a Catholic priest.

The social order starts to break down after bus travellers become stranded.

After losing his job, Hawazaki becomes a paid assassin of other unemployed men.

Spanish teenage rites-of-passage summer holiday discovery of sexuality.

The true life traumas of one amazing family and their struggle out of the housing projects that have so badly affected their lives.

A woman falls for her neighbour and maintains her unrequited love down the years.

Four girls come of age in a movie about love, sex and friendship.

A group of Cubans create a socialist utopia when they are stranded in a bus station.

American kid in Scotland makes friends with vampire boy.

A Russian and her son strive to cope with claiming political asylum in the UK.

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.

On-off relationship between an artist and a writer.

A Danish American Pie, this keenly observed and wickedly funny romantic comedy is a real winner.

Lives and loves of a group of twentysomethings.

A chess player falls for a socialite.
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Communism resurrected in a sweet Croatian Ealing style comedy.

A documentary exploring the inspiration which drives a remarkable group of seven scientists.

A count's daughter is seduced by a footman.

Tragic story sees a woman recall her life.

A waitress becomes obsessed with chasing her soap opera dreams after witnessing her husband's murder.

Documentary about director Andrei Tarkovsky.

Life is tough for a single mum in a Glasgow tenement.

Chain gang escapees in Deep South emulate a comic Odyssey.

Three teenage girls coping with growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Romantic and fantastical cow farming odyssey.

Two kids bunk off school and come up with scams to make cash for a Newcastle season ticket.
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Prequel to the infamous Ring cycle.

Effective sequel to the original Ring.

A woman heads to her husband's home town after she begins to suspect he is cheating on her.

A cursed video that spawned a thousand sequels and remakes makes its debut.

The love lives of a series of inter-related characters.

Tunisian women spend 11 months of the year together on an island without their men.

Excellent and enjoyable action flick with high body count - think Korean Nikita.

The story of a woman who has lived a scandalous life.

Two films by director Ben Hopkins.

Love story between ex-mental health patient and pregnant Scots girl in London.

Multiple murders appear connected to a mysterious girl.

A misfit schoolkid dreams of being a footie star.

Disparate lives of five Californan women in search of something else.

Experimental film, using split-screen to tell its story about the day in the life of Hollywood folk.

A young Kurdish boy must support his family in Northern Iran.

Modern reworking of Shakespeare's revenge tragedy.
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Sex and romance in Seoul.

A businessman seduces a twentysomething man, only for trouble to ensue after he moves in with him.

A drifter brother returns home to stay with sister and eight-year-old son in upstate New York.

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