7 Days
A doctor seeks revenge by kidnapping, torturing and killing the man who murdered his young daughter.
Abel
A peculiar young boy, blurring reality and fantasy, assumes the responsibilities of a family man in his father's absence.
Animal Kingdom
After the death of his mother, a 17-year-old boy is thrust precariously between an explosive criminal family and a detective who thinks he can save him. Plus read our exclusive .
Boy
A Boy and his brother find their fantasy version of their dad is somewhat different to the real deal.
Buried
A contractor awakes to find he is buried alive.
Blue Valentine
A couple love and lose.
Bran Nue Dae
A boy runs away from boarding school and goes on a surreal - and musical-number filled - roadtrip across Australia.
Cane Toads: The Conquest
In 3D, Mark Lewis explores one of Australia's greatest environmental catastrophes as he follows the unstoppable march of the cane toad across the continent.
The Company Men
Three corporate executives struggle to come to terms with losing their jobs.
Cyrus
A recently divorced guy meets a new woman... and her son.

D

Daddy Longlegs
A happy-go-lucky man tries to bond with his kids but can't quite get the hang of responsibility.
Double Take
As Cold War tensions rise and the world teeters on the brink of destruction, Alfred Hitchcock meets his double.
The Dry Land
A US soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family he left in Texas.
Enter The Void
A psychedelic journey into the afterlife.
Enemies Of The People
A young journalist whose family was killed by the Khmer Rouge befriends the perpetrators of the Killing Fields genocide.
The Extra Man
An aspiring author forms an unusual friendship with an oddball older playwright.
Four Lions
Four bungling would-be suicider bombers try to go out with a bang.
Get Low
Heatwarming tale of redemption, partially based on the true story of a hermit who threw his own funeral... while he was still alive.
Happythankyoumoreplease
A mumblecore romcom following a group of friends struggling with their relationships.
Hesher
A mysterious, anarchical trickster descends on the lives of a family struggling to deal with a painful loss.
Harold And Maude
A morbid young man falls in love with a vivacious septuagenarian.
HIGH School
When a drug test coincides with a valedictorian's first hit of pot, there's only one solution... get the whole school high.
His & Hers
Seventy women talk about the men in their lives.
Howl
The story of Allen Ginsberg’s ground-breaking poem is told through a mixture of reconstruction and animation.

I

It's A Wonderful Afterlife
A middle class suburban widow would kill to see her daughter married - literally!
I Am Love
Left on the sidelines, a bored woman embarks on a journey of self discovery.
Jack Goes Boating
Love and friendship in the life of a limo driver and his pals.
Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work
Honest and open portrait of the groundbreaking comedienne.
The Killer Inside Me
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texan town - patient, polite and well liked... until he starts killing people.
Last Train Home
An examination of the impact of migrant working on Chinese family life.
Lourdes
The story of a wheelchair-using woman's pilgrimage in search of a miracle.
Lucky
The story of what happens when ordinary people hit the lottery jackpot.

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The Man Next Door
An architectural battle of wits.
Metropolitan
The self-contained cynicism and bitchy banter of New York’s young contenders at the debutantes’ after parties.
Mother And Child
Tale of three women and maternal love.
My Perestroika
Five Muscovites talk about their lives and the changing state of Russia over the past 35 years.
Nowhere Boy
Biopic of John Lennon's younger years.
The Oath
The story of two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the US Supreme Court.
Peepli Live
Social satire about not-very-suicidal but desperate farmer.
Please Give
Ensemble comedy drama explores the angst of middle-class New Yorkers.
A Prophet
An illiterate teenager struggles when he is sent to jail, but after embarking on a series of "missions" for a gang leader, he begins to hatch plans of his own.

R

Restrepo
Documentary shot by two filmmakers embedded with an Afghanistan US Army platoon for a year.
The Runaways
Rock biopic.
Sins Of My Father
The story of Pablo Escobar - as recounted by his son and widow.
A Small Act
Giving poor children in Kenya a chance of further education and offering them hope for a better life.
Smash His Camera
Documentary about the 'original' paparazzo, Ron Galella.
Son Of Babylon
In the days following the fall of Saddam, a Kurdish grandmother takes her grandson on the search for his father.
Splice
An experiment gets out of control after scientists go on the run with their human-animal hybrid creation.
The Taqwacores
A good young Muslim boy moves into a house where punk turns the tables on everything he thought he knew about Islam.
Undertow
A closeted gay fisherman finds himself trapped in an unusual love triangle.

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Waste Land
Portrait of garbage pickers in Rio who participated in a project with artist Vik Muniz.
Welcome To The Rileys
On a business trip to New Orleans, a damaged man seeks salvation by caring for a wayward young woman.
Winter's Bone
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
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