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Blend of fiction and documentary looks at a Chinese munitions plant scheduled for conversion into luxury apartments.

After Colin's wife leaves him, his gangster friends kidnap her lover - but will Colin actually kill him?

Edina and Patsy flee to France after pushing Kate Moss in the Thames.

A neurotic Jewish New York comedian attempts to have a relationship with a free spirited young woman who visits the same shrink.

Documentary about the fashion illustrator.

A lonely widower's dream of going into space is reignited by a nationwide contest.

A home invasion forces two teenagers to break into a remote country manor little realising it is a retreat for middle-aged men who like to dress in nappies... and who have a sinister plot.

A group of children try to reach South Africa in time for the World Cup.

An attorney is haunted by his past.

In the wake of the mortgage-lending crisis, a former banker returns to his hometown.

Two teenage girls discover a mermaid stranded in a pool after a storm.

A bereaved lecturer begins to think his neighbour is a terrorist.

A documentary exploring the life and work of Arthur Miller.

Subtle, charcter-driven comedy series about a rekindled romance.

A family struggles with two grown up children who have complex mental health needs.

A filmmaker explores her own unconscious prejudices and how such thinking arises.

The final cut is the deepest for Ridley Scott's remastered sci-fi epic.

Amnesic assassin is still on the run from the CIA after being framed for a double murder.

The chase goes on for the rogue CIA assassin in his search for recognition and revenge.

A father immerses himself in a quest to make his daughter a spelling champion while his family slowly falls apart.

Documentary about the man behind the Muppet.

A college professor finds himself plagued by spectral visions.

A Taiwanese high school romance with bicycles.

A ground-breaking documentary about Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England.

Art world satire.

Steve Martin is a tax lawyer and Queen Latifah a convicted bank robber in comedy sparring match.

A Native American boy becomes a bear and learns what it feels like to be hunted.

A young woman hopes to win the heart of the man she adores by winning an eating competition.

A petrol station cashier falls for a serial killer.

A summer camp for kids who adore musicals.

Spanish retelling of the classic tale of passion and jealousy.

Festive fun from the Carry On gang.

An interpretation of events aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht when a mysterious death occurred.

Sociopolitical portrait of the Hawaiin island of Kauaʻi.

A glimpse into the lives of five women working in and around a beauty salon in Beirut.

Millennial entrepreneurs, Drew and Max, run a webcast that streams live exorcisms that are, in fact, elaborately staged hoaxes. They get their comeuppance when today's actress becomes mysteriously possessed by a real demon that holds the crew hostage.

A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to each other.

Stop-motion love story sees a young man inadvertantly marry a dead woman.

A story of misfits who save their high school (and the world) from alien invasion.

American reimagining of Wings Of Desire turns the schmaltz up to stun level.

A sexually confused teenager drifts into a fantasy world where his anxieties take physical shape.

Ditzy farce about fiscally irresponsible journalist.

Rival vice-presidential candidates are embroiled in battle of PR and intrigue in this intelligent political satire.

Art and politics in Depression era America.

The animated adventures of a man in a yellow hat and a magic monkey from Africa.

She was part of my dream, of course - but then I was part of her dream, too!

Love, sex, suicide and depression filmed Truffaut style.

A prisoner is offered his freedom if he can win a motor race - but just staying alive is hard enough!

Diamantino was once the greatest football player in Portugal. Now, in the middle of the worst crisis of his life, he decides to fill his void by adopting a refugee boy.

An exploration of voodoo culture and traditions.

Jesse Eisenberg finds his world turned upside down by the arrival of a confident and ambitious doppelganger.

A bank clerk having a bad day crosses an old gypsy woman and is afflicted with terrible curse.

A cinematic encounter, examining cookery as art.

Witty update of Pygmalion.

A girl who is cursed to obey orders goes on a quest to lift the spell.

Armageddon on the subway.

The story of a five-day interview between a Rolling Stone journalist and David Foster Wallace.

A government agent chases a criminal mastermind.

A butler working in a foreign embassy falls under suspicion when his wife falls to her death and the only witness is a child.

A young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown moves with her husband to a boys' school and finds herself being terrorised by a mysterious one-armed man, but nobody believes her.

When a snobbish woman discovers her husband has been having an affair, she takes exile with her bohemian sister on a council estate.

An amoral, junkie police officer will do anything - and break any rule - to win back the affections of his wife and child.

An aspiring dancer develops an odd relationship with an obscene phone caller. Together they discover an impassioned interest in self-amputation.

After his girlfriend is decapitated, a former medical student aims to build her a new body from pieces of streetwalkers.

A young nun flees her convent at the outbreak of the Civil War and seeks refuge in a brothel only to be liberated by a group of anarchist women determined to fight on the front line.

A loan undermines three friends relationship.

The effect money has on the friendship of four women.

The creator of the zombie genre returns with an allegory of Bush's abuses in Iraq.

A man in St Louis dreams of escape from his claustrophobic family.

Allotment stuffed shirts learn some tolerance thanks to an influx of refugees.

The story of how one of the most famous paintings in the world was conceived.

A US teacher finds herself on trial after talking about Jesus in the classroom.

Eight more episodes from the iconic Seventies TV comedy sketch show.

The killer ghosts from the Tokyo haunted house spread their deadly virus into a wider world.

Grieving American writer comes to live in spooky Scottish Highlands.

A Venetian who is too low-class to marry the man she loves, becomes a courtesan.

Three teenage punks gatecrash a party on the Queen's jubilee night in London and have an unexpected experience that feels out of this world

Comedy about a record store owner and his romantic break ups.

A criminal tries to adopt the identity of a doctor who looks just like him.

Chinese children grow up in Australia with their beautiful mother who was a nightclub singer in Hong Kong.

A novice nun comes face-to-face with her family’s past in 1960s Poland.

A couple run into trouble when they foster three kids.

Screwball comedy about a small town drama teacher who is 'outed' by a former student.

In the aftermath of a devastating plague, the last man left must fight off those who are no longer human like him.

Alan Turing helps crack the Enigma code.

A young doctor becomes the soul hope for traumatised nuns.

Adaptation of Claire Tomalin’s 1992 biography, which brought Charles Dickens' secret 13-year affair with a young actress to light.

A children's book illustrator becomes obsessed with her husband's new secretary.

A documentary portrait of the filmmaker's aunt.

Honest and open portrait of the groundbreaking comedienne.

A saloon owner falls foul of a jealous woman on the Arizona frontier.

Law enforcement officers on Mars are attacked by Alice Cooper lookalikes in a mining town.

Comic-book adaptation of 2000AD hero.

A poor relation decides to revenge himself on the aristocrats who disinherited his mother by killing them off one by one. Reissue.

An spoiled young aristocrat sent to learn responsibility as a postman in a remote northern town meets an elderly toymaker and has a brilliant idea.

The story of Gertrude Bell, who shaped the destiny of Iraq after the First World War.

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

An angry writer and his relationships.

Jeremy Irons takes on Nabokov's dirty old man out to corrupt a young girl.

Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Brendan Fraser are searching for a big blue diamond.

Somewhere there is a Lost World waiting to be found by six intrepid explorers.
Interwoven stories of sex, love and promiscuity in early Nineties Montreal, with serial killer lurking.

A look at two periods of the life of Beach Boy Brian Wilson.

A music journalist goes on a troubling journey into her own past.

Espionage, betrayal and athletic sex in 1940s Shanghai.

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth.

Bill Murray gets mistaken for a spy and mixed up in an assassination plot.

A boy comes to regret wishing that his mum would go away after Martians kidnap her.

Ben Elton looks for comedy in conception.

A woman seeking no-strings motherhood accidentally falls in love.

Best friends grow up, marry and laugh a lot until one of them is diagnosed with the Big C.

Cult post- Apocalyptic thriller with a battered policeman going all out to get revenge on the bikers who killed his family.

Dougal the dog and his roundabout pals battle a springy ice magician to save the world.

A scarred FBI agent tracks a serial killer.

A cynical advertising director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote.

Michelle Pfeiffer is a Mafia widow on the run and under surveillance by Matthew Modine (FBI).

The story of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin’s whirlwind romance with the tempestuous poet Percy Shelley, which would lead her to write Frankenstein.

A wartime aviator begs a celestial court to let him escape death so he can be with the woman he loves. Out on re-issue in cinemas.

When a murdered man gasps out her name, is our heroine's remarkable survival story finally at an end?

Story of the artist and his bed-ridden, controlling mother.

A teenager gets an introduction to hedonistic sex, courtesy of his amoral mother.

The writer, the B & B, the single mum and the little surprise

A brain damaged boxer searches for love.

An animated exploration of nightmares and the different things that children are afraid of.

The rise and fall of a con man in one of the darkest film noirs of the American genre.

Cult series... we can't believe it's not the Twilight Zone.

A biography of Bob Dylan.

Adultery, politics and murder in small town France.
Old fashioned love story between a boy from the lumber yards and a girl from the big house.

A sexual adventure leads to emotional blackmail in a comprehensive school.

A man rides into town, and everybody wonders who he's there to kill.

Paddington gets into a scrape over his Aunt Lucy's birthday present.

The story of the famous Romany poet.

In Fifties London, the fastidious life of a renowned dressmaker is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman who becomes his muse and lover.

Music video with friendly girl and skinny stalker.

A custody battle for an HIV positive baby is only the beginning.

Philosophical musings on the state of the Earth.

A filmmaker becomes obsessed with the film of his next movie.

A terminally ill man decides to take murderous revenge on those who have wronged him.

Documentary about the Italian tenor.

A mathematician searches for a code which could explain the universe, but his research attracts some unsavoury interest.

Trouble brews after the unusually close bond between a mother and daughter is disrupted when they move to a new town.

A couple of Californian teens are transported into a Fifties televisual adventure.

The Britain's Got Talent favourite gets a starring role.

A look at the life musician Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill.

A London drugs dealer finds himself on the wrong side of a ruthless Mr Big. Remake of the 1996 feature.

The story of American poet Emily Dickinson.

Kate Hudson inherits three kids while working in a New York modelling agency.

A dirty cop in LA struggles to keep his job.

Study of dysfunction, addiction, loneliness and love amongst four characters in Coney Island

A couple find their marriage vows tested on a cruise to the Orient. Out to own as part of Hitchcock: The Early Collection.

A five-year-old discovers there may be more to the world than the single room in which he has been raised.

Tom Stoppard directs his first play about minor characters from Hamlet.

A woman is whisked off her feet by a rich widower, but gets more than she bargains for when she moves into his mansion.

Two young men strangle a friend and then hold a party in the room where his body is hidden.

Romance beckons when a reporter is assigned to write a story on a bride who keeps ditching grooms at the altar.

The holiday from hell becomes a wild adventure.

Rags-to-riches meets ugly-duckling story.

Biopic of a Catalan anarchist.

Labyrinthine set of stories-within-stories that take place during the Napoleonic Wars.

A group of English Satanists have resurrected Count Dracula and he has a devastating plan for his revenge.

An elf travels back in time to save Santa's sleigh

Dr P's assertiveness course encourages a manic response from its low-grade losers.

A drop-out muso poses as a schoolteacher and finds himself setting up a rock band with a group of schoolkids.
A writer suffering from block is accused of plagiarism by a spooky stranger.

A married director falls for a prostitute-turned-actress.

Cuba Gooding Jr is a Miami dentist who goes to Alaska to find out who is mammy and pappy were.

Moving to a creepy old house after their parents split up, three children encounter a dangerous but enchanting supernatural world.

True story of a quadriplegic Spanish poet who fights for the right to die.

Western starring John Wayne as a Calvary captain out to stop an impending Indian attack.

Romance blooms between two quarrelsome colleagues who are unaware they are penpals.

Two sisters, one blind and one deaf, begin to suspect that their father is up to no good.

A man whose father is gradually sliding into dementia and who worries about his junkie son takes a drastic course of action.

The true story of white supremacist skinhead Bryon Widner and his attempts to leave his extreme right-wing past behind.

Classic cross-dressing comedy as two unemployed musicians go on the run from gangsters in an all-girl band.
Story of the band that backed the Motown hits.

A couple’s relationship is tested when the husband is struck by a rare disease.

A man returns to his old high school and finds its as though he never left.

A council worker looks for the next of kin of those found dead and alone.

Sarah Polley investigates secrets in her own family.

After suffering humiliation by the crew Invincible, street dancer Ash (Hentschel) looks to gather the best dancers from around the world for a rematch.

The story of a busker and recovering drug addict whose life was transformed by a stray cat.

Now a carer for his dying friend, a former prisoner laments the way that he has frittered away his life.
Foul-mouthed rantings from Alf Garnett, the Cockney bigot.

Richard III is haunted by those he has murdered.

A young boy sets out to prove that a man he sees at the station is really his lost father.

Coming of age story about an illegitimate child.

A terminally ill screenwriter attempts to reconcile with his son, while planning how to end his life.

Boy plays with ghosts in the garden of a Victorian mansion.

Adaptation of the 18th century classic about the adventures of a foundling.

Living toys take on a shady collector in excellent sequel. To be shown in 3D at London Film Festival.

When their owner grows up and leaves home, his toys have to adapt to a new way of life in a day care centre.

The gang go on a road trip with a new toy named Forky.

Growing up poor in Brooklyn, with an irresponsible father and the dream of becoming a writer.

When a detective visits a small town to find out who killed the homecoming queen, he uncovers a much deeper and darker mystery.

A man meets a pregnant woman in a hospital... but have they met before?

A unicorn-obsessed woman meets a salesman who claims he can supply her with one of her own if she fulfils a series of chores.

Deflecting the fury of a woman scorned with frequent showers, Bloody Marys and a little light humour.

Identities shift and life grows ever more confusing as a high school student pursues an online romance with a woman who has a violent husband.

A ship's crew battle aliens who view humans as a disease.

A hit man is sent to a fictional war-torn Middle Eastern country where the United States is waging the first fully outsourced war.

Hopeless romantic comedy about imperfect beings.

A small town prepares for the return of a local girl made good, while a girl becomes convinced she is her secret daughter.

When Alice Klieg wins the Mega-Millions lottery, she immediately quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own TV talk show.

Four multiracial families in suburban LA prepare for Thanksgiving celebrations.

Fictionalised retelling of the life and assassination of Irish crime reporter Veronica Guerin.

A teenage mother-to-be is abandoned in rural Oklahoma to make a life for herself and the baby.

Classic Ealing comedy where a group of Scottish islanders rescue and hide a shipwrecked cargo of whisky.

A banker who moonlights as a call girl gets caught up in the life of a moneylaunderer and his wife.

A teacher starting a new job in a quaint English town begins to suspect that something is seriously amiss.

While in Paris an academic meets a woman who may be involved in a series of mysterious murders.

Documentary of the most famous rock concert ever.

Two sisters, a former child star and a now disabled Hollywood actress, are bound together by co-dependency and mutual resentment.

A divorce and custody battle from the perspective of a young girl.

When a cartoon rabbit is accused of murder, his only hope is an animation-loathing gumshoe.

A would-be sorceror enlists the help of a warrior to take an abandoned baby to safety.

Based on the true story of the rise and fall of a financial high roller.

A lonely microbiologist embarks on passionate romance in verse with Middle Eastern cook.

Montana story Anna Kerrigan on gender, casting and locations in Cowboys
Steps to success Alexis Bruchon on doing it himself in The Woman With Leopard Shoes
Capturing Guantánamo Kevin Macdonald on Mohamedou Ould Salahi, Guantánamo Bay and making The Mauritanian
Shouting and silence Eugen Jebeleanu on homophobia, Poppy Field and moving from theatre to film
A family story Lee Isaac Chung, Steven Yeun, Noel Cho and Alan Kim on making Minari
Roger Corman joins GFF star line-up Special screening of remastered The Masque Of The Red Death added
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