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A lawyer forced to clean up after a colleague's breakdown begins to question the ethics of his job.
A young female boxer persuades an old-timer to train her as a contender.
Celebrating patriotic nipples and a theatre that never closed.
Fictionalised reimagining of the aftermath of the Munich Olympics hostage taking and slaughter.
One woman fights sexual harassment in the mines of Northern Minnesota.
Guy meets Girl and makes beautiful - and Oscar-winning - music with her.
Palestinian thriller on the explosive subject of suicide bombers
Two garage engineers, working with super conductors, stumble across a side-effect that opens infinite opportunities for time travel.
Controversial story, asking where, in the censored war in Iraq, do we find the truth? Plus read what Brian De Palma said about the film - and the redaction of it, here.
A martial arts instructor who has avoided prize-fighting to maintain his ethical code, finds debt may force him into the ring.
Growing up in someone else’s dysfunctional family.
Ingmar Bergman returns to Scenes From A Marriage 30 years on.
A breaking marriage exposes the meaning of love and an unsolved crime.
Part murder mystery, part political rant, John Sayles goes looking for trouble in Colorado.
Comedy of bad manners in Bel Air, with a chef, a neurotic wife and a beautiful Mexican servant.
Buffy's creator does battle with the Reavers in space, as earthlings move off their overcrowded planet.
A bored sales assistant gets caught in a love triangle with Steve Martin's wealthy geezer and Jason Schwartzman's geek.
The adventures of two middle-age men on a wine-drinking stag weekend.
Breaking up is hard to do - especially for the kids.
A psychiatrist tries to stop a young man committing suicide on his 21st birthday.
Two sisters try to forge a career in crime scene clean-up.
A grad student convinces an ageing writer to let her write a thesis on him.
The story of a theatre director's drive to produce his masterwork.
A childless teacher takes stock of her life after her husband leaves, her adoptive mum dies and her birth mother shows up.
Halle Berry is a widow trying to come to terms with grief with the help of her hubbie's troubled best pal.
Satire on smoking and spin.
A Dark Ages take on Romeo and Juliet, with naked nursing and energetic swordplay
Atmospheric thriller from the Deep South resurrects shades of darker, deadlier incarnations.
A cyber crimes expert hunts a serial killer who posts videos of his murders on the internet.
A recreation of events surrounding the hijacking of United Airlines flight 93 on the 11th of September, 2001.
Deflecting the fury of a woman scorned with frequent showers, Bloody Marys and a little light humour.
After a presidential assassination, secret service agents try to work out what happened via five different perspectives.
A cleaning lady performs abortions on the side in Fifties London.
An unlikely friendship between a gay German tourist and a homophobic Israeli assassin.
Dysfunctional marriages encourage indiscretion amongst lazy, summer academics.
A young journalist sets out to discover the truth behind the break up of a cabaret act, who split after a woman was found dead in a bath.
Johnny Cash biopic that feels the lurve.
Earth is under attack and survival at a premium as giant alien robots gather for Armageddon.
The tortured romance between a blind American diplomat and a taxi dancing Russian widow in Shanghai on the eve of war.
Offbeat fairytale about a woman who tries to fill a void in her life after her dog dies.
A lonely microbiologist embarks on passionate romance in verse with Middle Eastern cook.
Divine transformation Eriko Katagiri on the itako tradition and When You Open The Door
Learning to let go Gloria Mercer and Bethany Brown on filming sex, drugs and A Safe Distance
Framing a feature Michele Fiascaris on expanding his short Rain Catcher into a rain-slicked noir thriller
A heroine of the people Avid Liongoren on the Filipino animation industry and Zsazsa Zaturnnah
The girl who didn't want to be happy Julien Birban Levy on the spirit of Seoul and getting inside the head of Niko
Spirit of the art Takeru Shinozuka and Yoshihide Moriyama on animation and Foxing: Kitsuné-Tsuki
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