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Departures
In 2009 this moving but often humorous film cleaned up at the Japanese Academy Awards and won Japan the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
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Equus
This psychological drama, adapted for the screen by Peter Schaffer from his own stage- play, concerns the psychiatric treatment of Alan Strang (Peter Firth) a stable boy arrested for blinding six horses with a metal spike.
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Samson & Delilah
Warwick Thornton’s compelling drama/romance of two Aboriginal teenagers concerns Samson (McNamara) and Delilah (Gibson) as they escape the despair and violence of a dead end shanty settlement in the middle of the Australian desert for a better life.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop
Described by Banksy as basically the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable – and failed, this film shows how the legendary recluse Banksy turns the tables on eccentric French shop keeper Thierry Guetta – cousin of mosaic artist Space Invader – who tries to capture on film the process of…
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Tamara Drewe
Down in Dorset the veneer of bucolic bliss is about to be disrupted by the arrival of Tamara Drewe (Gemma Arterton – Clash of the Titans, The Disappearance of Alice Creed).
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When You’re Strange
Love them or hate them The Doors left a legacy of hugely influential music with Blue Oyster Cult, Iggy Pop, REM and The Verve acknowledging the band as an inspiration.
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The Infidel
East End Muslim cabbie Mahmud (Omid Djalili) finds out after his mother’s death that he’s Jewish and his true name is Solly Shimshillewitz.
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Still Walking
In a film about feelings, Still Walking covers a day in the life of a modern Japanese family with traditional values at its core.
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The Headless Woman
Vero (Maria Onetto) is driving home at night when she hits something in her car was it a dog or a child After the incident Vero is transformed from an elegant professional woman with self-agency to a passive state she says little, her face becomes an intrinsically meaningless mask.
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Round Ireland With A Fridge
Based on Tony Hawks’ best-selling book of the same name, the main character of the film is Tony himself.
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