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Chromophobia
In this start-studded film, interweaving stories of rich and privileged people in Blairite Britain, where anything can be bought and sold, combine to form a dark drama of dilemmas of responsibility, corruption and exploitation. Investigative journalist (Ben Chaplin) chances upon a career-making story of his lawyer friend’s (Damian Lewis) corruption. Will he tell And what…
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The Queen of Spades
In 1806 St Petersburg, Captain Suvorin of the Engineers (Walbrook) becomes resentful of his rich friend, Prince Andrei (Howard), and the circle of Guards officers who gamble their money at faro, a form of snap in which fortunes can be won or lost on the turn of a card. Convinced by an old book that…
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Katalin Varga
A woman, Katalin, (Hilda Peter), is driven from her home by her husband when he finds out the child they have brought up is not his. Together mother and son travel across Romania by horse and cart, staying in the cheapest accommodation, making their way to the Hungarian-speaking part of the country and finally to…
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Mad Sad & Bad
This black comedy about a truly dysfunctional middle class British Asian family unfolds through a series of flashbacks. The film builds a story of a mothers three troubled children who have bad relationships with each other and mad, sad or bad relationships with other people in their lives. Whether its psychiatrist and sex-addict Hardeep (Vara),…
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Onegin
In early nineteenth century Russia, a young aristocrat, Onegin (Ralph Fiennes), disaffected by life and bored with salons and balls of St Petersburg society, goes to the countryside to take up the estate he has inherited from his uncle. There, through his friend Lensky (Toby Stephens), he meets Tatyana (Liv Tyler). Deeply attracted to the…
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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. A psychiatrist, Dysart (Richard Burton), is charged with unravelling the reasons for the violent act and fruitfully explores the…
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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). Once the village ugly duckling with an unsightly nose, now a successful London journalist – with a fine profile following surgical intervention – Tamara…
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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. As an easy-going Muslim family man this revelation creates two problems: firstly he needs to find his father and secondly he must keep his true identity a secret to support his son’s…
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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. Will our film hero win a drunken bet to take a fridge round the perimeter if Ireland in under a month It must be a matter of principle as the cost of the fridge turns out…
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