Buñuel's final film is a surrealist farce of frustrated desire. Fernando Rey (The French Connection) plays Mathieu, a wealthy widower struck by a consuming obsession for Conchita, a much younger woman, played - in typically Buñuellian strategy - by two alternating actresses (Angela Morina and Car...

At the end of World War Two, a Swiss diplomat (Michael Neueschwander) is burdened with guilt about a young man who he did nothing to help, in this chillingly intense historical drama, based on the life of controversial Swiss diplomat Hans Frolicher. Beautifully shot in black and white, A Forgotte...

This film is a blunt, brash and blood-smeared revenge tale of two sex workers who decide to go on a killing spree through France. Co-directed by French feminist provocateur Despentes, and based on her book, Baise-moi does not care for cinematic slickness, instead using handheld visuals and raw la...

Luna Carmoon's feature debut is an intense and unusual drama, quite unlike anything else you might see this year, which announces a bold and visionary new talent in British cinema. Young Maria lives with her eccentric mother in a home full of love and rising piles of rubbish. Their small world fe...

Fed up with life as a Hollywood prostitute, Karla (Season Hubley) goes to a mortuary to identify the body of her friend Ginger who has been beaten to death by their pimp Ramrod (Wings Hauser). Karla then agrees to work with Sergeant Tom Walsh (Gary Swanson) to help arrest the murderer. She calls ...

Moin Hussain's highly anticipated feature debut blends realist drama with a playful suggestion of otherworldly science-fiction. Adam works nightshifts at a motorway service station and lives a life of isolation feeling he doesn't belong. Upon hearing that his estranged father, Hassan, has died, h...

Kelly and Victor meet in a Liverpool nightclub and soon begin a passionate, highly charged and sexually adventurous affair. As the increasingly transgressive nature of their relationship develops, it seemingly takes influence from the illicit and dangerous world around them, from their drug deali...

Cynical detective Leon Zat is slowly coming to terms with the fact that his marriage is beginning to disintegrate. Called upon to investigate the disappearance of a leading psychiatrist, Zat finds himself in a very interesting position - not least because his wife is one of the psychiatrist's pat...

Adapted from a five-and-a-half-hour television miniseries, this three-hour biopic from acclaimed director Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep, Personal Shopper) chronicles 20 years in the life of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka Carlos the Jackal. Édgar Ramírez (The Bourne Ultimatum) star...

Harry (Jared Leto), his girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) and best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) are heroin addicts who will do anything for a fix. Darren Aronofsky's adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr's novel journeys into the abyss with them. Their devil-may-care attitude is reflected in the fil...

Claire (Kerry Fox) and Jay (Mark Rylance) meet on Wednesdays and make love. Without speaking, they share each other's bodies and desires. One day, Claire doesn't show, so Jay decides to find out more about his mysterious captivating lover. The only English-language film from acclaimed filmmaker P...

Werner Herzog is a master documentarian, and this time he turns his camera on the peculiar, passionate, and out-of-this world Timothy Treadwell. Treadwell dedicated a good portion of his life living amongst grizzly bears in Alaska, studying their behaviour and protecting their existence. Herzog c...

Addicted husband and wife team, Bob and Diane Hughes (Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch) and a younger couple of thieves resort to robbing drugstores to stay high. Still in spite of this tragic lifestyle, they share moments of compassion and humor. The foursomes skillfully skirt the law due to Bob's wits ...

Hollywood legend James Coburn (Cross of Iron) stars as Robert Elliot, a former secret agent given the job opportunity of a lifetime: adviser to the President of the United States. However, he has some skeletons in his closet that need eliminating, namely the four people aware of his shady past. E...

Through a series of vignettes, a young man in his twenties known only as “Fuckhead” or FH for short (Billy Crudup), recounts the story of his life through the early 70’s, from meeting his love Michelle (Samantha Morton), to his descent into heroin addiction. Along the way he meets a quirky parade...

An intense examination of desire that will take you to the edge, The Chambermaid Lynn follows a woman (Krieps) recently discharged from a psychiatric hospital. Employed by a plush hotel, she also has to care for her ailing and cantankerous mother. However, what really stokes Lynn’s fire is her ...

Indochina, in the late 1920s. On a ferry across the Mekong, a French teenage girl meets the Chinese Man. She is fascinated by his riches and elegance, and accepts a lift in his limousine to complete their journey. Together, they enter a whirlwind of reckless, all-consuming passion, born from desi...

A woman arrives in a sleepy seaside town after receiving unsettling letters from her father, only to discover the town is under the influence of a strange cult that weeps tears of blood and hunger for human flesh. From Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, the writers of American Grafitti, Indiana Jones...

Los Angeles 1962, and 52-year-old British college professor George Falconer (Colin Firth) is struggling to find meaning in his life after the death of his long-time partner Jim (Matthew Goode). Through the course of one day, a series of events and encounters cause him to reflect on his past, and ...

Coogan plays journalist Martin Sixsmith, who becomes intrigued by the story of Philomena Lee (Dench), who as a pregnant teenager in Ireland was shipped off to a convent where nuns forcibly adopted her child. Profoundly affected by her story, Sixsmith convinces her to challenge the convent for ans...

Humber Humbert (Jeremy Irons) is working as a professor of French literature when he travels to a small New England town to take a up teaching post. Whilst searching for lodging he visits the home a single mother Charlotte, and her 14 year old daughter Dolores (Lolita). Upon seeing Dolores, Humbe...

Kenny (Tony Beckley) has been raised within the The Brethren, an Evangelical sect who preach purity, morality, and unwavering allegiance to the word of God. A security officer by day, he spends his nights stalking and strangling 'immoral' women thus, he believes, cleansing them of their ungodly t...

The original title, meaning 'a world', suggests that a school is a self-enclosed universe with its own customs and abuses - and a microcosm of the injustices outside. Nora (mesmerising newcomer Maya Vanderbeque) arrives in a new school, nervous about leaving her dad and yearning for the protectio...

During the reign of the Jiajing Emperor (Zhao Lei), China's coastal regions have come under attack by wokou Japanese pirates under the leadership of the infamous Hakatatsu (Sammo Hung). To combat this threat, the Emperor tasks a trusted general, Zhu Wan (Tu Kuang-chi), with assembling a group of ...