About Schmidt is about wasted lives. These people are dull, sad or whingesomely vulgar. You laugh at them, rather than with them, and feel guilty doing so.
Jack Nicholson is a 66-year-old insurance man, recently widowed and retired, in Omaha, Nebraska
An atmospheric tale of physical loss, familial ties and post traumatic emotional fallout wrapped up in an unsettling cross between a psychological crime drama and a fantasy horror movie.
A woman's missing husband leads her and her sister into a series of terrifying events.
Essentially a celebration of glorious selfishness.
An angry firefighter decides to get revenge on the radio agony aunt who ruined his relationship, spoiling her wedding plans by faking a document which says she's already married to him.
Lotte Reiniger brings a unique perspective to the look of traditional characters, as she uses intricate Eastern details to show off astoundingly delicate filigree cutting work.
Beautiful silhouette take on the Arabian nights and a piece of celluloid history.
Jude and Lazarescu also show how the structure of society has a habit of making you conform to it, whatever your intentions - a barbed idea intended to stick in the minds of those who live in today's Europe where the Roma still face wide-spread prejudice
A policeman and his son hunt a runaway gypsy slave.
Afterdeath deserves credit for trying to do something different.
Five young people wake up on a beach washed up by the tide. Where are they? What brought them there, and what are the strange creatures that surround them?
'An effective and realistic examination of a world where intelligent and privileged characters have reached near-adulthood without having any real understanding of basic morality.'
A boy at an exclusive American private school becomes increasingly obsessed with watching video clips on his computer.
When a documentary is as entertaining as Air Guitar Nation, you have to ask if you really need it to have redeeming social value or to advance the art form in any way. And, to be honest, the answer has to be no.
A documentary about the air guitar craze in America.
There are plenty of incendiary tensions to go round in Ajami, and they fuel one another in unexpected ways, as the personal and the political become horrifically confused.
Crime drama sees clan violence spiral out of control in Israel.
