This is very much a warts and all portrait, but in the process it brings us much closer to its subject, feeds a depth of appreciation many fans of those stunt shows will not have felt before.
An candid portrait of American icon Robert "Evel" Knievel and his legacy.
Habchi orchestrates the seemingly disparate plot strands with considerable skill, building a sense of disorientation and withheld information that reinforces his main themes.
An Egyptian filmmaker based in Beirut tries to make an expose of the Lebanese security agencies, but finds that he, too, is under scrutiny.
Parents whose eight year olds have just gone crazy watching their first World Cup would be well advised to take them along, as they'll probably love it.
Matt Busby comes out of retirement to help a young football team.
Working with a tightly restricted budget, Casabé has created a film that looks magnificent.
Frustrated art teacher Benavidez is sick of living in the shadow of his formidable artist father and seeks refuge at his psychiatrist’s house where equally tormented creative spirits live in the basement in return for producing artworks sold at elite auction.
Renaud Barret treads a careful path, resulting in a film that captures wider realities whilst providing an engaging, entertaining story of one band's search for fame.
A group of homeless blues musicians disabled by childhood polio join forces with a street kid with a home made instrument and make plans to tour Europe.
It's a testament to the bravery of the participants in this film that they have been willing to face their suffering again in order to communicate the scale of the problem.
A documentary focusing on the enduring physical and psychological effects of torture.
Rajesh is a real life private detective, the founder of Always Investigatings and Security Concern, and he runs it as if he learned everything he needed to know from Seventies TV shows.
A private detective with a passion for disco tries to clean up the streets of Kolkata in a documentary like no other.
The film is arguably not very technically sophisticated or stylistically consistent... but these faults are compensated for by actors Owen and Bluteau, who essentially carry the film alone for its second half.
The plight of a gay man at the hands of the Nazis.
Literary responsibilities and moral ambiguities aside, Beowulf remains a rollicking good story of man versus monsters, full of gory violence, sexy women, heavy drinking, treasure and shouting.
An imaginative retelling of the Old English story about a hero who saves a kingdom from a monster and its mother.
The sex element, while erotically shot, is almost exclusively reserved for the moment in which Clare was enjoying the experience, thus stripping away the usual voyeuristic downside that often accompanies this genre.
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship, when an tourist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
As comfy and cosily British as a nice cup of tea and a biscuit.
Retiring to India and the promised comforts of a luxury hotel, a group of elderly Britons get less than they bargained for and more than they could have dreamed of.
Neville and Gordon wisely embed the verbal duels into the surroundings.
A behind-the-scenes account of the explosive 1968 televised debates between the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F Buckley Jr, and their rancorous disagreements about politics, God, and sex.
Serebrennikov's film may be sometimes confusing, sometimes confounding and somewhat disappointing in the neatness of its ending, but there's no denying his talent.
After discovering that their spouses are having an affair, two people decide to have one themselves.
