In 1973, an unhinged American outlaw walked into a bank in Sweden demanding millions in cash in exchange for his hostages. The events that followed would capture the attention of the world and ultimately give a name to a new psychological phenomenon: Stockholm syndrome.
The story of five women working in and around a Beirut beauty salon may not, at first glance, seem especially intriguing, but Caramel is something special.
A glimpse into the lives of five women working in and around a beauty salon in Beirut.
This documentary begins with a murderer on the run; it ends with a disappearance still unresolved after 415 years.
An Exhibition on Screen documentary exploring Caravaggio's life, artistry and mysteries through first-hand testimonies, expert insights, and his captivating masterpieces, revealing the man behind the brush.
William Tell, a former serviceman who became a poker player, leads a solitary existence on the casino trail. His path crosses with Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man obsessed with his plan for revenge and he tries to steer him away from violence.
Time doesn't just shift in Shahram Mokri's Iranian drama about a fire at a cinema that killed 478, it also folds like origami and pirouettes, the past and present so close as they dance they can feel each other's breath.
On a very ordinary day, four ordinary people decide to set fire to a cinema packed with people.
Harris drinks deep of the novella's sapphic themes to present a tale of obsession and fear of 'the other' but though the end result is well turned out in terms of look and performance, it could use a little less corseting and a lot more bite.
A passionate friendship develops between a sheltered 15-year-old and an enigmatic stranger in this Gothic tale.
Becky Parsons and John M Tran's cinematography brings out every detail of the crowded rooms before us and puts us to close to the grain of the wood that we can almost smell it.
The genre elements never quite lock into a clean payoff, but the refusal to resolve things neatly leaves the viewer in a similarly unstable, hyper-vigilant state.
Lluís Garau, a young dancer, has created a performance inspired by Chatroulette, a platform that connects strangers at random via video call. In his restless search for connection and meaning, he becomes entangled in a series of increasingly unsettling encounters.
Mackay succeeds where [others] have failed partly because there is a deep vein of sincerity beneath the playful surface of her work.
When true-crime podcaster and sleuth Lola visits her hometown for the first time since running away and transitioning, the local urban legend, The Toymaker, is the least of her worries. But then the vengeful ghost of the historical murderer seemingly rises again.
Oddly, Pixar don't seem to have many fresh ideas for wringing humour out of their what-if-we-were-all-cars idea, as a result of which it feels as if it has been awkwardly sandwiched together with the plot from another film.
Can the motoring heroes foil a plot to scupper the grand prix?
Although the heartfelt nature of the film is evident, it's a shame Ayouch became so wedded to its documentary element when its more stylised moments are where it finds its real energy.
Young people from the Casablanca slum of Sidi Moumen participate in a cultural project that encourages them to express themselves through hip hop.
By shining a light on the past, Lifshitz lights a beacon for people who feel outcast in today's world.
In the Fifties and Sixties, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers.
It’s Drucker’s mesmerising performance that papers over the cracks.
Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.
By focusing on the journey of how a spy becomes the Bond, James Bond we all know, the movie manages the impossible task of coping with all the baggage laid before it and reinvigorating our interest.
James Bond earns his double zero status and relaxes at the poker table with a mass murderer.
Becker trusts his actors and their small movements and gestures to portray meaning beyond the dialogue.
In turn of the 20th century France, working girl Marie snubs the affections of the local gangsters for Georges Manda, a reformed hoodlum himself, with unpleasant consequences.
Allen's most morally challenging work since Crimes And Misdemeanors, this takes what is in essence a simple story and finds depths within it which will continue to haunt the viewer long after the closing credits have rolled.
Two brothers in need of money are confronted with a terrible proposition.
Set over five years, from his emergence on the national boxing scene in 1959 until the first Sonny Liston fight in 1964, this film tracks key events in his career in relation to his developing political and spiritual consciousness.
A documentary which looks back at the life of Cassius Clay as he underwent his spiritual transformation, as well as examining the evolution of his amazing boxing skills.
Spiro Nino's exquisite cinematography makes the most of the crisp mountain light and contributes to a fresh, sophisticated ambience, but by the time we reach the finale we're in classic Gordon-style horror territory.
A young woman inherits an Albanian castle and uncovers a sinister family legacy.
The film struggles to create the emotional resonance needed to connect with vulnerable and troubled characters.
A former carer devastated by the loss of his mother finds relief in her painkillers and bonds with a local junkie as his former friends move away to attend college.
Weard has a remarkable ability to make viewers feel as if they’re present on the fringes of the action, hanging out in a corner of the room.
A production assistant slides toward inceldom as his relationship falls apart, and a trans sex worker mentors her newly-out friend while pursuing motherhood in Vancouver.
Alongside fascinating details of what their acts of espionage actually involved and how they went about them, this film explores the way that the Cuban skies built up their cover and the challenges they faced in maintaining it.
Castro's Spies tells the thrilling story of an elite group of Cuban intelligence agents sent undercover to the US in the 1990s.
Berg's dilemma requires him to try and solve logical and ethical puzzles, and cannot be alleviated through the easy process of having him find Heisenberg likeable.
The true story of a baseball player recruited as a spy and sent to assassinate the physicist Werner Heisenberg before he can build the Nazis an atomic bomb.
Although couched in the realities of conflict, Wakamatsu is equally, if not more, concerned with the little horrors caused by organised, countrywide violence.
Drama about a World War II veteran, left crippled and entirely dependent on his wife.
There is a great deal to enjoy here in a fast paced, lively tale which highlights the hypocrisy of its characters without demeaning them, and which is full of heart.
A 14-year-old girl in Medieval England navigates through life and avoiding potential suitors her father has in mind.
