Three women whose death sentences for the Manson murder case were commuted to life are taught by a graduate student, who witnesses their transformation.
There’s too much reliance here on pre-existing audience emotions about certain topics, and not enough effort made to forge direct connections.
In the dead of night, a young teenager appears on Roy's doorstep, fleeing from her abusive father. Despite a few too many drinks, Roy reluctantly offers her shelter for the night. But is either of them what they seem?
Remarkably adept in balancing audience sympathies and bold in its refusal to choose the most easily justified routes for its characters, The Charmer is a powerful piece of cinema.
An intense psychological drama about a young Iranian man who is desperately trying to meet women who can secure his stay in Denmark.
There's a winning combination of warmth and honesty to the way that she and her family share their lives that opens the door to viewers and asks them to shift their perspective.
After uncovering a treasure trove of home videos documenting the moments of love, laughter, and musical expression that punctuated an otherwise tumultuous upbringing, filmmaker Nira Burstein returns to her childhood home – now crumbling from the inside out – to explore whether she and her two sisters can reconnect with her parents.
What's of interest here -aside from the physics itself - is the effect of the journey on the psychology of those involved.
A look at the still unsolved mysteries associated with Einstein's Theory Of Relativity, the ongoing search for dark matter and those who have abandoned it in favour of working towards a new way of understanding gravity.
The reason all this earnestness works is because Raiff really cares about all his characters, taking time to consider each in their own right.
A directionless college graduate embarks on a relationship with a young mum and her teenage daughter while learning the boundaries of his new bar mitzvah party-starting gig.
There’s some beautiful framing in this film, which looks as if it was made on a much bigger budget than was really the case.
On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek, Pennsylvania. But the town's unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing both locals and college students that a deadly curse is closing in.
This is hardly a bastion of accuracy, but it does cover its ground well.
The true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, who rises to heights in French society as a composer before an ill-fated love affair.
Full of unspoken pain and resentment, the treasured Chiara carries her father’s sins in his absence as she struggles to decide which course to follow in her own life.
The Guerrasio family and their friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 16-year-old sister Chiara, as they compete on the dancefloor. It is a happy occasion, and the close-knit family is in top form. However, everything changes the next day when Claudio disappears...
It seems appropriate that, at long last, the Patron Saint of television should be celebrated in film, and this really feels like a celebration of her struggle, of her values, rather than a bland hagiography.
A biography of St Clare of Assisi, who left her wealthy family to enter a religious life after hearing St Francis preach.
The beauty of Chicken Run is its refusal to accept modernity as having squatting rights in a Yorkshire state of mind. Park's heart is with the comics his dad read.
Plucky chicken caper sees farm birds bid for freedom.
The action element of the film has the enjoyable verve of the original, particularly when the mechanics of the nugget-maker are involved, but the lack of a tight focus on characters in one place makes the emotional heart of the matter more diffuse.
The chickens are forced to leave their idyllic haven when one of their young runs off to a high-security chicken funland.
The animation is highly stylised, with more emphasis on shadow and light and the movement and rhythm of the characters than on intimate detailing. However, this impressionistic style suits the ever-present, free-wheeling jazz soundtrack.
The turbulent romance between a Cuban pianist and a singer in Forties and Fifties.
It’s really Kurylenko's work that gives the film its emotional core, but action fans need not worry: she still delivers some impressive kicks, and gets to jump away from a petrol explosion.
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.
Intelligent, disciplined, elegant and closely guarded in matters of privacy
A high court lady judge has an agonising decision to make when a teenage boy refuses a life saving transfusion while at home her marriage is freezing over
I have been discomfited watching films before but the anguish here is so genuinely and affectingly captured that it is almost unbearable.
Documentary about the indigenous Hmong ethnic minority in Vietnam's northern mountainous region, focusing on a youngster who faces the prospect of an unsettling matrimonial custom.
This boys’ club doesn’t offer anything new in the way of insight.
Dario is the father of a child with a disability, to whom he devotes all his care and attention, and shares a close bond with his teenage nephew. As their relationship grows increasingly intense, he begins to see in the boy the son he had always wished for...
Even in these days when the straight-to-online-viewing market has expanded on the potential of straight-to-VHS, it's rare to see a film this incoherent reach an audience.
A pregnant woman battles the evil lurking within as her adulterous husband hides a dark secret that may lead to human extinction.
Gritty, grainy, colourful and unusually intimate, this is a film that sets out to defy expectations.
The story of lyrical genius, Martin Phillipps and his band, The Chills, is a cautionary tale, a triumph over tragedy, and a statement about the meaning of music in our lives.
Lithuanian director Jurgis Matulevičius, inspired by the true tragic story of an MMA fighter who was ‘cancelled... gives a tale of being washed-up a bleakly hard boiled and distinctive eastern European tang.
A 'cancelled' MMA fighter finds refuge in a Taiwanese family’s restaurant but struggles to change his path.
Despite the busy plotwork, surprisingly little actually happens.
A sex-addicted med school dropout pays his mum's hopital bills by running a restaurant scam... but with her memory fading fast, will he ever find out the truth about his dad?
