Capturing this moment, this opening up, writer/director team Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato demonstrate that there's room on the big screen for small things.
When a live-in maid's path crosses that of a travelling salesman, her life will change forever.
New York in the Eighties contributes some of the film’s iconic imagery, but it’s Santo Loquasto’s costumes that are perhaps the most memorable element.
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.
Gru, Lucy, Margo, Edith and Agnes welcome a new member to the family, Gru Jr, who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his girlfriend Valentina, and the family is forced to go on the run.
While not particularly visually inventive, the director has a keen eye for the casually absurd, so that every setting he puts his characters in comes with just the right amount of daftness.
A pair of misanthropic wedding guests discover they may have more in common than they thought
Takashi Yamazaki’s brilliantly realised fantasy universe, based on the manga by Ryôhei Saigan, will thrill fans of fantasy animé and Japanese mythology.
A woman tries to cope when her fantasy writer husband moves them to a small town regularly visited by fantastic creatures.
Balancing this academic aspect is a selection of interviews with people directly affected who, though they also have professional connections to the subject, also add an important human element.
A documentary about people fighting to preserve key pieces of historic architecture and monuments from destruction.
The balance of the central mystery and teenage angst doesn’t always work, and even viewers who are in their teens themselves will likely become frustrated with it at times, but there is a good supply of drama elsewhere.
The race is on to solve a mystery and find the six ancient swords which point the way to a legendary treasure - and a famous detective trapped in the body of a child is on the case.
Amid the chaos of the Detroit Rebellion, with the city under curfew and as the Michigan National Guard patrolled the streets, three young African American men were murdered at the Algiers Motel.
The film takes standard ingredients of a good horror movie - the sinister setting, the horrible crime, the ghostly presence, the newcomer - and uses a surprisingly gore-free, old-fashioned way of scaring the audience.
Ghosts haunt an isolated
orphanage during the last year of
the Spanish Civil War.
Like Milton's, Zebrunias’ devil is cast in semi-heroic mode, a comic character against whom events continually seem to conspire.
When a miller captures a fallen devil, the two make a pact, but nothing goes to plan for either of them in this groundbreaking Soviet rock opera based on a Lithuanian folktale.
Escaping from post-war Europe, Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann establishes a new life in Argentina, where he meets fellow Nazi Willem Sassen. Together, they record a comprehensive account of his career.
It's worth suspending disbelief for a tale that grips where it matters and, through its superb performances, serves as a potent reminder that there were real human beings at the heart of all the real life horrors.
In the autumn of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific.
Considering when and where the film was made there is an obvious allegory between the plot and cooperating with the Nazi regime, or at least the Vichy puppet government.
Roland buys a severed hand talisman for a nickel, gaining love, wealth and fame. After he has enjoyed a year of success, the devil appears to collect payment.
As soon as the early, claustrophobic dread of the tunnels gives way to the kind of predictable supernatural, ritualistic, witchcraft fare that blights much horror cinema, interest wanes.
Allied soldiers take on a daemon-controlling Nazi.
What made the original feel like a breath of fresh air makes the sequel feel like just another entry in a crowded field of contemporary institutional satires
Miranda Priestly tries to deal with the decline of print journalism.
Most impressive for distilling mountains of archival footage, with the help of the trusty talking-head interview.
Born in response to the Kent State massacre, new wave band Devo took their concept of "de-evolution" from cult following to near–rock star status with groundbreaking 1980 hit Whip It while preaching an urgent social commentary.
Stranded after a disastrous gig, an all-female heavy metal band finds a woman in danger in a town ruled by a warlock, and crawling with cannibals, vampires, and a deadly werewolf, forcing them to fight for survival.
The ending is a real peach which will have genre fans cheering in delight.
A 'Diablo Rojo' bus driver, his helper, a priest and two policemen fall victim to a mysterious spell and end up lost somewhere in the Chiriqui jungle, where they will have to survive the creatures that inhabit the roads, with the old bus as their only refuge.
Dr. Zimmer, a neurosurgeon disciple of Dr. Orlof, dies when trying to prove that the origin of good and evil is physiological. His daughter seeks to avenge her father by controlling the mind of a Black-Widow dancer with long fingernails.
Diabolik is a protagonist, but not a likeable one. Not only an antihero, a murderer. Luca Marinelli has charisma in spades, but not here.
The story of the first meeting between master thief Diabolik and Eva Kant, set in the fictional state of Clerville in the late 1960s. Inspector Ginko is on the hunt for the criminal, trying to thwart his plans.
The film carries a message about the importance of tolerance, love and a healthy dose of silliness in the face of the darker elements of modern life.
Diamantino was once the greatest football player in Portugal. Now, in the middle of the worst crisis of his life, he decides to fill his void by adopting a refugee boy.
Nemec knows that, in the real world, most people's trains of thought don't move steadily from one place to another like a teleplay but instead flit about, throwing up a murmur of a memory here, the whisper of a fantasy there.
Two boys run away from the certain death awaiting them at a Nazi concentration camp.
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