The film moves deftly between humour and poignancy, generating a strong emotional response in its quieter moments.
Rikard is a 30-year-old man, severely deformed and suffering from autism, haunted by the loss of his mother. From time to time, he escapes from reality into an imaginary world where he is a 50m tall giant.
When the daughter of the richest man in town is dragged from the bottom of a muddy pond because of the psychic's premonition, you know this can be no ordinary thriller.
A psychic becomes involved in a small town murder mystery in the Deep South.
Vibrant, funny and ultimately touching, Leon's loose limbed narrative is an ode to both the tribulations of adolescence and the city in which it's set.
A pair of graffiti artists attempt to pull off a daring tagging mission
Daniele Luchetti's film captures the desire for instant gratification and breathtaking ignorance of a teenage girl who thinks that her 15th birthday will unlock the secrets of multiple orgasms.
A 14-year-old girl and her fit aunt go to the Greek island of love for sex education.
Although it suffers from a sometimes clumsy script and an intrusive soundtrack, this is an emotionally intelligent film with more to say for itself than is at first apparent.
A group of new university students in Istanbul are gradually radicalised, with tragic consequences.
Transformation is coming, although as with Sciamma's previous films this is not a simple, one-way manoeuvre, completed in double-quick time
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of free-spirited girls.
As a portrait of friendship, at that critical moment when defences are down and truth hurts too much, Girls Night comes through as the genuine article.
Bittersweet tale of lifetime pals
who go on a blast to Vegas when
one is diagnosed with cancer.
Talk is everything, with action hinted at the edges, as Chabrol's camera sidles off to look at a casually thrown book, or skates away from anything salacious.
A weathergirl becomes involved in a destructive love triangle.
The Girl Is In Trouble may not have many new things to say, but it says them well.
A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful investment firm.
Because it is so self-consciously light, this film never quite has the impact it might have done, but it's still an interesting take on an unusual phenomenon.
Ensemble drama examining the politics, lifestyle and rise of anti-Semitism in contemporary France.
Heidenreich’s shooting is economical and the editing tight, so that squash games are included to show Toorpakai’s abilities on the court and the support for her off it, without getting in the way of the bigger issues surrounding equal rights.
A young woman represents Pakistan on the national squash team, despite the Taliban's threats.
Features an ending that leaves the softened finale of the first film looking as if it were simply intended to draw in unwary viewers in search of something altogether more conventional.
The final part of the Millenium trilogy, this film sees its heroine facing trial for murder as her friends race to uncover the conspiracy that has victimised her.
The subversive narrative, constantly challenging audience expectations, was hugely influential in its time and still makes the film a lot of fun today.
A young women who loves crime novels thinks she may have uncovered a real life murder mystery.
The deceptively simple ink and watercolour animation places the focus on movement so that we understand the characters through their behaviour rather than any reductive set of fixed images.
When a miller sells his daughter to the Devil, her purity saves her but she loses her hands and must endure a life full of challenges.
It starts to become clear what happened here: there's a children's party game where everyone takes a turn writing a paragraph, and the next person only gets to see the last sentence.
Elite commandos take on a dangerous arms dealer and his deadly minions.
Gerard Barett's low-budget drama is marked out by raw performances and a strong empathy for its characters that help buoy up its downbeat subject matter.
A young cab driver tries to save his mum from alcoholism.
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