Sympathy for the underdog and belief in the power of the human spirit shine through.
A Kurdish Iranian musician travels to Iraq for a concert after the fall of Saddam, determined to bring a legendary female vocalist with him, despite the fact that women are forbidden to sing in public.
Both leads flounder around with low level racist and misogynistic lines that were probably intended to be daring but are in fact more likely to cause offence just because they're so badly written.
Two stoners move to a small town just as a series of brutal murders begins, and one of them soon finds himself a suspect.
The women are plain spoken and angry rather than just whimpery - most of the time - but they don't get to do very much.
Members of the all-girl punk rock band Kill, Pussy, Kill! must fight for their lives and attempt to outwit an unknown assailant after finding themselves trapped in a madman's maze.
Parents of younger fans will be pleased to note that although there’s lots of jumping about and running around plus enough lipgloss to paint the Forth Bridge, there is not so much as a hint of raunch.
This is the kind of film that will receive rave reviews from pretentious critics and poncy awards at festivals you’ve never heard of. Meanwhile, average filmgoers like you and I will watch it and wonder: what on earth was that?
Mumblecore film about a graduate and her love life.
Every frame beguiles and unnerves in equal measure, and the sense of paranoia is conveyed less by baroque actions than by subtle glances exchanged between characters.
A young man crashes his car on a forest road and finds himself trapped in the "House of Happy Children".
It might not be designed to win any of this season's awards or linger in the memory, but this is a hell of a lot more fun than other recent fairy-tale reboots.
The famous brother and sister team take revenge for their childhood trauma.
As you would expect with actors of this calibre, there are some delightful sequences where the two leads display their acute comic timing by playing off each other.
A mix-up at the Ministry sees a respectable girls' school evacuated to the all-male Nutbourne College, much to the horror of their respective headteachers.
Kuosmanen constantly shifts perspective, asking us to view the situation from a different angle - and another place of emotional truth.
Finland, 1962. Boxer Olli Mäki is 26 years old and in love. Expected to win a bout against an American, but he would rather be with his girlfriend than train.
It might not always hit the mark, with its complicated plotline sometimes descending into hopeless farce, but there's real heart here and characters who are easy to feel for.
Complications ensue when two wedding receptions are held in the same venue.
