Sanchez and Bayona never lose sight of the requirements of the genre, providing plenty in the way of seat-gripping tension and finding suitable shocks in the everyday.
Ghost story about a family who live in an orphanage.
Offers food for thought in the realm of a slightly ungainly and sprawling all-you-can-eat buffet rather than a satisfying sit-down feast.
Delves deep into Orwell’s final months and visionary works to explore the roots of the vital and troubling concepts he revealed to the world in his dystopian masterpiece… Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, the omnipresent spectre of Big Brother… disturbing socio-political truths which resonate ever-more powerfully today.
Special Forces commandos are abducted mid-operation by a mysterious spacecraft and, upon awakening, find themselves prey to a relentless alien race in a fight for survival.
The team’s eye for a good sight gag and ear for an unwittingly crass pronouncement remains intact, as does their intimate knowledge of, and obvious affection for, the movies they’re sending up.
A top French secret agent hunts a Nazi war criminal in Rio and meets a beautiful woman with an agenda of her own.
There is no doubting the darkness of the nihilism at work here, but somehow Sossai finds ways to connect us to the bleak loneliness and disaffection that is driving Fausto and Ivan's desires while offsetting these emotions with warmer encounters the men have with others.
Two men find their macabre scheme doesn't quite go as planned.
The 1992 Lithuanian National Basketball Team went from the clutches of Communism to the Summer Olympics in Barcelona – a testament to the powerful role of sports as a catalyst for cultural identity.
This documentary might sound like a bit of fluff, but it delivers some surprisingly profound stories.
An exploration of male identity via the lives, personalities, and adventures of a diverse band of men, real men across the globe all sharing the same name - James Bond.
The way ahead may be a little pre-destined but the director let's the tension drip through every beautifully shot moment by cinematographer Michal Englert - with the sort of imagery that could see her film achieve its own cult appeal.
A young girl begins to question her place in the religious community she was born into.
Ultimately. McClarnon’s biggest advantage lies in his cast.
When a new stepmother's troubled eight-year-old girl befriends a boy that lives in the shadows, the family learns why things that live in the dark don't want be seen.
Kilian, responsible for the film’s strong cinematography as well as its direction, maintains, as much as possible, a reportage-style distance for the film’s first act.
A resistance fighter battles to save her younger sisters from arranged marriage.
It's a lot to fit into 75 minutes and while there's plenty here that is interesting, it's a shame Gabbert didn't distil things down a bit more.
Follow celebrity chef Yotam Ottolenghi as he assembles a star-studded team of the world’s most innovative pastry chefs to put on a Versailles-themed culinary gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
It...contains one of the most ruthless break-ups in recent cinematic history.
Sheri thought her biggest problem in life was dealing with the recent loss of her beloved grandma. But when a mysterious entity crash lands in the woods, only she and her group of friends are what stands in the way of an insatiable, intergalactic hunger.
This is quite simply the best performance of the year, blowing everything else out of the water.
A former child soldier struggling to come to terms with her past finds her world turned upside down with the arrival of a priest whom she belives she recognises.
Watching the two young men, you may well find your sympathies shifting – and you may wonder which of them, if either, is actually en route to becoming a killer.
Satire sees wealthy NYC teenager Balthy make dramatic gun control
videos to impress his activist crush. When an online troll targets his content,
Balthy becomes convinced he's communicating with a potential school shooter
and embarks on an ill-advised journey to Texas to confront him.
Director Anthony Scott Burns delivers some real chills but it's the positive aspect of the film, the sense that there's still room for joy in these difficult lives, that makes them so potent.
A young physicist experimenting with the principle of wireless electricity accidentally makes way for something from elsewhere to interact with our world - but is it a force for good or for evil?
An impoverished, recently dumped actor who is moonlighting as a cop meets a victim of domestic abuse who is planning to kill herself, and an unexpected connection forms between them.
Pozdorovkin isn't trying to present new information here and there is very little context provided, but it is not so much what is being shown as the sheer weight of material.
Collage film showing Russian propaganda surrounding the US presidential election of Donald Trump.
There's a lot of subtext here, especially around the sense of entitlement that accompanies Taiwanese masculinity and the habituated low self esteem of the women.
A documentary about women who have experienced immigration and failed marriage.
Distances of time and space are collapsible in Fingscheidt’s hands.
After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. She returns to the wild beauty of Scotland’s Orkney Islands - where she grew up - hoping to heal.
We stumble through the night with only guttering flames to guide us, straining to catch the tiniest sound that might give us a hint of what’s out there.
In the Old Stone Age, a disparate gang of early humans band together in search of a new land. When they suspect a malevolent, mystical, being is hunting them down, the clan are forced to confront a danger they never envisaged.
Ambrosioni extracts lived-in performances from Cottin and the whole cast which lifts what could have been a straight-forward drama into a profound and moving portrait of families and motherhood.
After many years, Suzanne and her two children unexpectedly show up at the home of her sister Jeanne. It initially looks like Suzanne is tentatively attempting to re-establish a relationship with her sister. But this illusion is shattered with the morning light: Suzanne is gone and Jeanne is forced to become a mother to children she barely knows.
With a stunning central performance which draws viewers in against their will, this is a study of compulsive violence presented not as a source of thrills but as a tragedy.
A compulsive killer becomes obsessed with a young deaf woman.
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