Almodóvar goes all out with the delights fashion has to offer, bright colours, the joy of transformation - because it is never too late for sartorial metamorphosis.
When Ingrid finds out that her old friend Martha is seriously ill, they reunite and embark on a journey of discoveries.
Elena is not initially an easy character to like, but her courage and ingenuity is handling the crisis she finds herself in gradually wins viewers over.
A young quadriplegic woman who has lost her sister moves to a country house with her father. A trained dog helps her, but then becomes her worst enemy.
Supernatural possession is closely intertwined with the idea of radicalisation, evil jinn with distorted ideology.
After a car crash, a man returns home to his family with his face covered in bandages, suffering from amnesia. As mysterious and threatening events accumulate, he fears that he is possessed.
A lot can happen in one night in a place like this, and most of it does.
When the grief-stricken young Rosario is forced to wait overnight with the body of her deceased grandmother until an ambulance can get to her through a severe snowfall, she falls prey to ghoulish attacks from supernatural possessors determined to wreak havoc on her.
With beautifully drawn characters and superb performances all round, Icíar Bollaín's enchanting comedy draws viewers into a world where romance is not dependent on a committed relationship and love takes many different forms.
Rosa, about to turn 45, realises that she has always lived for others, so she decides to press the nuclear button, shake things up, leave it all and grab hold of the reins of her life.
Gråbøl is superb throughout, recognising Inger as a complicated individual who has a lot more going on than just her illness.
Two sisters join a coach tour from Denmark to Paris, one of them unable to speak French and the other pushed well outside her comfort zone as she struggles to cope with schizophrenia.
Apart from setting the tone and maintaining it, the strongest point of Schleinzer’s filmmaking is casting and directing the actors' interactions between one another and the environment.
A woman disguises herself as a man in 17th Century Germany.
his film ingeniously lays a horror tale over what are, for the most part, perfectly normal events often experienced by pregnant women and it is its subtlety which is its strength.
Taut supernatural chiller with Mia Farrow having a devilish time with her pregnancy.
Jenkin’s style, impressionistic when it comes to places, is particular in regard to objects, the real anchors of our lives.
A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.
The boat makes a fascinating set and Losasso uses it well.
After a failed trans-Atlantic rowing attempt, a woman washes ashore near a bloodstained rowing boat. With all of her crewmates missing, presumed dead, she must try to piece together fractured memories of the ordeal to prove her innocence.
The feeling that something bad could happen at any moment permeates the mood.
US backpackers Hanna and Liv take a job in a remote Australian pub for some extra cash and are confronted with a bunch of unruly locals and a situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
McCoy does a good job of developing her character and carrying her, with some concessions to realism, though an arc very far removed from any likely reality.
A high school social outcast is taken under the wing of a mysterious mentor, only to be groomed as the hive's next queen.
Moody, poignant and rich in humour, the documentary unfolds with something of the character of a shaggy dog story.
A documentary that brings to life Barry Gifford’s autobiographical collection The Roy Stories, capturing a childhood in a vanished 1950s Chicago through a jazzy, impressionistic combination of beguiling archive footage, animation and spoken word.
If you like going to the cinema so that you can find yourself swept away emotionally, clinging to the edge of your seat and gasping for breath, RRR will not let you down.
A fictitious story about two legendary revolutionaries and their journey away from home before they started fighting for their country in the 1920s.
Gaup Beaska is an accomplished yoiker, so perfectly cast as Maia, the primal pull of this often ululating music matched by lyrics that speak of her character's connection to her Sámi culture.
Sámi reindeer herder Maia fights to protect her ancestral lands from a looming mining project.
Many will feel Rubber is a short student film stretched to breaking point and past it, but if you can tune into its whacked-out world-view it should have you smiling all the way through.
Rubber is just an ordinary tyre, but one day he develops intelligence and telekinetic powers. Horrified by what he discovers about the fate of other tyres, he sets out on an implacable quest for revenge.
There’s a lot going on in Júlia Murat’s accomplished drama.
A young woman studies criminal law and advocates for women's rights and at night she performs in front of a live sex cam. One night watching a film awakens her dark impulses for a more dangerous means of sexual gratification.
At its most interesting when the robot-building team is in Herat, its hometown, the film addresses aspects of Afghan life not always noticed by outsiders.
A computer class for girls leads to a robot building competition aimed at showing all Afghanistan what they're capable of.
Ashcroft’s interpretation steers the story away from simple tragedy as we see Mortensen making gains as well as losses.
Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.
As the film progresses, and these artists and filmmakers articulate their response to the conflict both verbally and through their work, Gutnik also interrogates the importance of culture when it comes to establishing and preserving nationhood.
Explores the war in Ukraine through the lens of artists living and creating in the midst of unprecedented conflict.
This is not so much a study in stereotypes, courtesy of Jimmy Dean’s legacy, but a love poem to the restless, doomed, anarchic integrity of orphaned hearts.
The heroism of teenage violence against a background of iconic posturing.
Aniston... spends much of the picture grimacing and stroking her stomach, rather as if she is about to be ill. Perhaps this is because she realised she was now contractually obligated to finish the picture.
The Graduate - 20 years on? Or boring and uneventful rubbish.
Abdykalykov’s story is slight but its roots go deep.
In a beautiful mountain village in Kyrgyzstan, a 12-year-old is fiercely loyal to a father brought low by
drink and divorce. The kid can run faster than anyone else in school and his ability might be the key to the family’s salvation, especially given the prizes in some local races
The movie is peopled by characters without boundaries and the cast responds by turning in some of the most extravagant performances this side of I, Claudius.
Growing up in someone else’s dysfunctional family.
It's heartwarming, well constructed, affirming and inspiring.
A group of kids from the ghettos of Kingston undertake a Hero Journey, progressing through adversity to triumph with an international production of their own show.
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