For all the postmodern presentation, every emotion here ultimately rings true, and there are enough great ideas, oddball characters, amiable performances and big laughs to ensure that this remains a cult favourite.
A man finds he has to defeat his girlfriend's evil ex-boyfriends.
Despite showing a lot of directorial potential, the film is let down somewhat by its story, as Thorne forgets that an audience, like the scouts, need to be prepared for plot developments if we are to fully accept them.
A boy agrees to help his best friend run away from the caravan park where they live, but as their plans begin to unravel dark secrets also come to light.
Where it focuses on the complexities of sibling relationships and different kinds of parenting, it’s strong.
After getting laid off, a young woman finds herself living in her car and struggling to hide her homelessness from her brother, who is looking after her daughter.
This is a film full of fascinating stories which will change the way you relate to ordinary objects.
A documentary about what happens to old objects once they reach the end of their working life, exploring the ways in which they can be repurposed, upcycled or used to create art.
Simultaneously bold, sweet and sometimes off-putting.
Georgie is a dreamy 12-year-old girl who lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. Out of nowhere, her estranged father turns up and forces her to confront reality.
This is a film that will mean a lot more if you'e a fan of baseball or aficionado of the recent trend for sharing tales of low quality Floridian crimes.
A profile of the people responsible for supplying performance-enhancing drugs to the Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez and other players.
Writer/director Cairo Smith is in the difficult situation of having to detail a process which necessarily takes time yet which doesn’t offer a great deal with which to fill that time.
Taken in by a wealthy couple after her sudden divorce, an isolated woman spirals into a surreal nightmare of manipulation, paranoia, and betrayal.
Claustrophobic and relentlessly harsh, Clarke's feature debut is a deeply distressing experience and the viewer, like this incarcerated underclass, has no escape - not for a second.
Ruthless depiction of life at a prison for young offenders in Seventies Britain.
Michael Mayer's reframing of the action puts more emphasis on the female characters and, in so doing, helps to bring out its more contemporary aspects.
A love triangle unfolds between the legendary diva Irina, her lover Boris, and the ingénue Nina.
Finlay has a good eye for the details that help us connect to people and places.
Charts a transgender man’s path to parenthood after he decides to carry his child himself. The pregnancy
prompts an unexpected and profound reckoning with conventions of masculinity, self-definition and biology.
Like his previous works, it has quite a few twists and turns along the way, and although seasoned horror viewers won’t have much difficulty guessing most of them, there’s still a good bit of fun to be had.
A group of teenagers at an elite boarding school become convinced that a ghost is coming for them.
The film - co-written by Sev Ohanian - is not just clever in the way that it uses familiar programs and the Windows and Apple Mac environments but also in the way it triggers familiar emotions.
After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her. A thriller that unfolds entirely on computer screens.
Once the motor of the film is running, though, it settles to a more welcome pace, with Smolensky slowly allowing a gentle soulfulness to surface beneath Michael's rough-cut exterior.
A roughneck re-examines his life after hearing about the life and death of the brother he never new.
Like Bergman's work, it might initially seem dry, but it's as rich in wit as it is in insight.
Director Margarethe von Trotta, extremely appreciated by Ingmar Bergman, follows the filmmaker’s footsteps as well as her own past and questions the new generation about the place left by the Swedish master.
A delightful experience for musos and the uninitiated alike, Searching For Sugar Man deserves to reach as wide an audience as its underdog hero eventually did himself.
The true story of a brilliant yet forgotten musician and the revolutionaries he inspired on another continent.
There are quite complex issues here for children to engage with, but they’re presented in an accessible way, and repeat viewings will prompt kids to ask different questions as they get older.
When a young girl stows away on the ship of a legendary sea monster hunter, they launch an epic journey into uncharted waters - and make history to boot.
Each set-piece revelation is sprung like a physical blow to the solar plexus.
After experiencing immense family turmoil in the wake of her husband’s death, a woman seeks solace in a quiet seaside town. There, she forms an unexpected bond with a young woman.
Marcelo is at home in the fine tradition of flicks where the fact that they are an agent is mainly a secret to them.
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realises that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.
There’s a deep understanding of the ways that people can be affected by grief underlying the gentle, quirky comedy of this tale.
While mourning the death of his wife and fending off an ambitious detective who thinks he killed her, Ben encounters a man who claims that he can teach him to fly.
For Stavreski, its character first and plot second while commentary comes along for the ride, as he focuses on the dad and son relationship at the film's heart.
A mechanic steals a stash of marijuana to use as a cure for his dad... only to find himself chased by dealers and hounded by people who think he's a healer.
For Aurélia Georges, going back to 1914 in Secret Name is not only a pretext for a story about class emancipation, but, above all, female emancipation.
Nelie escapes a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914 and goes on to discover emancipation can come with a price.
