Dzianowicz shows us step by step for 100 minutes how the psychological state of the characters is changed by by living on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
A family try to come to terms with a grandfather’s diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s.
Even when one has a rough idea of where this mystery thriller is headed, the devil is in the detail, and each turn of the screw is handled with the sort of deft craftsmanship that becomes a pleasure unto itself.
Two US marshalls are sent to a remote island to investigate the disappearance of an inmate from a mental asylum.
A film that is entirely built on moments and glimpses.
A broken man flees the world and finds himself in a cave. His escape becomes a radical confrontation with his dreams, his memories and demonic visions.
There are deeper moral questions, ones sufficiently metatextual that I in the audience began to feel and fear complicity.
The drug war on the US-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border. To fight them, federal agent Matt Graver re-teams with Alejandro.
Whilst it’s thematically concerned with the blurring of boundaries, its own shifting structure and blending of genres contributes to the underlying unease.
Things spiral out of control in more ways than one when two siblings are tasked with caring for their ailing grandma.
The film is less about ambition or striving for success, as it’s about the fetishisation of that image of success, and how striving for the perfect image can destroy you.
Signe and Thomas are in an unhealthy, competitive relationship that takes a vicious turn when Thomas suddenly breaks through as a contemporary artist.
The writing is consistently intelligent and even if the moral boundaries are breached with careless abandon, there is no feeling of irresponsibility towards the concept of wild oats.
The adventures of two middle-age men on a wine-drinking stag weekend.
Technically impressive given the conditions in which some of it is filmed, Sidney And Friends is a powerful piece of filmmaking exploring the human impact of prejudice and simple ignorance.
Scottish filmmaker Tristan Aitchison visited Kenya in 2013. A chance meeting with an activist revealed an underground network of intersex and trans people that wanted their voices heard.
A story like this could easily have been utterly bleak, despite the powerful music. It is to Cox's credit that he packs it full of energy and humour that keep one gripped right up until the end.
Biopic focusing on the last few months of The Sex Pistols' Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen.
If Malick's lands were bad, then Wheatley's are sad, as small injustices, petty jealousies and perceived slights lead to cold blooded murder and childish revenge.
A young couple on a caravan holiday find themselves going on a killing spree.
While the humour works well in early scenes, the episodic nature of the film prevents the love triangle between Zisla, Ansis and Naiga gathering the head of steam, it might.
Tragicomedy about a young artist who becomes swept up in the political machinations of the Second World War.
The film hovers in the grey area of Astrid's psyche, with long takes, often focused on Devos' features.
Astrid is the wife of an acclaimed lawyer. Silenced for 25 years, her family balance suddenly collapses when her children initiate their search for justice.
The film cuts every so often to one of the few monuments honouring the victims of Franco’s regime; faceless statues pierced with bullet holes on a deserted mountain side. The Silence Of Others puts real faces to these figures.
The struggle against the amnesty law in Spain for those who committed atrocities under the rule of General Franco.
The parallel stories of the two serial killers exponentially increase the tension of the whole and this unrelenting film never lets the audience relax.
Outstanding thriller about serial killer mind games.
Whatever the criticisms of the film itself are, Jasmín Mara López's bravery in tackling the subject of child abuse within her own family is never in doubt.
The director considers her grandfather's abuse of her as a child and breaking the silence around that abuse.
The film soundtrack contributes neatly to the sense of alienation; of setting apart from the hearing world, with background track alternating conventional melody with something far more ominous.
A detective with hearing loss and a Deaf witness to a murder must lean on each other to outsmart killers they can't hear coming when cornered in an abandoned apartment block.
Plays out like a high spirited seasonal version of Threads.
Nell, Simon and their son Art are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die.
Fans shouldn’t be alarmed – there are still some wild sequences full of gore-soaked action.
A child witnesses his parents' murder by a man in a Santa suit. Years later, as an adult, he dons a Santa costume himself and embarks on a violent quest for retribution.
Before making the film, Truffaut spent considerable time with Hitchcock, who's style of filming and fascination with nature's dark side is echoed here.
A man begins an ill-fated affair with an air stewardess.
Russell impressively couples gambling strategies with self-help mantras to expose the machinations of searching minds who don't know how to flee the ugly banal lives of most common betrayals and economic anxieties.
A man trying to reconcile with his wife after a stint in a mental institution finds things get complicated when he meets a mystery girl.
A story that could at so many points have engaged and involved the audience seems to take place entirely behind a plate glass screen of teenage boredom.
Over the course of the summer after her graduation, a young woman decides to auction off her virginity on a website.
This challengingly structured moving picture connects past with present not in linear form but in fragments of story that come in waves.
An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.
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