Glasgow Film Festival — A–Z of films

Mesmerising, heart-wrenching, and a remarkably intimate vision.

A hilarious screwball comedy

Buenos Aires, 1977 is harrowing at times, terrifying at others.

A flawed film but a brave one, taking on subject matter which is rarely addressed this way in British film

Shakespearian, dynastic tragedy on an operatic scale

Days of Glory is a great film, thoroughly deserving of the award attention that it has received.

Despite all the blood on screen, Fast Food Nation is a strangely anaemic movie.

Jokes are low-brow but delight audiences easily enough to give the film international appeal.

It is only after leaving the cinema that questions come bursting to the surface, not that they undermine Dr Niro’s magnificent achievement behind the camera

The UN describes Haiti as the most dangerous place on earth and this haunting documentary shows us why.

What rescues A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints from bland conventionality is Montiel's bravura approach to direction.

Half Nelson is a believeable film, depressing at times but smart and moving.

Imagery and sound are so closely wedded throughout that at times it seems meaningless to distinguish between the two.

A shallow portrayal.

We experience the horror of war as one of the enemy and this is Eastwood's accomplishment.

A chilling, but ultimately uplifting glimpse into the lives of those trapped within the repressive regime of East Germany.

A bit of standard-but-creepy Asian horror stapled poorly to a dull-as-ditchwater Hollywood thriller.

Pretty much a must for anyone who enjoys schlocky Seventies horror.

Konrad Niewolski recreates the sensation of paranoia that crawls inside your mind, disturbing the stability of plot devices.

Despite a running time of barely 90 minutes, this film seems to take an age to get to the point.

It is like nibbling for nearly two hours in the kitchens of the best chefs. At the end we are exhausted and hungry.

Luke Fowler's documentary tribute to the Scratch Orchestra is visually intriguing, politically dynamic, and surprisingly watchable.

For all its sadness of theme, Prag is a strangely beautiful and moving film.

Beneath the cover of portraying the generalised horrors of war, the film is more subtly critical of America's conduct in both the Vietnam War and the current conflict in Iraq.

It explores the cheap and trashy yet it's fresh and engaging

There is a menacing undercurrent.

The film feels real, and of the moment.

The ladle of light-hearted farce is never far enough from the plot.

A vital part of your film education.

The film is a template for disaster movies and strangers-trapped-in-a-train scenarios.

Enjoyable, and well assembled, but the distance in language and setting work against it.

This is a crisp and well made thriller. It confidently moves the story with its universal themes of secrecy and the abuse of power to France, and grips all the way through.

It is the political overtones that make the movie stand out and also invite forgiveness for the appreciably low budget.

True North is an unremittingly grim and claustrophobic portrayal of life in desperate circumstances, but it's engagingly told, threaded through with humour, and it makes for compulsive viewing.

This is England is, quite simply, the best British film for years. If you're underage, sneak into this film.