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An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent.
Futuristic sci-fi post-animated superagent is acrobatic in her desire to save paradise from reactionary forces.
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.
A detective enjoying a quiet holiday in southern France finds himself caught up in an intriguing mystery.
A group of women take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
A transforming VW and a teenager strike up a friendship and try to save Earth.
Two sneaky young Russians dodge the military draft and head for London, all the while figuring out the best means for screwing their respective systems.
Sequel with Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu making mincemeat of bad guys.
An insurance investigator and efficiency tsarina are hypnotised into a heist.
Coming of age story about a boy raised in an orphanage, who seeks answers in an orchard.
A woman revisits the crime that killed her family.
An ex-con assumes his dead cellmate's identity and gets caught up in a heist.
An upwardly mobile lawyer discovers his boss is the devil in disguise.
A movie crew shooting a film about Columbus find themselves caught up in modern-day protests.
Performance by the social commentator.
Tensions flare as a group of four twenty-somethings take a road trip to the south of France.
A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life.
An older man, known as The Tramp, who lives in a homemade shack in North London woods attracts support and something more from a lonely widow and a bunch of protesters when he is ordered to leave.
A public relations professional decides to improve the image of a dropout superhero who just can't get things right.
A young nobleman asks a peasant to help fake his own kidnapping.
A married actress falls for her leading man whilst making a film about an illicit affair.
Two children and their parents find nightmares may be real.
A former soldier investigates the disappearance of his son, who has just returned from a tour of duty in Iraq.
American remake of the classic Sixties Brit heist flick, involving gold ingots and Mini Coopers
A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.
A battle royal in the city of teenage ninjas with special powers and a fine line in witty dialogue in the plastic world of Lego.
Horror spoof sees two hapless buddies try to save a community from the bite of girl-loving vampires.
Critical biopic of The Goon Show master-of-voices who became a Hollywood movie star.
A mythical caddie helps a down-on-his luck golfer.
A journalist unexpectedly reconnects with his babysitter... who is now planning a run for the presidency and hires him as speechwriter.
Seven years after he survived the monster apocalypse, a young man leaves his underground bunker on a quest to reunite with the woman he loves.
Cop duo Crockett and Tubbs ditch their 80s pastel suits to crack - pardon the pun - down on a gang of ruthless drug dealers in style.
Adventures of a girl and her gorilla
In a post-Apocalyptic world, survivor Max hooks up with a mysterious woman to face off against murderous gangs.
Biopic of the first African American Navy diver.
Dramatised version of the life of serial killer Aileen Wuornos.
Special two-disc edition of David Lynch's psychedelic dream.
Louis Theroux explores the Church of Scientology. Or tries...
Following an unhappy break-up, film producer Astor struggles to find a new relationship, largely thanks to his own behaviour.
A convict is given a new identity and trained as an assassin.
One woman fights sexual harassment in the mines of Northern Minnesota.
A beautifully composed tale about redemption and coping with loss.
Biopic of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
A talk radio host investigating the murder of his friend becomes obsessed with a drifter.
The psychosexual journey of a young woman into the dark recesses of the Afrikaner psyche and its compromised past.
Daniel has been suspended from active police work and is under internal investigation for violence. When Sara, his internet love affair, stops answering his texts he decides to drive north in search of her.
Complex love triangle against a backdrop of Armenian genocide in Turkey during the Great War
Exploration to the dark reaches of space, to discover the origins of mankind. It doesn't go well.
An unnamed father and son travel through a post-apocalyptic America in this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
Romance and politics become entangled in this historical drama about the Queen of Denmark falling for her husband's physician.
There are strange goings-on in an isolated bus station.
A detective is held prisoner and sexually tortured by a mother and daughter who may or may not be murderers.
Twenty-four hours in the life of a Muslim crack dealer and a friend from his past.
The huntsman ordered by a jealous queen to kill the young princess Snow White instead trains her as a warrior who can lead a rebel army.
Two friends find themselves caught up in an international conspiracy thanks to one of their ex-boyfriends.
A zany blonde with a mysterious illness invites a workaholic ad exec to live with her for a month.
The exhaustion of being a wife, mother and now having another baby is saved by a young, optimistic, attractive night nanny who loves everything, especially her job
An elderly architect heads to a motel to finish planning his assisted suicide.
A historical epic inspired by the true events that happened in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
A burglar is hired by a mysterious woman to steal a box from a house. As he is about to leave, the sudden arrival of guests forces him to hide in the study. The situation takes a turn for the worse when he makes a startling discovery.
A murder cover up set against the backdrop of corruption on the New York Subway.
Soon after her divorce, a fiction writer returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend, who is now happily married and has a newborn daughter.
A reluctant knight accompanies his brother on a quest to save the latter's fiancee, who has been kidnapped by an evil warlock.
About a bear Iain Gardner on immigration, community and A Bear Named Wojtek
Tests of love Dennis Iliadis and his star Konstantina Messini on twisty meet-the-parents thriller Buzzheart
You must remember this Loïc Espuche on childhood revulsion, shyness, shame, kissing and Yuck!
Lights and shadows Dustin Pittman with Ed Bahlman on Alan J Pakula, James Ivory, Brian De Palma and Jerry Schatzberg
Innocence lost Sebastián Parra R on growing up too fast and world building in Seed Of The Desert
UK hopes ride high as Oscar International Film shortlist announced Ireland also makes the grade
That's a wrap on festival coverage for 2024 now. We've recently covered DOC NYC, the French Film Festival UK, Tallinn Black Nights, the Leeds International Film Festival, Abertoir, the London Korean Film Festival, the Belfast Film Festival and Halloween Frightfest.
Looking a little further back, we were at the London Film Festival, Newfest, the New York Film Festival, the Scottish Queer international Film Festival, Beyond Fest, Grimmfest, San Sebastian, Fantastic Fest and the Toronto International Film Festival.
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