As Londoner Helen returns home after being fired, her life suddenly pivots on one split-second moment. In one version, she catches the train and gets home to discover her partner is unfaithful, leading her towards a fresh start and a budding romance with James. In an alternate reality, she misses...

A recently married Chinese scholar dreams of experiencing as many sexual adventures as possible. He encounters a flying thief who agrees to help him find women, but only if he attains a penis as big as a horse’s. After a surgeon attaches the enormous organ, his promiscuous adventures begin. But j...

Pai is the only child of the chief of a Maori tribe, but as a girl isn’t entitled to take her place as his heir. When her grandfather starts training local boys in the way of being chief, Pai is forced to prove that she is a good as her male counterparts. This tense, inspiring story provides a wo...

North Dublin wheeler-dealer Jimmy Rabbitte, dreaming of music stardom, decides to form an American-style soul band from the local community. He finds three fine-voiced backing singers, a lead singer, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey “The Lips” Fagan. But despite their tale...

Inspired by Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables (1987), Kirk Wong’s gritty Hong Kong action thriller follows police officer, Ding Chun (Tony Leung Ka-fai), in 1930s Shanghai. With corruption rife throughout the force, he reunites with three wartime comrades to form a special drug task force, determ...

In his pursuit of justice, Waipong Wong uncovers a trail of corruption and bone-crunching brutality (the murder methods are creative and relentless...), while battling with horrifying nightmares.

Following his release from prison, Danny tries to take control of the mental health issues that have shaped his life. However, an encounter with a former flame evolves into tragic obsession. Treading Water looks with compassion and bracing realism at the lack of opportunity afforded to many peopl...

The Angelic Conversation sees Derek Jarman conjure an evocative and radical visualisation of Shakespeare’s love poems.

Derek Jarman struggled for seven years to bring his portrait of the 17th century Italian artist Michelangelo da Caravaggio to the screen. The result was well worth the wait. It’s a freely dramatised portrait which conjures several of the controversial artist’s most famous paintings through elabor...

Written for Channel 4 by radical literary theorist Terry Eagleton but heavily reworked by Derek Jarman, Wittgenstein is a bold, offbeat biography, personalised in Jarman’s unique style to address the politics and sexuality of the great, troubled philosopher.

Shackleton's death over 100 years ago in 1922 is seen to have marked the end of the ‘heroic age’ of Antarctic exploration. A record of one of the greatest survival stories in the history of exploration, South is the original film – exquisitely photographed by Frank Hurley – of Shackleton’s 1914-1...

Based on Ronald Blythe’s much-loved oral history book, Akenfield traces three generations of one Suffolk family and their lives in the farming industry, with director Peter Hall – known for his theatre direction - using to great effect a cast non-professional actors drawn from the communities of ...

Based upon on a short story by Ring author Koji Suzuki, Dark Water follows Yoshimi, a single mother struggling to win sole custody of her only child, Ikuko. When they move into a new home within a dilapidated and long-forgotten apartment complex, Yoshimi begins to experience startling visions and...

John LeTour is a drug courier with a wealthy Manhattan clientele. Following a series of murders involving the narcotics trade, and his supplier Ann’s decision to try and quit the business, John begins to reevaluate his life. Running into his old flame Marianne, he sees a chance to change for the ...

The Safdie brothers (Uncut Gems) deliver a striking, uncompromising depiction of life on the fringes and a stimulating rush of cinema. Drawn from the real-life experiences of its star Arielle Holmes, the film follows addict Harley living from fix to fix in a caustic metropolis. Evoking a woozy, t...

A group of teenage friends are found dead, their bodies grotesquely contorted, their faces twisted in terror.

When kindergarten teacher Jenny and her boyfriend Steve go to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, everything seems idyllic. But the couple’s peace is shattered when a gang of aggressive teenagers begin encircling the campsite, taunting and robbing them before vandalising their car. Stran...

Bill Forsyth’s classic comedy remains the ultimate depiction of coming-of-age awkwardness and an enduring favourite of Scottish cinema. Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) is the teenager who’s smitten with the new star player of the school football team, the enigmatic Dorothy (Dee Hepburn).

For decades, Sherlock Holmes fans worldwide have been waiting for the restoration of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series. Produced between 1921 and 1923, the collection is the last significant work in the Sherlock silent film canon to be restored. The hugely popular series, which ran for 45 ...

Sal’s empty eyes reveal he has been living on memories since he lost the love of his life, Zoe. Observing her brother with growing concern, Sal’s sister Ebe suggests he tries “Another End”, a new technology that promises to ease the pain of separation by briefly bringing back to life the consciou...

Paul and his girlfriend Barbara are vacationing with friends Howard and Vicki off the Spanish coast. The idyllic break runs into problems when a boating accident leaves Howard and Vicki trapped. Paul and Barbara go to the nearest village in search of help, but the village contains secrets, its in...

Irreversible is perhaps one of the cruelest films ever made. Marcus (Vincent Cassel) and Pierre (Albert Dupontel) set off on a blind rage of revenge after the former’s girlfriend Alex (Monica Bellucci) is raped. The twist is that their revenge spools out in reverse. Noé structured his notorious s...

After a failed suicide attempt, radio presenter Roy (Shenoah Allen, co-writer) wakes up to find himself being driven cross-country by a woman (Conti) wearing a monkey suit. Yes, this is a weird premise, but what follows is a liberating, and potentially lucrative, road trip.