Mike Nichols’ provocative dark comedy traces the lives of college roommates Johnathan (Jack Nicholson) and Sandy (Art Garfunkel) as they navigate relationships from the 1940s into the 60s. From idealistic romances to toxic love affairs, the film charts their diverging paths – Johnathan’s descent ...

High school best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö work at the smoothie parlour in the local mall, exchanging gossip and taking delight in the puntastic names of the fruit drinks they sell. Both single, Rönkkö is after that elusive spark of instant attraction, whilst the tempestuous Mimmi scoffs there’s n...

Lalo is a sex influencer and performer. On social networks he directs his own life, posting photos of his naked body and homemade porn videos to thousands of his followers. Yet there is a disconnect with his private life where he exists in a state of permanent melancholy.

Katherine is a young bride, unhappily married to the son of a wealthy mine owner. Unable to consummate his marriage, the husband is sadistic, refusing to even allow his young wife out of the house. Left alone when her husband is called away on business, she starts to explore the grounds and initi...

Captain Nascimento (Wagner Moura), a BOPE (Special Police Operation Battalion) officer, is tasked with clearing the drug gangs in the slums of Rio de Janeiro before a visit from the Pope. Meanwhile, desperate to take on a safer job so that he can be closer to his pregnant wife, he trains up two y...

In 1931, at the height of his artistic powers, Soviet pioneer Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, he arrives in Guanajuato. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, he experiences the ties bet...

James Franco and Travis Mathews recreate explicit footage cut, rumoured to be lost, from one of the most notorious gay features ever made – Cruising (1980), starring Al Pacino as a cop who goes undercover to hunt out a serial killer preying on New York’s homosexual community. Inspired by the myth...

Based on real events, Larry Clark's chilling follow up to Kids features brave, raw performances of his young cast playing a group of disaffected teenagers who decide to murder a domineering and violent high school bully. The friends become capable of an act none of them would be willing to commit...

This spine-chilling horror anthology begins with ‘Dumplings’ by Fruit Chan, which sees a former actress seek out a mysterious woman to make special dumplings with age-reversing properties. ‘Cut’ is Park Chan-wook’s darkly funny offering about a kidnapper who forces a filmmaker into a sadistic gam...

Set in the summer of 1984 in Sandusky, Ohio, teenager Eric Hunter is terrified and exhilarated by his sexual attraction to Rod, a college student and co-worker at a local fast-food joint. But Eric’s sexual awakening is complicated by his new romance with his best friend Maggie. Featuring Lea DeLa...

After a traumatic encounter with a serial killer, news anchor Karen White (Dee Wallace), retreats to a remote colony to recover, only to discover it’s a haven for werewolves. As she begins to investigate and the truth unravels, she must fight to survive. Joe Dante delivers a typically dark, wry h...

Eric Cantona, Alain-Fabien Delon and Beatrice Dalle star in an outrageous erotic fever dream about a stylish couple, their transvestite maid and the four diverse guests invited to their midnight orgy. The Slut, the Star, the Stud and the Teen each come with their own dark and impassioned secrets,...

Although his cutting lyrics speak provocatively about identity politics, it is not until Zed (Ahmed) returns home after two years on tour that he is called by his real name: Zaheer. But it is the vulnerability of illness and his decreasing mobility that brings both focus and fragmentation – memor...

Part potent social drama, part tentacular science-fiction enigma, Amat Escalante’s idiosyncratic film is as difficult to categorise as it is to describe. The film opens in the opaque Mexican lowlands. Veronica is a dispossessed young woman with a curious addiction. When an injury leads her to the...

Director Jun Ichikawa brings us his award-winning film adapted from Haruki Murakami’s New Yorker tale of solitude and obsession. When illustrator Tony Takitani meets a client, Eiko, he becomes fascinated with her and imagines a life beyond his loneliness. She, in turn, is infatuated with shopping...

Set in a vibrant, neon-lit, imaginary vision of Soho, this morality tale manages to be both a beautifully shot homage in the spirit of Derek Jarman and a celebration of the homo-erotic in Baroque art. When teenage beauty and Essex boy Jim (Harris Dickinson, the compelling lead in Beach Rats) arri...

When Valentine (Audrey Tautou), a young woman from a wealthy family, marries Jules (Arnaud Valois), the 19th century is ending. As the years pass, she experiences both the joys of motherhood and the heartbreak of losing loved ones. Her daughter Mathilde (Melanie Laurent) and later her granddaught...

Early in his career, Ozon paid homage to German great Rainer Werner Fassbinder by adapting his play Water Drops on Burning Rocks. 22 years on, Ozon revisits Fassbinder in this elegant, inventive remake of his 1972 chamber classic The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant – with designer Petra here becom...

Jonny Barrington's sweet-natured Scottish comedy charts the on-off relationship between Dondo (Louis McCartney), a young surfer struggling to accept his father has died in a fishing accident, and Sas (Ella Lily Hyland), a high-achiever dreaming of escape. While at the same time, a recently return...

Noel Coward's classic tale of a passionate affair is all the more thrilling for being played out with British reserve of the tightest order. Laura (Johnson) encounters the handsome Dr Alec (Howard) in a train station tearoom after her weekly shopping trip.

An unknown actress, Jane (Greta Scacchi), lands a small role co-starring with Hollywood star Steve (Peter Coyote), who is a notoriously difficult character. Meeting on set in Rome, the two are magnetically drawn to each other, and their romantic flame intensifies in parallel with their on-screen ...

Stephen Mangan and Chris O'Dowd star in this Edinburgh ensemble piece, perhaps best encapsulated as ˜Nashville on the Fringe'.

Mina (Lubna Azabal) and her husband Halim (Saleh Bakri) run a small shop selling traditional, hand-stitched caftans in Salé, Morocco. To help with customer demand, the couple hire young apprentice Youssef (Ayoub Missioui) – but complications arise when Mina notices a deeper connection forming bet...

Unsuccessful in his music career, Clément Mathieu takes up a teaching job at a rehabilitation institution for minor boys, where a ruthless headmaster reigns. Witnessing his students’ defiance deriving from their distrust of adults, Mathieu forms a choir to inspire and connect with them through mu...