Mike Leigh’s acclaimed story of a selfless woman who helps ladies with unwanted pregnancies – in 1950s Britain when abortion was illegal – is both an affecting drama and vital slice of social history.

During daylight, an army of living dead begin pouring out of cemeteries around the world. At a local town council meeting in France, officials discuss the logistics of sheltering these refugees from beyond, many of whom end up in Red Cross tents. As the phenomena develops, unexpected reunions occ...

Prolific French star Michel Piccoli throws himself – quite literally in some scenes – into the role of Themroc, a factory labourer who, worn down by the relentless and brain-numbing tedium of his job, suffers a catastrophic meltdown. It causes him to regress to a neanderthal state, communicating ...

In Godard's dystopian sci-fi, detective Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) travels to the soulless technopolis of Alphaville on a secret mission to capture the dictatorial Professor Von Braun and destroy the Alpha 60 computer that has outlawed human emotions. Love comes to his aid in the form of ...

Franck, a door-to-door salesman married to Jeanne, is looking for a customer who owes money when he meets Mona, a teenager forced into prostitution by her rich and hateful aunt. Franck's wife leaves and his boss has him arrested for embezzlement. Mona pays back the money and suggests he kill her ...

In 1963 LA, two officers were kidnapped in a real-life hostage ordeal that ended with the brutal execution of one in a desolate onion field. Though the other cop escapes, he is forever marked by the traumatic event. As the two assailants appeal their death sentences, they find themselves entangle...

Narcotics officer Lulu (Didier Bezace) and his squad doggedly navigate the grimy underbelly of Paris, contending with red-tape, a lack of resources and an overwhelming in-tray. Co-written with a French police veteran, Michel Alexandre, Tavernier’s film avoids the clichés, delivering an authentic ...

Isabelle is a former nun living in New York, earning a living writing erotic fiction while awaiting her higher calling. She meets Thomas, an amnesiac unaware of his past as a ruthless pornographer, once responsible for turning his young wife, Sofia, into the world's most notorious adult star. As ...

Drawing inspiration from a chilling real-life double murder, the film follows Jean, a newspaper photographer tasked with covering the century-old case. Accompanied by her Pulitzer Prize-winning husband, they set sail to a remote East Coast island where both the investigation and their marriage fa...

Young and beautiful, Nelly is a spirited 25-year-old seeking refuge from her mounting debts and decaying marriage. Lost, she finds her way into the life of an older gentleman, Mr Arnaud, as he clears her debts and offers her work writing his memoirs. Shortly after, she divorces her leeching husba...

Business graduate Franck returns to his hometown to take up an internship at the factory where his father works. However, his attempts to introduce an initiative intended to empower the workforce backfire when his manager uses it as an excuse to restructure and cut jobs. As tensions simmer on the...

High school student Léa meets the mysterious Kurt in the South of France at the end of the summer holidays. When Léa returns home to the mountains of Savoy, Kurt comes to see her regularly. Along the route from the Mediterranean to Savoy, a series of burglaries, rapes and inexplicable murders occ...

When the son of former porn filmmaker Jacques Laurent found out what his father did for living, he ran away from home and refused to have any contact with him. Laurent put an end to his career. Many years later, his financial problems meant he had to take up his old profession again. The professi...

On her wedding night, Mallory discovers her new husband is a demon – and promptly kills him with an axe. Years later, Mallory leads a rogue government commando unit: Vena Cava, a drag queen and explosives expert; Talking Tina, a pre-teen telepath; and Durand, a hardened government agent making up...

A devoted family man, Carrère’s life takes a crushing turn when he is arrested for financial fraud. Confined to a grimy cell with inmates guilty of far darker crimes, he soon discovers they all share a single desire: to escape. Hope emerges when the group uncover a book of black magic once wielde...

Gritty rather than glam, this incendiary, cult classic both confounded and delighted audiences upon its release in 1975, at the height of the legendary glam-rock band’s success. Charting the rise of fictional rock group Flame, with Slade themselves playing the band, it offers a witty, sublimely...

Based on Moravia’s novel, Jean-Luc Godard’s sardonic look at the world of filmmaking boasts superb performances by Michel Piccoli as a compromised writer, Brigitte Bardot as his bored wife, Jack Palance as a manipulative producer and Fritz Lang as himself, about to film Homer’s Odyssey in Cinecit...

Tony (Peter Ferdinando) cuts an odd figure. Wandering the streets of his East London neighbourhood, he quietly observes the people around him, occasionally inviting an unlucky few back to his flat for some squash. Asking a prostitute for a cuddle or reeling off his extensive VHS collection, he is...

Detroit techno legend Carl Craig’s genre-defying music has reached audiences around the world - from jazz enthusiasts at the Montreux Jazz Festival to premier classical venues such as Carnegie Hall. But at the height of his creative success, the musician faces challenges that could ultimately for...

Kelly Macdonald (Trainspotting) stars as a Scottish teenager working as a prostitute in London and her efforts to free herself from the clutches of her oily, paternalistic pimp. She escapes to Glasgow with her friend, a small-time hustler, and tries to deal with her abusive past. When the two ret...

Akira Kurosawa’s visually spectacular epic transplants Shakespeare’s King Lear from Celtic Britain to feudal Japan. In its epic scope and expert execution, Ran can be seen as a culmination of the great Japanese director’s filmmaking career; a late triumph which he planned and refined over several...

Set in a world before Elvis, a Liverpool before the Beatles, Terence Davies' debut feature is a remarkable evocation of working-class family life in the 40s and 50s and a visionary exploration of memory. In a powerful succession of searing vignettes, Davies paints an autobiographical picture of a...

Schneider, a hit man, gets a call on the morning of his birthday. After initially refusing, he reluctantly takes on the job and discovers the target is a writer living alone in a secluded place. The job seems straightforward but becomes much more complicated than expected. This is a violent, twis...

Japanese designer Enatsu is worried about his sexless marriage. Meanwhile, office worker Akrane is preparing to return to work after a period of rehab following driving-induced panic attacks. Finally, successful advertising agent Ikeyama is looking to end his relationship. They are unknowingly co...