A stylish thriller with a dark and twisted tale of vengeance as Oh Dae-su is imprisoned by an unknown enemy for 15 years and then released to solve the mystery. More…
Rather than concentrating on the horrors of battle like many a war movie, Renoir’s pacifist masterpiece shows us the men involved and exactly what war is capable of destroying. More…
A cosmopolitan film whose tongue is shared with English, whose home is Italian, whose funding is Belgian and whose writer and director, Abbas Kiarostami, is Iranian. More…
Abbas Kiarostami writes and directs this 1990 docu-fictional film which sees a man charged with committing fraud after pretending to be filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. More…
The final part of the Swedish trilogy based on the best-selling ‘Millennium Trilogy’ novels by Steig Larsson brings Lisbeth Salander’s story to a close. More…
The second part of the trilogy, adapated from the novel by Stieg Larsson sees Lisbeth tracking down the men responsible for the crimes against her. More…
Niels Arden Oplev’s made-for-TV take on Lisbeth Salander and the mysterious Vanger family in the first adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. More…
Set in the aftermath of World War III in Paris, La Jetée, Chris Marker’s time traveller tale, is just as profound today as it was 50 years ago when it was first released. More…
Wolfgang Becker’s Goodbye, Lenin! sees a woman living under the illusion that the German Democratic Republic is alive and carrying on after she wakes from a coma in 1990. More…
Think of an assassin and men like John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald come to mind, but in this 1994 Luc Besson thriller, a 12-year-old girl is in training for the job. More…
Luc Besson’s visually stunning Le Grand Bleu is also film with a strong emotional core and a story about a man who longs to return to the world beneath the ocean’s surface. More…
The grief of a nation commingles like the bones of so many dead in Son of Babylon, the first feature film to be made in Iraq since Saddam Hussein was deposed. More…
Tom Six writes and directs this truly fascinating and revolting Dutch film which sees a crazed German doctor stitching three people together to make his horrifying creation. More…
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, this classic French film noir was famously snatched out of the hands of Hitchcock and still thrills and surprises audiences today. More…
Filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns, but not just with a story about a murder and the accused, but also about the many men involved who all have a past they’d rather kept hidden. More…
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