It Was Just an Accident
Dir. Jafar Panahi
You can probably predict from the title that an accident starts this thriller but what happens after is totally unexpected.…
La Chimera
Dir. Alice Rohrwacher
La Chimera is often meandering. Scenes flitter about and move at different paces, resembling dreams more than they do reality,…
Hidden Agenda
Dir. Ken Loach
In Ken Loach’s conspiracy thriller, an American human rights activist (Frances McDormand) and a no-nonsense UK police officer (Brian Cox)…
Raining Stones
Dir. Ken Loach
Light-hearted and compassionate, Raining Stones is one of Ken Loach’s lesser-known films. It’s also one of his funniest, telling the…
Brassed Off
Dir. Mark Herman
When we elect people to power, they usually promise some sort of change that their constituents like, but given the…
In the House
Dir. François Ozon
Frankly, the characters of In The House are in dire need for some therapy after the events of the film.…
The Madness of King George
Dir. Nicholas Hytner
At first glance, The Madness of King George seemed like a history lesson about King George III. Like plenty of…
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Dir. Ken Loach
You might expect a movie about the Irish struggle for independence from the British Empire during the 1920s to be…
The Edge of Heaven
Dir. Fatih Akin
This is a hard movie to describe, but I’ll do my best without giving too much away. The movie takes…
Italian for Beginners
Dir. Lone Scherfig
With the austere ethos of Dogme 95, most Dogme films tend to be naturalistic, serious dramas, dealing with heavy topics.…
Belfast
Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Belfast stars Outlander’s Caitríona Balfe as the mother of a working-class Northern Irish family during The Troubles. Religious tension and…
Let the Right One In
Dir. Tomas Alfredson
Somehow an art house film, horror, and romance all in one, Let the Right One In explores the boundaries of…
Rust and Bone
Dir. Jacques Audiard
This is the type of movie I completely fell in love with but cannot articulate exactly why. Maybe it’s the…
The Class
Dir. Laurent Cantet
Taking place almost entirely in a single classroom, the two-hour-plus runtime of this French drama breezes past thanks to its…
The Ghost Writer
Dir. Laurent Bouzereau & Roman Polanski
Craving mystery? This is the film for you. A writer (Ewan McGregor) is given the lucrative task of bringing to life the…
The Teachers’ Lounge
Dir. İlker Çatak
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the…
Mostly Martha
Dir. Sandra Nettelbeck
Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has…
Son of Saul
Dir. László Nemes
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival…
East Is East
Dir. Damien O'Donnell
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his…
The Constant Gardener
Dir. Fernando Meirelles
Ralph Fiennes plays a mild-mannered British diplomat in Kenya who is stunned by the news of his wife Tessa’s (Rachel…
Phantom Thread
Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker’s meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Dir. Peter Webber
This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the…
The Dinner Game
Dir. Francis Veber
For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots’ Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along…
Monsieur Ibrahim
Dir. François Dupeyron
Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in…
Chicken Run
Dir. Nick Park & Peter Lord
The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to…