One of Jean-Luc Godard's later works, this complex allegorical tale tells the story of man's quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu (Gérard Depardieu), his wife Rachel (Laurence Masliah) realises that something has gone awry, but chooses to remain faithful to her erratically-behaving husb&. A range of narrators provide differing views of the same events through a criss-crossing web of flashbacks, while title screens interrupt the action at intervals throughout the film, & the characters embark upon lengthy digressions on philosophical, literary & spiritual questions. ...

Oscar-winning documentary about the life of Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie. Historically known as the Butcher of Lyon, Barbie was appointed head of intelligence at the Nazi base in Lyon where he personally tortured French prisoners using a variety of methods including electric shocks & sexual abuse. ...

Convicted murderer Jake Shuttlesworth (Denzel Washington) is allowed temporary release from prison in order to convince his estranged son Jesus (Ray Allen) that he should play basketball for the Governor's old college. As decision-time approaches, Jesus weighs up his options, whilst Jake has to wrestle with new found parental responsibilities. Spike Lee directs. ...

French comedy sequel to the 1997 film ' Man Is a Woman'. Antoine de Caunes reprises his role as gay jazz musician Simon Eskenazy. Now divorced from Rosalie (Elsa Zylberstein), the nice Jewish girl his father bribed him into marrying in the first film, Simon is busy trying to finish his new album when Rosalie turns up unexpectedly from New York with the couple's ten year old son. His life is further complicated when he finds himself falling for Arab transsexual Naim (Mehdi Dehbi), who poses as a nurse & gets a job looking after Simon's ailing mother in an attempt to get close to him. ...

Feature documentary looking at the events leading up to & following the attempted assassination of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai. Shot in the head for daring to speak out against the Taliban who banned girls from going to school, Malala became an international hero & advocate for human rights, being awarded, among others, the Anne Frank Award for Moral Courage, the Mother Teresa Award for Social Justice & the Nobel Peace Prize, & being responsible for the passing of Pakistan's first Right to Education Bill. ...

John Garfield, Shelley Winters & Norman Lloyd star in this film noir classic. Nick (Garfield) & Al (Lloyd) are involved in a payroll heist that goes wrong, resulting in a policeman being shot. Al is caught while Nick gets away, hiding out at the local swimming pool. There, he meets & charms local girl Peg Dobbs (Winters) & she invites him back to her house, unaware of the crime he has just committed. Soon things start to unravel for Nick as he holds Peg's entire family hostage, knowing that the police are getting ever closer to finding him. ...

1940s comedy starring George Formby as a junior council employee who gets caught up in a town planning dispute. There should be unity & happiness in the small town of Tangleton
- the war has just been won & plans can be made to rebuild the town for a better future. However, when the council tea boy, George Gribble (Formby), is sent to conduct a survey on how the townspeople feel about the council's proposed post-war 'improvements' he is surprised to discover just how poor & unhappy the ordinary people of Tangleton are. When the bigwigs on the council decide to bury the survey & proceed with the plans anyway, George teams up with an eccentric inventor, Sir Timothy Strawbridge (Robertson Hare), & his charming daughter, Jane (Elizabeth Allan), to give a voice to the town's poor & downtrodden.
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Alfred L. Werker directs this archetypal noir thriller starring Richard Basehart, Scott Brady & James Cardwell. When petty criminal Roy Martin (Basehart) shoots & kills a policeman while on the run, Sergeants Marty Brennan & Chuck Jones (Brady & Cardwell) are tasked with finding out who killed their colleague. Can another crime committed in the city that same night hold the key to finding their guy? ...

Drama with a blackly comic streak starring Christian Slater & Elisha Cuthbert. Bob Maconel (Slater) is about to have a bad day. Another eight hours of sitting in a dull grey cubicle, ignored by his co-workers, existing in a world where he feels completely out of sync. On this particularly bad day Bob crosses the line from potential killer to inadvertent hero & in the process saves Vanessa's (Cuthbert) life. This invisible nobody saves the object of his desire only to have her ask him to end her life. ...

Documentary exploring the life & career of musician & producer Martin Hannett. Though Hannett is perhaps best known for producing the Joy Division albums ' Unknown Pleasures' (1979) & ' Closer' (1980), over the course of a long & varied career he was involved in a number of musical projects. Those to offer their reflections on Hannett include Bernard Sumner, Tony Wilson & Peter Hook. ...