Talented young sketch artist Jerome Platz escapes from high school to a tiny East Coast art college. Here his ambition is to become, like his hero Picasso, the world's greatest artist. Unfortunately the beauty and craft of Jerome's portraiture are not appreciated in an art class that he finds bewildering and bogus, neither his harsh judgments of his classmates' efforts nor his later attempts to create pseudo-art of his own win him any admirers, though he does attract the attentions of his dream find out more...

Hailed as the best film debut since Eraserhead, Donnie Darko's instant cult status and mainstream success are well deserved. find out more...

Following their mother's tragic death in a car accident two young girls, 10 and 16, and their academic father move from Chicago to Genova (Genoa to us Brits). Here family tensions emerge, but what they find in Genova is a different kind of darkness, from the streets of the city into their hearts... find out more...

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Napoleon may look like a super-nerd, but this lad's got attitude! find out more...

In the small French town of Thiers, the streets abound with the sounds of children laughing and playing, but when the terrible truth behind one lad's petty thievery is revealed, the adults are forced to acknowledge their children's pain. Pocket Money is Truffaut's lyrical, funny and touching tribute to childhood, the youngsters baring their souls with an unblinking life affirming honesty. A subtle, moving joy. find out more...

Bernardo Bertolucci paints another ravishing (if slightly too lush) portrait of adolescent awakenings and youthful exuberance. Set in Paris, 1968, amid the social turmoil and student protests, the film charts the relationship of three characters: Isabelle and Theo (sister and brother) and American student Matthew. Their mutual obsession for film of all forms and periods brings them together, and a lot of the films pleasure (for movie fans, anyway) derives from find out more...