Antwone Fisher was born in prison and placed in the care of an evil foster mother. Years later, as a young sailor with a temper problem he is sent to a marine psychiatrist for evaluation. What follows is an emotional journey of discovery, in which he confronts buried memories from his past of an appalling childhood, including sexual abuse. find out more...

A second recent dramatisation about the damaged ‘puppy', Mark Chapman, the obsessive fan who shot John Lennon dead outside the music icon's New York home. Jared Leto is impressive as the tortured, deranged killer, a performance that helps turn Chapter 27 into an absorbing if not truly gripping drama. find out more...

The frightening story of a naive young American caught smuggling hashish out of Turkey and sentenced to years inside a particularly vicious prison regime. The despair and desolation are brought home brutally. John Hurt is magnificent as the eccentric British prison veteran. find out more...

Howard Hughes was an insatiable man, a billionaire whose success within Hollywood and obsession with aviation made him more famous than many of the movie stars his studio employed. This lush dramatisation of Hughes concentrates on the man, as a rebel within the ordered system of big business, charming, glamorous, decadent and ruthlessly focused. We witness the beginning of his fall from grace and decent into reclusive paranoia, but this is more an epic of Hughes glory years and, though lacking t find out more...

A journalist in search of a story meets a mentally ill musician, Nathaniel Ayers, on the streets of LA and, through a succession of stories, attempts to better his and all the homeless community's lot. This isn't just a sincere movie about community politics and the need to help the less fortunate, it's a vibrant telling of the basic insanity of city life adapted from the memoirs of LA Times columnist Steve Lopez. find out more...