George is a Glaswegian bus-driver, free spirited and pissed off with his job, Carla is an emotionally scarred, impoverished refugee and 2/3rds of this film is an uplifting tale of their romance. The last 1/3rd, in Nicaragua, is where they find their destinies. This is also a savage indictment of US policy. find out more...

A gentle, simplistic postman living on a small island off the coast of Italy falls in love. Unable to express his feelings he learns the power and beauty of words from his new found friend, the exiled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. A film of sublime beauty in it's a radiant portrayal of love, friendship and life....breathtaking. find out more...

The film is based on the life of John Reed, the Communist, journalist, and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days that Shook the World. The film works both as a history of the American left and as an epic romance, between Reed and Louise Bryant, an important feminist and radical journalist in her own right. After involvement with labour and political disputes in the US, they go to Russia in time for the 1917 October Revolution and, inspired, return to the US, hoping to find out more...

Arthur Seaton is a factory worker who lives for women and booze and doesn't give a damn for the consequences. He is two-timing with Doreen whilst Brenda is pregnant and forced to face his responsibilities without losing his fighting spirit. 'Don't let the bastards grind you down'. A classic early 1960s angry young men neo-realist drama.

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It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

A diplomat posted in Africa is devastated by the murder of his wife but he's sceptical of the authority's diligence and determination to find her killers so he devotes himself to finding those responsible. What our dour hero discovers is that his wife's death is only the tip of a genocidal conspiracy and while she may be lost to him the only hope of easing his anguish is to expose those that she'd died defying. Based on John Le Carre's novel, The Constant Gardener is a searingly effective adapta find out more...

20 years before 'kitchen sink' came into vogue was this serious, committed film about life up north in a mining community. Based on AJ Cronin's novel this is a deeply affecting drama focusing on a small village's utterly reliance on the nearby coal pits and the consequences of their employer's amoral greed. The Stars Look Down is a heartfelt and influential film. find out more...

Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined... The community of struggling illegal aliens in Calais is captured with authenticity, from the point of view of people who arrived there knowing nothing find out more...