Set in Orange County, California, in an age where America has lost its ‘war on drugs', a reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, the consequence of which is a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode and even your own motives become unclear. Scanner Darkly is a cautionary tale of drug use based on the novel by Philip K Dick and born of his own experiences. Like a graphic novel come to life, the film uses live action pho find out more...

Set against the backdrop of an elite American East Coast prep school, protagonist Robert is an apathetic teenager who seems interested only in YouTube-esque videos of either babies, kittens, pornography or violent acts. When Robert takes part in the school's AV club he unexpectedly captures a traumatic event that will irreversibly alter the lives of everyone at his school. Far from ‘easy viewing', 'Afterschool' is an intense, intelligent and provocative account of one boy's conflicted and trou find out more...

'Baby Bogart' or 'Bugsy Malone The Sequel'? Young teens act out the roles of our classic noir favourites, Sam Spade et al, against a backdrop of a daylight open-spaced LA suburbia. The characters are there, the script is there, the critics loved it and you, the viewers, rave about it. Sorry, but I just can't buy young high school kids acting out these roles.....ergo the answer is 'Bugsy Malone The Sequel'...but please make your own mind up. find out more...

Based on the true story of the murder of Karel van Noppen, this hard-hitting drama from Belgium stars Rust and Bone's Matthias Schoenaerts as a young cattle farmer approached by an unscrupulous veterenarian to make an illicit deal with a notorious beef trader. Michaël R. Roskam's muscular direction and an outstanding performance from Schoenaerts both render this one of the year's very best dramas.

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Pushing the boundaries farther than in the first of the trilogy Takeshi again takes us into the underworld of Japanese gangsters. When Otamoko is hired to assassinate a gangster he is surprised to find that the job has already been done. Fleeing the city with the money for the job he didn't do, Otamoko has to keep the Yakuza and the Triads off of his tail. Returning to his home island he realises that the other assassin is someone from his past and they team up to eat noodles together, reminisce find out more...

Haunted by violent and disturbing visions which threaten his sanity, Jacob Singer becomes desperate to find the cause of his ostensible demise into madness. A tremendously dark and atmospheric piece of work - a thought-provoking must for lovers of the unusual. find out more...

A small girl dies of a genetically inherited brain condition and an ageing pervert is killed in a squalid basement flat in Reykjavik, the latter a case to which dogged detective Erlendu is assigned. His investigation, at times, takes him back to crimes thirty years in the past and into a sordid Icelandic underbelly of deprived urban estates, impoverished rural communities, marital infidelity and drug addiction. An atmospheric, genuinely different, murder investigation/puzzle with some truly left find out more...

William Keane struggles with the supposed loss of his daughter at a busy bus terminal in New York, but he is a man struggling with schizophrenia? Is the child's disappearance real or imaginary? And is his obsessive interest in helping young girls of a fatherly nature, or is there a darker motive? Winner of the Critics Award and Special Jury Prize at the 2005 Deauville Film Festival, Keane is a powerful and haunting film driven by a mesmerising performance from Damian Lewis. find out more...

Nikita director Besson delivers another superbly stylish thriller. Twelve year old Matilda is hell-bent on revenge against the bent cops who killed her family, hitman-with-a-heart Leon is the man to teach her everything she needs to know. Pacy, tightly scripted, unsentimental and just brilliant. find out more...

Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinis find out more...