As a young pilot returns home in May 1945, a relationship is formed as he desperately contacts a radio operator before bailing out of the sky. He lives, evading his celestial escort, meets the aforementioned operator and falls in love. But he must face a heavenly court to decide if he should live or die. Amazing.

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Undoubtedly one of Hitch's best. An innocent businessman is mistaken for a spy by enemy agents and learns the true meaning of persecution, while a deceptively beautiful blonde in the pay of his tormentors steals his heart. A tense and compulsively gripping nice-guy's nightmare. Obligatory viewing. find out more...

A quirky, clever and charming movie from rookie director Anderson, who flies in the face of convention by making the hero of this high school-based comedy a slightly geeky academic who's anything but the all-American kid. Max Fischer is a brilliant but mixed-up scholarship kid at the Rushmore Academy, with a frenzied timetable and an uncanny knack of baffling both students and teachers alike. He attracts the attention of Blume (the superb Bill Murray), a rich, bored, middle-aged parent, apparen find out more...

Lee has a tendency towards self-harm, but she's a sweet natured if kooky lass, and upon her release from the asylum she decides to find gainful employment. Edward Gray is a lawyer and Lee's new employer, a man who gets through his secretaries at an alarming rate. Though not immediately apparent the two are made for each other, their repressed psychological, physical and sexual fetishes providing them with a common and mutually attractive bond. The Secretary is a disturbed, quirky and often very find out more...

Jule, Peter and Jan have hit upon a novel way of expressing their contempt for the insatiable, destructive greed of capitalism: they break into the houses of the rich and "re-decorate", leaving messages that make their threatening disgust all too clear. Their relatively harmless expression of liberal idealism takes a serious knock when one of their escapades goes badly wrong and Jule, Jan and Peter find not only their belief system tottering, but their hitherto unquestioned faith in each other. find out more...

Sixty-two year old Walter Vale is sleepwalking through his life. Having lost his wife and with it his passion for teaching and writing, he attempts to fill the void by failing miserably to play classical piano. When his college sends him to Manhattan to attend a conference, Walter is surprised to find a young immigrant couple has taken up residence in his apartment - victims of a rental scam. In the first of a series of tests of the heart, Walter reluctantly allows the couple to stay with him, a find out more...

Superbly acted drama about an eccentric family in a small Iowa town. Gilbert Grape lives with his 36 stone mother and retarded younger brother. His unsatisfactory life is brightened by the arrival of feisty young Becky (Juliette Lewis). A funny, sad and refreshingly original coming of age movie. find out more...