Peter Yates' Oscar-winner is a heart-warming coming-of-age story that has also taken its place as the greatest sports movie about cycling ever made. Four friends graduate from high-school and find themselves looking at an uncertain future in small-town America. Dave's passion is cycling and his dream is to be a world-class champion like the Italians he idolises. His passion for cycling takes on new meaning when he and his friends face a team from the local college in the town's annual bike ra find out more...

An enjoyable adaption of Helen Fielding's bestselling book. We follow our heroine on her increasingly desperate search for someone to love who loves her right back and whose closet merely houses clothes rather than skeletons. 'Bridget Jones's Diary' is a fun and slick romantic comedy very much in the tradition of Notting Hill. find out more...

Luna's vision of rural Spain is as witty and sexy as anything Almodovar has done in recent times. This superb farce centres around a beautiful young girl, her mother (a whore),and the machinations of her fiancee's mother. Sex, humour underwear and ham in equal measure! The finale is exqusite. find out more...

Mike Leigh serves up another delicious slice of frighteningly real British family life. Alison Steadman is outstanding as the suburban mother of teenage twin daughters, one a plumber, the other a heavily depressed and anti-social bulimic. Stark, hilarious, tragic but ultimately uplifting. Brilliant British film making. find out more...

Tita's heart is broken when she is forbidden to marry the man she loves because of a family tradition. When her sister instead marries her lover her anger goes into her magical cooking. A wonderfully inventive and touching story, with superb visual flourishes - a beautiful, colourful fable.. find out more...

Toula's just hit thirty and there's no man in sight, not a problem you might think for a modern woman, but Toula belongs to a traditional Greek family and she's still very much embroiled in their embrace. Ian is the tall not so dark stranger who transforms her world and while the infatuated couple prepare for life together her eccentric family move in to add some traditional chaos. "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is a delightful romantic comedy, light, fluffy and full of farce. Pure escapism. find out more...

A comedy drama based on the slim memoirs of cook and food writer Nigel Slater. In 1950s Wolverhampton, nine-year-old Nigel is left with his distant father and new housekeeper Joan Potter after the death of his adored mother. Unlike his mother, wh find out more...