Himir lives at 101 Reykjavik and though fast approaching thirty he has yet to leave the comfort of his mothers home or indeed the ease of social security, but the arrival of his mother's lesbian lover and impending fatherhood are about to put a sizable spanner in his hopes for eternal slackerdom. 101 Reykjavik is a quirky and hipply hedonistic black comedy, driven along by some pretty twisted premises and a central character who is an irredeemable and apathetic git pretty much to the end. find out more...

Adapted from the classic, absurdist, anti-war novel by Joseph Heller. "Catch-22" is the story of Yossarian, a pilot who trys to opt out of flying bombing missions by being declared insane, the catch being that anyone trying to avoid bombing missions by being insane must be sane. This dark classic catches much of the flavour of the book, the insanity, the corruption and the absurdity of war. Think MASH, but non-linear - flawed but awesome. find out more...

Intersplicing clips of all those old heroes, like Bogart, Ladd, Stanwyck, Milland, Lancaster, Laughton, Cagney, with comic clips of Steve Martin as a keen, but clumsy detective who gets all the good lines, creates both an extremely funny comedy and a whodunnit in the best possible taste. find out more...

Alex is devoted to his mother, a firm believer in the Marxist reality that is East Germany. Awakening from an eight month coma brought on by a heart attack, a lot has changed since Alex's mum last viewed the world; the Berlin wall has fallen and Germany is once again one. Warned by the doctors that any great shocks could be fatal, Alex becomes determined that his mother, even if it's within the confines of her own four walls, will continue to observe a communist society unchanged. All these s find out more...

Twelve-year-old Antoine has two pleasures in life, Arabic dancing and visiting the voluptuous local crimper. And by middle age his passion is undimmed so he pursues and marries the timid Mathilde, a hairdresser. A delightful, quirky tale of love and obsession from the director of "Monsieur Hire". find out more...

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Three short films from three of America's greatest modern directors, which all take an angle on their native New York. Scorsese's examination of a top artist is remarkable; Coppola's features a very grown-up child and Allen's Oedipus Wrecks marks a triumphant return to his inimitable comedy. find out more...

Outrageously good! Jarmusch takes us on 5 different cab rides, all over the world, and at the same time makes us laugh cry and fume. Each is brilliant in its own way, with a mad and hysterically funny ride through Rome complimenting the pathos of redundancy in Helsinki. Destined to be a classic! find out more...

From the director of Rushmore comes the story of Royal Tenenbaum and his idiosyncratic family. Having separated from his wife ten years ago, Royal has been estranged from his strange children and wants to make up for some lost time. A little white lie gets Royal back into his family home but all will not go as he plans. Richie used to play tennis professionally until a breakdown on the court; Margot, a chain-smoking playwright has an unseemly marital past and an even dimmer present, while widowe find out more...

Bizarre, blackly comic thriller from Oliver Stone. Mike (Sean Penn) is having a very bad day and things get a lot worse when he arrives in the hick town of Superior, Arizona. On the run from a gambling debt, having just had two fingers chopped off, all he wants to do is get his car fixed and get out of town - hardly surprising when you see the inhabitants. But Mike's being held to ransom by the in-bred, half-witted local garage mechanic, and the hot babe whom he's hooked up with (Jennifer Lopez) find out more...