From the window of her New York apartment beautiful bored housewife Diane spots her beast, a mysterious masked man, and is transfixed. This it will turn out is Diane Arbus' epiphany, a portal that will take her on a journey that unleashes not just her soul but her remarkable gift as a photographer. Hirsute ‘Wolf Man' Lionel, part Elephant Man, part seductive gentleman, takes Diane into his world of outsiders and gradually wins her heart before turning into a handsome prince and disappearing in a find out more...

A slow, lyrical series of vignettes, often banal, but always poetic, about life one hot summer in a decaying Deep South (North Carolina) small town for a tight-knit, predominately black, group of impoverished semi-rural children on the cusp of adolescence and responsibility. The plot, for what it matters; a child's game goes astray and one is accidentally killed, trapping the children in a lie that slowly pulls them apart. George is the handicapped (his skull hasn't fused) introspective, but inw find out more...

When "I Think We're Alone Now" made 16-year-old Tiffany an overnight sensation in 1987, her future looked bright. Then her career pretty much stalled. Not that Jeff, 53, or Kelly, 34, care: the former believes Tiffany is his saviour, the latter that they are destined to be together. Both are clearly stalkers, but neither realises it: Jeff because he has Asperger's, intersex Kelly because he/she is deluded and desperate. Sad, and somewhat disturbing viewing, this remains a compelling piece of wor find out more...

Christy Brown was an Irish cerebal palsy victim who overcame his severe handicap to become a talented painter and author with just the use of his left foot. Daniel Day Lewis is totally and utterly convincing as Brown - using method acting he became Brown and his thoroughness makes the film a great one. find out more...

Khan is an Indian Muslim (Shahrukh Khan revealing himself as one of the world's greatest actors) with Asperger's Syndrome who travels to the USA, meets a gorgeous girl, marries, but, in the aftermath of 9/11, becomes a victim of racism, resultant marital problems and communal tensions. He then sets off on a trans-American journey to meet the President and clear his name.
An excellent film covering many topics, from romantic to tragic, from feel-good to weepie and with some wry humour on t find out more...

On December 7 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the French editor-in-chief of fashion magazine Elle. Three weeks later, after a massive stroke, Bauby awakes from a coma, an active mind trapped inside a dead body, his only contact and communication with the world the ability to blink his left eyelid. Adapted from Bauby's memoirs, "The Diving Bell And The Butterfly" is an extraordinary flight of the imagination rooted firmly in the realities of the narrator's new world. Beautifully filmed you are ove find out more...

Mun has been without sight since she was a young child so, when the opportunity for a transplant that will restore her vision arises, she leaps at the chance. At first the surgery appears to have been a success, but it soon becomes horrifyingly clear that all is not as it seems, particularly when she becomes aware that the image of herself that she now sees is not her at all. Mun becomes obsessed with the need to find out whose eyes it is she now sees with, but the truth is a horror beyond her m find out more...

Geremia is a loathsome, physically deformed loan shark surviving off people who borrow money and by laying down the sort of terms your friendly high street bank can only dream of. Geremia poses as the friend of the family whilst bleeding them of every penny that he can. However, when a poor couple approach for cash for their beautiful daughter's wedding Geremia is smitten, utterly undeterred by the haughty contempt of the bride to be. ‘The Family Friend' is a stylish delight with a hypnotically find out more...

Echoes of the past reverberate throughout this intelligent, chilling movie. Laura embarks on a mission to solve the puzzle of her adopted son's disappearance based on the clues left in their games and his talk of imaginary friends. High atmospherics dominate in this superior ghost story... Polanski's "Repulsion" meets "The Others". find out more...

This may seem like a radical change of direction for director David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet) but look closely and you'll still see signs of his trademark eccentricity in this quirky little true story. Veteran stuntman Richard Farnsworth plays crabby old bugger Alvin Straight, who, wanting to visit his ailing brother, sets off on a 300 mile journey through several American states on a lawnmower. Yes, that's right, a lawnmower. And that really is about it. There are no plot twis find out more...