Former perv-master Almodovar goes all new man with this latest offering, widely considered to be his most accomplished film yet. After the accidental death of her beloved son, Manuela leaves Madrid for Barcelona, where she plans to look up old friends, exorcise her ghosts, and, just maybe, tell her long-estranged ex about the son he never knew he had. But this involves bring up some painful and unpleasant secrets from the past, and present. Almodovar's characteristically camp humour is still pre find out more...

Based on the novel by Truman Capote. A brilliant romantic comedy about a young girl, Holly Golightly, who is determined to marry into money, but discovers that her next door neighbour has more important qualities! find out more...

US teen heart-throb Johnny Depp plays Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker, the coolest dude in school and the baddest boy in Baltimore. Rich, prim, new girl Alison thinks he's a dream, her grandmother thinks he's a nightmare. An even weirder cast than 'Hairspray' in this quirky, offbeat musical extravaganza that's got a touch of traditional John Waters shock stuff, but is predominately a parody of both 50s teen rebellion and 50s teen musical flicks. Its reputation has grown hugely with time. find out more...

School. Remember that? When life was all crayons and small glass bottles of milk and the winters were colder and summers dragged out for years..... aaaaaah. Aside from that great scene in Fanny And Alexander when the dad tells his kids the history of a green chair, this beautifully made documentary is about as powerful an evocation of childhood you can get on film. The crew manages not to intrude on the class and as a result we get brief sincere glimpses of children at their most open, childish find out more...

A lovingly created homage to the melodramas of the 1950s sees Frank and Cathy Whitaker's picture perfect marriage masking a relationship based on lies. A blossoming friendship with the black gardener and a husband whose fallen in love with another man leave Cathy shunned by her friends and neighbours, her outwardly idylic world finally revealed for the sham that it is. Far from Heaven looks stunning, the recreation of the period nothing short of immaculate, but I have never been a fan of 1950s m find out more...

A high school musical which ripped off everything it could from the 1950s. At the time it was slated, but, in retrospect, it started a trend and is nowhere near as bad as some of the movies which followed it. In fact, one could go as far as to say it's now a bit of a classic... find out more...

Marv is a lunkhead of incredible strength, an aggressive power he puts to merciless use when his one true love is murdered. Hartigan is the embittered, but moralistic cop who's sworn to protect a stripper and Dwight is the lover of Shellie and the inadvertent dark angel of Gail's Old Town girls, a feisty group of hookers. These are just a selection of the random characters in Rodriguez's adaptation of Frank Miller's Sin City graphic novels and it's difficult to decide which of the two is the bi find out more...

Steve Zissou is an underwater adventurer, a man who epitomises the word ‘eccentric’. Having lost his friend and partner to a hitherto unknown Jaguar shark Steve decides, along with his equally leftfield crew, to devote all his time and non existent funds to hunting down and killing the unlikely creature. Tagging along for the trip is a young man who may or may not be his son, a sceptical journalist and Zissou’s exasperated ex wife. The Life Aquatic is a delightfully bizarre comic adventure, with 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...

"Josephine Decker has created a new style of thriller that employs allegory, incorporates touches of David Lynch as well as Magritte -esque imagery. Decker's setting of a remote farm feels like a metaphor for what turns out to be hell. The raw and emotional (and yes, sometimes funny) dialog tells a story that can seem familiar at points but really is meant to keep you guessing and off balance. I really enjoyed how the undertones of this film came to life through her very deft contrast of the find out more...