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...

Michael Connolly is a shy young man, his social discomfort compounded by being severely disabled, Rory O'Shea shares Michael's physical handicap but his lust for life is immense. The two lads manage to blag their way out of a repressive state run home and into their own flat, an adventure that they are ill prepared for, but determined to enjoy to the full. Inside I'm Dancing is from the makers of Billy Elliot and the excellent East is East, a bittersweet drama about love, life, loss and the firs 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.
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Marie and Niels are happily married with three young children; their life would seem to personify contentment. Cecilie and Joachim are just about to begin the path Marie and Niels are already walking, but something happens that none of them could have foreseen or indeed thought possible and the lives of all four begin to unravel. 'Open Hearts' is an incredibly powerful and moving film, uncompromising and unflinchingly honest about the fickleness of love it can't help but stir the soul (or at the find out more...

Taking its cue from Chronicle (2012), Project Almanac is part of the "found footage" sci-fi phenomenon sweeping contemporary teen cinema. A group of friends discover time travel and use it to have a lot of fun; rewriting their entry into the high school popularity charts, partying without wasting time, acing tests and getting even with bullies. But, as science would have it, every action has its equal and opposite reaction. Soon the 'jumps' become a desperate attempt to rewrite the rewrite. G find out more...

Set in the Sino-Japanese war, Yasuzo Masumura's black-and-white anti-war film tells of an army nurse who sexually services an amputee and falls in love with a drug-addicted surgeon. This can't be recommended to the squeamish, but neither can its nuanced eroticism nor its passionate, unpredictable moral focus, be easily shaken off. Comparable with Altman's MASH, it suggests a less comic treatment of the same theme, how to preserve one's humanity in impossible circumstances, but its ethics are con find out more...

A beautiful tale, ‘Rust and Bone’ revolves around  two people struggling with the ups and downs of life, and finding support in unexpected places.  Ali has dreams of becoming a boxer, and finds himself struggling to make it in the violent world of street fighting, whilst also honing his paren find out more...

This hit series stars Gabriel Macht as one of Manhattan's top corporate lawyers who sets out to recruit a new hotshot associate but winds up hiring the only guy that impresses him--a brilliant but unmotivated college dropout (Patrick J. Adams). Though he isn't actually a lawyer, this legal prodigy has the book smarts of a Harvard law grad and the street smarts of a hustler. However, in order to serve justice and save their jobs, both these unconventional thinkers mus find out more...

Two Scots, Shaun and wheelchair bound Daz, share a stink hole of a flat with Daz's teenage son somewhere in northern England. As they try to cope with life we flash back, through Shaun's eyes, to their wild childhood and teenage years and, most significantly, to one summer with a girl named Kay. Much of the film is about wasted lives; Daz's accident, Shaun's stunted educational opportunities that stem from his rebelliousness and an unexplained inability to write, and finally his missed chance wi find out more...

Life with a troubled autistic brother is tough for Thomas when all he wants is to be a normal teenager. His new girlfriend Jackie tries to help, but Thomas must take a long hard look at himself in order to appreciate all of the positives in his life and to understand that a perceived adolescent idyll isn't necessarily the be all and end all. The multi-award winning and nominated 'The Black Balloon' is a thoughtful and nicely performed coming of age drama. find out more...