No-nonsense Macy's executive Doris Walker is in desperate need of a new store Santa, luckily Kris Kringle is on-hand to help out. There's only one problem with this jolly old man, he thinks he actually is Santa Claus. Is Kris who he say's he is, or is he a certifiable nut case? Doris's six-year-old daughter seems convinced, but can Kris persuade a grand jury? A wonderful, magical film - this is what Christmas is all about!!! find out more...

A stirring and emotionally dramatic epic revolving around the ideal of the Hindu mother figure. The defiant heroine battles famine, flood, a fiendish moneylender and sundry tragic accidents in the ceaseless struggle to raise her sons and retain the family's few acres. Perhaps THE classic early Bollywood and representing a male dominated world that succeeds in being considerably more positive in its depiction of women than beliefs at the time might lead you to expect. find out more...

Mr Holland is passionate about music and wants to write a real gem, but when he begins to share his compositions and his enthusiasm with some students he finds himself on the greatest journey of his life. An uplifting film with wit and intelligence and great feel good factor. find out more...

Mixed up 10-year-old Vada lives with her widowed dad, oddball mortician Harry. When he takes up with an enticing young make-up artist, Vada gets her first taste of the pain of growing up, and only one person really understands, her painfully shy best friend Thomas J. Bittersweet drama. find out more...

Velvet (Liz Taylor) is the daughter of the Brown family, who live in an idyllic English countryside. One day Mi Taylor (Mikey Rooney), a young wanderer and opportunist, whose father had given him "all the roads in the Kingdom" to travel, arrives at the Brown family estate. When Velvet wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse for the Grand National - England's greatest racing event, but who will ride this horse? find out more...

It's not difficult to fall in love with the characters that Hirokazu Koreeda creates, nor the stunning world in which they live. Still, this is, for me, the most wonderful so far. The story is about four sisters living together and talking through the highs and lows of life, love and death. Time moves at the most staggeringly beautiful pace and wherever there is heartbreak there is solace in sisterhood. Family meals, late night conversation, the promise and charm of find out more...

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Two Oscars were awarded for this stirring tale of a young widow trying to run a cotton farm through the Great Depression with the help of family and a disparate group of friends. Superb. find out more...

Based on the legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost mas find out more...

If the word "poignant" sends you running for the hills rather than the Kleenex, you'll probably want to avoid this. But if you want a good clean family weepie, this'll probably do nicely. Twelve year old Grace is involved in a horrific accident whilst riding her horse, in which she loses her leg while the beast loses its mind. So caustic career mom Kristen Scott Thomas ships the unhappy pair out of ugly Manhattan and heads for the beautiful Montana ranch of Robert Redford, apparently a master of find out more...