Brad Pitt adopts a dodgy accent to portray up-himself Austrian Heinrich Harrer. Accompanied by David Thewlis, the self-obsessed climber makes an attempt on the Himalayas, gets captured and incarcerated in a British POW camp, escapes, then sets off on an odyssey through sweeping plains and air-brushed sunsets, finally ending up in Tibet. Befriended by a young Dalai Lama, Harrer is eventually able to wallow in the smug self-satisfaction of a man who's "found himself". It all looks very pretty, but find out more...

Lengthy and emotionally riveting adaptation of Anne Frank's extraordinary diaries. Written in the sanctuary of an Amsterdam attic, as sirens wailed below, the thirteen year old Jewish refugee produced an incredibly moving account of the personal experiences of two families caught up in the nightmare of WW2. find out more...