Perhaps the most influential period in cinema history was the Italian neo-realism period of the late 40s and director Vittorio De Sica was one of the prime reasons for this important period of film-making. "The Bicycle Thieves" is a film about a poor man whose only means for a job is his bicycle, which gets stolen. The film follows him and his young boy throughout war-ravaged Rome in search of the stolen bike. The trip involves some of the most brilliant vignettes in film history; the church, th find out more...

A seventeen year old Nicole Kidman stars in this Aussie kids' crime caper as Judy, who along with her friends PJ and Goose inadvertently steal a box of walkie-talkies belonging to a group of bungling bank robbers. With both the police and the inept criminals on their tails' they BMX their way out of trouble, jumping fruit barrows, weaving through crowds and even riding down a giant water-chute. With the cast following the ‘Chuckle Brothers' method of acting and the BMX stunts being a bit so-so, find out more...

An intimate epic from Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance, weaving together a story of two fathers (Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper) and, 15 years later, their sons who find their lives tangled together. An unabashedly grand slice of blue collar Americana in which the intersection of characters' fates nods towards Greek tragedy, it skilfully dodges the mawkishness of comparable pictures (*cough* Crash) if never quite delivering the weightiness its thematic ambition ai find out more...