A successful actress employs a woman in exchange for her flattery, only to find her employee is scheming her way to the top at her own expense. An intelligent, bitchy script complements the fine acting, making this one of Time Out's top 100 films of all time. Won Best Picture at 1950 Academy Awards.

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This black comedy directed by John Waters is one of the best films around. When renegade filmmaker Cecil B. Demented vows to "punish bad cinema" his plans include a group of generally weird and freaky film buffs called the Sprocket Holes, who each have a tattoo of a different indie filmmaker, led by the radiant Alicia Witt, Demented's sometime-lover. Demented and his crew kidnap Hollywood's sweetheart Honey Whitlock and force her to perform in their rebel film and she slowly becomes "Demented F find out more...

Based on Jane Austen's Emma, but set in Beverly Hills and updated to include such essentials as mobile phones, plastic surgeons and endless shopping. 15-years-old Cher is gorgeous, popular, rich and utterly clueless. A brilliant mixture of high school satire and feel-good froth.

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Grace is on the run, and in the small backwater town of Dogville it would seem she has found some safety. But the town's inhabitants are not so understanding when the Mob turn up looking for the errant outsider and as Grace's former saviours begin to turn against her she sets in motion a string of events that may leave the townsfolk of Dogville rueing the day she ever entered their lives. Dogville is the latest from the master of mainstream experimental, Lars Von Trier, a dark, hypnotic, visuall find out more...

Hailed as the best film debut since Eraserhead, Donnie Darko's instant cult status and mainstream success are well deserved. find out more...

A psychotic American commander worried about the subversive effects of water fluoridisation on his "vital bodily fluids" starts off an attack on the Soviet Union. No-one can stop the fighters and no-one, as yet, knows about the failsafe Doomsday Machine. Brilliant black comedy. find out more...

A fast, sassy script with plenty of good one-liners ensures this indie vs corporate tale is better than your average teen movie. A franchise tries to take over the record shop where they hang out, so the staff rebel with a plan of their own. A cool comedy-drama, with a great cult soundtrack thrown in. Great ! 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...

The Hoover family are your typical suburban American demographic; dad's a failed inspirational speaker, grandpa's a coke snorting lay-about, the teenage son has embraced Nietzsche and abstains from the spoken word, the brother-in-law has just missed out on a successful suicide and the mum….well bless her, she really does try. The young daughter, however, is an upbeat bundle of positive energy and when the chance comes to enter the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant the whole family embark on a find out more...

Cady's been raised in the African wilderness until her zoologist parents relocate to America. Seemingly ill prepared for the harsh world of high school, Cady is nonetheless befriended by the school's queen bitches, a terrifying sub-species of 'the teenager'. Will Cady buckle under the peer pressure, or will she adapt her understanding of the wild to retain her sweet natured demeanour, while at the same time achieving dominance over her relentlessly cruel and self obsessed adoptive pack? Mean Gir find out more...