Much-praised suspenseful road movie.  Three Guatemalan youngsters attempt a hazardous illegal crossing from Mexico into the USA.  Bolstered by strikingly beautiful cinematography and involving characters, this beguiling, heartbreaking first feature from Diego Quemada-Díez shows his debt to Ken Loach with whom he worked on three films.

Michelle Williams stars in this enigmatic unorthodox, haunting Western, seen largely from a woman’s point of view, visually exquisite and contemplative in tone.  It catches beautifully the shifting dynamics of the small and increasingly vulnerable group and gives a vivid picture of what life on the Oregon Trail must have been like in 1845.

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Romance blossoms beautifully …

Gorgeous, intriguing melodrama set in 19th-century Portugal. Based on a novel famous for its complex plot, Mysteries of Lisbon follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil, as their lives intertwine. Raúl Ruiz’s late masterpiece.

Restored widescreen Western, considered by critics as one of the best films ever made.  Troubled John Wayne hunts for his kidnapped niece.  The film’s complex, deeply-nuanced themes include racism, individuality, the American character, and the opposition between civilization and the untamed frontier wilderness.

This heart-rending romance between an ambulance driver (Gary Cooper) and a nurse (Helen Hayes) during WW1 will leave you weeping. Described by Time Out as “not only the best film version of a Hemingway novel, but also one of the most thrilling visions of the power of sexual love that even Borzage ever made … no other director created images like these, using light and movement like brushstrokes, integrating naturalism and a daring expressionism in the same shot. This is romantic melodrama raised to its highest degree.”

A veteran of China’s Civil War rails against modern bureaucracy in hopes of finally receiving recognition for his bravery and to honour the memory of his fallen comrades. Winner of the 2008 Hundred Flowers Awards and the 2009 Golden Rooster Awards for Best Film.

Chicago steelworker (Richard Gere) flees to a new life in rural Texas in 1916.  Visually exquisite, drawing inspiration from painters such as Johannes Vermeer, Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth.  Is this the most beautiful film ever made?

This film (written by Ian McEwan), is a witty, bitter tale of duplicity and opportunism in both private and public life which blends fact with fiction with astonishing success.  Jonathan Pryce plays an ambitious journalist at the time of the Falklands War – its audacious final scene showing the triumphalism being celebrated by Margaret Thatcher at the Tory Party conference was filmed by cameras smuggled into the venue where the film actors mingled unnoticed with the political supremos of the day.  The film catches perfectly the look and lifestyle of the early Eighties.