A story about a small town in Ireland, where one of its 52 inhabitants wins the lotto jackpot of nearly seven million pounds. When nobody claims it, the town goes on a search to find out why. They find the winner, old Ned Devine, dead – a smile on his face, clutching the winning ticket. Well, in Ireland, the lottery winnings must be claimed by the purchaser, which puts the town in a spot – if the lottery officials discover Devine dead, he forfeits his money. What ensues is a community coming together in hopes of getting his money to split 51 ways. What they learn is the importance of friendship and the true value of money.

Best known for his stylish crime dramas, actor and director Takeshi Kitano takes a left turn into more heartwarming territory with this sentimental drama. Masao is a nine-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother. His father is dead and he has no memory of his mother. One day, Masao decides it’s high time he met his mother so, armed with a photograph and an address, he sets out in search of her. Before long, he encounters Kikujiro (Takeshi), a tough guy with a sharp tongue but a kind wife who thinks it’s a bad idea for the little fellow to be travelling by himself, so Kikujiro hits the road with Masao to keep an eye on him. Masao and Kikujiro become close as they share adventures on the road, leading up to a troubling revelation about Masao’s mother and Kikujiro’s efforts to bring the child back to happiness.

24 July 2010 … 80,000 lives … 4,500 hours of footage … 2 award-winning filmmakers … One incredible motion picture event. What began life as a startling cinematic experiment became the must-see movie experience of 2011. Created entirely from footage uploaded by YouTube users, Life in a Day is a film first: exhilarating, moving and very, very funny … it is the story of our world. Told by us.

In the aftermath of the abolition of the Monarchy of Sweden, the Palace in Stockholm has been converted into an art museum. Christian, a curator at the museum, finds his progressive world view shaken when his mobile phone is stolen. While managing a space intended to show a new installation piece, he utilises a public relations company to promote the new installation, creating no end of chaos.

Petty thug, Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo), considers himself a suave bad guy in the manner of Humphrey Bogart, but panics and impulsively kills a policeman while driving a stolen car. On the run, he turns to his aspiring journalist girlfriend, Patricia (Jean Seberg), hiding out in her Paris apartment while he tries to pull together enough money to get the pair to Italy. But when Patricia learns that her boyfriend is being investigated for murder, she begins to question her loyalties. One of the most imitated examples of the French New Wave.

Adapted from the Broadway show, this hard-hitting musical drama is set in decadent 1930s Berlin during Hitler’s rise to power. The film chronicles the friendship between Cambridge student Brian Roberts (Michael York) with the high-spirited Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli), a singer at the sleazy Kit Kat nightclub, where the anti-Semitic Emcee (Joel Grey) sets a tone of debauchery. Fabulous slick direction with highly-memorable songs.