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Shoplifters (Japan 2018)
A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold.
Top Hat (US 1935)
Fred Astaire and Ginger doing what they do best in this classic musical comedy.
Don't Look Now (UK 1973)
A couple mourning the death of their daughter meet someone who claims to have a warning from beyond the grave.
The Bookshop (UK 2017)
Florence decides, against powerful local opposition, to convert a local landmark into a book shop.
Some Like It Hot (US 1959)
Tony Curtiss and Jack Lemmon play musicians who have witnessed a mob shooting. To escape they join an all girl jazz band which also includes Marilyn Monroe. A classic comedy with three of the genre's biggest stars.
Isle of Dogs (US 2018)
Wes Anderson animation about a boy's journey to find his lost dog. Set in Japan in the near future.
Funny Cow (UK 2017)
Maxine Peake as a woman struggling to break into the northern working men's club circuit in the late 1970s.
Journeyman (UK 2017)
Boxer Matty Burton suffers a serious head injury during a fight. It is about the impact this has on his marriage, his life and his family. Written by, directed by, and starring Paddy Considine with Jodie Whittaker (the new Dr Who) as his wife.
Lean on Pete (US 2017)
A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete.
Micmacs (Fr 2009)
The Levelling (UK 2016)
Saturday Night Fever (US 1977)A Brooklyn teenager feels his only chance to succeed is as the king of the disco floor. His carefree youth and weekend dancing help him to forget the reality of his bleak life.
Director: John Badham Starring: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller 
The Graduate (1967)
A disillusioned and recent college graduate with no well-defined aim in life, which is seduced by an older woman, Mrs Robinson and then falls in love with her daughter Elaine.
Hidden Figures (2016)
The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.
Hunt for the wilder people (2016)
A New Zealand adventure comedy-drama film, a national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
In the heat of the night (1967)
A 1967 American drama film. It tells the story of Virgil Tibbs, a black police detective from Philadelphia, who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a small town in Mississippi.
I Daniel, Blake (2016)
After having suffered a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight the bureaucratic forces of the system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance.
The Secret in their eyes (2009)
An Argentine-Spanish crime drama film, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. A retired legal counsellor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
Director: Juan José Campanella Stars: Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago 
When Marnie was there (2014)
A Japanese anime drama, the film follows Anna being sent to live with relatives in the countryside, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
Saturday Matinee: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.
Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of 40 years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
Sing Street (2016)
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained
family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes. 
Les Choristes
A 2004 German-Swiss-French drama film, Pierre is an aimless child at an austere boarding school in France. The students and faculty are constantly at odds with one another, until a music teacher, Clément Mathieu, arrives and starts a choir.
The Dressmaker
In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town
High-Rise
A doctor (Tom Hiddleston) moves into a London skyscraper where rising tensions and class warfare lead to anarchy.
The Third Man (1949)
A 2015 American war drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga Stars: Abraham Attah, Emmanuel Affadzi, Ricky Adelayitor Brief EncounterIs a British film about a woman meeting a stranger in a railway station, and is tempted to cheat on her husband.
Stars: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway 
Midnight Cowboy
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Things to come (Fr 2016)A French-German A philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, getting fired from her job, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her.
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve Stars: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka 
52 Tuesdays (Aus 2013)An Australian coming of age drama film about a 16 year old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.
Saturday Matinee: Lawrence of Arabian (1962)The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks. Winner of 7 Academy Awards.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
The Man Who Knew Infinity
The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.
Grandma (2015)
Is a 2015 American Comedy-Drama. A teenager facing an unplanned pregnancy seeks help from her acerbic grandmother, a woman who is long estranged from her daughter.
Director: Paul Weitz Stars: Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden 45 Years (UK 2015)
Las Acacias ( Pablo Giorgelli 2011)
An Argentine drama film, Ruben is a lonely truck driver who has been taking the motorway from Asuncion, Paraguay to Buenos Aires, Argentina for years carrying wood. However one day everything changes.
Starring: German de Silva, Hebe Duarte, Nayra Calle Mamani 
Life is beautiful (Roberto Benigni 1997)When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humour and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Starring: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi 
X+Y (Morgan Matthews 2014)
Is a British comedy-drama film focuses focuses on a teenage English mathematics prodigy who has difficulty understanding people, but finds comfort in numbers. When he is chosen to represent Great Britain at the International Mathematical Olympiad, he embarks on a journey in which he faces unexpected challenges, such as understanding the nature of love Starring: Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, and Sally Hawkins Tracks (John Curran 2013)
An Australian drama film, A young woman goes on a 1,700-mile trek accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian (Mia Wasikowska) satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
Starring: Mia Wasikowska and Adam Driver 
Cycling with Molière (Philippe Le Guay 2014)
A French comedy film. Two actors. One play. Can the differences between the two egocentric men be put aside for the sake of friendship and theatre?
Tampopo (Juzo Itami 1985)A Japanese comedy film. It is the story of a pair of milk-truck drivers (Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken Watanabe) help a restaurant owner (Nobuko Miyamoto) learn how to cook great noodles.
Wadjda ( Haifaa al-Mansour 2012)An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.
Rebecca ( Alfred Hitchcock 1940) A 1940 American psychological drama film, a thriller. A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.
Gigi ( Vincente Minnelli )
A1958 American Metrocolor musical romantic comedy film. Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
Gigi won a record-breaking 9 Academy Awards Stars:Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan 
Volver (Pedro Almodovar 2006)A Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Headed by actress Penélope Cruz,
Revolving around an eccentric family of women from a wind-swept region south of Madrid, Cruz plays Raimunda, a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula. To top off the family crisis, her mother Irene comes back from the dead to tie up loose ends. 
The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg 1930)An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.
Rebel without a cause (Ray 1955) A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
Argo (Affleck 2012)
A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran.
Angel's Share (Loach 2012)
Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.
The Sting (Roy Hill 1973)
In 1930s Chicago, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.
From Here to Eternity (Zinnemann 1953)
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
SIGHTSEERS (Ben Wheatley 2012)
Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.
Dans La Maison (François Ozon 2012)It is based on the play The Boy in the Last Row by Juan Mayorga. The film was awarded the main prize at the 2012 San Sebastián International Film Festival, the Golden Shell, as well as the Jury Prize for Best Screenplay.
Babette's Feast (Gabriel Axel 1987)
Danish drama film directed by Gabriel Axel. The film's screenplay was written by Axel based on the story by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
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