Foreign

Laurent Tirard co-writes and directs this French family comedy based on the 1950s comics by René Goscinny. Eight-year-old Nicolas (Maxime Godart) has a perfect set-up, with loving parents, good friendships and a happy school life. His idyllic existence...

Writer/director Gabriel Axel's Oscar-winning film is set in 19th-century Denmark. Babette (Stéphane Audran), a chef and refugee from France's civil war, finds herself in a remote Danish hamlet working for two sisters who preside over its inhabitants...

Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos helms this psychological drama about a self-formed group of therapists who impersonate the recently deceased to help their clients through the grieving process. During the process, bereaved clients are given the chance to...

Michael Haneke directs this Academy Award-winning drama exploring death, ageing and the fear of loss. Anne and George (Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant) are a couple in their 80s who are enjoying their retirement, but that changes when, after...

Post-war drama directed by Cate Shortland. When her father, an officer in the SS, and her Nazi-supporting mother are taken into custody by allied troops at the end of the war, Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) and her siblings must travel across Germany to their...

Bourgeois family drama starring Audrey Tautou as the eponymous anti-heroine. Two of the richest families in the Bordeaux area are to be united with the marriage of Therese to nearby land owner Bernard (Gilles Lellouche). Initially Therese looks forward...

A flame-haired teenager captivates the lives of the famous painter and his young son, in director Gilles Bourdos's visually evocative drama. After arriving at the house of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet) in the summer of 1915, vibrant and...

Award-winning Italian existential drama directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo) is an accomplished journalist who has made his name and reputation through his work and a largely successful novel he published as a young man...

A rebellious Saudi Arabian girl hatches a plan to get her hands on the bicycle she craves in this coming-of-age story from first time director Haifaa Al-Mansour. Living within a conservative suburb of Riyadh, fun-loving eleven-year-old Wadjda (Waad...

On leave in the Port of Brest, a bisexual sailor (Brad Davis) murders a fellow seaman and visits a notorious brothel, where he gives full vent to his homosexual desires. One by one, the other habitues of the brothel succumb to his charms. Adapted from...

French award-winning gay-themed drama directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. The film follows the 17-year-old closeted student Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) as she pursues a passionate and fiery relationship with an older and 'out' blue-haired lesbian called...

François Ozon writes and directs this French drama following a teenage girl who is discovering her sexuality. The film takes place over the course of a year, split into four different segments for each season. Just before turning 17, student Isabelle...

Israeli religious drama. When Esther (Renana Raz), the eldest daughter of an Orthodox Hassidic family, dies during the birth of her first child, plans for her younger sister Shira (Hadas Yaron)'s marriage are put on hold while the family grieve for their...

Domestic drama directed by Asghar Farhadi which follows a long-separated couple as they finalise their divorce. Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) returns to Paris from his homeland of Iran at the request of his wife Marie (Bérénice Bejo) who wants to divorce him...

This French thriller has petty thief and street hustler Alex (Denis Lavant) plotting to steal a new miracle cure for an AIDS-like virus on behalf of his gangster friend Marc (Michel Piccoli). This attracts the notice of a mysterious American woman who...