7.4/10

Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Starring: Tony Leung (Ka Fai), Michelle Reis

In the "flower houses" (upscale brothels) of Shanghai, various interweaving stories of love, loyalty, and deceit play out subtly. Read more

8/10

Director: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider

A relentless, 25-foot-long "killing machine" is on the prowl off the coast of a New England resort town, and no one in the water is safe. Roy Scheider... Read more

8/10

Director: Mira Nair

Starring: Shafiq Syed, Sarfuddin Quarrassi, Raju Barnad

An international critical favourite focusing on Krishna, a 10-year-old boy on his own who falls in with prostitutes, drug dealers, crooked cops and th... Read more

8/10

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Starring: Barbara Hershey, Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, Mila Kunis

Director Darren Aronofsky probes the world of ballet with this dark tale. Natalie Portman, in an Oscar-winning performance, strives to become the lead... Read more

7.4/10

Director: Juzo Itami

Starring: Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamakazi, Nobuko Miyamoto

One of the funniest, most enjoyable, satirical comedies is this treasure of a movie, the plot of which, loosely concerns the quest for the perfect Jap... Read more

8/10

Director: Rene Clement

Starring: Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly

A timeless evocation of childhood innocence corrupted, Rene Clement's ("Purple Noon") undisputed masterpiece tells the story of a young girl orphaned... Read more

8.2/10

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu

A Kurosawa masterpiece, a decade-in-the-making version of 'King Lear' that brilliantly blends Japanese history with Shakespeare's themes. A triumphant... Read more

Director: Charles Burnett

Starring: Henry G Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy, Everett Silas, Jessie Holmes

Acclaimed African-American filmmaker Charles Burnett's work is spotlighted in this two-disc double bill. The documentary-like drama 'Killer of Sheep'... Read more

8/10

Director: Mamoru Oshii

In early 21st century Japan, the search for a criminal computer genius known as 'The Puppet Master' sends a cyborg policewoman on a dangerous search,... Read more

7.8/10

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Starring: Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson

When a book brought back by Michael J Fox from the 21st century turns his 1985 homelife upside-down, it calls for a return trip to the '50s. Read more

8.2/10

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu

A Kurosawa masterpiece, a decade-in-the-making version of 'King Lear' that brilliantly blends Japanese history with Shakespeare's themes. A triumphant... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Claude Chabrol

Starring: Stephane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passallia

'The Butcher'. An intense psychological thriller about a schoolteacher who begins an affair with the town butcher, but the affair is interrupted when... Read more

7.4/10

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Starring: Michael J Fox, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd

In the concluding chapter of the time traveling trilogy, Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd find themselves in the Old West. Read more

3.8/10

Director: Todd Field

Starring: Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong

Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conduc... Read more

8.3/10

Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz

Starring: Anne Baxter, Bette Davis, George Sanders, Marilyn Monroe

Six Oscars were awarded this cynical and entertaining examination of life as it exists on the Broadway theatre scene. Bette Davis glows as the ageing... Read more

8.5/10

Director: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Karen Allen, Harrison Ford, John Rhys-Davies, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, Denhol...

Aka "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark". Harrison Ford is an adventure-seeking archeologist after rare and well-guarded ancient artifacts.... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Shane Meadows

Starring: Jo Hartley, Vicky McClure, Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham

Shane Meadow's latest is his finest yet. Building on the themes explored in his previous work, this is an intelligent and emotive look at a boys life... Read more

7.4/10

Director: Gaspar Noe

Starring: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Jo Prestia

Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a s... Read more

8.1/10

Director: Damian Szifron

Starring: Ricardo Darin, Dario Grandinetti, Leonardo Sbaraglia

Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress. Read more

8/10

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Tim...

Actor Rick Dalton gained fame and fortune by starring in a 1950s television Western, but is now struggling to find meaningful work in a Hollywood that... Read more