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Three sisters live together in a rambling house. When they hear that the father who left them 15 years before has died, they travel to his funeral where they meet their shy teenage half-sister. They impulsively invite her to live with them and, when she agrees, a new life of discovery begins for the four siblings. This warm and generous film is a moving story of family love and loss told with the lightest of touches. Wonderful performances combined with the totally assured but unobtrusive direction of Hirokazu Koreeda make this a film, and a family, you don't really want to leave.

Here’s an utterly gripping thriller; a masterclass in thought provoking suspense, which tells the story of a damaged man who discovers that the killer of his parents is being released from prison early and goes in search of revenge. But after a brilliant 20 minutes, Blue Ruin has not only covered but largely overturned the ground on which most revenge thrillers would expend their entire running time. What follows is the fallout from those actions, with age-old eye-for-an-eye riffs suddenly made to seem fresh and new by a film-maker crucially more interested in exploring what happens next.

This delightfully funny, occasionally sad and deeply enjoyable film stars Paul Giamatti as the real live Harvey Pekar, a filing clerk at a local hospital who, after meeting the underground artist Robert Crumb, concocts the idea that a comic book about his mundane life could be a valid form of literature for adults. This unlikely idea became a huge success. Exhilarating both stylistically and for its entertaining portrayal of an everyman, American Splendor is a film that will stay with you and Harvey is a man you will be glad we have introduced you to.

This sexy, sun-baked drama is the sort of film that engrosses and amuses in equal measure. Set on a small island off Sicily, Tilda Swinton plays a Bowie-like rock star who is enjoying a relaxing holiday with her lover, while she recovers from a throat operation. Their peace is suddenly shattered by the arrival of her friend, and former lover, Harry (Ralph Fiennes), a motor-mouth, hedonistic record producer, and his sultry daughter, Penelope. What follows is cool, funny and sexually charged, with rising tensions that finally come to the boil.

In Hitchcock’s thrilling adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel, straight-batting, social-climbing tennis star Guy has a chance encounter on a train with sardonic playboy Bruno. Bruno knows that Guy is romancing a senator's daughter and wants a divorce from his unfaithful wife, who won’t give him one. Bruno himself is fed up with his controlling father and would like to get rid of him. So he proposes they each kill the other’s impediment, to insulate each other from blame. Guy laughs it off as idle chatter, little realising that Bruno couldn’t be more serious.

One summer's evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst's stately house nearby. As the pair become increasingly inebriated, and their stories increasingly unbelievable, the lively conversation soon turns into a revealing power game, further complicated by the return home of two sinister younger men.

Also starring Owen Teale and Damien Molony, don’t miss this glorious revival of Pinter’s comic classic. The broadcast will be followed by an exclusive Q&A with the cast and director Sean Mathias.

Here is a terrifically enjoyable piece of old-fashioned storytelling and a beautiful-looking film: spectacular, exciting, funny and fun. It handsomely revives the spirit of Disney’s original film and adds even more emotional depth. The film also creates witty and ingenious twists on the story we all know so well, including a new plot development concerning wolf-leader Akela and Shere Khan. There might seem no point in remaking Walt Disney’s great, possibly greatest, masterpiece, but what a surprising and tremendous success this is.

The true story of Manhattan socialite who, despite having a terrible voice, bankrolled an opera career that ended with a woeful concert at Carnegie Hall in 1944. Meryl Streep works her magic as the wealthy wannabe diva who won't let a simple lack of talent stop her and Hugh Grant is on top form as her attentive and supportive companion, who will protect her from any upsetting views of her warbling. Brilliantly balancing well-earned pathos with wry humour, the film strikes just the right tone, never hitting a false note in this irresistibly winning heart-warmer.

In this droll Icelandic tale, we meet two brothers, Gummi and Kiddi, who have tended sheep on neighbouring farms for 40 years, but never speak to each other. When a disease outbreak prompts the government to impose a cull on livestock, they must put their differences aside to protect their animals, but each has a different idea how to go about it. Credible, hilarious and poignant by turns, Rams is a keenly detailed, well-paced and entertaining tale of family dynamics and radiant humanism, heightened by superb performances and stunningly beautiful cinematography.

Greta Gerwig plans to have a baby whether she finds Mr Right or not. But she meets a married novelist (Ethan Hawke) and they fall for each other. Three years later, and with a daughter, the couple's relationship is floundering, so she decides to try and get the novelist to fall back in love with his estranged ex-wife. It's exuberantly performed by the first rate cast (Julianne Moore is hilarious as the pretentious intellectual ex-wife) who effortlessly navigate the dovetailing themes of destiny and best intentions in a comedy full of funny one-liners and sharp observation.

Music. Power. Jealousy. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius, court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy his name. Seized by obsessive jealousy he begins a war with Mozart, with music, and ultimately, with God.

After winning multiple Olivier and Tony Awards when it had its premiere at the National Theatre in 1979, Amadeus was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film.

Julieta is leaving Madrid for Portugal to start a new life with her lover. But a chance meeting with a childhood friend of her estranged daughter, sideswipes Julieta’s future plans. Instead of leaving, she returns to her apartment and starts to feverishly write about her life. We are transported back to the 80’s to meet the younger Julieta and follow the story of her life and the mystery of her relationship with her daughter. Almodovar’s most moving and entrancing work in years, is a sumptuous and moving study of the viral nature of guilt, the mystery of memory and the often unendurable power of love.

Six affluent, middle-class men, aboard an expensive yacht on a fishing holiday. Bored one evening, the talk starts to get very competitive and ends up with them starting a competition to decide who is the “best in general” over the rest of the trip. Each equipped with a notebook to score the others, nothing is off bounds; posture, shoes, how long they can hold their breath. Even a casual conversation about cooking scallops can result in a notebook being whipped out and a sly mark recorded. A funny and invigorating comedy of male manners and satire on aspiration and snobbery.

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