Movies

A public appearance from international soccer player Marquinhos at Aurelio's bar launches a series of vignettes which spotlight Brazil's obsession with the round ball game.

A gripping drama about a man whose love for the racetrack is ruining his life: stock has been going missing at work; at home, his pregnant wife is tired of living without furniture; and worst of all, a loan shark is getting tired of waiting for his money.

Drawing inspiration from his own childhood in Liverpool, director Terence Davies made his debut with this critically-lauded portrait of a working class family ruled over by a domineering, volatile father (Pete Postlethwaite).

An aged hippie, working as a roadie and hung up on his last girlfriend, Tree, accidentally bumps into his son for the first time and, while neither knows who the other person is, they bond through the music scene. Meanwhile Tree is searching for her son. Will this quirky family be brought back together?

Berm-Tech Industries, Inc. isn't a normal company, it's a safe haven for vampires. Business has been strong and steady for years and they're all happy enough, until the boss forgets who and what he is and begins killing off the staff for showing signs of vampirism. 

Abandoned to the convent as a baby, Joaquina is about to take her vows as a nun when she learns the truth about her parentage – that her mother still lives, and her father was real-life revolutionary icon Tiradentes, who fought and died for Brazilian independence.

 It’s the summer of 1977 and two young pirate radio DJs are trying to make their mark playing a new funk sound. But a murder in the local park sets off a sub-cultural clash between the soul boys, skinheads and punks.

Four young friends, who spend their nights shooting the breeze in a Copenhagen takeaway joint, find themselves landed with a whole heap of trouble when they come into possession of some stolen hash.

Two documentary film makers talk murdering cannibal, Anthony McAllister into letting them film him and his practice. But the further into their film they get, they begin to doubt some of the things Anthony has told them about his past and tensions begin to rise.

Peter Greenaway's dramatisation of Rembrandt's romantic life and career, including the controversy created by his painting The Night Watch – in which he drew attention to a murder perpetrated by a powerful group.

Cheap thrills! It’s bargain basement horror time: Detective Mike Jericho is bitten while stopping a crime and becomes a vampire. Although he enjoys his new life, his partner becomes determined to rescue him from his murderous friends.

When straight-laced Jefferson finds out his drug-dealing brother is dead, he returns to São Paulo with his childhood friend to identify the body. The journey raises memories of their shared childhood and poses a choice for their future. 

Filmed in beautiful monochrome and starring Julie Christie, this is Sally Potter’s examination of the relationship between women and money in society. The film’s mind-bending second act surely inspired David Lynch’s Inland Empire.

Cheap thrills! It’s bargain basement horror time: two couples are stranded on a cannibal infested island.

The classic Romero flick that started it all: when the recently dead begin to rise from the grave and feed on the living, a young couple join a group barricaded in a farmhouse in an attempt to survive the undead hordes.

Under the pretext of writing for a fake magazine, The Next Big Thing, Simon Geist wages war against upcoming actors, models, comics and rock bands. But as his confrontations escalate, he finds himself becoming the very thing he is railing against.

Inspired by Daniel Defoe, the eccentric, unseen Robinson and his researcher companion set off on a tour of England, encompassing the nation's cultural and industrial history.

Cheap thrills! It’s bargain basement horror time: after the murder of his friend, Bobbie begins suffering nightmares that deliver clues to the killer’s identity. But as he gets closer to the truth, he realises that some secrets should never be shared.

A comic retelling of the Snow White fairytale, with seven tall dwarves, one beautiful princess and a whole lot of slapstick. One of the most successful German films of all time.

A mockumentary focusing on a year in the life of fictitious mid-1990s hip-hip outfit NWH, with groupies, gunshots and inter-band rivalries galore. Fear of a Black Hat does for rap what Spinal Tap did for stadium rock.