Movies

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.

The high-camp, atmospheric spy thriller that inspired the Austin Powers spoofs. A government agent is brought to the island lair of a super-villain to aid in the hijack of a Polaris submarine. Starring Bette Davis and Robert Wagner.

At a remote base on one of Saturn's moons, scientists Adam and Alex (Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett) come under threat from unhinged killer Benson (Harvey Keitel) and his droid Hector.

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.

The seminal, sick satire on class, culture and politics in the 1980s from The Comic Strip, starring Lemmy from Motorhead and the usual suspects: Nigel Planer, Adrian Edmonson, Miranda Richardson, Rik Mayall, and French & Saunders. Look out for cameos from Bill Wyman and Paul McCartney.

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?

 The classic tale of Dr Henry Jekyll's downward spiral as he loses control over his dual personality, Mr Hyde. Starring Michael Caine.

 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.

A conflicted Jewish yuppie learns that, courtesy of an artificial insemination blunder, his real father is a Yorkshire pig farmer. He journeys north on a mission of self-discovery, in this acclaimed culture clash comedy.

Cheap thrills! It’s bargain basement horror time: a new drug is on the street, Ozone, it transforms the users into powerful mutants. Detective Eddie Boone is injected when a drug bust goes wrong leading him to fight against himself as well as the Ozone infected.

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.

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.

In the Nottingham suburb of Sneinton, Malc is torn between partner Kate and his wannabe gangster friends, led by the infantile Jumbo. And when Jumbo plots a major heist (by his standards), Malc is finally forced to choose. An early crime caper from director Shane Meadows.

Philip returns home to his small town after an attempt at making it as an actor. Despite his failure at becoming famous in Hollywood he is seen as a celebrity back home and he uses it to impress his school crush, Dorothy.

Raoul Ruiz’s enthralling thriller is made up of four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.

Shepard is a disillusioned cop struggling with his new found hero status after killing a notorious drug dealer in a shoot out. Rex, a trigger happy out law with a rising body count of cops in his wake wants to use Shepard to boost his status. But when quick-drawing Rex finally comes face to face with Shepard in a tense showdown, will he hold his nerve?

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.

 A young man moves to a new town after experiencing a tragedy and becomes involved with a gang of Satan-worshipping teens who believe they have supernatural powers. But by the time he realises he’s in too deep, it may be too late to escape. 

A group of former Brazilian soccer aces gather in a São Paolo bar to share memories, with their reminiscences regularly spiralling off in strangely comic directions.