Set in the 1970s during a particularly bloody flash point in the Anglo-Irish conflicts, Patrick "Kitten" Braden is well aware that he is ‘different' from the other boys but steadfastly, and happily, refuses to change. As a young man (with a great eye for ladieswear and an enviable ability to carry the look off) Patrick decides to leave his troubled homeland and head to London in search of his real mother, an adventure to be sure. Neil Jordan has succeeded in creating a joyous creature in ‘Kitten find out more...

Eight-year-old Zachary has, so far, enjoyed life as his father's favourite son, as the possessor of a gift for healing and as younger sibling to a tearaway, a jock and a bookworm, but this relatively idyllic childhood in Québec is cast under the shadow of his dad's suspicions when he is discovered wearing a dress. Seven years on it's 1975 and Zac is in thrall to Ziggy Stardust and his cousin's boyfriend, a confusing situation for him, made more complicated by a history of trying to satisfy his d find out more...

George Clooney has put his thumb into the directorial pie and pulled out a plum. Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind is based on the fantasy novel of Chuck Barris, TV producer cum CIA assassin, played in the film by the grubbily handsome Sam Rockwell. Clooney deals with the ramblings of a delusional solipsist and adopts a surreal, almost Lynch-like style for the proceedings. This adds to the general feeling of disorientation as the story flits from television studios to Russian detention centres wit find out more...

The wonderful people over at Second Run DVD have released another hidden gem: 'Daisies' (Sedmikrasky), originally made in 1966 by Vera Chytilova, who has since been called 'the first lady of Czech cinema' and whose efforts also earnt her a screening at the First International Festival of Women's Films in New York in 1972. find out more...

The acclaimed debut feature by celebrated filmmaker Emir Kusturica is a bittersweet coming-of-age tale set amidst the uproar of 1960s Sarajevo. As Hollywood movies begin to find their way into his country, sixteen-year-old Dino becomes seduced by the glamour of the gangster films that flash before his eyes at the local cinema and he decides to follow a life of crime. Falling in with a band of petty crooks, Dino's future seems set until a liaison with local prostitute Dolly Bell turns his world u find out more...

This semi-autobiographical film, the fourth instalment in the saga of Antoine Doinel, concentrates on his early married life during which time he becomes a writer, a father and a philanderer. A humourous and ironic account of a failing middle-class marriage, a subject that Truffaut obviously knew rather well. find out more...

Young provincial waiter Jan Dite may be short in height but his aspirations are lofty, he is determined to become a millionaire and he knows just how to do it. Continually watching and listening to his superiors and his high-flying, big-spending customers, Jan learns how to succeed by pleasing others. Based on the novel by Czech author Bohumit Hrabal, and directed by the Academy Award winning maker of ‘Closely Observed Trains', 'I Served The King' is a beguiling comedy about opportunism, identit find out more...

It’s 1961 in Greenwich Village and Llewyn Davis is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making. A beautifully made, bitter sweet homage to the iconoclastic folk movement of 1960’s America.

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A perfect example of 60's cult classic that is mercifully absent of kitchen sink syndrome. Morgan is an anarchistic artist and a man for whom the words sanity and restraint are merely the chains that bind others. Obsessed with winning back the affections of his soon to be married ex-wife, Morgan will go to any lengths to achieve his goal, and the surrealer the better. Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment is blessed with an iconic British cast in their formative cinematic careers, sharp witty d find out more...