In the build-up to the 1972 US elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward investigated what seemed to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters, the editor of the Post was prepared to run with the story and assigned Woodward and Carl Bernstein to it. Their painstaking research found the trail leading higher and higher in the Republican Party and, eventually, into the White House itself and led to the downfall of Nixon. An intelligent and exciting dramatic reconstruction.< find out more...

A superb drama-documentary which won Ken Loach a top award at the Cannes Film Festival. The events revolve around the alleged shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland and centre on an English policeman who runs up against a web of lies, intrigue and violence. A tense, enthralling thriller. find out more...

A powerful thriller with an ingenious plot that leaves you piecing it together well after the end. Tom Farrell wins a plum job in the Pentagon only to find himself investigating a murder to which he was a witness and is a potential suspect. His mission becomes a quicksand of double bluffs, concealments, and attempts to sabotage the clues in order to avoid the Pentagon fingering him for the crime. A plot full of twists and surprises as he enters a race to clear himself. Excellent. find out more...

State of Play is a classic conspiracy thriller that promotes the belief that New Labour has betrayed the longing for a new ethical politics, replacing the sleaze scandals of the Major years with more of the same. The script, the dialogue and the acting are all top drawer in this gripping, pacey, multi-layered tale of ambitious and talented young men tragically failing. find out more...

The story continues in this gripping conspiracy thriller. find out more...

Furtwängler, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, was considered by many the most brilliant of the 20th Century, but he served as one of the Nazi's foremost cultural assets and flag-bearers. 'Taking Sides' recreates his suspenseful post-World War II interrogation by a tough talking American Major examining his role during the Third Reich in the most uncompromising of terms. The confrontation between the soft-spoken cultural icon of the old world and the rough, emotional hard-hitter from the new find out more...

It's 1980s East Germany and our anti-hero, an accomplished surveillance officer, is ordered to spy on a successful and outwardly loyal playwright and his actress girlfriend, but the motive is not entirely political, involving the lust for the girl of a political commissar and the career prospects of his immediate superior. The Stasi officer is dragged into the Kafkaesque web created by this moral duplicity in this compelling and twisting tale. First class. find out more...

An award winning and disturbing story of a young German girl who enters a writing competition with an essay entitled "My Home Town During the Third Reich". She runs into enormous resistance and resentment from the people with personal experience. A poignant film about German angst. find out more...

Carter Page III is a "walker", he escorts the wives of the rich and powerful when their husbands are otherwise engaged and he can do this because he's a well-bred homosexual. When one of his ladies finds her secret lover murdered Carter agrees to be the one who 'discovers' the body, a lie that hurls him into a Machiavellian world of dark malevolent political intrigue with himself cast as the stool-pigeon, a fate he must use all his wits to escape from. find out more...