After the unexpected death of the vice president of the USA, Senator Laine Hanson is nominated by the president to take his place, but her path to this position is about to be seriously hampered by a powerful enemy, Senator Sheldon Runyon, who will go to any lengths to prevent such a left of centre politician becoming the second most powerful person in the country . As the accusations fly and the skeletons in the closet are aired Hanson's chances are looking slimmer and slimmer. The Contender is find out more...

Well, if your friends and neighbours are anything like this lot, Heaven help you. It's rare for a film to have not one single sympathetic character, but that's exactly what you get in this bleak, black comedy peopled with self-serving scumbags. A tale of sexual frustration, marital disillusionment and unhealthy carnal obsession, it centres on two miserably married couples and their involvement with a couple of dysfunctional singles (unbalanced lesbian Nastassja Kinski and loathesome misogynist J find out more...