Juliane is a true Arian mother while Maria is a politically and socially staunch Jewess, the two unlikely friends become lovers, a striking mismatch of ideologies even today but this takes place at the height of Nazi Germany, and the consequences of their affair coming to light will cause an outrage that will cost them their lives. Aimee and Jaguar is a deeply moving and beautifully performed drama, which deservedly won a number of awards at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival. find out more...

In 1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) works alone on the rugged Southern coastline. With the days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now searches for common fossils to sell to tourists to support herself and her ailing mother. When a wealthy visitor entrusts Mary with the care of his wife Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan), she cannot afford to turn his offer down. Proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, Mary initially clashes wit find out more...

Ellen Hardy's home life in her Yorkshire milltown is starting to wear thin, she dotes on her talented son, Victor, but her marriage is tiresome and her only real solace comes in her daily visits with Victor's teacher, Kathy Thompson, but, as their relationship grows, Ellen's husband gets frustrated, creating even more tension. The movie is a fine drama but it really wants for more time spent with the women building their relationship and, sadly, it appears that much of this narrative ended up in find out more...

Alina and Voichita have been friends since their orphanage days. And they have been lovers since they became sexually mature. But despite their oath of mutual fidelity, Alina, who could not bear poverty any more, emigrated to Germany where she became a barmaid. Now she just could not take the estrangement from Voichita and today she is back to Moldavia with a view to taking Voichita along with her to Germany. The only trouble is that in the meantime her girlfriend has betrayed her in falling find out more...

Lin Yuezhen is in love with swimming star and school heartthrob Zhang Shihao. She's far too shy to approach him and instead asks her best friend Meng Kerou to act as a go-between. Kerou reluctantly agrees but whenever Shihao appears Yuezhen flees. Shihao can only conclude that Kerou is using an imaginary character to court him but she has her sights set elsewhere. An insightful and original coming of age drama. find out more...

Brandon Teena is a new face in the isolated community of Falls City and it's not long before he has charmed the locals, in particular the women, who find his boyish good looks and gentle charm magnetic. Brandon has a secret though, and while in itself the truth is neither dark nor malevolent, in a place such as Falls City, the revelation of his true identity will have disturbing and destructive consequences. Boys Don't Cry is an incredibly powerful and at times horrifying drama, with some superb find out more...

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Mid-life crisis wife Catherine hires a seductive hooker, Chloe, to 'test' the loyalty of hubbie David (a very dangerous course of action)... and the rest will be revealed as you watch this adaptation/remake of the 2003 French drama Nathalie.
This is good, though Atom Egoyan's style, best suited to enigmatic arthouse films, does seem a little out of kilter when this film takes a turn into stalker/thriller territory. find out more...

 

Set in contemporary Iran in the unseen world of Iranian youth culture, filled with underground parties, sex, drugs and defiance, Circumstance is the story of two vivacious young girls, Atafeh and Shireen, discovering their burgeoning sexuality, struggling with their desires and the boundaries placed upon them by the world they were born into. Winner of the Sundance Audi find out more...

An elite clique of girls, all vying for the attention of the charismatic (female) trainer, form the school swimming team. When an exotic foreign girl (Spanish) arrives in the isolated community the swimming teacher's attention wanders from her bevy, causing mucho disharmony and jealousy. Homosexual crushes in an elite single sex British boarding school. find out more...