Coining the new term 'action noir' in Korea, director Kim Ji-woon follows up his extraordinary features A Quiet Family and A Tale Of Two Sisters with this blackly comic thriller. Lee Byeong-heon stars as sartorially elegant Sun-woo, a unique character with a curious lifestyle - he's not only the proprietor of a hotel bar but also the right-hand man to the powerful gang leader, Mr Kang. When Kang suspects that his beautiful young mistress Hee-soo might be messing around with another man, he enlis find out more...

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Tobe is a teenage girl in a dysfunctional American family, but one that appears both realistically normal and deeply embedded in suburbia. This is the landscape of Spielberg, but the family, inadequate father, rebellious daughter and quasi-autistic stepson, seems alienated and distant from the world around it. Into this milieu drifts Harlan, a young man whose roots are at least partially fantasised, part cowboy part movie cliche, and whose reality remains unclear. The pair embark on a romance th find out more...

It's 1942 and the Russians and Germans are deep into the bloody mire of the siege of Stalingrad. Vassili is a simple Russian soldier with a remarkable skill, he's an excellent sniper. Political officer, Danilov, expands on Vassili's accomplishments, creating a hero to boost the morale of his fellow comrades. But when both men fall in love with the same woman Danilov becomes dangerously jealous and to compound Vassili's problems the Germans send in the best sniper they have, Major Konig, to silen find out more...

1944, occupied Copenhagen; two young hit men are killing Danish Nazis and Germans whom their resistance commander has told them to on 'orders from London'. But things in war are never clear and no-one's motives are pure, even the heroic Flame's ideological abhorrence of the Nazis is revealed as part of a more complicated picture. Who's feeding information to whom? Why are these people being assassinated? As if opening a series of Russian Dolls, betrayals and loyalties are revealed, people are tr find out more...

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A high octane action - and not far from historically accurate - pic glorifying the role of Norwegian Resistance fighter Max Manus in his battle against the evil Nazi empire. We follow our likeable hero from the 1940 winter war against the Soviets in Finland through to the 1945 defeat of the Bosch. We observe his guilt at his own survival while his mates are killed in the struggle and, we learn of his own high risk manoeuvres - the mining of two German ships being a classic set piece. find out more...

John and Jane Smith lead a dull suburban life….or do they? Unbeknownst to each other Mr and Mrs Smith are both super sharp assassins, but on opposite sides of the fence, a blissful ignorance that comes to a sharp halt when their bosses contract them to eliminate each other. Some sassy marital banter and very slick action make Mr and Mrs Smith an entertaining popcorn blockbuster. Domestic violence: Hollywood style. find out more...

This gripping multi-award-winning thriller tells the tale of a nice young Mexican lad on the run from a scary tattooed gang with whom he's become too involved. Catching a ride on a train north, as he attempts to flee to a decent life in the good old US of A, he bumps into sexy Honduran teenager Sayra, who is also heading for the streets of gold, and a romantic thriller results. find out more...

As he plans his next job a long-time thief tries to balance his feelings for a middle-class woman, who is connected to one of his earlier heists, against the perils he faces as the FBI look to bring him and his crew down. Ben Affleck’s second feature (his first being ‘Gone Baby Gone’) is a blue-collar crime caper drama with a soupcon of romance and its conscientious use of location, the Charlestown district of Boston, lifts it above your standard genre flick. At times the acting feels a little s find out more...