It's all sweetness and light in this moving music biopic classic of Glen Miller's impressive rise to fame with June Allyson playing his childhood sweetheart and James Stewart outstanding as the man himself. It's got all the great arrangements from 'Pensylvania 6-500' to 'Moonlight Serenade', all scored by Henry Mancini in homage to Miller's style, plus Louis Armstrong makes an appearance playing 'Basin Street Blues' and Frances Langford does 'Chattanooga Choo-Choo'. find out more...

A typically surreal and star studded tale from Wes Anderson about M. Gustave, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel and his role as confidante and facilitater to the good, the bad, the great and the ugly; keenly assisted by his young protégé. A beautifully, quirkily visualised joy.

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A biography of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three was named the Emperor of China and died as a gardener at the Botanical Gardens of Peking. Told in an interesting flashback/flashforward style, we learn of Pu Yi's childhood, the time he spent in the Forbidden City, his term as the emperor of Japan's Manchukuo, his imprisonment by the Communists and his eventual release back to public life in 1959. A true epic with a cast of millions. find out more...

1927 and a young Jewish girl is sent to school in England by her worried Russian parents, ten years later and she is in Paris working for an opera company, it is here that she falls for the charms of a gypsy horse handler. But the young woman's idyll is threatened as the banner of the Third Reich looms. The Man Who Cried is a sumptuous and atmospheric drama set around a relatively simple story,in exceptional times. find out more...

As a young boy, the bespectacled Jiro Horikoshi dreams of flying a plane but when he learns he will be unable to become a pilot due to his poor eyesight, he instead decides to be an aircraft designer. On September 1st 1923 Jiro is travelling by train when the Great Kanto earthquake strikes. He assists fellow passenger Naoko and her maid who suffers an injury. He doesn't meet Naoko again till many years later and the two fall in love but she is suffering from tuberculosis and while they try to find out more...

The Weeping Meadow is the first film in Theo Angelopoulos' 'Trilogy', that tells of the fate of the Greek people through the relationship between two refugees - a relationship that spans the 20th century all the way to the early 21st. find out more...

An intriguing fictionalised account of Hitler's last days in the Berlin bunker. Having acknowledged that the end is near the leader of the Third Reich looks back on the years of his rise to power and in particular the intense relationship he shared with his vivacious niece Geli Raubal. Superbly acted and meticulously styled, Uncle Adolf is an absorbing and fascinating interpretation of the making of a monster. find out more...