An American metropolis is afflicted by a plague of blindness and the stricken are quarantined by jack-booted soldiers and, amongst gruesome levels of degradation, turn, ‘Lord of the Flies'-style, to savagery. One seeing/immune person must lead others out of the hellish quarantine station to the world outside... a world that has collapsed. find out more...

Blind Emma Brody has her sight restored following a cornea transplant, but then experiences a bizarre series of recollected visions. When her neighbour is brutally murdered, she realises she may hold the key to the killer's identity. Excellently written thriller that'll really keep you guessing. find out more...

Ron Kovic was a green young patriot scarred, both mentally and physically, by the war in 'Nam. On his return he finds himself and his fellow paraplegics an unwanted embarrassment and after wasting himself in Mexico he emerges as a voice for the disaffected. Another powerful film from Oliver Stone. find out more...

A rather over-sentimentalised romantic drama about the wife of a war-hero who falls in love with a paraplegic 'Nam vet. The drama is underplayed, and cliched in places, and Jane Fonda, despite a sterling attempt, comes across as just a bit too saintly. The ending adds credibilty though. find out more...

Four American soldiers are sent on one last mission in which their convoy is ambushed sustaining casualties. We follow the psychologically traumatised quartet through their unhappy return to their families and friends, group therapy and coping with their memories. "Home of the Brave" is a well meaning, if occasionally slightly clunky, drama that attempts to show the sense of rage, loss, disillusionment and disassociation that affects many who return from the battlefield. find out more...

DS Beauchamp is taken hostage during a prison riot, following which both the prisoners and hostages are treated in the same hospital, a hospital that soon plays host to yet another string of relentless murders, only this time it isn't Red who needs to confront the past - it's Kate. find out more...

Marie and Niels are happily married with three young children; their life would seem to personify contentment. Cecilie and Joachim are just about to begin the path Marie and Niels are already walking, but something happens that none of them could have foreseen or indeed thought possible and the lives of all four begin to unravel. 'Open Hearts' is an incredibly powerful and moving film, uncompromising and unflinchingly honest about the fickleness of love it can't help but stir the soul (or at the find out more...

Set in the Sino-Japanese war, Yasuzo Masumura's black-and-white anti-war film tells of an army nurse who sexually services an amputee and falls in love with a drug-addicted surgeon. This can't be recommended to the squeamish, but neither can its nuanced eroticism nor its passionate, unpredictable moral focus, be easily shaken off. Comparable with Altman's MASH, it suggests a less comic treatment of the same theme, how to preserve one's humanity in impossible circumstances, but its ethics are con find out more...

A woman living in the modern world gets struck by a C20th disease, an allergy to all things environmentally unfriendly, and is forced to seek sanctuary in the Texas desert with the evangelical and the afflicted. A tale of our possible future? Psychological suspense, horrifying and occasionally comic. find out more...

Brit Kotwal was born with brittle bone disease in a Parsee community in Bombay, and as he grows into a man, helped and hindered by his eccentric and dysfunctional family, Brit becomes keen to the point of obsession to facilitate his sexual awakening. Sixth Happiness is based on Firdaus Kanga's (who also stars) acclaimed autobiography and it's a witty, acerbic, touching and thoughtful portrayal of a remarkable human, beautifully shot and unsentimentally visualised. find out more...