John Nash is a brilliant, though socially awkward, mathematician and with his latest work he has achieved the acclaim that he so needed, but John is also prone to delusional behaviour, and when a mysterious stranger asks him for his help to thwart a conspiracy against the Stars and Stripes, John becomes increasingly obsessive, a state of mind that begins to push away all those he holds dear, even his loving wife. Very loosely adapted from a true story "Beautiful Mind" is the bog standard slickly find out more...

Fanis, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics, recalls his childhood growing up as a Greek boy in Istanbul and the time spent with his shopkeeper grandfather learning about life and, in particular, the art of cooking. And it was here, in his grandfather's store, that he first fell in love, with Saime. After political tensions over Cyprus in 1963 Fanis's family were deported, but his grandfather stayed in Istanbul, and it is decades later that they meet again as Fanis returns 'home', after yea find out more...

A NATO train, carrying sensitive communications equipment toward the war in Kosovo, is stopped by the officious and bent little station master of the small Romanian town of Capâlnita on the grounds of not having the correct paperwork. The stranded recruits are welcomed by the local mayor and populace, especially the girls, and we especially follow a romance between the station master's sexy daughter and the American commanders's adjutant. find out more...

1991, Michigan; after years of an empty marriage a WW2 veteran is buried and his daughter delivers a eulogy while her mother, Ethel Ann, sits out on the church porch. Meanwhile a young Ulsterman, excavating the crash of an American B52 bomber, finds a ring and is determined to return it to the woman who once owned it. Back in the past, on the eve of WW2, we find Ethel Ann young, lively, optimistic and in love. find out more...

On the brink of divorce New York ad exec Will, when asked by his 11-year-old daughter how he met her mother, recounts tales of three proto-relationships from his twenties, a time when he was an idealistic graduate working on the 1992 Clinton campaign, as she tries to guess which of the three women became her mother. Was it plain-Jane college sweetheart (Elizabeth Banks)? Ambitious journalist (Rachel Weisz)? Or his slacker friend (Isla Fisher)? Did he chose the right one? Can he straighten things find out more...

Martin McGartland was an unemployed Republican fence, a petty crime that led to the IRA kneecapping of his partner. Picked up by the police he soon found himself operating as both an informer for his Special Branch handler, Fergus, with whom he developed a close relationship, and at tremendous risk, infiltrating and moving up within the ranks of the Provos while routinely betraying their activities; the title coming from the 50 murders that it is believed Martin directly prevented. 'Fifty Dead M find out more...

While travelling to visit their grandfather two children are told, through three beautifully observed vignettes, of a family curse that has lasted two hundred years. During the Napoleonic Wars a French soldier and a Benedetti fall in love leading to mutual tragedy, but great wealth for the family. 1903; a powerful politician separates his sister from her lover, leading to tragedy. A WW2 resistance effort goes wrong.......tragedy. find out more...

Tilda Swinton takes the star turn as the wife of filthy rich Milanese industrialist Tancredi Recchi and much of the film takes place in their opulent mansion. It is here that sexual attraction, romance and personal/female liberation will lead to a family crisis for these members of the haute bourgeoisie.
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Essentially an interacial love story betwixt two journalists set against the backdrop of The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in post-apartheid South Africa. There's enough dirt about police murders and torture in the apartheid state to keep whites squirming uncomfortably and enough healing and forgiveness to leave you feeling that race problems dissipate with a bit of a hug. Nevertheless Boorman is a skilled film maker and he manages the finer aspects of this well scripted movie without teet find out more...

In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife - and more talk when he decides to take her back. By this time he has been drawn to Pauline, niece of a Cognac distiller, and this precipitates him divorcing his wife, settling on her and his daughter the shares he owns in his family's porcelain factory. He resi find out more...