Scott Pilgrim is a jobless, aimless 22 year-old who plays in a garage band and dates a high-schooler. When he sees Ramona Flowers he falls head over heels – but he’ll have to see off her seven Evil Exes in order to win her hand. Fight! Read more
When a boy starts to communicate with an invisible new friend, his mother quickly enters a living nightmare. Produced by Guillermo del Toro, this Spanish horror film is as beautiful and touching as it is terrifying. Read more
Asif Kapadia’s remarkable film tells the epic life story of Formula 1 champion Ayrton Senna. Not a movie about motor racing, this is a thrilling exploration of the single minded pursuit of perfection; it’s joys and its tragedy. Read more
A senator famous for killing a notorious outlaw returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed. Hollywood giants John Wayne and James Stewart star, together for the first time. Read more
Fritz Lang’s hugely expensive and influential Metropolis is a mammoth marvel, fusing modernism and expressionism with art deco and Biblical spectacle, Wagnerian bombast with sentimental Marxism. Read more
An expedition has unearthed the original Santa Claus, buried in an ice-filled mountain. Soon children from a nearby village begin to disappear. Only little Pietari knows who’s responsible, but who will believe him? A darkly comic gem, destined to become a festive favourite. Read more
“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl” said director, Goddard. A young French car thief goes on the run with his American girlfriend after he kills a policeman. A landmark film, it forever changed perceptions of cinema. Read more
Robert Mitchum plays a crooked preacher looking to cheat a widow out of $10,000 her husband stole in a robbery, but only her children know where the money’s hidden, and he can’t make them tell. Read more
A man and a woman move into neighbouring Hong Kong apartments and form a bond when they suspect their spouses of having an affair. Wong Kar-Wai directs Tony Leung in this lyrical Palme d’Or nominee. Read more
A young man moves in with his grandmother, the head of a Melbourn crime family in the middle of a bitter turf war and a fight for survival in David Michôd’s multi-award winning modern gangster film. Read more
The war on drugs has been lost, and when a reluctant undercover cop is ordered to spy on those he is closest to, the toll that the mission takes on his sanity is too great to comprehend in Richard Linklater’s rotoscoped take on Philip K. Dick’s classic novel. Read more
Set in 1927, when silent films made way for “talkies”, “Singin’ in the Rain” is universally acclaimed as one of the best movie musicals ever made and firmly established Gene Kelly’s reputation as Hollywood’s greatest song and dance man. Read more
Surveillance expert Harry Caul is indifferent to the subjects of his eavesdropping until the furtive confidences of illicit lovers arouse guilt and longings that draw him into a murder plot and corporate conspiracy. Read more
Catherine Deneuve is the ‘Trophy Wife’ who, with the help of old flame and mayor Gérard Depardieu, takes charge when her husband, the boss, is kidnapped by the union in this whimsical French comedy of sexual politics. Read more
A retired legal counsellor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love for his superior – both of which haunt him decades later. Read more
Harold, a prosperous gangster, is about to close a lucrative deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they are. Bloody mayhem ensues. Read more
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