Based on the best-selling John le Carré novel and from the director of “City of God” this film is a thriller, a political statement and a haunting romance all at once.

In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz) is found brutally murdered. Haunted by remorse, Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), a British official, surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents to discover how and why his wife died. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, he will risk his own life, stopping at nothing to uncover and expose the truth – a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined.

“engrossing, intelligent and emotionally powerful”

Noel Coward adapted his one-act play “Still Life” and, in conjunction with director David lean, created one of the most enduring films ever made. In a café at a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) meets doctor Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard).

Following this chance meeting they meet every Thursday and their acquaintance deepens into affection and love. It is the story of two people thrown together by their brief encounter who are helpless in the face of their emotions but redeemed by their moral courage. Over the years few films have equalled the compassion and realism of Brief Encounter.

The Chorus is an uplifting tale of a masterful teacher who puts his heart into his work and changes the lives of his students forever.

Set in 1940’s rural France at a school for poor boys who are either orphaned or delinquent.

The boys range from the socially awkward to outright bullies and are not averse to stealing and fighting. They defy authority, especially when it comes from their brutally unfair and abusive headmaster. Only after their new teacher shows them that he will guide them, befriend them and teach them by rousing their curiosity, not by insisting or punishing, do they begin to change. The choir he forms become a source of pride to the boys, allowing them to rise above the confines of their meagre and stifling school and dream of a bright future.

With a beautiful soundtrack of boys singing, the music of this film will stay with the audience long after the film is finished.

Murray plays Don Johnston – a lothario and longtime bachelor who learns in an anonymous letter that twenty years ago one of his ex-girlfriends had his child and never told him. Spurred on by his amateur detective next door neighbour Winston, not to mention the recent departure of his current girl Sherry, Don reluctantly agrees to seek out a cross section of former flames, attempt to uncover the mother’s identity, and just maybe, find the sense of purpose and direction he desperately needs but never knew to seek.

Winner of the 2005 Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, this is one of Jim Jarmusch’s funniest, most touching and accessible films.

A profound, moving tale set in the 1930’s about aboriginal displacement, concentrating on the extraordinary real-life case of three Aboriginal girls who were, as a result of government policy, taken 1000’s of miles from their homes to an orphanage to be trained to work in domestic service in white households and have the aborigine bred out of them. Noyce imbues a simple, true story with the force of anger and emotion. It’s impossible not to be moved as the three young girls make their break for freedom and set off on foot for home with only the fence to guide them. Well acted, evocatively scored by Peter Gabriel, and with Christopher Doyle’s photography, the girls’ odyssey is rendered as a stark, elemental trek across a vast horizon.

A taut, superbly performed drama featuring 1950’s crusading broadcast journalist Ed Murrow (Strathairn) who presents a weekly news show. The portrayal of his and his team’s daring investigation of Senator McCarthy’s witch-hunt for communists offers allusions to America’s current war on terror.

The paranoia of the time- fear of exposure, of losing one’s job, is acutely captured by Clooney, atmospherically filmed in black and white and steeped in cigarette smoke and jazz. The comradeship between Murrow and his colleagues (played by Clooney, Downey Jr. and others) in the campaigning newsroom is offset by the isolation and sense of danger they feel. Everyone has to decide whether to stay and fight for their beliefs or to go. Archive footage augments this powerful, moody film.

A Cannes Festival winner, Cache which means “Hidden” is the mysterious story of a family who realise they are being watched when videotapes of their life keep turning up on their doorstep. Gradually, the videos move on to more private stuff and the husband starts believing they are punitive in nature, in answer to the black past he carries from the the era when France occupied Algeria. Starring French legends Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche this haunting thriller is all the more gripping because of what it doesn’t tell you. Even the film’s punchline will get you asking as many questions as solving problems.

Bree (Felicity Huffman) is a born-again Christian and pre-operative transsexual woman living in L.A. and trying to save up money to become a woman. Formerly known as Stanley, Bree is about to complete gender realignment when she learns of the existence of her son Toby, who was conceived during a single night of heterosexual experimentation at college.

Lacking the courage to confess her true identity Bree plans instead to offload Toby on his stepfather in Kansas.

Like all good road movies, it is both a journey in space and time and a journey of the mind and spirit. It is a courageous piece of work, full of anxiety, pain and doubt, but also pluck and personal discovery, and all tempered by a self mocking humour.

Lantana is one of those movies that stays with you hours after you’,ve seen it. Made in 2001 this Australian film is about relationships and intersecting lives. Detective Leon Zat is having an affair. His wife is going to a psychiatrist. This psychiatrist has suffered her own emotional upheaval. In spite of her training, she is judgmental about extramarital affairs and the subject of trust.

Add to this mix a happily married couple with three small children who live next door to the woman the detective has romanced, a female cop who is full of good advice, and several other characters who are looking for emotional connection and we have an interesting plot about how paths cross and how we are all connected. And then one of the women disappears and murder is suspected. It is this murder investigation that touches each of these peoples lives.

A film of extraordinary merit, beauty and resonance. Walk the Line is a triumph-one of the greatest biopics ever made. Phoenix plays the Man in Black, country singing legend Johnny Cash, chronicling the towering musical icon from rise to fall and rise again, and his heaven and hell relationship with June Carter (Witherspoon).

This is a real home movie developed over seven years in close co-operation with Johnny and June before their passing in 2003. Imbued with images of black dogs and crows, foreshadowing doom, Mangold ties these tumultuous lives to a moving love story, culminating in Cash’s marriage proposal live on stage to a recalcitrant Carter in February 1968. The gig scenes are electric and a fitting tribute to Cash’s art. Reese Witherspoon won Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar.