Atonement (2007)
Joe Wright

England, in the summer of 1935. Briony Tallis is a 13-year-old girl with an overactive imagination who lives in a large country house with her older sister Cecilia...   [More...]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Tim Burton

Charlie Bucket lives with his parents and four grandparents in a rundown old house, the family barely surviving on the small amount Charlie's father earns at the toothpaste factory...   [More...]

Chicago (2002)
Rob Marshall

Chicago, in the mid-1920s. Roxie Hart has ambitions to be a vaudeville star and believes her lover, Fred Casely, when he says he can find her an opening...   [More...]

Gosford Park (2001)
Robert Altman

England, 1932. Sir William McCordle, a wealthy industrialist, welcomes an assorted gathering at his stately country mansion, Gosford Park, for a hunting party...   [More...]

Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Terry George

Early in the spring of 1994, the African country Rwanda descends into tribal anarchy as the Hutu controlled government attempts to put down an uprising by Tutsi rebels...   [More...]

In the Electric Mist (2009)
Bertrand Tavernier

In the Louisiana town of New Iberia, maverick cop Dave Robicheaux is on the trail of a serial killer whose victims are all vulnerable young women...   [More...]

The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Joel Coen

In 1949, Ed Crane works as a barber in a small American town, in a shop belonging to his brother-in-law. He is married to Doris, a bookkeeper at a department store owned by Big Dave Brewster...   [More...]

Persepolis (2007)
Vincent Paronnaud

Teheran, 1978. The dreams of 8-year-old Marjane are fractured but not crushed when the Shah is deposed and the Islamic Revolution begins...   [More...]

Small Time Crooks (2000)
Woody Allen

Ray is an ex-convict who has put his criminal past behind him and now earns a meagre crust as a dishwasher. When he sees a pizza restaurant up for sale next to a bank he sees an easy way to get rich quick, but can he persuade his wife Frenchy to stump up their life savings to buy the restaurant...   [More...]