5.9

Valhalla Rising

2009, Denmark, UK

• Actors: Mads Mikkelsen, Maarten Stevenson, Gordon Brown, Andrew Flanagan, Gary Lewis, Gary McCormack, Alexander Morton, Jamie Sives, Ewan Stewart, Mathew Zajac, Rony Bridges, Robert Harrison, P.B. McBeath, Callum Mitchell, Stewart Porter, James Ramsey, Douglas Russell
• Genre: Action, Adventure
• Director(s): Nicolas Winding Refn
• Available languages:
  • English English.

1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.

  7.9

Dear Frankie

2003, UK

• Actors: Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, Mary Riggans, Sharon Small, Sophie Main, Katy Murphy, Sean Brown, Jayd Johnson, Anna Hepburn, Rony Bridges, Douglas Stewart Wallace, Elaine M. Ellis, Carolyn Calder, John Kazek, Gerard Butler, Garry Collins, Anne Marie Timoney, Maureen Johnson, Andrea Gibb, Cal Macaninch, Sharon MacKenzie, Jonathan Pender, Robert Harrison, Alan Marsh
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Shona Auerbach
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks, Lizzie writes Frankie a make-believe letter from his father, telling of his adventures in exotic lands. As Frankie tracks the ship's progress around the globe, he discovers that it is due to dock in his hometown. With the real HMS Accra arriving in only a fortnight, Lizzie must choose between telling Frankie the truth or finding the perfect stranger to play Frankie's father for just one day...

  6.4

Young Adam

2003, UK, France

• Actors: Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, Therese Bradley, Ewan Stewart, Stuart McQuarrie, Pauline Turner, Alan Cooke, Rory McCann, Ian Hanmore, Andrew Neil, Arnold Brown, Meg Fraser, Stuart Bowman, Wullie Brennan, Rony Bridges, John Kazek, Duncan McHardy, Stewart Porter, Malcolm Shields, Tam Dean Burn, Michael Carter, Struan Rodger, Mathew Zajac, Mhairi Steenbock, John Comerford, Anne Marie Timoney, John Yule
• Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): David Mackenzie
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Joe, a rootless young drifter, finds work on a barge travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh, owned by Les and his wife Ella. One afternoon they discover the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Accident? Suicide? Murder? As the police investigate and suspect is arrested, we discover that Joe knows more than he is letting on. Gradually we learn of Joe's past relationship with the dead woman. Meanwhile an unspoken attraction develops between Joe and Ella, heightening the claustrophobic tensions in the confined space of the barge.