6.8

Meek's Cutoff

2010,

• Actors: Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Will Patton, Zoe Kazan, Paul Dano, Shirley Henderson, Neal Huff, Tommy Nelson, Rod Rondeaux
• Genre: Western
• Director(s): Kelly Reichardt
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon team of three families has hired the mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a short cut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants must face the scourges of hunger, thirst and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival. When a Native American wanderer crosses their path, the emigrants are torn between their trust in a guide who has proven himself unreliable and a man who has always been seen as the natural enemy.

  4.2

The Nutcracker: The Untold Story

2009, UK, Hungary

• Actors: Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, John Turturro, Frances de la Tour, Richard E. Grant, Yuliya Vysotskaya, Shirley Henderson, Aaron Michael Drozin, Charlie Rowe, Peter Elliott, Daniel Peacock, Alan Cox, Hugh Sachs, Africa Nile, Jonathan Coyne, Stuart Hopps, Ferenc Elek, Attila Kalmár, György Honti, Gergo Brummel, Fernanda Dorogi, Kriszta Dorogi, Béla Gados, Verner Gresty, Jason Harris, Jácint Hergenröder, Zoltán Hetényi, Barna Ilyes, Lilla Karolyi, László Keszég
• Genre: Action, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Andrey Konchalovskiy
• Available languages:
  • English English.

1920s Vienna. Nine-year-old Mary lives in a home filled with lovely things and loneliness. Bothered by bratty brother Max and neglected by well intentioned, but distracted, parents, she yearns for companionship and adventure. On Christmas Eve, Mary's beloved Uncle Albert arrives with the gift of a wooden nutcracker doll. Later that night, Mary's imagination brings the doll to life. Introducing himself as "NC," he takes her on a wondrous journey through a stunning dimension where toys assume human form and everything appears ten times larger. But danger lurks. An army of toothy rat creatures, led by the flamboyant Rat King and his devious mother, has unleashed a plot to overthrow humanity. When NC is captured and placed under a paralytic spell, Mary, Max and a spirited band of toy sidekicks must rescue him from the Rat King's clutches and thwart his wicked plans to 'ratify' the world.

  5.8

Wild Child

2007, USA, UK, France

• Actors: Emma Roberts, Lexi Ainsworth, Shelby Young, Johnny Pacar, Aidan Quinn, Natasha Richardson, Georgia King, Eleanor Turner-Moss, Ruby Thomas, Kimberley Nixon, Linzey Cocker, Juno Temple, Sophie Wu, Shirley Henderson, Tommy Kijas, Alex Pettyfer, Sonia Rockwell, Kelsey Sanders, Vanessa Branch, Paul Butterworth, Selina Cadell, Daisy Donovan, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Nick Frost, Rusty O'Hara, Garrett Swann, Hazel Calderon, Hazel Dean, Tony Jeeves, Kara Pacitto
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Nick Moore
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Since Malibu brat Poppy Moore's mom passed away, she has pushed her rich, usually absent dad Gerry shamelessly. When his patience wears out, she's shipped off to her mother's former English boarding school for girls, Abbey Mount. On her first day she makes enemies of most dorm mates, especially dominant lacrosse school captain Harriet, and of staff disciplinarian Mrs. Kingsley. Unwilling to accept the strict regime, she decides to misbehave and take the blame for everyone until she's dismissed. The school only appealing feature for her is Kingsley's dashing son Freddie. When the dream prince transfers his favor from ambitious, uptight Harriet to unruly Poppy, that changes everything.

  7.0

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

2007, UK, USA

• Actors: Amy Adams, David Alexander, Clare Clifford, Christina Cole, Stephanie Cole, Beatie Edney, Shirley Henderson, Ciarán Hinds, Sarah Kants, Sally Leonard, Frances McDormand, Katy Murphy, Lee Pace, Tom Payne, Tim Potter, Matt Ryan, Mark Strong, Mo Zinal, James Fiddy, Silvia Lombardo, Chris Mansfield, Leonard Silver, Pauline Stone, Ben Wood
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): Bharat Nalluri
• Available languages:
  • English English.

War threatens London as Miss Pettigrew, a destitute governess, filches a client's card from her agency and presents herself at the door. A singer named Delysia Lafosse wants a social secretary as she seeks a West End role by sleeping with a feckless producer in the bed of Nick, a smarmy nightclub owner with whom she also dallies. She ignores Michael, her piano player, who loves her and has tickets for New York on the Queen Mary. Miss Pettigrew's job is to make sure Delysia gets the part. Over 24 hours, Miss Pettigrew is also called upon to help an ambitious and unfaithful fashion editor patch things up with her older fiancé, a lingerie designer. Has Miss Pettigrew found her calling?

  6.4

Marie Antoinette

2005, USA, France, Japan

• Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne, Asia Argento, Molly Shannon, Shirley Henderson, Danny Huston, Marianne Faithfull, Mary Nighy, Sebastian Armesto, Jamie Dornan, Aurore Clément, Guillaume Gallienne, James Lance, Al Weaver, Tom Hardy, Steve Coogan, Clara Brajtman, Mélodie Berenfeld, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Io Bottoms, Céline Sallette, André Oumansky, Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni, Jean-Paul Scarpitta, Lucien Rolland, Clémentine Poidatz, Camille Micelli
• Genre: Biography, Drama, History
• Director(s): Sofia Coppola
• Available languages:
  • English English.

"All eyes will be on you," says the Austrian duchess, Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film, marketed for a teen audience, is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinette's life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Marie Antoinette, as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of France.

  6.8

A Cock and Bull Story

2005, UK

• Actors: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Raymond Waring, Conal Murphy, Joe Williams, Paul Kynman, Mark Tandy, Mary Healey, Dylan Moran, Jack Shepherd, David Walliams, Jeremy Northam, Benedict Wong, Naomie Harris, Claire Keelan, Kelly Macdonald, Mark Hadfield, Elizabeth Berrington, Mark Williams, Jenny Ogilvie, Tony Wilson, Justine Mitchell, Kieran O'Brien, Roger Allam, Ashley Jensen, James Fleet, Ian Hart, Ronni Ancona
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two actors, as their make up is applied, talk about the size of their parts. Then into the film: Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel, Tristram Shandy, a fictive autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. The film tracks between "Shandy" and behind the scenes. Size matters: parts, egos, shoes, noses. The lead's girlfriend, with their infant son, is up from London for the night, wanting sex; interruptions are constant. Scenes are shot, re-shot, and discarded. The purpose of the project is elusive. Fathers and sons; men and women; cocks and bulls. Life is amorphous, too full and too rich to be captured in one narrative.

  7.5

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2004, UK, USA

• Actors: Eric Sykes, Timothy Spall, David Tennant, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Mark Williams, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Bonnie Wright, Jeff Rawle, Robert Pattinson, Jason Isaacs, Tom Felton, Stanislav Ianevski, Robert Hardy, Philip Rham, Olivia Higginbottom, Ashley Artus, Alex Palmer, Paschal Friel, Richard Rosson, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Sheila Allen, Su Elliot, Anne Lacy, Flip Webster, David Sterne, Christopher Whittingham, Liam McKenna
• Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
• Director(s): Mike Newell
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts is about to start and he is enjoying the summer vacation with his friends. They get the tickets to The Quidditch World Cup Final but after the match is over, people dressed like Lord Voldemort's 'Death Eaters' set a fire to all the visitors' tents, coupled with the appearance of Voldemort's symbol, the 'Dark Mark' in the sky, which causes a frenzy across the magical community. That same year, Hogwarts is hosting 'The Triwizard Tournament', a magical tournament between three well-known schools of magic : Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang. The contestants have to be above the age of 17, and are chosen by a magical object called Goblet of Fire. On the night of selection, however, the Goblet spews out four names instead of the usual three, with Harry unwittingly being selected as the Fourth Champion. Since the magic cannot be reversed, Harry is forced to go with it and brave three exceedingly difficult tasks.

  5.6

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

2003, UK, France, Germany, Ireland, USA

• Actors: Renée Zellweger, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, James Faulkner, Celia Imrie, Dominic McHale, Colin Firth, Donald Douglas, Shirley Dixon, Neil Pearson, Rosalind Halstead, Luis Soto, Tom Brooke, Hugh Grant, Alba Fleming Furlan, Jacinda Barrett, Sally Phillips, James Callis, Shirley Henderson, Lucy Robinson, David Verrey, Mark Tandy, Stephanie O'Rourke, Jeremy Paxman, Flaminia Cinque, Jessica Hynes, Trevor Fox, Alex Jennings, Catherine Russell, Ian McNeice
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): Beeban Kidron
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The story picks up four weeks after the first film, and already Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, strange contractor, and the worst vacation of her life.

  7.2

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

2001, USA, UK, Germany

• Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Griffiths, Fiona Shaw, Harry Melling, Toby Jones, Jim Norton, Veronica Clifford, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Julie Walters, Bonnie Wright, Mark Williams, Chris Rankin, Tom Felton, Jason Isaacs, Edward Tudor-Pole, Jenny Tarren, Robbie Coltrane, Tom Knight, Heather Bleasdale, Isabella Columbus, Kenneth Branagh, Peter O'Farrell, Ben Borowiecki, Harry Taylor, Matthew Lewis, Devon Murray, David Bradley
• Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
• Director(s): Chris Columbus
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Forced to spend his summer holidays with his muggle relations, Harry Potter gets a real shock when he gets a surprise visitor: Dobby the house-elf, who warns Harry Potter against returning to Hogwarts, for terrible things are going to happen. Harry decides to ignore Dobby's warning and continues with his pre-arranged schedule. But at Hogwarts, strange and terrible things are indeed happening: Harry is suddenly hearing mysterious voices from inside the walls, muggle-born students are being attacked, and a message scrawled on the wall in blood puts everyone on his/her guard - "The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. Enemies Of The Heir, Beware" .

  7.3

24 Hour Party People

2001, UK

• Actors: Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Nigel Pivaro, Lennie James, Shirley Henderson, Martin Hancock, Mark Windows, Paddy Considine, John Simm, Ralf Little, Dave Gorman, Andy Serkis, Danny Cunningham, Paul Popplewell, Ron Cook, Raymond Waring, Peter Kay, Mark E. Smith, Naomi Radcliffe, Sean Harris, Tim Horrocks, Rob Brydon, Howard Devoto, Collette Cooper, Tracy Cunliffe, Enzo Cilenti, Duncan Whitworth, Michael Mitchell Jr., Claire Lever, Neil Bell
• Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
• Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson, Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, signing first Joy Division (who go on to become New Order) then James and the Happy Mondays, who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda - a mecca for clubbers as famous as the likes of Studio 54. Graphically depicting the music and dance heritage of Manchester from the late 70's to the early 90's, this comedy documents the vibrancy that made Mad-chester the place in the world that you would most like to be.

  6.8

Bridget Jones's Diary

2000, UK, Ireland, France

• Actors: Renée Zellweger, Gemma Jones, Celia Imrie, James Faulkner, Jim Broadbent, Colin Firth, Charmian May, Hugh Grant, Paul Brooke, Felicity Montagu, Shirley Henderson, Sally Phillips, James Callis, Charlie Caine, Gareth Marks, John Clegg, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Bates, Jeffrey Archer, Patrick Barlow, Rebecca Charles, Honor Blackman, Dominic McHale, Joan Blackham, Lisa Barbuscia, Joseph Alessi, Rhydian Jai-Persad, Neil Pearson, Paul Ross, Stewart Wright
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Sharon Maguire
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her many imperfections. As a New Year's Resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance who Bridget cannot seem to stop running into or help finding quietly attractive.

  6.5

The Claim

2000, UK, France, Canada

• Actors: Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Wes Bentley, Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley, Shirley Henderson, Julian Richings, Sean McGinley, Randy Birch, Tom McCamus, Frank Zotter, Artur Ciastkowski, Barry Ward, Karolina Muller, David Lereaney, Valerie Planche, Grant Linneberg, Jimmy Herman, Marie Brassard, Phillipa Peak, Kate Hennig, Fernando Davalos, Marc Hollogne, Ron Anderson, Marty Antonini, Lydia Lau, Royal Sproule, Tim Koetting, Billy Morton, Duncan Fraser
• Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
• Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scout the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.

  8.2

Trainspotting

1995, UK

• Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Peter Mullan, James Cosmo, Eileen Nicholas, Susan Vidler, Pauline Lynch, Shirley Henderson, Stuart McQuarrie, Irvine Welsh, Dale Winton, Keith Allen, Kevin Allen, Annie Louise Ross, Billy Riddoch, Fiona Bell, Vincent Friell, Hugh Ross, Victor Eadie, Kate Donnelly, Finlay Welsh, Eddie Nestor, Tom Delmar, Rachael Fleming, John Hodge, Andrew Macdonald
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Danny Boyle
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them...

  6.8

Rob Roy

1994, USA, UK

• Actors: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Andrew Keir, Brian Cox, Brian McCardie, Gilbert Martin, Vicki Masson, Gilly Gilchrist, Jason Flemyng, Ewan Stewart, David Hayman, Brian McArthur, David Brooks Palmer, Myra McFadyen, Karen Matheson, Shirley Henderson, John Murtagh, Bill Gardiner, Valentine Nwanze, Richard Bonehill
• Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
• Director(s): Michael Caton-Jones
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.