Pool of London

Jia Zhangke’s state-of-the-nation report on contemporary China is comprised of four stories about shocking acts of violence.

Ryan Gosling takes on Bangkok’s criminal underworld in this kaleidoscopic revenge fantasy from cult director Nicolas Winding Refn.

When night falls, two Bradford car wash workers are dragged into an escalating moral crisis.

Shujun Wei's slow-burn noir draws us inexorably into its mysterious psychological journey.

Ian McKellen plays the august detective, now a 93-year-old whose principle case is trying to unravel the mysteries of his own past.

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck, Kate Winslet and Woody Harrelson make up the heavyweight cast for John Hillcoat’s (The Proposition) stunning heist thriller.

John Mills stars as a progressive union leader who is confronted with his own internal prejudices when his daughter brings her West Indian boyfriend home.

A young student with a secret is brutally murdered in this British Academy Award winning thriller about race, sex and jealousy.

Thrilling adventure set in London's docklands involving a young lad and a Trinidadian docker who's framed for murder.

Helen Mirren won an Oscar for her performance as the enduring monarch who comes under scrutiny following the death of Princess Diana.

After their aircraft is shot down, four military men cast adrift must struggle to survive in this gripping WWII drama.

A tough and gritty drama detailing the turbulent life of hard-drinking Liverpudlian seamen, with Richard Burton in only his third film role.

Dirk Bogarde stars as a loose-cannon crook with Dixon of Dock Green (Jack Warner) on his tail, in the classic Ealing policier.

Will Hay's third film for Ealing Studios finds the legendary comic parachuted into Nazi Germany when British intelligence discover that he's the spitting image of an enemy master spy

A young student with a secret is brutally murdered in this British Academy Award winning thriller about race, sex and jealousy.

Long-unavailable Utopian fantasy (or 'socialist propaganda'?) - a true oddity from the wartime Ealing Studios.

Othello is transposed to the 1960s Soho jazz scene as a malevolent drummer sows mistrust between husband-and-wife jazz luminaries.

A realistic recreation of life as a prisoner of war in Germany lends credence to this moving account of wartime survival against the odds.

Wim Wenders' stately and beautifully scored study of Anselm Kiefer.

Writer-director Robin Campillo offers an exploration of memory and politics, in this boldly conceived story of boyhood in 1970s Madagascar.

Le’Shantey Bonsu gives a stunning performance as a young girl deeply connected to her mother (Déborah Lukumuena) in Adura Onashile’s tender drama.

A young woman seeking her biological mother veers into dangerous territory in this psychological thriller from Irish directing duo Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor.

Based on Jerzy Kosiński’s 1965 novel, Václav Marhoul’s extraordinary The Painted Bird finds a lone Jewish boy on a dark odyssey towards home.

A young mixed heritage man confronts the psychological complexities of his identity in this essential, truly cinematic discovery.