Fresh Starts

The debut feature from actor Harris Dickinson sees a homeless addict get a shot at recovery and redemption.

Life begins at 70 for Mahin, who decides to shake her life up in this charming, quietly subversive tale from Iran.

A bureaucrat’s life finds new meaning in Kurosawa’s classic original, the source for Bill Nighy’s brilliant drama, Living.

Adam Driver excels in this effortlessly charming tale of a bus driver poet in New Jersey, filmed with typically groovy elan by Jim Jarmusch.

Saoirse Ronan gives a bracing performance as a young recovering alcoholic returning home to Orkney in this moving adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir.

Reviled upon its release, now reclaimed as a cult classic - one can only submit to the trash-tastic delights of Paul Verhoeven's erotic disasterpiece.

The late, great Harry Dean Stanton's finest role came as the near-mute Travis, on a journey across America to reunite his family, in Wim Wenders' moving tale of loss and redemption.

Samantha Morton plays the enigmatic title character in Lynne Ramsay’s dreamy and atmospheric road movie.

Audrey Tatou plays the shy waitress whose altriusm leads to love, in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's BAFTA-winning hit romance.

Jack Nicholson is at his best in Michelangelo Antonioni’s tale of a burnt-out political correspondent swapping identities with a dead man.

Two Nigerian migrants dare to imagine a vibrant future outside of their confinement at a British immigration removal centre.

Hilarious, uplifting tale of an Irish son juggling four very different mothers over one chaotic weekend in Dublin.

Catherine Deneuve and Benoît Poelvoorde head the cast in this wildly inventive comedy, in which God’s daughter decides to rewrite the rules.

Edward Lovelace explores the power of communication and community with this rapturous portrait of a young deaf Kurdish boy.

Six-year-old Cléo spends a final summer with her beloved nanny Gloria, in this profoundly moving story of chosen family, duty and innocence lost.