Remakes and Fresh Takes

A crime novelist seeks peace but gets a dangerous muse in this twisted bilingual thriller from François Ozon.

Farmers hire a band of samurai to defend them against marauding bandits in Kurosawa’s influential epic, a touchstone for action movies ever since.

Al Pacino shines in Christopher Nolan’s smart psychological thriller about a weary detective chasing a murder suspect in remote Alaska.

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

Park’s wilfully grotesque fable about an abductee trying to fathom the mysteries of his past.

An enigmatic housemaid and her wealthy, totalitarian employer begin an affair that will have disastrous consequences for them both.

Akira Kurosawa’s procedural crime masterpiece follows an industrialist who faces an agonising choice.

Kurosawa’s classic about a drifting samurai who plays two gangs off against each other, famously remade as A Fistful of Dollars.

A twelve-year-old boy befriends a mysterious girl with a dark secret, in Tomas Alfredson’s grownup tale of childhood vampirism.

A gutless moment comes to define a man in this glorious comedy of unease from the creator of Triangle of Sadness.

A retired legal investigator revisits an unresolved case that still haunts him, in Juan José Campanella’s taut, Academy Award winning, thriller.

Fassbinder’s international breakthrough, this unconventional love story combines lucid social analysis with devastating emotional power.

Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Stoker) channels Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, to create a sumptuous twisty psychological thriller full of erotic intrigue.

A ménage à trois stirs passion and jealousy beside a secluded pool in this sultry, French cult-thriller.

Director Alan Clarke examines the grim reality of borstal life in this searing remake of his previously banned television play.

English language version of Herzog’s stimulating take on the Dracula story starring Klaus Kinski, with echoes of Murnau’s 1922 Nosferatu.