Films for this season
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Matthieu (Pierre Niney) is a young and talented black box analyst on a mission to solve the reason behind the deadly crash of a brand new aircraft. Yet, when the case is closed by authorities, Matthieu cannot help but sense there is something wrong with the evidence. As he listens to the tracks again, he starts detecting some seriously disturbing details. Could the tape have been modified? Going against his boss’ orders, Matthieu begins his own rogue investigation – an obsessional and dangerous quest for truth that will quickly threaten far more than his career.
Year: 2021 (UK 2022)
Certificate: 15
Language: French, English
Director: Yann Gozlan
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Length: 129 minutes
The (largely) true, story of Maurice Flitcroft, a crane operator at a shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness who, with pluckiness and an unwavering self-belief, managed to enter the 1976 Open despite never playing a round of golf before and with an estimation of his golf abilities that far exceeded them. The extraordinary story of an ordinary man, this is an uplifting and moving comedy drama about pursuing your dreams and shooting for the stars, no matter what hand you’re dealt.
Year: 2021 (UK 2022)
Certificate: 12A
Language: English
Director: Craig Roberts
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Length: 106 minutes
The true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis. Fifty years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky (Anthony Hopkins) lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England, blaming himself for not doing more. It’s not until a live BBC television show, ‘That’s Life’, surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children – now adults – that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he had carried for five decades.
Year: 2023 (UK 2024)
Certificate: 12A
Language: English, German, Czech
Director: James Hawes
Genre: Biography Drama, History
Length: 110 minutes
Rob (Nicolas Cage) is a truffle hunter living the life of a hermit in the Oregon wilderness when his only companion, his beloved truffle-foraging pig, is kidnapped. Inconsolable Rob only wants his pig back and, if he has to, he’ll go to the edge of the world to find her, including returning to his past in Portland.
Year: 2021
Certificate: 15
Language: English, Persian
Director: Michael Sarnoski
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Length: 92 minutes
Hirayama (Koji Yakusho) seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. He follows a structured everyday life and dedicates his free time to his passion for music and books. Hirayama also has a fondness for trees and photographs them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past.
Year: 2023
Certificate: PG
Language: Japanese, English
Director: Wim Wenders
Genre: Drama
Length: 123 minutes
A heart-warming tale of Tom (Timothy Spall), a pensioner whose wife, Mary (Phyllis Logan), has just passed away, who travels from John O’Groats to his original home town of Land’s End, one local bus at a time, using his free bus pass, in order to fulfil his pledge to spread her ashes near their first home. He carries with him only a small suitcase, travelling the length of the country with it. Along the way, his adventures are recorded by the people he meets and helps, and by the end of his trip he has unwittingly become a social media celebrity.
Year: 2021
Certificate: 12A
Language: English
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Genre: Drama
Length: 86 minutes
A team of Ukrainian journalists from The Associated Press (AP) trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting atrocities of the Russian invasion. As the only international reporters who remain in the city, they capture defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, a bombed hospital, and more. Drawing on Chernov’s daily news dispatches and personal footage of his own country at war, this film is a vivid account of civilians caught in the siege, as well as a window into what it’s like to report from a conflict zone. Won an Oscar in 2024.
Year: 2023
Certificate: 18
Language: Russian Ukrainian
Director: Mstyslav Chernov
Genre: Documentary
Length: 95 minutes
Two neighbours live in a 1920s English seaside town: deeply-conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents start to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town’s women, led by Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan), begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss and Rose might not be the culprit after all.
Year: 2023 (UK 2024)
Certificate: 15
Language: English
Director: Thea Sharrock
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Length: 100 minutes
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s (Danielle Deadwyler) relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till (Jalyn Hall), who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie’s poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother’s ability to change the world.
Year: 2022 (UK 2023)
Certificate: 12A
Language: English
Director: Chinonye Chukwu
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Length: 100 minutes
Chile, 1976, three years after Augusto Pinochet established a military dictatorship, Carmen (Aline Kuppenheim) goes to her beach house to take some time for herself. When the local priest asks her to take care of Elías (Nicolás Sepúlveda), a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
Year: 2022 (UK 2023)
Certificate: 15
Language: Spanish
Director: Manuela Martelli
Genre: Drama
Length: 95 minutes