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FACTOTUM (2005)
Hank Chinaski is a writer who can't get published. What he can do is get drunk, laid and fired. Based on Charles Bukowski's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name,
Factotum is the story of a man resigned to the fact that he is out of step with the rest of the world.
FAHRENHEIT 9/11 (2004)
Fahrenheit 9/11 gained enough media attention to rival Mel Gibson's
The Passion of the Christ, and took the Palme D'or away from Cannes in 2004. Michael Moore's non-fiction follow up to
Bowling for Columbine has provoked disgust and celebration in almost equal measure.
FAILURE TO LAUNCH (2005)
Tripp has never been able to leave the home comforts of the family nest - he enjoys an easy life too much. That is until Tripp's parents get involved and introduce Paula into his life to win his heart and nudge him out of home with hilarious consequences.
FALCONS (FÁLKAR) (2002)
Falcons is a tale of redemption, following American ex-con Simon (Keith Carradine) as he tries to make some kind of atonement for his wasted life. He returns to the place of his youth and meets the beautiful but slightly bizarre Dúa - who may or may not be his illegitimate daughter.
FAMILIA RODANTE (2004)
A fine addition to the recent crop of excellent Argentine movies,
Familia Rodante is a claustrophobic but affectionate ensemble comedy from the director of
El Bonaerense, Pablo Trapero.
FANTASTIC FOUR (2005)
Fantastic Four largely avoids exploring the downside to having mutant powers and focuses on just how much fun it would be to be able to stretch, disappear, burn and clobber.
FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER FURFER (2007)
Based on the archetypal Marvel comic book characters, this second Fantastic Four title sees the first family of superheroes - 'Mr Fantastic' (Ioan Gruffudd), 'The Invisible Woman' (Jessica Alba), 'The Human Torch' (Chris Evans) and 'The Thing' (Michael Chiklis) – meet their greatest challenge yet.
FANTASTIC MR FOX (2009)
Fantastic Mr Fox is visionary director
Wes Anderson's first animated film, utilising classic handmade stop motion techniques to tell the story of the bestselling children's book by Roald Dahl and featuring the voices of George Clooney and Bill Murray.
FAQ ABOUT TIME TRAVEL (2009)
Chris O’Dowd, of TV sit-com The IT Crowd, gets more than he bargained for when he pops down his local with a couple of mates in this sci-fi comedy.
FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002)
Todd Haynes' homage to the Douglas Sirk melodramas of the 1950s (which arguably paved the way for the soap operas of today) takes us to a highly idealised America, straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting.
Far From Heaven tells the story of a seemingly happy family living an idyllic existence in suburban America.
FAST AND FURIOUS (2009)
Vin Diesel
and Paul Walker reteam for the ultimate chapter of the franchise built on speed -
Fast and Furious. Heading back to the LA streets where it all began, they rejoin Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster to blast muscle and exotic cars through the Mexican desert in the new high-octane action-thriller.
FAST FOOD NATION (2006)
Eric Schlosser’s anarchic 2001 best-selling book exposed the dark underbelly of American fast food culture, in a sharp, satrical look at its fast food industry, now it gets a fictionalised - but still totally compelling - movie treatment from Richard Linklater (
A Scanner Darkly, School of Rock).
FATELESS (2006)
Based on the 2002 Nobel prize-winning novel by Imre Kertesz,
Fateless chronicles the attempts of 14-year-old Gyuri Koves to reconcile the unimaginable horror of having been incarcerated in German concentration camps.
FATHER AND SON (2003)
A father and his son live together in a rooftop apartment that is shut away from the rest of the world. Sharing a closeness that is somewhat unnatural, the two appear at times to be more lovers than family.
FAVELA RISING (2005)
Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary achieve a real life feel of Meirelles'
City of God with ground-breaking interviews that document the violent oppression in poverty stricken Favelas enforced by teenage drug gangs and corrupt police.
FEARLESS (2006)
Based on a true story,
Fearless, starring Jet Li
, tells the life of legendary martial arts master Huo Yuanjia. Both a terrific showcase for Li's martial arts skills, and a compelling story about one man's fight to redeem himself, this will be Li's final martial arts epic ever.
Trailers now running online.
FEED (2005)
Taking its cue from gross-out horrors like
Se7en and
Silence of the Lambs,
Feeder is about a rogue Australian cop who travels to the States to investigate a disturbing website which shows women being fed to death - it's a grotesque narrative which may indeed prove too much to stomach.
FEMALE AGENTS (2008)
Based on true events, true stories and real heroines,
Female Agents is a powerful rendition of the challenges that faced female World War II Resistance fighters, who were constantly in the shadow of men and accorded little importance for the roles they played in a violent and horrific war.
FESTIVAL (2005)
A random collection of comics and performers descend on the 2005 Edinburgh Festival - or rather, the infamous Fringe, a place where hopes, dreams and nightmares are realised - all with agendas of making it big, baby.
FIGHT CLUB (1999)
"The first rule of fight club is...you don't talk about fight club": an iconic film of the late 90s
Fight Club, based on Chuck Palahniuk's cult novel, was one of the first to showcase Edward Norton's acting range. Since then, everyone's been talking about
Fight Club...
FIGHTING (2009)
Small-town boy Shawn (Channing) goes to the big city to make his fortune but finds himself selling counterfeit goods. His luck changes when he meets Harvey (Howard) who offers him the chance to make big money on the street fighting circuit.
FIGHTING TEMPTATIONS, THE (2003)
Following in the footsteps of
Sister Act and
School of Rock,
The Fighting Temptations falls firmly in the ‘Underdog With a Heart of Gold Must Lead Mistfit Group of Tuneless Singers to Victory in the Next Really Important Choir Contest' genre.
FINAL DESTINATION 3 (2005)
When a bunch of students cheat death in a freak rollercoaster accident, they find Death is not so easily out-done. Their numbers have been called, and one way or another, a gruesome fate awaits each one of them - unless they can unravel the premonitions, and avert fate, in this fun, horror-comedy.
FINDING NEMO (2003)
Finding Nemo, written and directed by Andrew Stanton, is a pure visual feast, appealing to both adults and children with its winning combination of comedy, drama and, of course, fantastic characters and settings.
FINDING NEVERLAND (2004)
With a slew of already existant films about Peter Pan in, all his various guises,
Neverland takes a meta-look instead at J.M.Barrie, the creator of one of the most long-lived, and loved, children's fables ever told.
FISH TANK (2009)
In
FISH TANK, 15 year old Mia's life is turned on its head when her mum brings home a new boyfriend. Arnold casts the same unflinching, unprejudiced gaze and touches on the themes of her Oscar-winning short
Wasp to create an original and unsettling tale for our age.
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS (2006)
From Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg,
Flags of Our Fathers tells the story behind the most indelible image of the Pacific War: Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer James Bradley's shot of the raising of the US flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima.
FLANDERS (2005)
Flanders counterpoints scenes of an unspecified conflict in an unnamed desert, with scenes of the sexual battle fought by disenchanted young men and women on the home front.
FLASH OF GENIUS (2009)
Based on an article in The New Yorker,
Flash of Genius tells the story of the real-life legal battle between inventor Robert Kearns and Ford Motor Company for stealing his invention of the intermittent windshield wiper.
FLAWLESS (2008)
Flawless pairs two of the biggest stars in the world, Demi Moore (
Indecent Proposal, Ghost) and Michael Caine (
The Quiet American, The Cider House Rules).
FLIGHT 93 (2006)
A documentation of the final moments of those who were killed in the name of someone else's cause, a memorial and testimony, part political propaganda, but mostly a part of the grieving process, of those left behind, and for a nation still trying to understand both why and how.
FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX (2004)
A remake of Robert Aldrich's 1965
The Flight of the Phoenix, Dennis Quaid stars as a grizzled pilot on whom the surviving passengers of a plane crash pin their hopes to fly them out of the desert. Though a remake,
FOTP rises above such stigma, delivering exactly what it says on the tin.
FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON (2008)
Inspired by the classic short The Red Balloon,
Flight of the Red Balloon is the first in a series of films commissioned to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Paris Musee d’Orsay.
FLIGHTPLAN (2005)
Recently widowed Kyle boards a flight with her young daughter but, wakes after a nap to find daughter Julia missing - and both crew and passengers claim to never have seen her board. Not only must Kyle search alone for her child, but she must maintain an increasingly fragile sense of sanity.
FLY ME TO THE MOON (3D) (2008)
Exclusively in 3D animation
, Fly Me To The Moon is the exciting tale of three brave young houseflies who embark on an amazing adventure after sneaking aboard the Apollo 11 spaceship mission to the moon.
FLYING SCOTSMAN, THE (2007)
A heart-warming story of a Scottish underdog triumphing against the odds. Based on the life of Graeme Obree, the film has a wealth of source material both on and off the track, and first-time director Mackinnon does a good job of making a relatively obscure spectator sport watchable.
FOG OF WAR, THE (2003)
A simple premise: the life of Robert S. McNamara - America's youngest ever Secretary of Defence and at Kennedy's side throughout the Cold and Vietnam wars - told here in eleven lessons cut from over 25 hours' of interviews. The end result is cinematic, touching and sombre.
FOG, THE (2005)
A hundred years after a boat mysteriously sinks off the coast of a quiet fishing town, 'the fog' returns, bringing with it the walking dead, poltergeist activity and ominous noises. And, this being a teen horror re-make of John Carpenter's 1980 original, half-naked girls and few choice cliches.
FOOTBALL DAYS (2003)
From David Serrano, writer and director of the hugely acclaimed
The Other Side of the Bed, comes
Football Days, Spain's answer to
The Full Monty:
a hilarious and poignant comedy about delusion, the survival of the unfittest, abject humiliation and inevitable defeat.
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION (2006)
The latest mockumentary comedy from writer/director Christopher Guest poking fun at the pomposities of Hollywood actors, the Oscars and E! style entertainment programming.
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (2006)
James Bond is thrust into one of his most riveting adventures in this jam-packed free-for-all of outrageous stunts, passionate encounters and exciting confrontations. Roger Moore portrays Agent 007 with lethal determination in a plot that finds him infiltrating the Greek underworld and racing against time to find a stolen device capable of controlling a fleet of nuclear submarines.
FORD TRANSIT (2002)
Ford Transit takes its name from the reluctant star of its film – a white Ford transit van. Hany Abu-Assad's documentary follows Rajai as he detours between Israeli checkpoints and borders in the occupied territories, ferrying his passengers around hair-raising shortcuts and occupational hazards.
FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (2008)
From the producers of
The 40-Year-Old Virgin and
Knocked Up comes a comic look at one guy’s arduous quest to grow up and get over the heartbreak of being dumped -- if he can only make himself start ‘
Forgetting Sarah Marshall’.
FORTY SHADES OF BLUE (2006)
This slow-burning and subdued relationship drama set in the soul-soaked music world of Memphis was a prize winner at last year™s Sundance Film Festival. The story follows Laura, the lonely and neglected trophy wife of a much older veteran music producer Alan James.
FOUR BROTHERS (2005)
When their white foster mother is murdered, four brothers (two white, two black) reunite for her funeral and to hunt her killers. A diverse brood, from the ex-Marine womaniser to a fragile musician, the brothers find their quest takes them into a sinister world of organised crime and police corruption.
FRANKLYN (2009)
Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic metropolis of Meanwhile City,
Franklyn weaves a tale of four souls, whose lives are intertwined by fate, romance and tragedy. As these worlds collide, a single bullet determines the destiny of these four characters.
FRANTIC (1988)
Richard Walker and his wife Sondra arrive in Paris for a business trip, where Sondra vanishes suddenly and completely from their hotel room, seemingly kidnapped. Stranded in Paris with no French, or bearings, Walker uncovers cryptic clues and struggles to find his missing wife.
FREEDOM WRITERS (2007)
A young teacher (Swank) inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS (2004)
Friday Night Lights chronicles the 1988 Odessa-Permian Panthers high school football team, and its home town's noxious fixation in them bringing home the prestigious state championship, something jeopardised by a career-ending injury sustained by their star player.
FRIDAY OR ANOTHER DAY (VENDREDI OU UN AUTRE JOUR) (2005)
Admirers of Yvan Le Moine's
Le Nain Rouge (
The Red Dwarf) had to wait some seven years for a follow up feature from the French director, but will not be disappointed by yet another visually stunning tale, worthy of Fellini, about the human condition, and a re-working of the Robinson Crusoe tale.
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996)
From the pen of Quentin Tarantino (who also stars), and from the director of the
El Mariachi trilogy,
From Dusk Till Dawn is a body-popping collage of genres, from robbery-flick to B-movie schlock, vampire thriller and all-out actioner. What's not to like?
FROST/NIXON (2009)
Oscar®-winning director
Ron Howard brings to the screen writer Peter Morgan's electrifying battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make.
FROZEN (2005)
Kath is an emotionally damaged young woman still reeling from the disappearance of her sister Annie two years ago. Increasingly obsessed with finding out what happened, she steals CCTV footage showing Annie's last hours, and finds a ghostly apparition - is it Annie reaching out to her?
FROZEN LAND (2005)
Set against the backdrop of an iced-over contemporary Finland, and based on Leo Tolstoy’s ‘False Note’,
Frozen Land takes you on a journey through a strikingly bleak and occasionally blackly funny world, where money's the goal and drink abounds, and where loneliness and desperation push people to the edge of their lives and sanity.
FUN WITH DICK AND JANE (2005)
Fun with Dick & Jane is yet another Hollywood remake, but most contemporary audiences may never have seen or heard of the original 1977 version. Starring George Segal as Dick and Jane Fonda as Jane, the earlier film was a wittier and more caustic look at the downside of the American Dream.
FUNNY GAMES (0000)
An English-language remake of writer/director
Michael Haneke's own 1997 Austrian film,
Funny Games is a brutal and gripping horror/thriller with a difference of sorts.
FUNNY PEOPLE (2009)
Over the past few years, writer/director Judd Apatow has shown that nothing is sacred. Apatow directs Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann in
Funny People, the story of a famous comedian who has a near-death experience.
FEAST OF LOVE (2007)
