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RABBIT PROOF FENCE (2002)
From the 1930s to the 1970s The Aborigines Act gave the Australian government the power to permanently remove 'half-caste' children from their families to eradicate their mixed genes.
Rabbit Proof Fence focuses on three little girls who escape from the authorities and make the 1,200 mile journey home across the desert.
RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (2009)
When Kym (Academy Award nominee
Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie Dewitt), she brings a long history of personal crisis, family conflict and tragedy along with her.
Rachel Getting Married paints a heartfelt, perceptive and sometimes hilarious family portrait.
RADIO (2003)
Radio is based on the true story of the unlikely friendship that developed in a small South Carolina town between a high school football coach Harold Jones (Harris), and a severely handicapped young man, the eponymous 'Radio' (Gooding).
RAG TALE (2005)
With Mary McGuckian's bitch fest
Rag Tale piling one journalistic caricature after another it is a testament to the film that its frequent forays into the ridiculous do not take away from the wicked fun that is on offer.
RAISING VICTOR VARGAS (2002)
An inner-city neighbourhood on New York's Lower East Side is the location for
Raising Victor Vargas from talented 28-year-old director Peter Sollet, who also wrote and produced this simple, coming-of-age film which uses untrained Latino actors with great results.
RAMBO (2008)
Twenty years after the last installment in the series, Rambo has retreated to northern Thailand, where he works on a longboat near the Thailand-Burma border, where the Burmese-Karen conflict, the world's longest-running civil war, rages into its 60th year.
RATATOUILLE (2007)
In the new animated-adventure,
Ratatouille, a rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession.
RAY (2004)
Winning a Best Actor Oscar for Jamie Foxx,
Ray, a labour of love for director Taylor Hackford which has been 15 years in the making, is about legendary soul singer Ray Charles, who lived a long albeit turbulent life.
REAR WINDOW (1954)
Rear Window creates a tense drama from a seemingly mundane setting, with L.B. Jefferies (Stewart) trying to take his mind off of being stuck in his apartment and temporarily confined to a wheelchair after an accident.
REBECCA (2005)
Opening at the bfi NFT and Screen on the Hill, Alfred Hitchcock's first Hollywood film,
Rebecca is released in new prints. Based on the 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier,
Rebecca tells its story through the eyes of a female protagonist who is never given a name.
RED EYE (2005)
Wes Craven proves himself the master of suspence once again in his film
Red Eye. This psychological thriller, set at 30,000 feet, explores the common experience everyone who has ever travelled shares: who will sit next to you on the airplane?
RED LIGHT BANDIT, THE (1968)
As part of the new Brazilian that emerged in the 1960s,
The Red Light Bandit throws you headlong into the political turmoil of late 60s Brazil from the first frame and it doesn't let up until the end. This delirious film plays like a Jean Luc Godard inspired ride through the strife and turmoil of Brazil at the time.
RED LIGHTS (2004)
Tense, sinister and morally complex, Cedric Kahn's gripping relationship thriller is steeped in portentous images of impending catastrophe. Like Kahn's previous film, Roberto Succo,
Red Lights is a warped and violent road trip with a grimly comic and surreal edge.
RED ROAD (2006)
Each day Jackie, who works as a CCTV operator, watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again. Now she has no choice, Jackie is compelled to confront him.
REDACTED (2007)
There's a palpable sense of anger and frustration emanating from
Redacted, the latest film from director
Brian De Palma. An Iraq-set war film that focuses on a story ripped straight from recent headlines, this is a potent mixed media dramatisation of a horrific real life incident.
RENAISSANCE (2006)
Renaissance, the visually explosive film noir animation, starring the vocal talents of Daniel Craig, Jonathan Pryce and Romola Garai, is created with unique and novel digital effects will be released in limited edition packaging this winter.
RESERVOIR DOGS (1992)
It became the archetype of cool, ultra-violence for the 90s, and the film that first earned Tarantino accolades and hype. Six colour-coded characters come together to pull-off a heist, but with an undercover cop in their midst, and an ambush, it's about to go terribly wrong.
RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION (2007)
The third and final installment of the $100 million
Resident Evil hits,
Resident Evil: Extinction is again based on the widely poular video game series and picks up where the last film left off. Alice once again joins forces to try and eliminate the deadly virus that threatens to make every human being undead.
RETURN, THE (VOZVRASHCHENIYE) (2003)
Centering on the return of a mysterious father figure into the lives of two young boys, Andrei Zvyagintsev's feature debut
Vozvrashcheniye (The Return) is a beautifully shot, well-performed, would-be gem - if only it weren't so darn frustrating.
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (2008)
Adapted from the revealing novel by Richard Yates,
Revolutionary Road is an incisive portrait of an American marriage seen through the eyes of Frank (three-time Academy AwardŽ nominee Leonardo DiCaprio) and April (five-time Academy AwardŽ nominee Kate Winslet) Wheeler.
REVOLVER (2005)
To appease fans left feeling a little waterlogged after
Swept Away, Guy Ritchie's follow-up flick returns to Gangster roots. A crime caper,
Revolver is about a man who not only has a price on his head but a disease that will kill him in three days. And he still takes on another heist; that's how hard
he is.
RIDING GIANTS (2004)
From catching sidewalks to catching waves: Stacy Peralta, already documenter of the skate phenomena, turns his attention to the big waves and bodacious lifestyles that have accompanied surfing throughout the ages in this expansive documentary.
RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR (2006)
After multiple dirty bombs are detonated, spreading deadly toxic ash across Los Angeles, Brad (
Rory Cochrane) inadvertently quarantines his wife, Lexi (Mary McCormack) outside their new home by safely sealing himself inside.
RIGHTEOUS KILL (2008)
Dramatic cop thriller
Righteous Kill! sees Hollywood legends
Robert De Niro and
Al Pacino reunited on screen for the first time since their 1995 thriller
Heat! Hitting cinemas on the 26th September.
RING TWO, THE (2005)
After solving the riddle of a cursed videotape, haunted by longhaired ghost Samara, and saving the life of her son Aidan (Dorfman), journalist Rachel Keller (Watts) has relocated to a small town. However, she soon realises that Samara is still around, and has Rachel and Aidan in her sights.
RISE OF THE FOOT SOLDIER (2007)
Grim, graphic and brutal with it:
Rise of the Footsoldier is part sardonic gangster movie, part hero-worship; easy on the charm, easier with the fists, and with a gratuitous side of torture to boot.
RISING, THE (2005)
The Rising is an epic tale of friendship, love, loss and betrayal set against the backdrop of the first Indian Mutiny of 1857.
RIZE (2005)
From one of the world's most renowned photographers of our time comes a breathtaking, exuberant clash of images in a documentary dedicated to the groundbreaking dance phenomenon, 'krumping'.
ROBOTS (2005)
Slight on plot but a real heavyweight on thrills,
Robots is the charming tale of Rodney, a talented young robot with a knack for inventing things.
ROCK SCHOOL (2005)
Do you love this song? Do you love Rock? Do you love... Satan? These are the questions posed by Paul Green - owner, teacher and self-titled Überlord of 'Rock School', and inspiration for Jack Black's character in
School of Rock.
ROCKNROLLA (2008)
When a Russian mobster orchestrates a crooked land deal, millions of dollars are up for grabs, and all of London's criminal underworld wants in on the action.
ROCKY BALBOA (2006)
30 years ago, one man showed the world that NOTHING is impossible! In the concluding chapter of Sylvester Stallone's
Rocky story, the former heavyweight champion steps out of retirement and back into the ring, pitting himself against a new rival in a dramatically different era.
ROMANCE AND CIGARETTES (2005)
Part painful karaoke, part working-class musical, director John Turturro's
Romance and Cigarettes is all about vocalising the secret soundtrack we all carry in our lives.
ROMANZO CRIMINALE (2006)
Set in the violent 70s and 80s when corruption racked Italy's institutions and gangsters terrorized the citizen of the country's major cities,
Romanzo Criminale is based on the true story of three childhood friends who set out
to conquer the streets of Rome.
ROOST, THE (2005)
While travelling cross-country to attend a wedding four friends make the rather obvious mistake of taking an ill-advised short cut. Soon they are stranded in the middle of nowhere and head to a nearby farmhouse for help, not realising that the real danger lies with the bloodthirsty creatures that live in the barn.
ROPE (1948)
A real-time cat-and-mouse game ensues when college kids Brandon and Philip murder a friend and hide his body in a chest in their apartment. Then they invite the victim's family to a dinner hosted from the top of the chest...classic Hitchock: dark, disturbing and technically innovative.
ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968)
What begins with all the charm of a Doris Day movie quickly transcends into one of the most frightening films ever made. Contemporary audience sensibilities may be dulled to fear, but it's impossible not to feel the tension of Mia Farrow's trapped, paranoid Rosemary.
ROUNDERS (1998)
Centring on the world of underground poker-playing,
Rounders deals with troubled nice-guy Mike McDermott's attempts to forge a new life away from the sleazy realm of cash chips Of course best laid plans go awry when buddy 'Worm' turns up fresh from jail.
RULES OF ATTRACTION, THE (2002)
At the end of the day
The Rules of Attraction deals with unsavoury subject matter and questionable stereotypes. Youths who should be full of hope and promise are instead drinking and drugging themselves to death so hard their lives have stopped moving forward and have gone into decline.
RUN, FAT BOY, RUN (2007)
Hot on the heels of the recent smash hit comedy
Hot Fuzz, Simon Pegg stars in actor-turned-director David Schwimmer's feature film debut,
RUN, FAT BOY, RUN. Interview now online with Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton and David Schwimmer.
RUNAWAY JURY (2003)
John Grisham's complex plot sees a high profile case brought against irresponsible gun manufactueres. Professional trial fixer Rankin Fitch tries to manipulate the jury's verdict - only to find that a member of the jury (John Cusack) is trying to do the very same thing from the inside.
RUNNING SCARED (2006)
A follow-up by director Wayne Kramer to
The Cooler,
Running Scared is the story of Joey Gazelle, a low-level gangster who has just one night to retrieve a smoking gun from a light-fingered neighbour. He enlists his wife and son's help to do the job, but finds their woes get worse as the night goes on.
RUNNING STUMBLED (2006)
Twenty-nine years after filmmaker John Maringouin was whisked away from the father who apparently tried to kill him in utero, the son returns to New Orleans for a family reunion of the most dysfunctional kind.
RUSSIA/CHECHNYA VOICES OF DISSENT, THE (2005)
A collaboration between actress Vanessa Redgrave and her director son Carlo Nero,
The Russia/Chechnya Voices of Dissent is an attempt to dispel the wall of international silence that has so far surrendered the recent crackdown on civil liberties and freedom of expression in Russia.
RUSSIAN ARK (2002)
Technically pioneering -
Russian Ark's 96 minutes were all filmed in one, unedited, unbroken shot - but emotionally lacking, director Aleksandr Sokurov attempts to capture 'natural life' as seen through the eyes of an invisible protagonist.
