V FOR VENDETTA (2005)
In this spring's adaptation of Alan Moore's seminal comic series, V for Vendetta, Matrix creators, Andy and Larry Wachowski, promise an uncompromising vision of a near-future London dominated by totalitarianism and stalked by a mysterious vigilante.

VALENTIN (2001)
Beautifully filmed by José Luis Cajaraville and with a lovely soundtrack by Paul van Brugge and Luis Salinas, Valentín succeeds in capturing the atmosphere of late 60s Argentina in this tale of a worldly-wise 8-year-old who dreams of finding a mother - and travelling to the moon.

VALIANT (2005)
Valiant tells the story of a little wood pigeon with big dreams, voiced by a glittering array of British actors, including Ewan McGregor in the lead role. Valiant marks the first phase in the renaissance of Ealing Studios and heralds the creation of Europe's first full-scale digital animation studio.

VALKYRIE (2009)

VALKYRIE (2009)
Starring Tom Cruise and based on an incredible true story, director Bryan Singer re-teams with Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (Usual Suspects) to bring to life the story of the men who led the operation to assassinate Hitler.

VAN HELSING (2004)
Hollywood doesn't suffer the yoke of literary convention - and it's none more apparent than in this re-working of the 'Dracula' tale, which sees lone hero Gabriel Van Helsing battling a whole comic book full of mythic monsters, aided and abetted by love interest Anna Valorious.

VANITY FAIR (2004)
This tenth attempt to film Vanity Fair is perhaps the best yet at capturing the overall themes of William Makepeace Thackeray's source text, merging classical literature and themes of social climbing with unexpectedly Bollywood design values.

VANTAGE POINT (2008)
The film follows the 15 minutes prior and directly after the assassination attempt and subsequent bombings, of President Aston (Hurt), while on a trip to Spain for a landmark summit on the global war on terror.

VENGEANCE IS MINE (1979)
Some see it as "the greatest serial killer film ever made": Vengeance is Mine tells the true story of Iwao Enokizu, the self-proclaimed "king of the criminals", who in 1963 went on a 78-day crime spree, committing fraud, robbery, and serial murder, causing a media frenzy and public panic in Japan.

VENUS (2006)
A wry, affectionate coming of very-old-age story, Venus reunites the team behind both the award-winning film The Mother and the television series The Buddha of Suburbia: director Roger Michell, writer Hanif Kureishi and producer Kevin Loader.

VERA DRAKE (2004)
Vera Drake is the most unlikely of heroines. In a post-war Britain (in which abortion was illegal), Vera (Imelda Staunton) secretly performs crude abortions for desperate working class women. It's a dangerous line to walk, fraught with self-destruction, and of which discovery is inevitable.

VERONICA GUERIN (2003)
It's been accused of a lack of 'gritty realism', but Joel Schumacher's Veronica Guerin - the true-life tale of the murdered Irish crime reporter - remains violent, hard-hitting and pragmatic.

VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (2008)
Woody Allen's latest film marks both a return to form and a return to the themes of impulsive romance at which he excels, this time transposed to an appropriately seductive Barcelona.

VIEW TO A KILL, A (2006)
Roger Moore lends humour, elegance and lethal charm to his final performance as James Bond in A View to a Kill. Bond confronts Max Zorin (Christopher Walken), who has devised a plan to corner the world’s microchip market, even if he has to kill millions to do it! But before Bond can stop the madman, he must confront Zorin’s beautiful and deadly companion May Day (Grace Jones).

VILLAGE, THE (2004)
In the eponymous village, fear dictates new rules: you must not wear red, you must remain in solitude, and above all you must not antagonise the creatures that prowl beyond. Shyamalan's film hangs on the inevitable twist, but is just as much an exploration of societal binds and touching love story.

VISITOR Q (2001)
For all its violence, rape, drug abuse and necrophilia the story at the heart of Visitor Q is a warm, uplifting and familiar one twisted into something new and depraved on the surface by the forever-controversial Japanese director Miike Takashi.

VIVA ZAPATERO! (2006)
Sabina Guzzanti's documentary Viva Zapatero! is a tit-for-tat two fingers up at the Berlusconi administration which, in 2003, cancelled her TV show after its pilot episode, effectively coshed the Media into towing the party line, and even attempted to control the nature and definition of Satire.

VOLVER (2006)
Nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award, Penelope Cruz stars in this critically acclaimed film from Director Pedro Almodovar about three generations of women in the region of La Mancha. BAFTA nominated Volver is out now on DVD.