Genre: World Cinema, Comedy

Winner of Best Film and the Audience Award at the Rome International Film Festival, an Argentinian comedy following the relationship between a reclusive Spanish hardware store owner and a Chinese immigrant thrown together by an absurd twist of fate.............MORE

Genre: Music, Documentary

"Shihad took their dreams all the way to the giddy heights of the US music scene. A terrorist attack, ill-advised name-change and swift-talk managers saw those dreams fall apart at the seams in one fated moment in LA's notorious Viper Room. After multiple best-selling albums and a bond that has endured for over 23 years this documentary examines the notions of family, loyalty and success for four friends that almost took the biggest music industry in the World by storm." .............MORE

Genre: Drama, Western

Kiwi-made Western (dubbed the "Pavlova Western"), set in America but shot in New Zealand, starring Cohen Holloway (Boy) and directed/written/produced by Weta Workshop’s own Mike Wallis, making his feature debut.............MORE

Genre: Drama, Comedy

It's 1990 in South Africa and poor young Spud Milton's off to his first year at an elite boading school in this coming-of-age comedy, based on the novel by John van de RuitWith his lunatic parents fearing Mandela's release will lead to communist rule, Spud is initially glad to leave home for the safety of the private school in Kwazula-Natal. But surrounded by well-to-do boys with nicknames like Gecko, Rambo, Rain Man and Mad Dog, Spud struggles to adapt to his new home............MORE

Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Iranian drama, winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the 2012 Academy Awards and Golden Globes, and Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival 2011. "A middle-class Iranian couple, already in the midst of an unpleasant separation, find themselves drawn into a web of half-truths and manipulation after the husband hires a lower-class caretaker for his Alzheimer's-stricken, elderly father. ..........MORE

Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Surprise winner of Best Screenplay at Cannes 2011 has an equally surprising premise; the intense, professional rivalry between a pair of professors who also happen to be father and son...........MORE

Genre: True Story, Drama

Benjamin Mee (Damon), an animal behaviour specialist, and his family need a fresh start. Using his life savings, he buys a dilapidated zoo in the countryside complete with 200 exotic animals (including Siberian tigers, African lions, wolves and brown bears), and moves his family in. ..........MORE

Genre: Musical, Kids, Family, Comedy, Animated

Singing chimpmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore return for more high-pitched antics in their third animated/live-action movie. On route to a gig, the Chipmunks and Chipettes get "chipwrecked" on a desert island. There they get involved in a race for buried treasure with the island's sole inhabitant...........MORE

Genre: Drama, Adaptation, Comedy

Comedy-drama set in Hawaii starring George Clooney and directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election) - winner of Best Film (Comedy) and Best Actor at the 2012 Golden Globes Land baron Matt (Clooney) is an indifferent husband and father forced to reevaluate life and face some unsettling truths after his wife suffers a coma-inducing boating accident. A personal crisis envelopes Matt, including strained relations with his two daughters and the bombshell revelation that his wife was cheating on him...........MORE

Genre: Drama, Adaptation

The producers of the internationally cherished Animal Kingdom adapt Julia Leigh’s (writer and director of Sleeping Beauty) acclaimed novel to screen, an Aussie psychological drama set in the Tasmanian wilderness.........MORE

Genre: World Cinema, Thriller, Crime, Action

Norwegian thriller about a corporate art thief who goes for the biggest score of his career, but finds himself in great danger after the by-the-numbers heist goes bad. Based on the novel by Jo Nesbø. Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) is married to a gorgeous gallery owner and a master corporate headhunter. To support their luxurious lifestyle, Roger has a side operation... When interviewing potential CEOs for his clients, he steers the conversation toward cultural tastes, and specifically art. After judging their personal collections, Roger sends the hopeful businessmen to meet the company and robs their homes.........MORE

Genre: Thriller, Drama

Critically acclaimed British dramatic-thriller starring Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton) and John C. Reilly (Magnolia) as parents living in the aftermath of their teenage son's Columbine-style high-school killing spree. Eva (Swinton) struggles to find the balance between her successful writing career and the attention her newborn son needs, despite her husband’s (John C. Reilly) enthusiasm for their new suburban life.........MORE

Genre: World Cinema, Romantic Comedy

French rom-com set in a chocolate factory that chronicles the awkward and masked romance between two abnormally shy people, both suffering from "hyper-emotionalism". "'I have no problem with women,' chocolatier Jean-René assures his therapist. 'They just terrify me, that’s all.' .........MORE

Genre: Historical, Drama, Adaptation

Australian-British prenuptial comedy from the writer of Death at a Funeral and the director of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, about a wedding that hurtles into havoc when the groom’s incompetent 'best men' arrive..........MORE

Genre: Historical, Drama, Adaptation

"The Duel gives pictorial life to a classic Chekhovian tale and brings much shrewd understanding to its ageless tale of temperamentally opposed 20-somethings acting out. Laevsky, a moody young aristocrat, and Nadya, his fickle (married) mistress, have retreated from the city to a summering spot by the Black Sea. ..........MORE

Genre: World Cinema, Drama

Critically acclaimed French drama about a 10-year-old girl who assumes a male identity to fit in when her family move to a small village. The film has won numerous awards at Gay and Lesbian film festivals around the world..........MORE

Genre: True Story, Drama, Biography

British Prime Minister (from 1979 - 1990) Margaret Thatcher biopic with the great Meryl Streep playing the titular Iron Lady. Tells Thatcher's story via flashback, including the lead-up to Britain's controversial involvement in the Falklands War in 1982. Jim Broadbent plays her husband Dennis.........MORE

Genre: Documentary

“Legendary horse trainer Buck Brannaman… tours the world giving clinics on ‘starting’ colts, using a method of firm but sensitive nonverbal instruction that one rancher admiringly calls ‘voodoo.’ Brannaman’s entire philosophy of how horses mirror the psychology and insecurities of their owners… stems from the merciless brutality that he and his brother experienced in childhood, at the hands of an alcoholic father..........MORE

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Woody Allen romantic comedy set in Paris, starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Michael Sheen, Kathy Bates and Carla Bruni............MORE

Genre: Historical, Drama, Adaptation

During an era where female independence was non-existent and discouraged, Albert Nobbs (Close) escapes a life of poverty and despair by disguising herself as a “himself.” However, she seeks to dismantle her 30-year façade after meeting a handsome painter. While trying to reconstruct an ordinary life, she acquires the company of a gorgeous young house maid (Mia Wasikowska, Jane Eyre), who has her own man-seeking agendas...........MORE

Genre: Action, Drama

During experiments to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease, a genetically-enhanced chimpanzee uses its greater intelligence to lead other apes to freedom............MORE

Genre: True Story, Drama

The true story of an 84-year-old Kenyan villager and civil war veteran who fights for his right to go to school, and get the education he could never afford. From the director of The Other Boleyn Girl...........MORE

Genre: Family, Comedy, Adaptation

Jim Carrey family film about a wealthy New York businessman who inherits a waddle of penguins. The penguins turn his swanky apartment into a winter wonderland and his life upside down. ..........MORE

Genre: Documentary

Documentary chronicling the impact of Christchurch’s devastating earthquakes, September 2010 and February 2011, on the lives of its citizens: "The people's story shot in the streets of Christchurch". Features original music by Tiki Taane..........MORE

Genre: True Story, Thriller, Drama

Thriller inspired by the true story of Kathryn Bolkovac, an American policewoman who discovered US military involvement in child sex slavery and human trafficking in war torn Bosnia. Stars Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz..........MORE

Genre: Comedy,Drama

Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Mélanie Laurent star in this comedy-drama about a young man rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer and that he has a young male lover.........MORE

Genre: Comedy

Michael Winterbottom (A Cock and Bull Story, 24 Hour Party People) directs brilliant British comedians Steve Coogan (I'm Alan Partridge) and Rob Brydon (Gavin & Stacey) playing fictionalised versions of themselves on a road trip around the UK, ostensibly working as restaurant critics........MORE