Ron Cook

When Vianne (Binoche), a mysterious stranger, and her child arrive in a tranquil French town in the winter of 1959, nobody could have imagined the impact that she and her spirited daughter would have on this community stubbornly rooted in tradition. (Miramax Films)

A comedy about a prison escape with a musical twist. (Paramount Pictures)

Set in the lavish era of 16th century Italy, The Merchant of Venice follows the interlocking lives of a captivating assortment of Shakespearean characters in this story wrought with morality, revenge, redemption and love. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Quills boldly enters the debate surrounding the Marquis De Sade by imagining his final days as a blistering black comedy thriller, a battle between lust and love - and between the brutality of censorship and the unpredictable consequences of free expression. (Fox Searchlight)

Cynthia lives in London with her sullen street-sweeper daughter. Her brother has been successful with his photographer's business and now lives nearby in a more upmarket house. But Cynthia hasn't even been invited round there after a year. So, all round, she feels rather lonely and isolated. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Hortense, adopted at birth but now grown up, starts to try and trace her mother. (imdb)

Having narrowly averted a major disaster on an oil rig, the Thunderbirds have just returned home to their secret base when TB5, their space based station, is critically damaged in a suspected meteor strike. Unbeknown to them, the attack on TB5 is a deliberate ploy by international master criminal Aristotle Spode to get them off the island. He takes over the island and forces Brains into submission, using the power of his mind. But Spode has overlooked one key factor: Alan, Fermat and Tin Tin are still on the island. (imdb)

After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to one of their greatest successes. (imdb)

Just when it seemed safe to come out of the kennel, Cruella De Vil is back and this time she's not alone.

This inspirational drama illustrates how when you aspire to something extraordinary, you can find the hero within. When Glasgow shipbuilder Frank Redmond is suddenly laid off, he finds himself without a job or a sense of direction. An offhand remark from a friend inspires Frank to challenge himself. Determined to shore up his own self-confidence, he will attempt the near-impossible -- swimming the English Channel. (Focus Features)

The wife of an oafish restaurant owner becomes bored with her husband and considers an affair with a regular patron. (imdb)

A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.

A look at the life of troubled comic Kenneth Williams, as shown by extracts from his diaries.

Rose and Antonia are two old friends who meet up again after the second world war. Unhappy in their relationships, they plan to 'accidentally' murder each others husbands. (imdb)

The true story of the British royal prince locked away because of having epilepsy. (imdb)

Documents the rise of Mary Whitehouse during the 1960's, and the relationship between her and Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, the Director General of the BBC. (imdb)

Based on the diary of a teenage girl in hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.

Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown... (imdb)

Based on the controversial novel by Philippa Gregory, "The Other Boleyn Girl" is a fictionalized account of the life of Lady Mary Boleyn who becomes mistress to England's king, Henry VIII, then is ousted by her younger sister, Anne. Mary leaves the Court to marry a commoner, but returns when Anne embarks on a reckless policy to save herself from ruin. (imdb)

Thrown together just five weeks before the final of the 1948 London Olympics, Bert Bushnell and Dickie Burnell row together in the the double sculls.

Centers on the real-life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's department store. (imdb)

Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad in the European city-state of Beszel, investigates the murder of a student from Beszel's twin-city of Ul Qoman - which occupies the same space but is perceived differently. (imdb)

. . . Set on the Grand Pine Indian Reservation, aka "Reservation X," the film combines elements of melodrama, performance art, cable access, and 'whodunit' to question conventions of ethnic and sexual identity as well as film narrative. (mcgill.ca).

The life, loves and adventures of the charming rascal Tom Jones, a foundling child born of a serving wench but allowed to grow up in the privileged surroundings of Squire Allworthy's household. (imdb)

A love story set in and around a beautiful old cinema on the South Coast of England in the 1980s (imdb.com).

A powerful London theatre critic becomes entangled in a web of deceit and murder (imdb)