Recommended

Requiem for a Dream (18) (2000)

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marl

Following the blighted lives of four Coney Islanders desperate to rise above stultified lives, Aronofskys is one of the most visually exciting films about drug dependence. Burstyns addled game show contestant is a tour de force. Refused a US ratings certificate, and driven by its textured score, this is a magic experience. (97 Mins)

Descent, The (18) (2005)

Director: Neil Marshall

Starring: MyAnna Buring, Natalia Jackson Mendoza

A group of girls seek adventure on a caving expedition but things go horribly wrong when they find themselves cut off deep inside an underground cave complex. Battling to get back to the surface they realise with horror that they are being hunted by an unknown cannibalistic predatory force. One of the best of the recent British horror movies. (90 Mins)

Guerilla: The Taking Of Patty Hearst (12) (2004)

Director: Robert Stone

Starring: Documentary

Stone's documentary, four years in production, charts the rise and fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army (the SLA), whose kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst remains one of the strangest experiences charted by the media... (90 Mins)

Dogtown & Z-Boys (15) (2001)

Director: Stacy Peralta

Starring: Stacy Peralta & the notorious Z-Boys

Documentary on the birth of skateboarding, following the Zephyr team from the Californian surf community of Dogtown, Santa Monica. (91 Mins)

Amores Perros (18) (2000)

Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu

Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Goya Toledo, Emilio Echevarria

Voted best film by the critics at Cannes 2000. Amores Perros explodes onto the screen with a bone-crunching car crash. The lives of its three victims are then imaginatively interwoven in this visceral eulogy to life and loss on Mexico's mean streets. (147 Mins)