La Bohème

Dornhelm's production, shot in a Viennese studio, is fairly straightforward, and beautifully sung all round

Lemon Tree

This is a highly effective depiction of the daily insults, injuries and injustices visited by Israel upon the Palestinians

The Man From London

Though beautiful to look at for a while, Béla Tarr's film is almost entirely lacking in conviction

The Man from London

Béla Tarr's film is no conventional cop thriller. It's an arresting nightmare all the same, finds Peter Bradshaw

Love and Honour

If Douglas Sirk made films about samurai warriors, this might be the sort he'd make, says Peter Bradshaw

Slow-gestation films

Ryan Gilbey on the films that time - or, to be more accurate, the distributors - forgot

Año Uña

A moderately enjoyable attempt to make a narrative from actual stills in this story of an edgy friendship

The Silence of Lorna

There is something admirably pure in the Dardennes brothers' artistic resolve, but also something puritanical

Belle Toujours

Sequel to Belle de Jour which nails down the mysteries of fantasy and dream life that Buñuel so audaciously left hanging

The Baader Meinhof Complex

The story of what drove the Baader Meinhof gang to violence, and the way Germany reacted, makes for a powerful movie

The Baader Meinhof Complex

A sprawling, episodic and interminable 70s period drama, ploddingly comparable to Steven Spielberg's Munich