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Jim Carrey is The Grinch in Ron Howard’s feature adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s classic Christmas tale.

An animated adventure centered on a 5-year-old boy and his relationship with a goldfish princess who longs to become human. Made by Japanese animation auteur Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away).

As time goes by, the appeal of Casablanca shows no sign of diminishing. Originally intended as a WWII propaganda movie, it remains a marvellous blend of bittersweet romance, wisecracking comedy and wartime intrigue...

Tim Burton’s beloved stop-frame animated musical. Directed by stop frame guru Henry Selick (work includes the creatures in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, James And The Giant Peach), the Dr Seuss-ian tale follows Jack Skellington...

As a result of relationships gone wrong, strangers Iris (Winslet) and Amanda (Diaz) find themselves in the same situation; alone and loveless during the festive season...

Robert Zemeckis' motion-capture CGI animated adaptation of the Van Allsburg childrens novel, about a young boy in search of the true spirit of Christmas...

Christmas family-comedy from star Will Ferrell and director Jon Favreau. 

From Studio Ghibli. Haru, a schoolgirl bored by her ordinary routine, saves the life of an unusual cat, and suddenly her world is transformed beyond anything she's ever imagined.

Winner of seven Academy Awards and regarded as one of the greatest movies ever made, David Lean's 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia is based on the life of eccentric British Officer T.E. Lawrence...

Ariane lives in Simon's large Parisian apartment. He wants to know everything from her, follows her, has her accompanied for her trips and constantly interrogates her. Knowing her taste for women and her double life only exacerbates his suffering, his helplessness, and his desire for her.

Filmmaking giant Stanley Kubrick's last film, an erotic thriller with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

Two gangsters seek revenge on the prison warden who, during their stay at a youth prison, sexually abused them in Barry Levinson's crime drama, starring Kevin Bacon, Robert DeNiro, Brad Pitt, Dustin Hoffman and Billy Crudup.

The latest battle in the eternal war between Good and Evil has come to New Jersey in the late, late 20th Century, in Kevin Smith's religious comedy. Stars Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

Christian Bale is a wealthy New York investment banking executive who hides his psychopathic ego from his co-workers as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

Madcap family holiday classic from John Hughes starring Macaulay Culkin as an eight-year-old left by himself to defend his home from burglars Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern over Christmas.

Die Hard spawned its own franchise and influenced other action movies. Few of the spin-offs were able to match the sublime blend of ironic humour and suspense of the original...

Stanley Kubrick’s saga of the Vietnam War and the dehumanising process that turns people into trained killers.

James Cameron’s classic ‘80s sci-fi flick starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg sent from the future to kill an unsuspecting woman, Sarah Connor.

Ingmar Bergman’s dreamlike chronicle of an extended family in early 20th-century Sweden returns to cinemas in time for Christmas.

Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession is a psychotronic tour-de-force set during the Cold War in West Berlin. Follows a married couple, Anna (Isabelle Adjani) and Mark (Sam Neill), who are on the verge of divorce.

Experimental film about a restless widow driven to desperation, from Venice Golden Lion-winning auteur Chantal Akerman (Night and Day).

Biopic on stand-up comedy great Lenny Bruce, played by Dustin Hoffman.