Adam Arkin

Ken Burns' documentary series on the Second World War told through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns.

Nicolas Cage plays a quiet truffle hunter living alone in the Oregonian wilderness. When someone kidnaps his beloved foraging pig, he returns to Portland and confronts his past to find the people responsible.

Audience Award winner at Sundance 2012, the true story of a man (John Hawkes), paralysed from the neck down, determined to lose his virginity at the age of 38 – with the help of a sex therapist (Helen Hunt) and the guidance of his priest (William H. Macy).

The masterful Coen brothers (No Country For Old Men, The Big Lebowski) present a black comedy set in 1967, about Larry Gopnik, a physics professor who watches his life unravel when his wife leaves him.

Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers.

A trio of sisters (Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton and Lisa Kudrow) bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father (Walter Matthau), to whom none of them was particularly close.