Simba, having become king of the Pride Lands, is determined for his cub to follow in his paw prints while the origins of his late father Mufasa are explored. Told in flashbacks, the story introduces ...

A beautifully told romantic drama and a meditation on the nature of existence. Amid the languid pace of a small town, the lives of a terminally ill photographer and a young parking-enforcement officer ...

In Tsui Hark’s timeless romantic comedy, two people fall in love, are separated soon after and attempt to overcome the burden of not knowing what the other looks like. In 1937, during a Japanese air ...

A love story about the twists and turns in the relationship of a married couple, produced by acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Fruit Chan. In Cantonese and Mandarin with English and Chinese subtitles ...

The move to sound film production brought disruption to film industries across the world. Until recently, Britain’s transition experience had been relatively unexplored. Geoff Brown’s fascinating ...

Now one of the great lines in film history, ‘They call me Mr Tibbs!’ announced the arrival of Poitier’s detective to Rod Steiger’s racist Mississippi sheriff. They find themselves working together on ...

Crack cocaine is destroying New York and an NYPD detective goes undercover to bring down a notorious Harlem drug lord. Wesley Snipes is on electric form as powerful drug lord Nino Brown, who heads a ...

Poitier lends his considerable star power to this anti-Apartheid action thriller. He plays Shack Twala, a militant freedom fighter recently released from prison, who becomes embroiled with the police ...

This rarely-screened work of Gothic splendour is an indictment of privileged masculinity, featuring a loathsome protagonist in the form of Giancarlo Giannini’s Tullio. He viciously takes advantage of ...

This year’s LFF Best Film Award winner, Adam Elliot’s tale of separated twins in 1970s Australia is a funny and moving stop-motion triumph. Grace and Gilbert are separated as children due to tragic ...

Sidney Poitier woos Diahann Carroll in the city of love and to the strains of a rich Duke Ellington score. Poitier makes for a dashing romantic lead as jazz saxophonist Eddie Cook, enjoying the ...