The season opens with a thought-provoking film based on the true story of a team of counterfeiters in a World War Two concentration camp. Offered an opportunity to cooperate with the Nazis in exchange for their lives and a degree of comfort, these prisoners are faced with a moral dilemma.

McGrath's entertaining Infamous focuses on the research and writing of Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. Fascinated by the gruesome murder of the Clutter family, Capote travels to Kansas. When the two killers are caught, Capote is intrigued by one of them, Perry Smith and befriends him in prison.

This splendid film, set in 1938, describes the plight of a group of widows, including eight year old Chuyia, who are condemned by Hindu tradition to live their lives in poverty in a temple. It was defiantly filmed in Sri Lanka after bomb scares, rioting and death threats from protesting Hindus made working in India impossible.

The return of a Belgian to Japan, where she was born, to work as a corporate translator turns into a comic nightmare, as her efforts to assimilate herself and to show initiative are sabotaged by her co-workers. An entertaining study of the sheer hell of office life

Stephen Fry's script transforms Mozart's opera into a spectacular musical adventure on the Western Front. Tamino is rescued by a trio of field nurses and is sent to free the kidnapped daughter of the Queen of the Night. The lovers' destiny may determine the lives of millions.

A powerfully paced story about conscience and survival, Mountain Patrol is set in the spectacular freezing plains of Tibet. It's a gripping drama centred on an expedition by a local volunteer force and a reporter in search of poachers hunting wild antelope for their pelts.

This French-language adaptation of the second of DH Lawrence's three versions of his novel is stirring in all senses. Any hint of cliché in the familiar tale of the lonely lady revived by her relationship with the gamekeeper is overcome by the film's splendid photography and execution.

This lovable and beautiful animation is the autobiographical tale of Marjane Satrapi, a girl growing up in Iran under the fundamentalist regime of the 70s and 80s. It is a rich blend of coming of age comedy, political history and social drama.

A mother returns to her childhood home, but its disturbing past is revealed when her son starts to talk about his new imaginary friends. This tale of a missing child at a long-abandoned orphanage is a chilling gothic horror movie from Spain.

This is an engaging and quirky indie comedy with a brilliant performance by Ellen Page in the title role. A bright teenager with a sardonic wit, she becomes pregnant and sets out to find the perfect parents for her unborn child. However things aren't quite as straightforward as they seem.

A rare opportunity to enjoy two Buster Keaton films, with live accompaniment by the composer James Harpham. As Steamboat Bill Jnr., Keaton is the archetypal underdog who ultimately impresses his red-necked father and wins his business rival's daughter. In the supporting short, Keaton and his bride are given a portable house you can easily assemble in One Week..!

Michael Clayton offers George Clooney a complex and challenging role as a fixer in a big corporate law firm. Though exhausted and stressed by personal difficulties, he must decide whether and how to cover up for the firm's most ruthless partner, whose nervous breakdown threatens to destroy it.

This moving Oscar-nominated film tells the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the successful editor of Elle magazine, who suffered a stroke which left him completely paralysed apart from his left eye-lid. With incredible empathy and humour, it traces his efforts to dictate his memoirs by blinking in a special alphabetical code

An outstanding British drama combining social realism with gritty thriller dynamics, as two women, an adolescent runaway and an experienced prostitute go on the run to the coast. Although far from cosy viewing, there is some warmth and humour and, by skilfully withholding vital information, Williams keeps us guessing to the end.

A German high school teacher decides to educate his pupils about autocracy by running his class for a week on the principles of a fascist regime. The experiment produces devastating effects, leading to a tragic conclusion. This powerful film was a huge hit in Germany

From childhood to glory, from triumph to despair, from Belleville to New York, La Vie en Rose tells the extraordinary story of Edith Piaf. Marion Cotillard won an Oscar for her performance as the singer in this moving and colourful film version of her life.

After three years in prison for robbery, Sherry wants to rebuild her life, not an easy task for a former heroin addict, alcoholic and neglectful mother. Maggie Gyllenhaal gives a wonderful central performance - tough, dignified, defensive, emotional and sexy - in Collyer's impressive feature debut.

Mike Leigh's new film is not just more optimistic than his familiar social realism – it positively glows with the irrepressible cheerfulness of its central figure, Poppy, whose gift for making the most of life is challenged by a driving instructor with a very different world view.