Oscar award winning actress Renee Zelweger portrays the famous children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter in Chris Noonan's charming biopic. The film finds traction in the personal life and doomed romance that the well-known writer kept very quiet.

In 1960s England, young David Wiseman loves cricket, but is a positively rotten player. That is, until he begins to spend time with his new neighbors-- a Jamaican family with a shared passion for the game. David's new happiness is threatened, however, when racial tensions begin to flare up in the neighborhood.

Called the best film about the French Resistance to Nazi occupation during WWII, director Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 film is based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Joseph Kessel. A taut and austere thriller.

In the late 1990s, Alan Conway, an English travel agent, successfully impersonated the director Stanley Kubrick even though he looked nothing like the man and knew very little about his work. Conway's power of persuasion was such that he fooled actors, producers and critics-- some of whom had actually met Kubrick in person before. In Brian Cook's 2007 film, John Malkovich portrays the poseur who dished and dined with the rich and gullible.

A sleeper you just have to see! This thriller, directed by Karen Moncrieff, is made up of five short films all centered around the dead girl of the title. The stories of the woman who finds the body, the sister of a missing girl, a married couple with a secret connection to the crime, the mother of a runaway girl, and the dead girl herself are woven together to create a tapestry of guilt, remorse, fear and desire. A knockout film with great acting from some incredible women-- Toni Colette, Brittany Murphy, Marcia Gay Harden and more.

A classic of Japanese cinema directed by the great Kenji Mizoguchi. This cinematographically breathtaking movie was recently re-released in a Criterion Collection edition, beautifully restored with interviews with contemporaries of Mizoguchi and an illuminating commentary by Japanese-literature professor Jeffrey Angles. Not to be missed by any cinemaphile.

This sharp, smart film by Argentine director Daniel Berman follows the lives of two attorneys, Bernardo Perelman and his son Ariel (Daniel Hendler of 25 Watts), and their families. Derecho de Familia is the third in a loose trilogy by Berman, preceded by Esperando al Mesías and El Abrazo Partido.

Director Agnieszka Holland brings the creation of Beethoven's Ninth Century to the screen with Ed Harris as the deaf and isolated composer, relying on a copyist Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger) as interpreter of the world of sounds and music he can no longer hear.

This 1979 movie, a recent Criterion Collection re-release, relays the true story of Iwao Enokizu, a serial killer who cunningly avoids capture as his rampage of senseless murders continues. Described as neo-noir and journalistic realism, director Shohei Imamura sets his killer up as a cypher, letting the audience project their own impressions on him.

Movies about the hard-working, fun-loving residents of small-towns are a dime a dozen, but Katherine Dieckmann's film rises to the top with humor and a touch of gravitas. Starring Paul Rudd (Knocked Up, The Forty Year Old Virgin) and Maura Tierney (ER) as a brother and sister greatly affected by the death of a friend in their close-knit community.

Unique, documentary-style insight into the lives of wild animals and domestic pets, as told by the animals themselves! Interviews with these lovable claymation creatures tell us what our fine finned, furred, and feathered friends really think!

Adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's novel about a small-time populist politician, Willie Stark, whose rise to party prominence in 1950s Louisiana is marred by his own corruption. Based on the life of Governor Huey P. Long of Louisiana

Chronicles a young man's haunting relationship in an irretrievaly aristocratic world. The story spans three decades from the early twenties to World War II in Charles Ryder's relationship with the wild and eccentric Sebastian Flyte and the aristocratic Marchmain family. Based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh.

Set in 1970's Montreal, Zac is the fourth of five sons, but he's always been more "sensitive" than the other boys. Growing up in a strict but loving Catholic household, Zac does everything he can to impress his stern father. Through a combination of music, rebellion and humor, Zac learns how to be true to his inner self and to teach his father to love him for who he really is.

Inspired by the story of a real-life hero, Huo Yuanjia. When an ill-advised fight destroys the reputation of a renowned martial arts champion and his family, his difficult path to redemption will bring him face-to-face with the most ferocious fighters in the world.

Centers on a handful of middle-class suburban parents whose lives, after a brief encounter at a neighborhood park, take a surprising and potentially perilous turn. Based on the novel by Tom Perrotta.

When the hottest teen music sensation asks an aging '80s pop has-been to write her a song, he realizes he will need help with the lyrics. Together with an unlikely partner, he finds that to write a love song, it helps to fall in love.

After the sudden death of her fiancé, Gray finds comfort in the company of his friends: lighthearted and comic Sam, hyper-responsible Dennis, and Dennis' old childhood buddy Fritz, an irresponsible playboy whom Gray had previously pegged as one of the least reliable people in the world. As secrets about her supposedly perfect fiancé emerge, Gray comes to see new sides of the man she thought she knew, and at the same time, finds herself drawn to the last man she ever expected to fall for.

Based on the Broadway musical, a trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960's. Special features on this 2-disc showstopper edition include 12 never-before-seen extended musical numbers, Beyoncé music video "Listen", behind-the-scenes full-length documentary "Building the dream", original auditions and screen tests, previsualization sequences, image gallery, and additional featurettes.

...And the Robert Altman award for Directing a Giant Ensemble Cast goes to... Emilio Estevez! The brat-pack era actor takes up Altman's mantle in this ambitious project which he wrote and directed. Famous faces fill up side stories in order to provide context for the main device of the movie-- the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1969.

A mobster-comedy (mobedy?) about two Italian-Americans who find the perfect place to lie low for awhile-- Glasgow, Scotland. Their Scots-Italian cousin, Roberto, however, is a mild manner fish-and-chips store owner who knows nothing of organized crime or his family's involvement in it. But when the American cousins offer to help him out of a little financial trouble, Roberto learns a new definition of "family". A film festival favorite, with half a dozen awards under its belt.

Every couple of years, the studios seem to release another film about a passionate teacher who changes the lives of students written off by their communities and in the process learns something about him or herself, too. Well, Hilary Swank plays one of those teachers in one of those films, yet does it so well that it's actually worth seeing. Based on a true story about a group of students who were encouraged to keep journals in an effort to understand themselves and their often violent, depressed community.

The Academy nominated Peter O'Toole for a Best Actor award for his performance as Maurice, an aged actor whom O'Toole himself described as "dirty old man". This "dirty old man" develops a rather passionate crush on his friend's grand-niece who initially rejects, then begins to allow, Maurice's advances. Directed by Roger Michell.

One of the oldest stories in the book: child finds dog, takes dog home, father says no, child finds away to keep the dog anyway. Director Byambasuren Davaa's film places this universal tale in Mongolia where "I promise I'll take care of it" means something different when you're a nomadic family on the move.

Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan star in this thrilling Civil War era Western. I know, none of those words strung together should make a very convincing sentence: Liam Neeson? Pierce Brosnan? Civil War? Western? Thrilling? Nevertheless, Director David Von Ancken makes his directorial debut hang together.

Just when he's doing so well, everyone seems to want Jeremy Piven dead. The list of would-be assassins reads like the table of contents from Entertainment tonight: Alicia Keyes, Common, Ben Affleck and Jason Bateman, to name a few. Granted, Piven plays a mafia player about to spill to the feds, so maybe there's a good reason why Ray Liotta and his fellow FBI officers have moved in to save the day.

Maybe marrying a bacteriologist and moving to China doesn't seem like a good idea to you. It isn't Kitty Fane's (Naomi Watts) first choice, either, but when you're a single socialite "of a certain age" and your parents insist, what's a girl to do? Kitty, not quite in love with her new husband (Edward Norton) finds love in the arms of another Englishman and then finds herself in the midst of a cholera outbreak. Both Norton and Watts are phenomenal in this period film based on the Somerset Maughm novel.