Horror Jacques Tourneur USA English 1943 69 Nurse takes zombie to be cured at voodoo ritual. 2 Yes 12 Hollywood Ben Stiller USA English 2008 107 In which Hollywood urinates on its own tree-lined driveway. 0 Yes 12 Animation Various UK English 2005 85 Desecration of a childhood favourite (or at least, I suspect it is, though as it happens I recall nothing about the original series). 0 Yes 12 Animation Various UK English 2007 111 Rat becomes chef. 0 Yes 12 Animation Various US English 2009 94 Monsters fight aliens. 0 Yes 12 Arthouse Akira Kurasawa Japan Japanese 1962 96 Stranger offers tactical and martial arts services during inter-clan war. 7 Yes 12 Hollywood Doug Liman US English 2002 119 Well-made, relentless thriller about assassins, and other assassins trying to kill the first assassins. 7 Yes 12 Arthouse Joel Coen USA English 1984 99 Violent, realistic tale of murder. 4 Yes 12 Arthouse Joel Coen USA English 1991 111 Idiot made CEO of company in order to depress shareprice is unhappily successful and wins girl. 5 Yes 12 Arthouse Joel Coen USA English 1991 116 A writer fails to write a screenplay, and as a consequence wakes up in bed with the bloody corpse of William Faulkner's mistress. 4 Yes 12 Arthouse Wong Kar Wai Hong Kong Chinese 2004 123 A man fails to find lasting satisfaction in a series of relationships, possibly because he's not looking for it. 10 Yes 12 Arthouse Wong Kar Wai Hong Kong Chinese 2000 98 A man and a woman, whose spouses are having an affair, fail to have a similar affair of their own - though it's hard to say why. 9 Yes 12 Arthouse Zhang Yimou China Chinese 1987 91 Patriarcal wine-shop becomes successful co-operative until the Japanese invade. Possibly has some political sub-text. 5 Yes 12 Hollywood Robert Zemeckis US English 1988 104 Appalling scripted detective story. 0 Yes 12 Arthouse Francois Trauffaut France French 1971 108 Fine period piece by Truffaut about a two English women and their love for a Frenchman. 7 Yes 12 Arthouse Eric Rohmer France French 1982 97 Woman determines on marrying specific man, even though she's only met him once. 6 Yes 12 Silent FW Murnau US English 1927 94 Usual story: man tires of married life, starts having an affair; lover persuades him to murder his wife so they can be together, but man reneges on intention and goes with wife to funfair. 7 Yes 11 Silent FW Murnau US English 1931 84 Usual south seas story: boy falls in love with girl, girl is declared tabu, boy kidnaps girl and runs away to another island. Uses only south sea islanders as actors. 8 Yes 11 Arthouse Akira Kurosawa Japan Japanese 1945 79 In which Sugata fights a blond American boxer in order to prove the superiority of Japanese martial arts; and then fights some other people too. 5 Yes 11 Arthouse Wes Anderson USA English 2004 119 Usually quirky comedy from Wes Anderson. 5 Yes 11 Hollywood M Night Shyamalan USA English 2002 106 A man of God, who loses his faith after his wife is killed in a car crash, regains it when his brother beats an alien to death with a baseball bat. 0 Yes 11 Silent Louis Feuillade France French 1915 389 Feuillade's six and a half hour epic about criminal gang, the Vampires, who terrorise Paris with their murderous larceny and remarkable escapes from justice. It's only a pity it's not the journalist and his irritating sidekick who are killed at the end. 8 Yes 11 Arthouse Yasujiro Ozu Japan Japanese 1962 112 Ozu's last film. A widower admits he must give his daughter away in marriage to save her becoming an old maid. 7 Yes 11 Arthouse Yasujiro Ozu Japan Japanese 1948 84 A young woman, while her husband is away at war, sells her body to pay for her son's medical expenses. Her husband returns and she confesses her indiscretion. 5 Yes 11 Arthouse Ingmar Bergman Sweden Swedish 1953 96 Girl and boy run off together on boat for idyllic romance, until they are caught up again by reality. 6 Yes 11 Documentary Orson Wells France English 1974 85 Orson Wells' seeming documentary about art forgery - and fakery in general. 6 Yes 10 Blockbuster Matt Reeves USA English 2008 85 Giant monster attacks New York, knocks down skyscrapers. Young attractive Americans "don't know why it's happening to them". Apparently based on some recent historical event, the reference escaped me. 2 Yes 10 Arthouse Ethan and Joel Coen US English 2008 96 Usual Coen Brothers comedy. 4 Yes 10 Blockbuster Edward Neumeier US English 2008 105 A satire (possibly) about a militaristic human society fighting against some bugs. 1 Yes 10 Arthouse Francois Truffaut France French 1947 97 Whimsical new wave comedy about a couple living in a flat in Paris. 6 Yes 9 Film Noir Jacques Tourneur US English 1947 97 Marvellous (and unusually pessimistic) noir in which Robert Mitchum becomes involved with the woman he's been hired to follow. 8 Yes 8 Zombie Flick Robert Rodriguez US English 2007 101 Biological warfare, zombies, guns, scantily-clad women, people being shot, heads exploding, blood everywhere, mindless death. 3 Yes 8 Arthouse Akira Kurosawa Japan Japanese 1943 76 Young man takes up the new style of judo, and fights increasingly difficult old-style jujutsu opponents in tournaments (much as if he's in a computer game). You can tell his final opponent is evil since he's wearing western style clothing (i.e. a bowler hat). Kurosawa's first film. 6 Yes 8 Film Noir Edward Dmytryk US English 1944 95 Overrated noir in which Dick Powell is entirely miscast as Philip Marlowe, a private detective doggedly in pursuit of answers, whilst at the same time blithely unaware of the questions. 3 Yes 8 Thriller Martin McDonagh UK English 2007 102 Humorous if violent gangster movie set in Bruges. 4 Yes 8 Arthouse Sergei Eisenstein USSR Russian 1944 94 Account of the early reign of Ivan the Terrible, as he tries to unify Russia in the face of Boyar opposite. Going by this account, everyone at the time was completely mad. 7 Yes 8