WEST SIDE STORY [A] - 2 hour 32 min

Director: Robert Wise/Jerome Robbins
Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris
West Side Story is a take on Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet that feels as contemporary now as it did on its initial release in 1961. Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer are star-crossed lovers on opposite sides of a New York turf war in what remains one of the boldest and most breathlessly dynamic musicals ever made.
It went on to score ten Oscars..

THE LIVES of OTHERS [15] (sub-titles) - 2 hour 17 mins

Director: Florian Donnersmarck
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Muhe, Ulrich Tukur
Drama set in East Berlin in the mid-1980s. Stasi officer Wiesler is assigned the job of keeping an eye on dramatist Georg Dreyman. By close surveillance of Georg and his life, Wiesler begins to encounter and be affected by new concepts such as art, love and a desire for freedom. 
A notable winner of 2007 best foreign film Oscar.

ATONEMENT [15] - 2 hours 3 mins

Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy
Drama opening in England in 1935. Cecilia Tallis, a young woman from a wealthy and privileged background, is in love with Robbie Turner, a medical student and the housekeeper's son. Through a series of catastrophic misunderstandings, Robbie is accused of a crime he did not commit. Briony, Cecilia's young sister, plays a crucial role in those false accusations, which will affect Cecilia and Robbie's lives forever.

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE [15] - 1 hour 41 mins

Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Cast: Abigail Breslin, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear
Comedy drama Little Miss Sunshine radiates warmth and charm. Greg Kinnear is wonderfully woe-begone as the success-obsessed patriarch leading his family cross-country in order to enter daughter Olive (Abigail Breslin) into a junior beauty pageant. As the clan gradually get to know one another, the journey becomes fully engaging and oddly poignant.
It will definitely leave you with that feel-good glow.

NOTES on a SCANDAL [15] - 1 hour 32 mins

Director: Richard Eyre
Cast: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Tom Georgeson, Michael Maloney
Lonely schoolteacher Barbara Covett keeps a personal diary in which she vents her frustration and judgments. When a new art teacher joins the school the two become friends, until Barbara discovers her in a compromising position with one of the older pupils and confronts her and uses emotional blackmail.
A psychological thriller of rare delicacy.