School shootings, who hasn’t heard about them? Especially after the highly publicized Columbine Massacre in the United States. These tend to be a media wet dream, but in media, they tend to have one thing in common, sympathise with those being shot, and villify the shooters. Estonian director Illmar Raag however destroys convention with the masterpiece of a film, Klass.

There are few films that have a 'watch it if you dare' quality to it. L.I.E. is one of those very films that deals with some of life's real taboos. However Director Michael Cuesta resisted the temptation of shock value and instead took the high road of presenting bold subject matter in both realistic and tasteful terms.

WARNING: Contains Spoilers

Dot the I is a Gael Garcia Bernal movie, if like me you didn’t know the story prior he is the attraction, arguably the actor of the decade on the front of this wondrous DVD cover selling it well as a meta-romance-thriller.

A Woman is a Woman may be the only neo-realist musical you ever come across, Jean Luc Godard’s oxymoronic description of his third feature starring Anne Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy & Jean Paul Belmondo.

Although damned to the world of obscure cinema, Bad Boy Bubby is certainly a film among films. It is not for everybody, especially for the first 30 minutes. The protagonist of the film is named Bubby. Every waking second of his life has been spent in a two-room apartment with his horrifyingly disturbed mother who has convinced Bubby that the air outside is poisonous.

Warning: Contains Mild spoilers

Down by Law is not a story of an adventure that characters go through, but a story of the characters going through adventures. Director Jim Jarmusch once said "I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films, although I think they do have plots, but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are".