I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone

Peter Bradshaw: The Taiwanese (through Malaysian-born) director Tsai Ming-liang is a figure invoked with reverence and with passion by his admirers

Brick Lane

Peter Bradshaw: Sarah Gavron's feature version of Monica Ali's novel represents a modest slimming down of the original's dimensions

Edvard Munch

Retail: Peter Watkins brings his distinctive, documentary-oriented talents to bear on Norway's most famous painter in this 1973 film.

Molière

Rental and retail: A smart and lively romcom which takes the sensible idea of imagining that the French playwright used his own life in his work

In Memory of Me

Peter Bradshaw: After promising much, this leads nowhere, either emotionally or spiritually.

I Do

Philip French: Vaguely misogynistic, vaguely amusing, and wholly uninventive

Water

Retail: Deepa Mehta's well-played tale is full of simmering anger and completes a memorable and impassioned cinematic triptych.

Film fans will always have Paris

We've all been to the French capital, even if we've never travelled there. Movies have implanted it in our minds.

The Witnesses

Philip French: This subtly observed, positive and unsentimental film relates how a tightknit group of French friends reacts to the onset of Aids in 1984-85.

Once

Philip French: Resembling a 90-minute music video, this film has won audience awards at several film festivals with its warm-hearted Celtic charm.

Blame It on Fidel

Philip French: Julie Gavras's first-class directorial debut is an acutely comic film.

Tell No One

Retail: Guillaume Canet's exploration of the aftermath of a murder contains thrilling chase scenes and an impressive central performance by François Cluzet.

The Witnesses

Peter Bradshaw: André Téchiné's 1980s-set French drama has an eerie similarity to present day.

I Am Cuba

Retail: Martin Scorsese believes celebrated Soviet director Mikhail Kalotozov's film would have changed the course of cinema if it had been seen in 1964.

The Counterfeiters

Philip French: A fascinating, low-key movie about moral choices and life-and-death decisions made in terrible conditions. Many will finish this film pondering how they themselves would have acted.