Movies now playing in cinemas

Nature documentary, narrated by Morgan Freeman, on orphaned orangutans and elephants and the people who rescue and raise them. Captured originally on IMAX cameras, Born to be Wild follows primatologist Dr. Birute Galdikas and celebrated elephant authority Dame Daphne Sheldrick across the rainforests of Borneo and the Kenyan savannah. 

Produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Richard Donner (Superman, Lethal Weapon), this classic from 1985 follows a young gang of kids after One-Eyed Willy's hidden treasure...

Joe Dante's classic 1984 comedy-horror about what happens when young Billy Peltzer inadvertantly breaks three important rules concerning his new and weird pet, Gizmo: no water, no food after midnight, and no bright light.

Disney's 1964 classic musical about two children from a well-to-do Edwardian family that strike it lucky when their new nanny turns out to be the sweet singing, ever cheerful, Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews).

Director Warwick Thornton's first feature, about a pair of outcast Aboriginal kids who flee from their tiny central Australian community. Winner of the Camera d'Or for Best First Film at Cannes in May.

Shot with IMAX cameras in the exotic Asia-Pacific region - including The Great Barrier Reef, Southern Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia - Under the Sea explores the ocean's most mysterious and unusual creatures and also attempts to investigate the impact of climate change on our ocean wilderness. Narrated by Jim Carrey.

Remy the rat is blessed – and cursed – with a refined palatte in the latest from Pixar Animation...

Satoshi Kon's follow-up to 2003's beloved Tokyo Godfathers, this fantastical sci-fi anime centres on a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams. When the machine is stolen, all hell breaks loose, and only Paprika, a young therapist, can stop it.

Michael Haneke's anxiety-inducing suspenser. Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and wife Anne (Juliette Binoche), are living secure and well in Paris. One day, their idyll is disrupted in the form of a videotape on their doorstep...

Epic Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli eco-themed fantasy anime, 16 years in the making, about the struggle between supernatural guardians of a forest and the humans who consume its resources. Princess Mononoke was the first Studio Ghibli film to be a major hit and receive worldwide attention.

A Chinese-American surgeon, Wil, learns her single mother, Hwei-lan, is pregnant. The two women move in together, each struggling with personal secrets that clash with cultural expectations.

Steven Spielberg directs Tom Hanks as an Eastern immigrant who finds himself stranded in JFK airport.

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world in this drama from filmmaker Todd Haynes (Carol). Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Actress for Julianne Moore and Original Screenplay for Haynes.

Sam Raimi's cinematic take on our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man, the first in a trilogy, with Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker. The origin story traces Parker's coming-of-age from timid schoolboy to fully fledged hero, and co-stars Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe and James Franco.

The first film in the Harry Potter series based on the novels by J.K. Rowling.

Stanley Kubrick's ambitious science-fiction epic, billed as "a countdown to tomorrow, a road map to human destiny, a quest for the infinite"...

Winner of five Oscars, David Lean's Doctor Zhivago (1965) follows a Russian doctor (Omar Sharif) pursuing the woman he loves (Julie Christie) during Russia's turbulent political changes of World War I...

Jean-Pierre Jeunet's gorgeous and warm-hearted fable is the the film that brought Audrey Tautou to international attention. She plays Amélie, a Montemartre café waitress who, after discovering an old box of childhood treasures hidden beneath her apartment floorboards, goes on a personal odyssey to transform the lives of others.

Kirsten Dunst, Gabrielle Union and Eliza Dushku lead this beloved 2000 cheerleading teen flick centred on the ruthless rivalry between two different high-school squads.

Suspected of being a lesbian, a naive high school cheerleader is sent to 'sexual redirection' school by her conservative parents. 

This cult comedy-romance stars Natasha Lyonne (Russian Doll), Clea DuVall (The Intervention) and Melanie Lynskey (Don't Look Up). 

Jean-Luc Godard's innovative and hugely influential first film, what would become one of the seminal works of the French New Wave. Paying homage to the energy of American gangster B-movies of the 1940s, Godard took his plotline from a news item, supplied by contemporary François Truffaut, in which a cop-killer was harboured by his girlfriend and casually betrayed for the reward money.

Only the unflinching insanity of Japanese cinema could produce something that sounded so wrong, but played so right...