Director Stephen Karam’s punchy adaptation of his stage play pulses with compassion and regret.

Two mutually suicidal best friends take their final day for a spin in an off-centre meditation on what really matters.

Love and loss are the bedrock of an heroic cross-country ride from Iranian film-maker Panah Panahi.

Emma Thompson is a one-woman whirlwind as a retired schoolteacher with desires above and beyond the classroom.

The mood du jour is lights, camera, crazy in a Spanish masterclass on how not to make a movie.

Style meets substance when a transformative friendship takes shape in a Paris atelier. Dramas and Dior. Could anything be more French?

A toey Bhutanese teacher discovers a wealth of simplicity in a homespun schoolhouse complete with resident yak. Ridiculously moving.

A sexless middle age is no way on the cards when West Australian women embrace their all-in cleaners.

Javier Bardem is up to his eyeglasses in office politics as a slippery factory boss.

Czech film-maker Jiří Menzel’s oddity about an ambitious waiter is a piquant acquired taste.