Katrin Cartlidge

Katrin Cartlidge stars in Mike Leigh's friends reunited drama. Six years after leaving college two former housemates meet up and encounter the heroes and villains of their chronically neurotic youth. A film about love, youth, sex and memories - moving, sad and funny at turns.

The first film made in the newly independent Republic of Macedonia, Milcho Manchevski’s BEFORE THE RAIN crosscuts the stories of an orthodox Christian monk (Grégoire Colin), a British photo agent (Katrin Cartlidge), and a native Macedonian war photographer (Rade Šerbedžija) to paint a portrait of simmering ethnic and religious hatred about to reach its boiling point. Made during the strife of the war-torn Balkan states in the nineties, this gripping triptych of love and violence is also a timeless evocation of the loss of pastoral innocence, and remains one of recent cinema’s most powerful laments on the futility of war.

In a remote Scottish village, a devoted couple’s marriage is interrupted by a tragic accident. Physical intimacy is replaced with verbal frankness, as the wide-eyed Bess devotes her body to the erotic impulses of her husband. It’s a journey of sexual martyrdom and religious ecstasy, portrayed with unwavering commitment by Emily Watson in her remarkable film debut.

An unemployed Mancunian vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

An anonymous note draws a chef to a decaying hotel on a remote island, where she and her estranged brother try to resuscitate the once-grand resort.

The Hi Life Bar is a romantic comedy starring Eric Stoltz as the catalyst for a wacky chain reaction of events that begins when he lies to his girlfriend so that she will raise the cash to pay off his bookie.

A satirical tale of two enemy soldiers, Ciki and Nino, who find themselves stranded in No Man's Land during the 1993 Bosnian Conflict. As Ciki and Nino try to figure a way out of their bizzare predicament, a brave UN sergeant goes to help them, despite being ordered not to intervene, and the world's press follow, turning the incident into an international news story. In a tense stand off between the many sides involved in the conflict, Nino and Ciki desperately try to negotiate for their lives amidst the insanity of war.

A troubled detective falls in love with a prostitute while stalking Jack the Ripper: A deranged royal physician who conspires with masons to conceal a wayward prince's marriage to a commoner.