About Adam
Gerry Stembridge's romantic comedy featuring Stuart Townsend as an enigmatic young man who charms his way into the lives of an Irish family. With Frances O'Connor, Kate Hudson and Rosaleen Linehan. January 19th.
All the Pretty Horses
Billy Bob Thornton's epic film based on the Cormac McCarthy novel features Matt Damon and Henry Thomas as Texas teenagers who head for Mexico to be cowboys. With Penelope Cruz as the rancher's daughter for whom Damon falls. March 9th.
Almost Famous
Cameron Crowe's film of a 15-year-old schoolboy (Patrick Fugit) assigned by Rolling Stone to go on the road with a rock band in the early 1970s. With Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand, Billy Crudup, Jason Lee and Philip Seymour Hoffman. January 26th.
Anti-Trust
Ryan Phillippe is an idealistic young computer genius recruited by a major corporation run by his professional hero (Tim Robbins), only to suffer serious disillusionment. Peter Howitt directs. April 30th.
Beckett On Film
The full 19-film collection of Samuel Beckett plays recently filmed by internationally established directors, among them Atom Egoyan, Patricia Rozema, Neil Jordan, Anthony Minghella and Richard Eyre, and emerging Irish directors, including Damien O'Donnell, Conor McPherson and Kieron J. Walsh. The films will be shown in repertory over nine programmes. February 2nd.
Before Night Falls
Julian Schnabel's revealing drama details the traumatic experiences of the outspoken gay Cuban novelist and poet, Reinaldo Arenas, who's played, in a memorable performance, by Javier Bardem. Spring.
Behind Enemy Lines
Irish director John Moore makes his feature debut with an action-adventure drama starring Gene Hackman as a US Marine veteran and Owen Wilson as a young pilot downed over hostile territory in Eastern Europe. March 23th.
Blackboards
The award-winning film from the 20-yearold Iranian director, Samira Makhmalbaf, deals with itinerant teachers zealously seeking pupils along the dangerous Iran-Iraq frontier. Spring.
Blow Dry
An offbeat comedy by Irish director Paddy Breathnach set in the world of competitive hairdressing. With Alan Rickman, Natasha Richardson, Rachel Griffiths and Josh Hartnett. March 30th.
Bounce
Ben Affleck plays an LA ad man who gives away his seat on a flight that crashes, then falls in love with the widow (Gwyneth Paltrow) of the man who took his place. Don Roos, who made The Opposite of Sex, directs. March 2nd.
Bread and Roses
Ken Loach's socially-concerned, first US feature deals with the problems faced by an immigrant office cleaner (Pilar Padilla) in Los Angeles. With Adrian Brody and Elpidia Carillo. May.
Bridget Jones' Diary
Renee Zellweger, the US star of Nurse Betty, plays the lovelorn title character in the film of Helen Fielding's best-seller. With Hugh Grant and Colin Firth. March 30th.
Brother
The first US film starring and directed by Takeshi Kitano features himself as a laconic yazuka relocated from Tokyo to Los Angeles, where his younger half-brother is a minor drug-dealer. March 23rd.
Captain Correlli's Mandolin
John Madden, the director of Shakespeare in Love, brings the Louis Bernieres best-seller to the screen with Nicolas Cage in the title role, Penelope Cruz, Christian Bale and John Hurt. May 11th.
Cast Away
Tom Hanks lost a lot of weight to play a stressed-out FedEx worker stranded on a desert island after a plane crash. Helen Hunt co-stars. Robert Zemeckis directs. January 12th.
Chocolat
A small French village is never the same after Juliette Binoche opens up a chocolate shop and courts controversy. With Judi Dench, Johnny Depp (as an Irish gypsy), Alfred Molina, Carrie-Anne Moss and Hugh O'Conor. Lasse Halstrom directs. February 23rd.
The Claim
Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge is transposed to California's Sierra Nevada during the Gold Rush years in the new Michael Winterbottom movie which stars Peter Mullan, Nastassja Kinski, Milla Jovovich, Sarah Polley and Wes Bentley. February 2nd.
The Contender
Joan Allen plays the morally upright Democratic senator chosen by the US president (Jeff Bridges) as his new vice-president in Rod Lurie's idealistic political drama that's rooted in post-Lewinsky Washington. April 6th.
Crimson Rivers/Les Rivieres Pourpres
A hit in its native France, the new film from La Haine director Mathieu Kassovitz is a police thriller set in the French Alps and starring Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel. June.
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Ang Lee's exhilarating combination of balletic action movie and passionate love story is set in 19th-century China and features Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen. January 5th.
Disco Pigs
Kirsten Sheridan's film of Enda Walsh's gritty stage play features Cillian Murphy and Elaine Cassidy as young lovers living in a world of their own and threatened by the outside world. Spring.
Dr T and the Women
Robert Altman's silly yarn features Richard Gere as a supposedly charming gynaecologist whose surgery is awash with Stepford Wives and their offspring - played by Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Liv Tyler and Kate Hudson. April.
Dude, Where's My Car?
US teen comedy chronicling a crazy day for two slackers (Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott). February 9th.
Dungeons & Dragons
Jeremy Irons and Thora Birch star in a fantasy adventure based on the eponymous computer game. February 16th.
The Emperor's New Groove
Disney's new animated feature is set in South America as a selfish young emperor is turned into a llama by a disgruntled ex-employee. February 9th.
Enemy at the Gates
Big-budget drama set during the second World War and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. With Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Ed Harris and Rachel Weisz. March 23rd.
An Everlasting Piece
From Barry Levinson, the Oscar-winning director of Rain Man, comes an Irish comedy featuring Barry McEvoy, who also wrote the screenplay, and Brian F. O'Byrne as barbers selling hairpieces in 1980s Belfast. Anna Friel co-stars. February 9th.
Faithless
From an original screenplay by the great Ingmar Bergman, and directed by Liv Ullmann, this infidelity drama stars Erland Josephson and Lene Endre. March.
15 Minutes
Robert De Niro, Edward Burns and Kelsey Grammer star in an action thriller which tackles tabloid journalism and the cult of celebrity. John Herzfeld directs. March 9th.
Finding Forrester
The new Gus Van Sant film explores the relationship which develops between a reclusive novelist (Sean Connery) and a gifted young scholar and athlete (Robert Brown). February 23rd.
The Gift
Cate Blanchett plays a small-town psychic asked to find a missing woman in Sam Raimi's dark drama written by Billy Bob Thornton and also featuring Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, Keanu Reeves and Hilary Swank. March 9th.
Girlfight
Karyn Kusama's award-winning US indie deals with a headstrong young Hispanic woman (Michelle Rodriguez) who takes up boxing at a Brooklyn club. April/May.
Hannibal
Anthony Hopkins reprises the role of creepy Hannibal Lecter, with Julianne Moore taking over from Jodie Foster, in this sequel directed by Ridley Scott. February 16th.
High Heels and Low Life
Mel Smith directs a British comedy in which a nurse (Minnie Driver) and her best friend (Mary McCormack) overhear a bank heist plot and decide to get the loot for themselves. April 27th.
The Legend of Baggar Vance
Robert Redford directs a spiritual allegory of redemption and golf that features Matt Damon, Will Smith and Charlize Theron. February 23rd.
Liam
Inspired by the boyhood memories of its writer Jimmy McGovern, the new Stephen Frears film is set in a mostly Irish Catholic working-class area of Liverpool in the 1930s. With Ian Hart and Claire Hackett. February 23rd.
Malena
From Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore comes a romantic drama set in wartime Sicily where teenage boys become obsessed with a beautiful woman (Monica Bellucci) whose husband is away with the army. March 16th.
Men of Honor
A factually based drama starring Cuba Gooding Jr as a man who fights a racist bureaucracy to become the first black master diver in the US Navy. With Robert De Niro and Charlize Theron. April 20th.
The Mexican
Gore Verbinski's offbeat comedy-drama features Brad Pitt as a goofy guy who leaves his lover (Julia Roberts) to head south of the border to retrieve a pistol. March 16th.
Miss Congeniality
Sandra Bullock plays an FBI agent posing as a Miss New Jersey contestant in order to prevent a bombing. With Benjamin Bratt, Michael Caine and William Shatner. By the way, it's a comedy. March 16th.
Monkeybone
Henry Selick directs a comedy revolving around a cartoonist (Brendan Fraser) and the fantasy world he enters after he slips into a coma. This is the first feature film to combine stop-motion animation in a live-action format in the same scene. June 29th.
Moulin Rouge
Much delayed in production, but still the movie I most want to see next year. Directed by the gifted Baz Luhrmann, this musical follows a poet (Ewan McGreggor) who falls into the world of Toulouse-Lautrec and his entourage, and is drafted to write a night-club spectacular. Nicole Kidman costars. June.
The Mummy Returns
Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and John Hannah are all back for the sequel directed by Stephen Sommers. May 18th.
Nightcap/Merci Pour le Chocolat
Claude Chabrol's latest jaundiced dissection of bourgeois life deals with a family whose contentment is upset when a student discovers that she and their son may have been switched at birth. With Jacques Dutronc and Isabelle Huppert. June 8th.
Pay It Forward
Tearjerker starring Haley Joel Osment as a saintly child performing good deeds to aid his alcoholic mother (Helen Hunt) and his scarred teacher (Kevin Spacey). January 26th.
Peaches
Nick Grosso's film of his own stage play observes a group of young Londoners over one eventful summer. Matthew Rhys and Kelly Reilly lead the cast. Most of the movie was filmed in Dublin. March/April.
Pearl Harbour
Ben Affleck and Josh Harnett play pilots who fall for the same woman (Kate Beckinsale) at the time of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour in this epic produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. June 1st.
The Pledge
Jack Nicholson plays a detective who is about to retire when he takes on the case of a murdered eight-year-old girl. With Vanessa Redgrave, Sam Shepard and Helen Mirren. Sean Penn directs. April 27th.
Proof of Life
Overshadowed by the relationship that developed between its stars, Meg Ryan plays the wife of an American engineer kidnapped in Latin America, with Russell Crowe as the hostage negotiator she hires. Taylor Hackford directs. March 2nd.
Quills
The first of two new films dealing with the Marquis de Sade, Philip Kaufman's film features Geoffrey Rush in the lead, Joaquin Phoenix as a Catholic priest drawn into his world, and Kate Winslet as the young woman vied for by both men. With Michael Caine. February 2nd.
Remember the Titans
Factually based drama set in 1971 with Denzel Washington cast as the coach of the first inter-racial US college football team. February 9th.
Requiem For a Dream
Darren Aronofsky's film, one of the most powerful and unsettling movies of recent years, deals with four characters struggling with addiction. In an astonishing comeback, Ellen Burstyn plays the oldest, most self-deluded of them. January 19th.
Series 7: The Contenders
In Daniel Minahan's dark parody on reality-based TV, a gameshow selects people at random to kill one another for the top cash prize. May.
Sexy Beast
A glossy gangster drama set on the Costa del Sol with Ray Winstone as a retired London criminal lured back for one last job by a psychopathic crook (Ben Kingsley). January 12th.
Shadow of the Vampire
E. Elias Merhige's film on the making of F.W. Murnau's 1921 horror classic, Nosferatu, features John Malkovich as Murnau and Willem Dafoe, who endured four hours of make-up daily to play actor Max Schreck. February 2nd.
State and Main
David Mamet's acerbic comedy deals with the experiences of a film crew shooting in small-town New England. With Alec Baldwin, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rebecca Pigeon, William H. Macy and Philip Seymour Hoffman. March 16th.
Sweet November
Director Pat O'Connor follows Dancing at Lughnasa with a remake of the 1969 movie in which Sandy Dennis played a woman who took a different lover every month. She's now played by Charlize Theron, with Keanu Reeves as her Mr November. April 13th.
The Tailor of Panama
John Boorman's film of John Le Carre's espionage drama stars Geoffrey Rush as a Cockney ex-convict, Pierce Brosnan as a British spy, Jamie Lee Curtis and Brendan Gleeson. April/May.
The Tao of Steve
Irish-American actor Donal Logue stars in a recent US indie hit, as an overweight Lothario. March/April.
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
US indie in which director Rodrigo Garcia intersects five vignettes about women's lives. The cast features Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman and Holly Hunter. Spring.
Thirteen Days
Kevin Costner plays a presidential aide in a behind-the-scenes drama about the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Bruce Greenwood plays JFK. Roger Donaldson directs. March 16th.
Tigerland
Fast-rising young Irish actor Colin Farrell gives a charismatic star-making performance as a cocky, rebellious soldier at a pre-Vietnam boot camp in 1971. Joel Schumacher directs. March 2nd.
Traffic
Inspired by the British TV series of the same name, Steven Soderbergh's drug-trade thriller features newly-weds Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones, along with Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Quaid and Don Cheadle. January 26th.
Vertical Limit
Chris O'Donnell plays a National Geo- graphic photographer who quits mountain-climbing after his father's fatal fall, and then has to rescue his sister (Robin Tunney) on K2. The camerawork is vertiginous and the scenery is gorgeous. January 19th.
What Women Want
A romantic comedy in which Mel Gibson plays a chauvinistic advertising executive who discovers the gift of hearing the inner thoughts of women. With Helen Hunt and Marisa Tomei. February 2nd.
When Brendan Met Trudy
Peter McDonald and Flora Montgomery play opposites attracted to each other in director Kieron J. Walsh's exuberant romantic comedy written by Roddy Doyle and peppered with movie references. March 9th.
Woman On Top
Penelope Cruz plays a gifted chef in a romantic fable about food, motion sickness and the power of love. January 26th.
Yi Yi/A One and a Two
Taiwanese director Edward Yang's critically acclaimed new film deals with the travails of a middle-class family as they realise how unstable their lives really are. April 6th.
You Can Count on Me
Deservedly gathering acclaim on the festival circuit, Kenneth Lonergan's picture of the edgy relationship between a single mother and her feckless brother is notably well acted by Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo. April/May.