America's most incendiary filmmaker, Michael Moore, returns with this health-care-industry exposé. SICKO tackles material as controversial as the topics explored in Moore's other films, yet does so in a way that places the focus on ordinary Americans affected by the nation's health-care crisis.

A charming ensemble cast normally relegated to supporting roles elevates and takes the lead in Flying Scotsman, a telling of the true story of innovative cycling champion and sporadic depression dweller Graeme Obree.

Guy Maddinís Brand Upon the Brain! takes place in an orphanage where tiny tots earn their keep by the sweat of their brows and adults exact a savage price on their tender souls. A baroque entertainment with one foot in silent cinema and the other gingerly toeing the sound waves, the film centers on a man who, in visiting the now-emptied foundling home, journeys deep into his childhood.

From the makers of Calendar Girls comes an uplifting British comedy about two outcast dreamers who finally figure out how to stand up for themselves . . . in thigh-high leather stilettos.

Sarah Polley's feature debut is an absorbing and poignant adaptation of an Alice Munro story about an elderly couple dealing with Alzheimerís. Childless couple Fiona (Christie) and Grant (Pinsent) have been in love and married for more than 40 years, some of them rocky.

New Zealander director Taika Waita’s movie is the story of romance between two oddballs. Lily (Loren Horsley) is a shy, underappreciated cashier at a fast-food restaurant, and she’s got a crush on an electronic store clerk named Jarrod (Jermaine Clement). Lily gets up the courage to show up at Jarrod’s house for a “come as your favorite animal” dress up party on the day she’s fired from her job.

For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth.

A middle-aged Tennessee sharecropper and former blues guitarist (Samuel L. Jackson) finds a young woman (Christina Ricci), half-naked and badly beaten, in the road near his farmhouse. He first takes her in to help her, then holds her prisoner to cure the wanton “wickedness” he sees in her. In a slowly forming friendship, they begin to understand the wounds in one another and themselves.

Welcome to Willard, a small town lost in the idyllic world of the ‘50s, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbor, and rotting zombies carry the mail.

Now the proud recipient of one of the top accolades in filmdom, the Cannes Film Festivalís Palme d'Or, Ken Loach should find that his new film will find its chances of wider exposure greatly enhanced.