Lee Hall

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

Dir. Stephen Daldry · With Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Julie Walters

On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.

Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson

The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.

Dir. Dexter Fletcher · With Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Dir. Stephen Frears · With Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith

Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub, and finds himself competing with his stepmother - both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.

Dir. SJ Clarkson · With Freddie Highmore, Ken Stott, Victoria Hamilton

A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.

Dir. Tom Hooper · With Francesca Hayward, Judi Dench, Idris Elba