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Precocious underachieving high-schooler Max Fischer falls in love with an older teacher, but finds himself competing for her affection with his new friend - a depressed middle-aged industrialist.

A glorious stop-motion animated double bill, full of Anderson’s idiosyncratic style, heart and humour.

Often heralded as Anderson’s best film, Hackman is on superb form as an absent father returning to his family of former child prodigies to try and make amends.

Anderson’s homage to Jacques Cousteau sees unorthodox oceanographer Steve Zissou assemble his misfit crew and set off on a mission to kill the shark that ate his friend.

Brody, Wilson and Schwartzman star as three bickering brothers who meet in India a year after their father’s funeral to take a spiritual journey on a luxury train.

In this charming coming-of-age tale set in the fictional island of New Penzance, young scout Sam and his pen-pal Suzy escape to an isolated beach but are pursued by a police captain, a scoutmaster, social services and the girl’s family.

Ralph Fiennes stars as Gustave H. the concierge of The Grand Budapest Hotel. Bequeathed a priceless painting by one his, ahem, “special” guests, Gustave is framed for her murder and must go on the run with his lobby boy.

A blissfully funny and moving portmanteau film set in the final days of a magazine based in a fictional French town, The French Dispatch is Anderson’s love letter to journalism.