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Atonement
Joe Wright, director of Pride & Prejudice (2005), adapts the acclaimed novel by Ian McEwan. Starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, this is the first hot tip for next year's Oscars.
 
UK release: September 7
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Brad Pitt stars as the famous American outlaw in Andrew Dominik's adaptation of Ron Hansen's novel. Rising star Casey Affleck plays Ford, a member of the James-Younger gang who earned his sobriquet by shooting James in the back of the head.
UK release: TBC
The Darjeeling Limited
Wes Anderson's new film stars Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman and Adrien Brody as three brothers who set off on a train journey across India and promises Anderson's usual blend of dry humour and stylised visuals.
UK release: November 23
Sleuth
Michael Caine, the young co-star of the original Sleuth back in 1972, takes the role first played by Laurence Olivier in this remake by Kenneth Branagh. An elderly man in a country estate invites his wife's lover (Jude Law) to his home for a deadly battle of wits.
UK release: November 23
Lust, Caution
Ang Lee's follow up to last year's sensation Brokeback Mountain. The film is another adaptation of a short story, this time set in Second World War-era Shanghai, where a young woman falls for a powerful political leader.
UK release: January 4
In the Valley of Elah
Paul Haggis follows his Oscar-winning Crash with the story of how a missing soldier's parents work with a police detective to investigate his disappearance.
UK release: January 18
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It's A Free World...
Ken Loach's latest drama is about Angie and Rose, two hard-up girls who establish their own recruitment agency from the kitchen in their flat. The story follows Angie's testing relationship with one of the Eastern European citizens she finds work for.
UK release: TBC
Michael Clayton
Tony Gilroy, writer of the Bourne films, makes his directorial debut with Michael Clayton. In the title role, George Clooney is the in-house 'fixer' at a New York corporate law firm who gets in over his head when a colleague (Tom Wilkinson) sabotages a multi-million dollar settlement.
UK release: September 28
Les amours d'Astree et de Celadon
Eric Rohmer's latest film portrays the romantic tribulations of the shepherd Celadon and his true love Astree. Adapted from a 17th-century story, the film promises to be a tribute to Rohmer's artistic sensibilities rather than a conventional narrative.
UK release: TBC
Nightwatching
Martin Freeman stars as Rembrandt van Rijn in Peter Greenaway's biopic, based on the controversy that surrounded one of the artist's most famous paintings, The Night Watch.
UK release: TBC
Sukiyaki Western Django
Takashi Miike's new film is set in Japan during the Genpei Wars of the 12th century. Featuring a cameo by Quentin Tarantino, the film promises all-out action, as the Minamoto and Taira gangs face off .
UK release: TBC
Redacted
Brian De Palma directs a montage of soldier's stories. The emphasis is placed on the modern media's ways of communicating the conflict. The film is already causing controversy for its depiction of how soldiers act, and how they're treated, while on duty.
UK release: TBC
Words by Ben Lankester
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