Frankenweenie
For once this Tim Burton film doesn't star long-term collaborator Johnny Depp or real-life girlfriend Helena Bonham Carter.
Originally developed as a short film when Burton once worked at Disney, Frankenweenie follows young inventor Victor who finds a novel way of bringing his beloved pup Sparky back from the dead.
This wonderfully crafted stop motion 3D animation promises to be a return to form for Burton after the disappointing Dark Shadows - quirky, funny and dark, all the things we've come to expect from the director.
Amour deals with aging and death (Picture: AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics) Amour
The winner of this year's Palme D'Or at Cannes Film Festival, Amour is a brave and unsettling look at love, relationships, aging and death.
Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant play an old married couple, who find their relationship pushed to the very brink when one of them suffers from a stroke.
This being a Michael Haneke film, he doesn't flinch from portraying the slow and agonising process of dying showing just how tedious, humiliating and frustrating it can be.
It's utterly heartbreaking but deeply compassionate and powerfully gripping.
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Benh Zeitlin's debut film has already been touted as the next Slumdog Millionaire.
Far grittier and just as inspiring as Danny Boyle's offering, Beasts of the Southern Wild is an imaginative and lyrical piece of film-making brimming with style, poetry and beauty.
Quvenzhané Wallis gives a jaw-dropping performance as six-year-old Hushpuppy, who must weather the highs and lows of her alcoholic father's moods and also a huge storm which hits their community Bathtub.
Come Oscar time, Wallis could find herself in with a strong chance of taking home a gong for Best Actress.
Ben Affleck directs and stars in Argo (Picture: AP/Warner Bros) Argo
Argo is one of those 'if it weren't true, you wouldn't believe it' stories.
Based on real-life events, Argo revolves around a CIA agent's (Ben Affleck) audacious attempt to save some US hostages from Tehran - by pretending to be the producer of a new sci-fi movie.
Affleck once again proves his skills as a director in this tense and gripping drama, which promises to have you on the edge of your seat.
Rust and Bone
Rust and Bone is a beautiful and unusual love story from French director Jacques Audiard, who won an Oscar nod for Best Foreign Film for A Prophet in 2010.
Marion Cotillard takes of one of her most challenging roles yet as a whale trainer who loses her legs in a horrific accident while rising star Matthias Schoenaerts plays the brutish bouncer she finds herself falling for.
She's struggling to leave the house while he's struggling to control his temper and his fists. It's hardly a match made in heaven but both leads are completely mesmerising in this touching portrayal of two people learning to feel complete again.
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