In The House

Cast
Fabrice Luchini
Kristin Scott Thomas
Ernst Umhauer
Bastien Ughetto
Catherine Davenier
Denis Menochet
Emmanuelle Seigner
Jean-François Balmer
Vincent Schmitt
Yolande Moreau
Screenwriter
Francois Ozon
Director
Francois Ozon
Running Time
105 minutes

Sixteen-year-old Claude insinuates himself into the house of fellow high school student Rapha, writing about his family in essays that perversely blur the lines between reality and fiction for his jaded literature teacher Germain. Intrigued by this gifted and unusual student, Germain rediscovers his taste for teaching, but the boy’s intrusion sparks a series of uncontrollable events. [Cohen Media]

The main couple go to the cinema to see Match Point [the Woody Allen film] and this actually plays like one of his films. The BBFC notice before the film had a kind of inverse spoiler which misled me as to where the film was going. I enjoyed it but it was strangely uninvolving.

Trance

Cast
James McAvoy
Rosario Dawson
Vincent Cassel
Screenwriters
Joe Ahearne
John Hodge
Director
Danny Boyle
Running Time
101 minutes

An art auctioneer, mixed up with a group of criminals, partners with a hypnotherapist in order to recover a lost painting.  [Metacritic]

Unbelievably convoluted but entertaining.

Compliance

Cast
Ann Dowd
Dreama Walker
Pat Healy
Matt Servitto
Bill Camp
Screenwriter 
Craig Zobel
Director
Craig Zobel
Running Time
90 minutes

Becky and Sandra aren't the best of friends. Sandra is a middle-aged manager at a fast-food restaurant; Becky is a teen-aged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day (too many customers and too little bacon), a police officer calls, accusing Becky of stealing money from a customer's purse, which she vehemently denies. Sandra, overwhelmed by her managerial responsibilities, complies with the officer's orders to detain Becky. This choice begins a nightmare that tragically blurs the lines between expedience and prudence, legality and reason. (Magnolia Pictures)

It's interesting and thought provoking but I found it difficult to empathise with people who were that foolish for that long which distanced me from the story.