FILMS to catch at the Memo Arts Centre, Barry are Night Train to Lisbon (12A) on Monday, March 16.

Raimund Gregorius (Jeremy Irons) is a Swiss Languages Professor who leads a buttoned-down routine more devoted to literature than love or living.

After a chance encounter with a Portuguese woman he finds himself with a fascinating, inscribed copy of a book by an author who fought against dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Along with the book is a train ticket to Lisbon. In a split second decision he is boarding the train and on his way through a journey that will connect him, the story of the author and the author’s wartime friends in a moving revelation of human interconnectedness.

This philosophical film that poses questions about destiny, self-determination and memory is adapted from the popular eponymous novel by Pascal Mercier. Jeremy Irons leads an all-star cast of interconnected characters in a plot that unfolds across the world, linking a series of stories, to unravel the mystery of one man.

On Monday, March 23 will be the showing of Mr Turner (12A).

‘Mr Turner’ examines the last 25 years of the great, if eccentric, landscape painter J M W Turner (Timothy Spall), one of the most important figures in British art history.

Told in sublime snapshots, we journey through his final years as he travels, paints and proves himself a popular, if anarchic member of the Royal Academy. An ordinary man with an extraordinary talent, he is loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady. Beautifully shot, this is a tender and funny insight into a great man with an incredible lead performance.

Timothy Spall won the Best Actor award at Cannes 2014 for his performance as ‘Mr Turner.’

The Imitation Game (12A) will be shown on Monday, March 30.

Thriller ‘The Imitation Game’ centres on the English mathematician and cryptographer who helped crack the Nazi’s Enigma code during the Second World War.

As the Allied forces fought on the battlefields, a team of young geniuses led by the brilliant computer scientist Alan Turing were in a race against time at the Bletchley Park code-breaking centre, trying desperately to demystify the Enigma code used by the Axis powers to protect their communications.

Despite Turing’s contributions to the war effort, he was later prosecuted for acts of ‘gross indecency’ after engaging in homosexual relations. ‘The Imitation Game’ also stars Keira Knightley.

All films have two showings at 1pm then at 7pm and cost £4.50 in advance and £5.50 on the door.