SILVER screen stars from all over the world are on the cards for movie fans in Kidderminster as Wyre Forest Film Club presents its new season.

The international showcase kicks off on Tuesday with The Quiet American, directed by Phillip Noyce, and starring Michael Caine as a world-weary British journalist in Vietnam in the period before the war against America.

It will be followed by French spoof murder mystery Eight Women on January 27. Directed by Francois Ozon, this film starring Catherine Deneuve mocks the stereotypes of French cinema, musicals and whodunnits.

Pandaemonium is being screened on Tuesday, February 3. This 2000 film is a fictional depiction of the mid-life periods of William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge.

A week later, Azif Kapadia's The Warrior will be shown, telling the tale of a feudal landlord's warrior.

This will be followed by black comedy All About My Mother on February 17 and gang warfare epic City of God, which is set in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, on March 3.

A British comedy starring Bill Nighy and directed by Neil Hunter will then be shown on March 9. The 2001 film, Lawless Heart, focuses on the repercussions of a man's death, which causes three others to reassess their attitudes about themselves, each other, love and death.

Divine Intervention, directed by Elia Sulieman, follows a week later. This film is set in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and examines the near silent and darkly humorous confrontations and dilemmas posed by everyday life in the Occupied Territories.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, starring Albert Finney, Hylda Baker and Shirley Anne Field, will then be shown on March 23. The season will draw to a heady close with 24 Hour Party People on March 30. The 2002 film stars Steve Coogan among a host of familiar faces from British music, film and television.

More information on the club, which meets at Kidderminster Library and has showings starting at 7.30pm, can be obtained by calling 01562 824500.