The 100 key films of 2013: Nos 41-50

In the House: François Ozon is reportedly back on top form with this spiky comedy about a 16-year-old boy who insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class. Kristin Scott Thomas and Emmanuelle Seigner bring the glam; Fabrice Luchini is teach Photograph: PR

Inside Llewyn Davis: In yet another attempt to throw everyone off the scent, the Coen brothers are following retro western True Grit with a stroll through the New York coffeehouse folk scene of the 60s. Supposedly based on The Mayor of MacDougal Street, the memoir of Greenwich Village mainstay Dave van Ronk. Not a massive amount has been let slip about the film, but at least we know the cast: Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman and, in the title role, Oscar Isaac Photograph: Vince Bucci/Getty Images Photograph: Vince Bucci/Getty Images

The Invisible Woman: Having established his directorial cojones with a Balkan-war set Coriolanus, Ralph Fiennes climbs back on the beast almost straightaway with this rather more conventional sounding study of Charles Dickens’ extramarital dalliance with actor Ellen Ternan. (He was 45; she was 18.) Fiennes takes the role of the master novelist, opposite Felicity “Chalet Girl” Jones, who at 29 is more than a decade older than her character. With a script by Abi Morgan drawn from the prize-winning book by Claire Tomalin, this has Class written all over it Photograph: Jon Furniss/WireImage

Jack the Giant Slayer: Assuming that The Hobbit hasn’t sated your appetite for fantasy films in which little heroes battle towering monsters, along comes director Bryan Singer with Jack the Giant Slayer, a steroided, CGI-heavy overhaul of the antique Cornish fairytale. British actor Nicholas Hoult plays Jack, who must save the world and rescue the fair princess. Elsewhere we shall find a knight (Ewan McGregor), a king (Ian McShane) and, of course, a big two-headed giant (played by a conjoined Bill Nighy and John Kassir) Photograph: PR

Jobs: Steve Jobs looks set to receive the Social Network treatment with this biopic of the American entrepreneur, Apple frontman and outrider of the PC revolution, who died after a long battle with cancer in October 2011. Selected as the closing film at the 2013 Sundance film festival, Jobs charts its subject’s rise to the summit, kicking off in the prehistoric days of the early 1970s. Josh Gad plays Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, while Ashton Kutcher stars as the man himself Photograph: PR

Kick Ass 2: Director Matthew Vaughn raised a rumpus with his 2010 caper (above), adapted from the comic by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr, about an inept superhero who soars to glory. Most of the old gang have reassembled for Kick Ass 2, in which Aaron Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse set out to foil a band of super-villains. Jim Carrey and John Leguizamo round out the cast Photograph: PR

Kill Your Darlings: Daniel Radcliffe successfully shrugged off his Harry Potter cloak with a starring role as an imperilled lawyer in the 2011 hit The Woman in Black. But might Kill Your Darlings prove a step too far? This true-crimes account of a 1940s murder in the New York beat scene casts the one-time boy wizard as the poet Allen Ginsberg, pre-stardom and hopping between the bars with his cohorts William Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) Photograph: PR

King Lear: Having already tackled Richard III, The Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar, Al Pacino prepares to scale the heights of arguably the greatest Shakespearean tragedy of them all. His big-screen version of King Lear finds the old lion of the New York Method school collaborating with the director Michael Radford for a tale of a raging, ageing monarch, torn between his love for three daughters and forced into exile. Don’t expect a happy ending Photograph: Gregory Pace/BEI / Rex Features/Gregory Pace/BEI / Rex Features

Labor Day: Jason Reitman’s previous movies (Juno, Up in the Air, Young Adult) has established him as a spry chronicler of American mores, wryly taking the temperature of the nation as a whole. With Labor Day he’s heading back to 1980s Massachusetts, adapting Joyce Maynard’s novel about a harried single mother who winds up aiding and abetting an escaped convict. Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin co-star Photograph: Antony Dickson/AFP/Getty Images

Last Vegas: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel too genteel for your palate? Then light out for Last Vegas, in which Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Robert De Niro play a group of old roustabouts who travel to Sin City for a bachelor party. They’re over the hill and they’re picking up speed, etc etc. Pray God that none of them corpses at the blackjack table or expires beneath a hooker Photograph: PR