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• Diane (2018)

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  Place, who appears in almost every scene, has never been better.

  Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices.
• Diane In The Loop (2026)

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  Unexpectedly playful given the weight of the subject

  When a woman discovers her mum was raped some years before she was born, she plans vengeance, but her mother has other ideas. Things become complicated.
• Diary Of A Wimpy Kid 2 (2011)

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  Even though it might not seem obvious to discerning adults, lots of care and attention to detail has been lavished upon this film.

  Two brothers have to deal with their parents' attempts to persuade them to be best friends.
• Dice-Ching-O-Mat (2026)

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  Although there are tonal inconsistencies, Dice-Ching-O-Mat radiates the personal touch and deep affection that drive Vildžiūnas’ storytelling.

  A middle-aged sinologist from Latvia goes out to save his family through the doors of a charming Soviet elevator.
• Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)

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  The emotional honesty of this film is by turns elating and heartbreaking, with Kirsten not scared to let her feelings show on camera alongside those of her dad.

  With this inventive portrait, a cameraperson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilising moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humour, she celebrates Dr Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.
• Die Hard (1988)

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  A cool, classic and creative action picture.

  Bruce Willis is a lone cop in an office skyscraper, taken over by terrorists.
• Die Hard 4.0 (2007)

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  While its action and tone are robust and entertaining, it feels over-familiar, overconfident, and over-long.

  John McClane takes on internet terrorists.
• Die, My Love (2025)

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  Ramsay's style takes no prisoners.

  A woman battles her demons.
• Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)

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  Thankfully the spectacular ending – all done with life size sets, which left Lang and his team no option but to pull it off in one take – remains intact.

  Princess Kriemhild vows to avenge her husband's murder but must overcome her brothers who swore allegiance to Hagen. She marries Attila the Hun and persuades his army to attack Hagen, but there will be a terrible price to pay.
• Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)

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  Lang’s emotional distance allows the story to unfold without sensationalism or judgement, preserving its critical moments of ambiguity.

  Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, sets off on a treacherous journey to the Kingdom of Burgundy to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Princess Kriemhild.
• A Different Man (2024)

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  Slippery in terms of genre and form, the writer/director’s satire puts all his characters and, by extension, us under close scrutiny.

  Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical trial to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.
• The Difficult Bride (2026)

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  Hossain keeps the mood claustrophobic.

  In contemporary Dhaka, a bride-to-be preparing for her dream wedding begins to lose control of her body as beauty rituals, social expectations, and supernatural forces collide, transforming her journey toward marriage into an unsettling search for freedom.
• The Dig (2021)

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  Strong leading performances and a handful of beautifully crafted scenes sit sit by side with much clunkier and more derivative material.

  An archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938.
• Digger (2026)

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  Digger is not a film that invites fence sitting.

  The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's saviour before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything.
• The Dilemma (2011)

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  There are a couple of good laughs but they certainly don't carry two hours of film.

  A socially awkward guy agonises over whether or not to tell his business partner that his wife is unfaithful.
• Dilili In Paris (2018)

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  Michel Ocelot's combination of live film, photo-realistic images and animation brings out the magic of Paris as if were being seen for the first time.

  With the help of her friend, a delivery boy, young Dilili from New Caledonia investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls that is plaguing the Paris of the Belle Epoque.
• Dilli Dark (2023)

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  Das Roy has a way with words, and when the dialogue gets going it has plenty of zip.

  A Nigerian student tries to make it while fighting racism in Delhi.
• The Dinner Game (1998)

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  The film makes no attempt to disguise its theatrical origins.

  A dinner party organised with guests bringing an 'idiot' goes awry.
• Dinner In America (2020)

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  Adam Rehmeier's latest film arrives with the anarchic energy of a cherry bomb tossed into the bathroom toilet of Middle America.

  An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman he meets by chance embark on an offbeat romance.
• Dinotasia (2012)

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  With its combination of bad CGI animation, intensely endearing characters, non-stop action and crowning layer of existential angst, Dinotasia is a film many kids will go crazy for, and some will be crying about it for weeks afterwards.

  An animated epic telling the history of dinosaurs through CGI animated vignettes, with sardonic commentary by Werner Herzog.
• Directions (2017)

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  A cleverly constructed piece of low-budget filmmaking, Directions punches well above its weight.

  A small business owner and part-time cab driver is pushed to the edge by corruption.
• Director's Cut (2024)

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  Most of the film is rather too true to life, as characters engage in trivial arguments and hang around waiting for something to happen.

  Excited to shoot their first music video, members of a punk rock band agree to meet a mysterious stranger in his remote woodland mansion.
• Directors' Factory - Philippines (2024)

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  The shorts are all by emerging filmmakers who are all working on their first or second features

  Showcase of short films by emerging filmmakers set in the Philippines.
• Dirtbag: The Legend Of Fred Beckey (2017)

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  Some impressive material has been unearthed from the archives and O'Leske fills in the gaps with more general footage of some of the mountains the climber ascended in his youth.

  A documentary about the legendary climber.
• Dirty Boy (2024)

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  A film which, though it’s messy and doesn’t always hit the spot, goes to interesting places.

  Raised in a cult, a reclusive schizophrenic youth comes to suspect that he's being framed by its leaders for a series of ritualistic murders and must prove his innocence by saving their next victim.
• Dirty Deeds (2002)

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  It is part of Aussie tradition to kick the livings out of convention, in this case gangster flicks.

  Yank mafiosi try to muscle in on Aussie gangsters' one-armed bandit biz.
• Dirty God (2019)

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  Ever cursed to wear a half-sealed translucent franju-esque mask that makes her scars even more visible, Jade is a single mother and an acid attack survivor.

  Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been reconstructed, her beauty is lost beneath the scars. Descending a self-destructive path with relationships crumbling, Jade must take drastic action to reclaim her life.
• Dirty Harry (1971)

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  Dirty Harry helps usher in a series of nihilist American thrillers that typified the 1970s.

  When a man calling himself the Scorpio Killer menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails police Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan is assigned to track him down.
• Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam (2024)

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  The first episode is likely to lead to you binge-watching all three.

  A consideration of Lou Pearlman's impact on the world of pop music - and his crimes.
• Dirt Road To Lafayette (2018)

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  The clash of cultures is right here, the black music and the white rejection

  A teenager and his dad travel from Scotland to Alabama to visit relatives after a family death.
• Disappearance (2019)

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  Matt Shapira's début feature is attractively shot, making full use of sun, sea and sand and its beautiful female stars.

  When a wealthy author goes on a sailing trip with his wife and mistress and then disappears, two police officers must try to figure out who is responsible.
• Disappearance At Clifton Hill (2019)

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  Saturated as it is with unreliability and delusion, this is a film that relies heavily on atmosphere to keep viewers involved.

  When a troubled young woman returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls, the memory of a long-ago kidnapping quickly ensnares her.
• The Disappearance Of My Mother (2019)

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  Sometimes a film is interesting despite its director.

  An ageing fashion model strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good, but her son's determination to make a final film about her sparks an unexpected collaboration and confrontation with the camera's gaze.
• The Disappearance Of Shere Hite (2023)

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  This meticulously constructed film will leave you reflecting on the scale of that loss.

  Shere Hite’s 1976 bestselling book, The Hite Report, liberated the female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents. Her findings rocked the American establishment and presaged current conversations about gender, sexuality, and bodily autonomy. So how did Shere Hite disappear?
• Disappear Completely (2022)

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  Part investigative thriller, part chilling horror film, Disappear Completely is brilliantly directed.

  A crime scene photographer becomes the target of a gruesome witch’s curse which strips away his senses one after another.
• The Disciple (2020)

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  We are given time, which is wonderful, to count and study the painted ceiling fans and observe the hand-movements of the attentive music listeners.

  Chaitanya Tamhane's masterfully composed second feature examines a lifetime journey devoted to the art of Indian classical music.
• Disclosure Day (2026)

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  Perhaps it is gauche to call a director approaching 80 naïve, but that is the sentiment that lingers as Disclosure Day itself unfolds.

  Alien adventure thriller.
• Disco (2019)

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  The jarring juxtaposition of sparkly, sexualised Seventies choreography and fire-and-brimstone Catholicism is absolutely key to a film that explores the mismatch between devout religious beliefs and modernity.

  The stepdaughter of a charismatic pastor begins to question her faith
• Discordia (2025)

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  It’s a film with big ambitions and limited means.

  An aging lumberjack lives all alone in desperate, cursed woods. Fifteen years ago, a mysterious tribe killed his wife and kidnapped his daughter. For years, he traveled the continent to find and rescue her, in vain. Years later, she is the one who finds him. But she was followed.
• Disco Boy (2023)

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  If there’s vacillation in general at work, the slippery nature of the film, greased with the sweat of physical and metaphorical dance, remains beguiling.

  The destinies of a man who has joined the Foreign Legion and another in the Niger Delta intersect.
• The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (1972)

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  Delicious like Eve's apple.

  A group of friends are repeatedly frustrated in their attempts to have dinner.
• Disobedience (2017)

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  When the price of obedience is a life of lies where humiliation has no bounds, the pent-up desire explodes.

  After the death of her estranged rabbi father, a New York photographer returns to the Orthodox Jewish community in north London where she grew up and, in doing so, reignites long-dormant passions and controversies.
• Displace: The Battle For Dublin (2026)

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  Here you will find that perfect fusion of specificity and ubiquity that is gold to documentarians.

  As the city shifts beneath their feet, communities of all kinds endure the trauma of developer-led change, yet slowly rediscover their collective power as they refuse to be pushed out.
• The Dissident (2020)

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  The Icarus Oscar-winner's analysis is robust and well-illustrated and he moves at a pace, even if the scoring from Adam Peters is over-insistent in places.

  When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover up perpetrated by the very country he loved.
• The Dissidents (2017)

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  As a comedy it delivers laughs, as a piece of northerly 'ostalgia' it manages quite ably to convey culture clashes and the various disappointments of leaving one's homeland.

  An upbeat comedy about three boys that escape from Soviet Estonia to Sweden via Finland in the Eighties to fulfill their dreams in the free world.
• Distant Constellation (2017)

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  This is an intimate and contemplative film that seeks to gently observe and listen.

  Memories of the residents of a Turkish retirement home.
• A Distant Place (2020)

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  A remarkably accomplished piece of storytelling.

  A man who has retreated to the countryside find his delicate balance upset by the visit of an old friend.
• Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

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  A rich tapestry, which delves into how our reminiscences work.

  Memories of a working-class Liverpudlian family during and after the Blitz.
• Distorted (2018)

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  Distorted probably isn't the stepping stone back to stardom that Ricci needs, but her performance in it demonstrates why she still deserves to be seen as a serious contender.

  A mentally ill woman becomes convinced that her apartment building is interfering with her mind - but could she be right?
• Distress Signals (2022)

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  A commendable effort from a small team.

  After falling down a steep rock face, a woman finds herself stranded. Now, alone and with a dislocated shoulder, she must make her way out of the woods--and contend with how she got there.