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Their Finest and The Odyssey
Berlin Syndrome
(Country: Australia; Year: 2017; Director: Cate Shortland; Writer: Shaun Grant, Melanie Joosten; Stars: Teresa Palmer, Max Riemelt, Matthias Habich, Lucie Aron, Emma Bading, Cem Tuncay, Kristina Kostiv, Claude Heinrich, Malin Steffen, Lara Marie Müller, Thuso Lekwape, Charly Thorn, Elias Esser, Mariella Josephine Aumann, Morgane Ferru)
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship, when an tourist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
Catfight
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Onur Tukel; Writer: Onur Tukel; Stars: Sandra Oh, Anne Heche, Alicia Silverstone)
When two old college friends spend time together, their resentment of one another comes to the surface - and gets physical.
Free Fire
(Country: France, UK; Year: 2016; Director: Ben Wheatley; Writer: Amy Jump, Ben Wheatley; Stars: Enzo Cilenti, Sam Riley, Michael Smiley, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, Sharlto Copley, Babou Ceesay, Noah Taylor, Jack Reynor, Mark Monero, Patrick Bergin, Sara Dee, Tom Davis)
A meeting between two gangs in a deserted warehouse turns into a shootout.
Goldstone
(Country: Australia; Year: 2016; Director: Ivan Sen; Writer: Ivan Sen; Stars: Kate Beahan, Pei-Pei Cheng, Linda Chien, Max Cullen, Michelle Lim Davidson, Michael Dorman, Aaron Fa'aoso, David Gulpilil, Lark Lee, Tommy Lewis, Aaron Pedersen, Steve Rodgers, Alex Russell, Jacki Weaver, David Wenham)
An indigenous detective arrives in a frontier town on the hunt for a missing person.
Handsome Devil
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2016; Director: John Butler; Writer: John Butler; Stars: Fionn O'Shea, Nicholas Galitzine, Andrew Scott, Moe Dunford, Michael McElhatton)
A loner and the star athlete at a rugby-mad school form an intense friendship, but it will be tested.
The Lost City Of Z and Free Fire
The Lost City Of Z
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: James Gray; Writer: David Grann, James Gray; Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Angus Macfadyen, Daniel Huttlestone, Michael Ford-FitzGerald, Raquel Arraes, Edward Ashley, Bobby Smalldridge, Johann Myers, Nicholas Agnew, Frank Clem, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Michael Jenn)
The story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, whose search for a lost city in the Amazon grew into an obsession.
Mad To Be Normal
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Robert Mullan; Writer: Robert Mullan; Stars: David Tennant, Michael Gambon, Elisabeth Moss)
The story of psychiatrist RD Laing and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East London, during the Sixties.
Mindhorn
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Sean Foley; Writer: Julian Barratt, Simon Farnaby; Stars: Essie Davis, Julian Barratt, Alex Wyndham, Alannah Olivia, Robin Morrissey, Jessye Romeo, Alec Nicholls)
A fading actor aims to redeem himself by turning private eye and catching a killer.
The Odyssey (L'odyssée)
(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Jérôme Salle; Writer: Jean-Michel Cousteau, Albert Falco, Jérôme Salle, Laurent Turner; Stars: Lambert Wilson, Audrey Tautou, Pierre Niney, Benjamin Lavernhe, Laurent Lucas)
Biopic of the underwater pioneer Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
Patriots Day
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Peter Berg; Writer: Peter Berg, Matt Cook; Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Monaghan, JK Simmons, Rhet Kidd, John Goodman)
An account of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists responsible.
Handsome Devil and Catfight
Rules Don't Apply
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Warren Beatty; Writer: Warren Beatty; Stars: Warren Beatty, Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich, Matthew Broderick, Annette Bening, Candice Bergen, Martin Sheen, Haley Bennett, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Alec Baldwin, Paul Schneider, Oliver Platt, Paul Sorvino)
An unconventional love story of an aspiring actress, her determined driver, and the eccentric billionaire whom they work for.
Their Finest
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Lone Scherfig; Writer: Gaby Chiappe, based on the novel by Lissa Evans; Stars: Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Jack Huston, Paul Ritter, Rachael Stirling, Richard E Grant, Henry Goodman, Jake Lacy, Jeremy Irons, Eddie Marsan, Helen McCrory, Hubert Burton, Claudia Jessie, Stephanie Hyam)
A British film crew in the Second World War makes a propaganda film.
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