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Downsizing and Mudbound
Battle Of The Sexes
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2017; Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris; Writer: Simon Beaufoy; Stars: Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Elisabeth Shue, Bill Pullman, Andrea Riseborough, Alan Cumming, Chris Parnell, Martha MacIsaac, Sarah Silverman, Eric Christian Olsen, Jessica McNamee, Natalie Morales, Austin Stowell, Wallace Langham, Mark Harelik)
True story of the tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
Breathe
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Andy Serkis; Writer: William Nicholson; Stars: Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Tom Hollander, Hugh Bonneville, Diana Rigg, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Amit Shah, Mary Dawney, Camilla Rutherford, Ed Speleers)
The true story of courage under profound difficulties faced by Robin and Diana Cavendish.
Call Me By Your Name
(Country: Italy, France, US, Brazil; Year: 2017; Director: Luca Guadagnino; Writer: James Ivory, based on the book by André Aciman; Stars: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois)
First love blooms over a long, hot summer for a teenager in Italy.
Downsizing
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Alexander Payne; Writer: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor; Stars: Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen Wiig, Udo Kier, Rolf Lassgård, Ingjerd Egeberg, Soren Pilmark Jason Sudeikis, Neil Patrick Harris, Niecy Nash, Joaquim de Almeida, Maribeth Monroe, Margo Martindale)
Satire about a man who starts to think he would have a better life if only he could shrink himself.
Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Paul McGuigan; Writer: Matt Greenhalgh, based on the book by Peter Turner; Stars: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Kenneth Cranham, Stephen Graham, Vanessa Redgrave, Frances Barber, James Bloor, Leanne Best, Tom Brittney, Isabella Laughland, Suzanne Bertish, Jay Villiers, Bentley Kalu)
A faded romance between a young British actor and an aging Hollywood star is rekindled as her terminal illness draws a veil over the sunset finale
Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool and Call Me By Your Name
Journey's End
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Saul Dibb; Writer: Simon Reade, based on the play by RC Sherriff; Stars: Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield, Tom Sturridge, Toby Jones, Stephen Graham, Robert Glenister, Oliver Dimsdale, Miles Jupp, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Jake Curran, Nicholas Agnew, Andy Gathergood, Tom Ward-Thomas, Rupert Wickham)
Story of a group of First World War British soldiers being led by a man whose mental health is failing.
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2017; Director: Yorgos Lanthimos; Writer: Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos; Stars: Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Alicia Silverstone, Raffey Cassidy, Bill Camp, Barry Keoghan, Anita Farmer Bergman, Sunny Suljic, Denise Dal Vera, Megan Chelf Fisher, Lea Hutton Beasmore, Rachael Mcadams, Michelle Poole, Nathaniel Sizemore, Jerry Pope)
A teenage boy tries to integrate a surgeon into his broken family but his motives become increasingly sinister.
Last Flag Flying
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Richard Linklater; Writer: Richard Linklater and Darryl Ponicsan, based on the book by Darryl Ponicsan; Stars: Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, Laurence Fishburne, Yul Vazquez, J. Quinton Johnson, Kate Easton, Tammy Tsai, Samuel Davis, Brian Wolfman Black Bowman, Chris Drexel, Lee Harrington, Mark Falvo, Richard Robichaux, Adam Hicks, Dontez James)
A Vietnam veteran goes to collect the body of his son, who has been killed in war in Iraq.
Mudbound
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Dee Rees; Writer: Hillary Jordan, Dee Rees, Dee Rees, Virgil Williams; Stars: Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jonathan Banks, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan, Mary J. Blige, Kerry Cahill, David Jensen, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Lucy Faust, Rebecca Chulew, Joshua J. Williams, Henry Frost, Jason Kirkpatrick)
Two families clash when Mississippi youths return from the Second World War with new perspectives on race relations.
The Shape Of Water (La forma del agua)
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Guillermo del Toro; Writer: Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor; Stars: Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Lauren Lee Smith, Richard Jenkins, David Hewlett, John Kapelos, Nick Searcy, Morgan Kelly, Cyndy Day, Dru Viergever, Madison Ferguson, Amanda Smith)
A woman who works in a secret government lab discovers a classified experiment.
You Were Never Really Here and Last Flag Flying
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2017; Director: Martin McDonagh; Writer: Martin McDonagh; Stars: Frances McDormand, Peter Dinklage, Woody Harrelson, Abbie Cornish, Sam Rockwell, Caleb Landry Jones, Kerry Condon, Kathryn Newton, Zeljko Ivanek, John Hawkes, Lucas Hedges, Clarke Peters, Samara Weaving, Nick Searcy, Sandy Martin)
A grieving mother takes on a town's police chief after the murder of her daughter goes unsolved.
You Were Never Really Here
(Country: US, France; Year: 2017; Director: Lynne Ramsay; Writer: Lynne Ramsay, based on the novel by Jonathan Ames; Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alessandro Nivola, Alex Manette, John Doman, Judith Roberts, Jason Babinsky, Kate Easton, Frank Pando, Leigh Dunham, Madison Arnold, Dante Pereira-Olson, Jonathan Wilde, Scott Price, Silvia Pena)
A tormented assassin tries to rescue a girl but trouble lies ahead.
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