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Blend of fiction and documentary looks at a Chinese munitions plant scheduled for conversion into luxury apartments.
A boy at an exclusive American private school becomes increasingly obsessed with watching video clips on his computer.
The director's rescored, re-cut and restored version of his 1994 tale of love and regret.
Avant-garde thriller invites audience to piece together the narrative.
True crime story about a mother whose problems are compounded when she is reunited with a boy police claim is her missing 10-year-old son.
Second episode in Soderbergh's meditation on the Argentine-born revolutionary, focussing on his time in Bolivia.
First part of Soderbergh's epic, sees the revolutionary take on Batista.
Quasi-documentary about a group of Parisian school kids.
Ensemble drama about a family brought together - and, possibility on course to be torn apart - by the illness of their matriarch.
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A crematorium worker becomes obssessed with a beautiful nurse.
Five interweaving stories paint a brutal portrait of organised crime in Naples.
Poppy, a young primary school teacher living in Camden Town, starts taking driving lessons with an instructor who is her opposite in every respect.
A woman's life goes off the rails after a mysterious car accident.
Examination of the events leading up to and during Bobby Sands' 1981 hunger strike. Winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes.
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A romance develops between two rebels without a cause.
A self-centred politican has to deal with the politics of relationships when she returns to her home town.
Colourful and genuinely revolutionary film, which shows off the considerable imagination and technical prowess of the director. Newly restored version is being show at NYFF 2008.
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Drama about a family's day-to-day struggle to survive in the Philippines.
Drama about a priceless art collection and a family's decision about how best to use it, for both memory and intrinsic worth.
A Tokyo salaryman loses his job and tries to conceal it from his already dysfunctional family.
The story of a psychotic fiftysomething and his obssession with John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever.
A man dreams of becoming a shepherd in the Kazakhstan steppe, but is there room for such dreams in the modern world?
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Drama about a young woman's attempts to find her lost dog.
Animated documentary exploring the psychological aftermath of the First Lebanon War.
An ageing wrestler tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter, but can he get the ring out of his soul? Plus read what Aronofsky, Rourke and Tomei said about the film.
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