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A girl finds that coming into money unexpectedly can be murder.
A recent graduate takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park and discovers it's perfect preparation for the real world.
In a near future, a family reckons with questions of love, connection, and loss after its A.I. helper unexpectedly breaks down.
1275 a.C. - A young girl is imprisoned in the dungeons of an abbey where an alchemist uses her for his strange experiments. Only a young amanuensis will try to free her at any cost. 2011 a.C. - A couple of young teenagers, Cris and Jessy, go missing in the woods while a young woman comes out from the middle of nowhere.
Biopic of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane.
A well-liked young museum attendant invites his colleagues on a sailing trip on his aristocratic family’s boat, but all is not quite as it seems.
Two teenagers' lives collide when one is mugged, leading to an unexpected road trip.
A German chorus girl marries an Englishman and becomes a star in the New York night clubs, before being seduced by a playboy and running away. Out to own now as part of Marlene Dietrich The Collection
An intense family melodrama set in the outskirts of Lisbon.
Film based on the story of a real cyberbullying incident in Italy.
Drama about a former prisoner of war, who struggles to resume her life in Ukraine.
Two young people undertake a doomed summer road trip through Japan, which in turn reflects on the dissipating promise of 1960s counterculture and free love.
Fable about a boy ordered to avenge his brother's death.
Rumpy-pumpy and Pimms in Thirties theatre-land.
An insightful family drama, about a young man who must deal with more than his fair share of troubles, like his autistic brother. Also, young love and being a new boy in school.
Adventures await when new lovers are separated by a chainsaw killer in this absurdist musical.
A biography of St Clare of Assisi, who left her wealthy family to enter a religious life after hearing St Francis preach.
Deaf twin brothers find their world closing in after a devastating diagnosis.
A middle-aged couple reach crisis point after the husband loses his job with a company he helped found.
Two bank staff rob their own establishment.
Piccolo and his former student Gohan go on a mission to save the world.
Restored version of the Lean classic sees an idealistic poet/physician and the fiancée of a political activist meet and fall in love against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution.
A broke artist starts to lose his mind.
A German-Kurdish woman tries to decide whether to cover up the fact that she is no longer a virgin in the run up to her wedding in this poignant exploration of cultural pressure and self-determination.
A schizophrenic woman finds things change when she embarks on a romance with a failed musician.
A portrait of four-time Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally’s ground-breaking, six-decade career in the theatre, fight for LGBTQ rights, and triumph over addiction.
Charles II's attempts to elude the Roundheads.
The on-the-run convict is befriended by a young prostitute but it isn't long before fresh revenge beckons.
A student's life is irrevocably changed when she meets a tormented billionaire.
Joe and his Belfast neighbors reenact childhood memories from the violent Troubles era in their Catholic district, exploring the collective experiences that shaped their lives and community.
A rock musician in the middle of an acrimonious divorce tries to gain access to his six-year-old daughter.
Christian and Ana decide to rekindle their relationship, except this time there are no more rules or punishments.
Disturbing drama about a couple who cannot live together... or apart.
Tensions ebb and flow as a young woman moves apartment.
Film based on the true stories of Portuguese migrants who travel to Great Yarmouth, pre-Brexit, to work in turkey factories.
Retelling of the legend of Sir Gawain's quest.
When Chiquita is sent to prison for debt, her introverted girlfriend Chela is left to her own devices. Chela offers rich women a taxi service in her old car. As she explores the outside world she also starts to focus on her own desires.
Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo. She sets up her own small business to provide for her kids, but as she fights against a patriarchal society that does not support her, she faces a crucial decision: to wait for his return, or to continue to persevere.
A young mum tries to navigate her way out of a blackmail situation, while her attacker also finds herself under unexpected interrogation.
Gandalf sends Strider out to find Gollum before he gives away the location of the One Ring.
A middle aged salesman is sent to Saudi Arabia to sell a complicated IT system to the king and comes up against interminable delays and the prospect of terminal failure
A man in a Prussian village dreams of escape to South America.
College film student Benjamin Glass (played by writer-director Aaron Fisher) has it all: ADHD, OCD, borderline personality. And he’s also bipolar. When a misunderstanding threatens to expel him from college, Glass pushes back.
A spat between Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee leads to division between their two communities.
A young girl is accused of being a witch.
A Canadian nurse heads to the Caribbean to care for a woman and tries to find a cure for her even though she is falling for the woman's husband
Italian B-movie film producer attempts to save his marriage, avoid bankruptcy and pitch a movie attacking Berlusconi.
Farcical romance as three couples become inextricably entwined due to wanderlust.
Ninja-tastic adaptation of the famous manga.
A bullied youngster trains in martial arts.
After an encounter with death a teenager will do anything to make sure she's alive.
Criminals subject a family to a night of terror.
Paris, Summer 1979. Anne produces third-rate gay porn. After her editor and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flaming sidekick Archibald... then one of her actors is brutally murdered.
A lonely janitor struggles to save a lost fairytale creature.
Villagers mount a campaign after a water company threatens to flood them out.
A contemplative film about the elderly residents of a Chilean nursing home.
Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be.
A man's life is thrown into turmoil when a vital photograph is stolen.
Jolted by her husband leaving her, a writer decides to learn to drive.
A hot-shot lawyer finds he may be out of his depth with his latest client.
Enrique, a retired general who oversaw the Maya genocide, is haunted by his devastating crimes. A tale of horror and fantasy, reimagining the Latin American fable as an urgent metaphor of Guatemalan recent history and its unhealed political wounds.
A bittersweet family comedy about two long-estranged brothers and the tense friction arising between them when they’re forced together for a family celebration.
Fourth part of the series, sees the toddler get in on the action after his father is hired to kill a female assassin.
Lord Retsudo musters the last of his resources in an attempt to destroy the father and son team once and for all.
Punk rock, magical turtles and underground sewer communities.
A would-be actor finds his new home haunted by the ghosts of actors past, but sometimes reality is stranger than fiction.
Shah Rukh Khan takes on an all-singing comedy romance, with added martial arts from Bollywood.
Comedy about a make-up artist working on a porno film shoot.
A young woman faces prejudice because her mother was a prostitute.
A young cleaning women, suddenly unemployed, is willing to do anything to fulfil her dream of owning her own hairdressing salon.
A tender relationship forms between a cab driver and a young prostitute.
Faust meets Arabic myth in the Moroccan desert.
Two girls vanish. Police recruit Paul Chartier joins a covert unit tracking a sex offender. After the operation falters, Chartier pursues the perpetrators independently, disillusioned with legal constraints.
When the harmony in a village is threatened by outside elements, two sisters must fight to save their people and restore the glory of a mermaid goddess to the land.
A documentary charting the life of the famous reggae star.
Following the death of his wife, Santoshi has sunk into depression and debt, much to the consternation of his daughter, high school student Kaede. To ease their debt, Santoshi tells Kaede he will track down a serial killer and collect the reward, but Santoshi disappears and Kaede must find out what happened to him.
A famous explorer escorts a sasquatch to Tibet in search of his kin.
A young Chinese girl pretends she is a boy and enlists in the army, with the help of a cricket and a small red dragon.
A young Asian man and his white boyfriend try to save a struggling laundromat in Thatcher's Britain.
Tragicomedy, a filmmaker tries to cope with crises.
Fate leads to lives interlocking in São Paulo.
When Boney went to Elba...
An Andean adventure sees a bold young woman trying to cut it as a freight pilot and falling for her boss.
One night in Nineties rural England, a retired couple finds their isolated house besieged by a gang of young criminals. The thieves think it will be easy to make them give up the secret of their safe. But they have no idea what nightmare they’ve gotten themselves into as they fight to escape the house alive.
A group of printers invest in a racehorse.
A man plots to murder his adulterous wife.
Monsieur Hulot becomes caught up in an American tourist invasion of Paris.
Mena organises a birthday party for a daughter. But after a phone call from her mother, she becomes distraught.
The story of a cannibal juxtaposed with the tale of two former Nazis turned businessmen. Out to own as part of the Pier Paolo Pasolini Volume 2 box set.
Chalk and cheese brothers seem fated to remain forever single in this romantic comedy. One tries much too hard, the other doesn’t try nearly enough.
A young man tries to solve the mystery of what happened to his dad, with some help from a talking Pikachu.
Colour, shot-for-shot remake of Hitchcock's classic.
Isolated in a remote farmhouse, a pregnant woman begins to feel threatened by her envious neighbours.
At a stag night involving one of the largest crime families in Israel, assassins kill all the men. The women, who have lost their status and power all at once, are thrown into a new reality in which they must fight for their place in the male world of the temple only power.
Bittersweet personal stories interconnect in a high school in Rome.
It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three chicks (kids) after they leave Rio de Janeiro for the wilds of the Amazon...
A football hooligan looking for a better life gets drawn into debit card fraud and finds it's more vicious than what he left behind.
Pop-culture savvy sketch show from over the Pond.
An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it.
Profile of the West Side Story star.
Romance beckons when a reporter is assigned to write a story on a bride who keeps ditching grooms at the altar.
A group of friends in Rome discover than happiness is transient and grief a great healer.
French Canadian islanders manipulate the life of a city doctor in an attempt to make him stay.
A young brother and sister have to trek across Mexico after their mum suffers a stroke.
Cockney con men bite off more than they can chew.
A young male sex worker searches for love and companionship.
A goatherd finds his life thrown out of balance by the arrival of his siblings and a stranger from the city.
A young couple moves in with the famed author, Shirley Jackson, and her Bennington College professor husband, Stanley Hyman, in the hope of starting a new life but instead find themselves fodder for a psycho-drama that inspires Shirley's next novel.
A silent film idol romances a Hollywood starlet in this much-loved classic.
The story of Simon, who must deal with the disappointment of two impossible loves: a passionate but destructive crush on Oliver and a distant and cold relationship with his mother Claire, who has just moved back in after a 15-year absence.
An awkward young woman with a secret agenda meets a beautiful young man who is concealing something still more dangerous.
A woman files a court case against her husband for rape.
A professor tries to help a student who is being hounded by drug traffickers.
A young girl escapes real life through a superhero fantasy world.
An unemployed scouse ex-con tries to make a go of it in a band.
One of Emperor Hirohito last days before the Japanese surrender in 1945.
A man who stole a nine-year-old from human traffickers forms an unusual relationship with a police inspector... as she interrogates him about a murder.
Kitchen sink drama about a pregnant woman who moves in with her gay pal.
An American family fulfils their dream of moving back to the old country after inheriting a remote cabin in the mountains of Norway.
The story of three families living in three apartments in the same bourgeois condominium.
A gifted graffiti artist tries to find his way after the loss of his mother.
Love blossoms between a young village boy and the daughter of a wealthy landowner
An exploration of grief and identity through an experiment in feminist cinematic expression.
A repressed nun desperate to maintain her Catholic ideals is tested as she takes residence on her uncles debauched estate in Luis Buñuel's controversial Palme d’Or snatcher.
Peace Corps comedy on remote Thai penisula, with Commie insurgents and Tom Hanks.
A middle-aged woman copes with unexpected pregnancy and the premature birth of her child.
An unhappy slacker tries to make a film in order to impress the girl of her dreams.
Vulnerable before a reality that can suddenly be modified and become unpredictable, the characters of Wild Tales cross the thin line that divides civilization from brutality.
A boy falls in love with a girl who can control the weather.
Musical sees romance fuel a gang rivalry in New York.
Musical transposes the story of Romeo and Juliet to the gang-ridden streets of New York.
Tragi-comic depiction of events surrounding the election of a new Pope in Nanni Moretti's searching, satirical sideswipe at the Catholic Church in Italy.
A woman wakes in an interrogation room in a future Britain.
A lonely, clifftop mansion is attacked in no-holds barred massacre.
Two high school kids who've never met - city boy Taki and country girl Mitsuha - are united through their dreams.
A remote mountain village is under threat from a bloodthirsty witch named Marie, whose spirit is capable of entering the bodies of murder victims and slain animals. One day the witch leaves her mark on the newborn Nevena, and the girl’s fate is sealed forever…
A blind swordsman returns to the village of his victim to make things right.
A dark time Kim Sung Soo on capturing history and getting a shot at an Oscar with 12.12: The Day
Reflections of a cat Gints Zilbalodis on Hayao Miyazaki, fairy tales and Latvia’s Oscar submission, Flow
Man about town Gay Talese on Watching Frank, Frank Sinatra, and his latest book, A Town Without Time
Magnificent creatures Jayro Bustamante on giving the girls of Hogar Seguro a voice in Rita
A unified vision DOC NYC highlights and cinematographer Michael Crommett on Dan Winters: Life Is Once. Forever.
Poetry and loss Géza Röhrig on Terrence Malick, Josh Safdie, and Richard Kroehling’s After: Poetry Destroys Silence
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