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Adapted from Michael Bond's beloved books, "Paddington" is the magical adventure of a polite young Peruvian bear (voice of Ben Whishaw), who travels to London in search of a home.

Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, it seems that city life is not all he imagined - until he meets the Brown family, who kindly offer him a place to stay. But little do the Browns realise just how much chaos one small bear can cause - and they soon discover that their lives will never be the same again.

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In the near future, crime is patrolled by an oppressive mechanised police force. But now, the people are fighting back. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.

As powerful, destructive forces start to see Chappie as a danger to mankind and order, they will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo and ensure that Chappie is the last of his kind.

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'Klown' is the outrageous and hilarious Danish comedy that pushes the boundaries of comedy and acceptable childcare with its bold mixture of dry wit, fearless shock humour and heartfelt sentimentality.

'Curb Your Enthusiasm', 'The Inbetweeners' an 'The Hangover' combine as Frank decides to prove himself suitable father material by kidnapping his pregnant girlfriend's young nephew for a truly outrageous weekend that combines sexual promiscuity, nudity, drug-taking and tiny bottles of Underberg.

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Elias (Mads Mikkelsen) and Gabriel (David Dencik) are two special-natured brothers. Upon their father's passing, the brothers find out, through the father's will, that they were adopted.

Despite their differences, Elias and Gabriel decide to seek out their natural father and set out to the remote island where he lives. However, a dark surprise awaits Elias and Gabriel in their father's dilapidated stately home. Surrounded by the island's many odd personalities, Elias and Gabriel discover a profoundly paralysing, yet ultimately liberating truth aoout themselves and their family.

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Struggling street food vendor Sentaro finds himself confronted with Tokue, an odd but sympathetic elderly lady looking for work.

When he reluctantly accepts, it's not long before Tokue proves to have an extraordinary gift when it comes to making "an" - the sweet red bean paste filling used in his dorayakis - which starts a relationship that is about much more than just street food. With 'Sweet Bean', Kawase again focuses on people at the periphery of Japanese society and investigates their place in the flow of life itself.

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Patema has lived her whole life underground. Following a catastrophic attempt to harness alternative power sources, her community were driven to settle in a dark, cramped network of tunnels below ground. She roams them by torchlight, dreaming of adventures on the surface.

Age does not fit in comfortably in school or society as a whole. The world he lives in is known as 'Aiga', controlled by the tyrant Izamura's family for generations. Together - the pair are about to be pulled into something much bigger that will turn their worlds upside down...

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Fred and Mick, two old friends now approaching eighty, are on holiday together in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps.

Fred (Michael Caine), a retired composer, is resisting attempts to revive his greatest work, while elderly film director Mick (Harvey Keitel) is desperate to make a comeback movie starring his former favoured actress Brenda (Jane Fonda). The two friends reflect on their past, as they look with curiosity and tenderness on their children's confused lives, Mick's enthusiastic young writers, and the other hotel guests, all of whom, it seems, have all the time that they lack.

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Beloved by millions of children around the world, Elmo is an international icon. However, few people know the soft-spoken man behind the furry red monster: Kevin Clash.

Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, "Being Elmo" follows Clash's remarkable career, while also offering a behind-the scenes look at "Sesame Street" and the "Jim Henson Workshop". As a teenager growing up in Baltimore in the 1970s, Clash had very different aspirations from his classmates, he wanted to be a part Henson's team, the creative force responsible for delivering the magic of Sesame Street on a daily basic. With a supportive family behind him, Kevin made his dreams come true. Featuring interviews with Frank Oz, Rosie O'Donnell, Cheryl Henson, Joan Ganz Cooney and Clash himself, filmmaker Constance Mark's insightful and personal documentary tells the story of one of the world's most adored and recognisable characters and the visionary behind the icon.

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Shamed by his grandfather, Japanese businessman Hirata cancels his golfing trip to Hawaii and instead travels to Iceland to perform a traditional ritual at the scene of his parents death several years earlier.

So begins one bizarre encounter after another as the reluctant Hirata treks across the frozen landscape.

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This haunting and poetic tale of a suicidal American who meets a free-spirited girl is directed by cult film-maker Fridik Thor Fridriksson’s. When an ex-con returns to Iceland - the land of his mother’s birth - he meets an eccentric artist, called Dúa, whom he believes may be his daughter.

After a close scrape with the law, the pair flee Iceland for Hamburg with a rare Icelandic falcon and a plan that they hope will set them on the road to riches. This lyrical and visually stunning film explores the nature of freedom and the complexities of relationships which captures the beauty of the Icelandic countryside, and and the unexpected ways that it may occur.

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Noticing that here grandson, Champion, is a lonely little boy, Madame Souza buys him his first bicycle. Years go by, and with Madame Souza putting him through his paces, Champion becomes worthy of his name. Now, he is ready to enter the world's most famous cycling competition, the Tour de France.

But, no sooner that the race has begun, two mysterious men in black kidnap him and it is up to Madame Souza and her faithful dog, Bruno, to rescue him, Soon, their quest takes them to a giant metropolis, called Belleville, where they encounter three eccentric female music hall stars of the 1930s and do battle with the evil French mafia. But can they rescue Champion? A visual treat for young and old alike, this stunning film has captured the imagination of audients the world over with its unique blend of classic animation and razor-sharp wit.

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Based upon the graphic novels of Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis is the biographical story following the poignant and often hilarious adventures of Marji.

From a rebellious, heavy metal loving tomboy experiencing the turmoil of adolescence during the tyrannical, Iranian revolution to a teenage exile in Vienna, Austria, where she discovers the benefits of freedom can be just as shocking as the repressive regime she was forced to leave behind. Returning to Iran as an alienated adult, Marji must now decide where it is her heart and her home must lay in this complex, insightful, honest and touching story, making Persepolis one of the most sublime animated feature films you're likely to experience.

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If you're male or female or of any particular ethnic, sexual, religious or national persuasion, you may be offended by this movie. Or perhaps this movie may make you laugh more than any other recent comedy. Fame. Authority. Show tunes. The military. Race. Sex. Religion. The way to a woman's heart.

The creators of TV's South Park skewer all in a feature-length story that plunges an outraged U.S. into war with Canada after South Park schoolkids sneak into a restricted Canadian-made film and emerge, their fragile little minds warped, spouting expletives that would make a sex-shop proprietor blush.

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Social misfit Dom (Dominique Abel) works the night shift in a small hotel near the industrial sea port of Le Havre. One night, a woman called Fiona (Fiona Gordon) arrives with no luggage and no shoes and tells Dom she is a fairy, granting him three wishes.

Dom falls hopelessly in love with Fiona, but before he makes his third wish she mysteriously disappears and, heartbroken, he sets out to go and find her.

"Song of the Sea " tells the story of Ben and his little sister Saoirse - the last Seal-child - who embark on a fantastic journey across a fading world of ancient legend and magic in an attempt to return to their home by the sea.