amac's - Films List

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The Boxtrolls are monsters who live underneath the charming streets of Cheesebridge, who crawl out of the sewers at night to steal the town's children and fine cheeses. At least, that's the legend the townspeople have always believed.

In truth, the Boxtrolls are a community of lovable oddballs who are raising an abandoned human boy named Eggs (voice of Isaac Hempstead Wright) as one of their own. When the Boxtrolls are targeted by a villainous exterminator who is bent on eradicating them, Eggs must venture above ground to save his unique family, where he teams with an adventurous young girl to save not only the Boxtrolls but the soul of Cheesebridge.

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Twenty-one years after an acrimonious split, '70's rock band Strange Fruit are about to regroup and go on the road again. Their goal is to perform at the Wisbech Open Air Rock Festival, the venue of their final disastrous performance which heralded their demise two decades earlier.

The intervening years have seen the band members settling in to lives ranging from simply ordinary to the outright poverty stricken. 'Still Crazy' takes a sharp and acutely funny look at what it takes to get yourself back on stage with a group of people you haven't spoken to since glam-rock and platform shoes were all the rage! This hilarious film charts Strange Fruit's increasingly desperate efforts to recapture the magic, the music, the lost opportunities and the missed romance of their prime. Are they 'Still Crazy' enough to succeed?

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April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.

Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

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From acclaimed director David Cronenberg comes a twisted tale of the dark secrets that lurk behind the closed doors of a celebrity obsessed Hollywood dynasty. Dr.

Stafford Weiss (John Cusack) made his fortune writing self-help books, but life with his overbearing wife Cristina (Olivia Williams) and thirteen-year old son, Benjie (Evan Bird), a child star fresh out of rehab, is anything but idyllic. When their estranged daughter Agatha (Mia Wasikowska) is released from a psychiatric hospital, she's determined to make it in Hollywood and befriends a wannabe actor/writer limo driver (Robert Pattinson) and becomes PA to the neurotic actress Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore). Before long, the lives of each member of the family begin to take a darker turn as the ghosts from their past return to haunt them.

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A gripping mix of violence and redemption erupts in the contemporary backwoods of the south in this striking adaptation of Larry Brown's gritty and moving novel. Oscar winning actor Nicolas Cage gives a powehouse performance in the title role as the hard-living, hot tempered ex-con Joe Ransom.

He's just trying to dodge his instincts for trouble - until he meets a young kid (Tye Sheridan) who awakens in him a fierce and tenderhearted protector.

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From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski comes "Ida", a poignant and powerfully told drama about 18-year-old Anna, a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, who is preparing to become a nun when she discovers that her real name is Ida and her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation.

This revelation triggers a heart-wrenching journey into the countryside, to the family house and into the secrets of the repressed past, evoking the haunting legacy of the Holocaust and the realities of postwar Communism. Powerfully written and eloquently shot, "Ida" is a masterly evocation of a time, a dilemma, and a defining historical moment.

'Lone Survivor' tells the incredible true story of four Navy SEAL's on a covert mission to neutralise a high-level al-Qaeda operative in the mountains of Afghanistan. Ambushed, isolated and surrounded by a much larger force of Taliban, they confront unthinkable odds together.

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Vincent (Tomer Sisley) is a cop with connections to a vicious criminal underworld. He and his partner steal a batch of cocaine from a powerful drug baron, but Vincent is identified in the heist.

The gangsters kidnap Vincent's son to hold him hostage until he returns their stolen goods, but he no longer has them.

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David (Dan Stevens) is the perfect guest. Friendly and helpful, the charismatic soldier arrives at the Peterson family's doorstep claiming to have been a friend of their beloved son who recently died in action.

The Petersons welcome David into their home and into their lives, but when people in town start dying under mysterious circumstances, their teenage daughter Anna (Maika Monroe) begins to suspect that David isn't who he claims to be.

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The multiple Independent Spirit Award and Sundance Film Festival winning film follows the true story of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a 22-year-old Oakland, CA resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air.

Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: being a better son to his mother (Octavia Spencer), whose birthday falls on New Year's Eve, being a better partner to his girlfriend Sophina (Melonie Diaz), who he hasn't been completely honest with, and being a better father to Tatiana (Ariana Neal), their beautiful four year-old daughter. Crossing paths with friends, family, and strangers, Oscar starts out well, but as the day goes on he realises that change is not going to come easily and that he'll have to work hard to make it. As he and Sophina celebrate the New Year and a fresh start, one truly shocking, tragedy shakes his community - and the entire United States - to its very core.

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Ten years after a Western economic collapse, cold-blooded drifter Eric (Guy Pearce) traverses the scorched Australian outback on a mission to track down the men who took everything he had.

After losing their trail he soon crosses paths with Rey (Robert Pattinson), a badly wounded member of the gang who was left for dead by his own brother. Vulnerable and naive Rey joins Eric as his unwitting accomplice and together they cross this new world to exact their revenge.

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Film recounts the adventures of Gustave H., a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars; and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.

The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting; a raging battle for an enormous family fortune; a desperate chase on motorcycles, trains, sleds, and skis; and the sweetest confection of a love affair - all against the backdrop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.

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Labelled one of the greatest zombie films in years, 'The Battery' follows two former baseball players as they navigate their way across a zombie ravaged New England.

Despite being teammates for years, the pair clash as Ben (Jeremy Gardner) embraces his new lawless existence while Mickey (Adam Cronheim) craves the creature comforts of his old life. But with the hordes closing in on them, they must learn to survive each other if they are to make it out alive.

A troubled young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and religious cousin in a small Pennsylvania town where he tries to redeem his bloodcraving urges after he falls for a lonely housewife, all the while his hostile cousin becomes convinced that the young man is actually Nosferatu.

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Convinced they'll score big money fast by kidnapping a young surrogate mother (Juliette Lewis) carrying the child of a wealthy Southwestern couple, two small-calibre crooks soon run into major problems.

Realizing too late that they're in over their heads, the kidnappers fight to keep their plan from unraveling amid a rising tide of bloodshed, mind games and greed.