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Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, director Alice Rohrwacher's film is a beautiful and bittersweet love letter to the disappearing traditions of rural Italy.

On her family's farm in the quiet and beautiful Italian countryside, twelve-year-old Gelsomina divides her time between watching out for her sisters and helping her father with his bee-keeping. One day their peaceful existence is interrupted when television competition 'Countryside Wonders' and its glamorous host (Monica Bellucci) arrive, offering tantalising rewards for the most traditionally-ltalian produce. Gelsomina is eager to enter the family and their pure golden honey, but faces resistance from her father who is more concerned with the bureaucracy threatening to derail their family business.

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Cool, darkly funny and always surprising, 'Broken Gardenias' is a touching comedy-drama about two very different girls who embark on a journey of self-discovery and blossoming love through the heartland of America. Jenni, uber-nerd and something of a savant, is having a tough time.

Luckily, just as she hits an all time low she meets Sam, a street hustler, and immediately they develop a bond. Together they set off on a road trip to find Jenni's long lost father, and along the way, in addition to a series of brilliantly conceived encounters, their unlikely intimacy grows.

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Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman (Rosanna Arquette).

So begins the wildest night of his life, as bizarre occurrences - involving underground - art punks, a distressed waitress, a crazed Mister Softee truck driver, and a bagel-and-cream-cheese paperweight - pile up with anxiety - inducing relentlessness and thwart his attempts to get home. With this Kafkaesque cult classic, Martin Scorsese-abetted by Michael Ballhaus's kinetic cinematography and scene-stealing supporting turns by Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, Catherine O'Hara, and John Heard - directed a darkly comic tale of mistaken identity, turning the desolate night world of 1980s SoHo into a bohemian wonderland of surreal menace.

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A young man named Victor (Mark L.Young) realises the shortcomings of the Utopian ideals on the hippie commune where he was raised. Victor's mother (Andie MacDoweli) is funding the commune where the guru Insley (Rutger Hauer) hypnotises and seduces women with a technique he calls "running".

Insley manipulates the minds of these women so that they give him both their bodies and all their worldly possessions. Victor's childhood love, Becky (Hannah Hall), returns to take care of her deathly ill father. Victor, haunted by visions of Becky's death, is desperate to save her and himself by escaping from the polygamous cult. Preoccupied with Insley's free love philosophy, the adults of the community overlook the painful reality that the self-destructive behaviour of their children is most certainly due to early exposure to sex and drugs. To afford to escape, Victor tries to sell weed but is cut out by rivals competing for Becky's affection. Finally, Victor is torn between getting money from his mother who is entirely under Insley's influence, dealing with the violent drama of his drug-addled friends, and staying to save Becky as she spins out of control.

When the banks committed the greatest fraud in US history, four outsiders risked it alt to take them down. Based on the unbelievable true story and best-selling book from the author of 'The Blind Side' and 'Moneyball', critics are calling 'The Big Short' "slick and funny".

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This feature documentary portrays one of the most important museums in the world: Vienna's Museum of Art History or the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien.

It presents a unique look behind the scenes of this fascinating institution and encounters a number of charismatic protagonists and their working fields unfolding the museum's special world - as an art institution as well as a vehicle for stately representation.

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The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present - for the first time on video in the UK - Claude Lanzmann's film that he made as follow-ups to his landmark SHOAH, which explore in further depth specific aspects and events of the Nazis' extermination programme.

The Last of the Unjust
At 218 minutes in length, moves between 1975 and 2012, detailing Lanzmanns mid-'70s Rome interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto, and the filmmaker's own return to the location 37 years later - providing an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the "Final Solution".

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Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man - Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - has ever walked in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.

Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits, Petit and his gang overcome long odds, betrayals, dissension and countless close calls to conceive and execute their mad plan. Academy Award winning director Robert Zemeckis uses advanced technology in the service of an emotional, character-driven story. 'The Walk' is a love letter to Paris and New York City in the 1970s, but most of all, to the Towers of the World Trade Center.

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A college road trip turns into a breathless battle for survival. When a trio of computer geniuses are lured to the desert they believe it to be a hacker's prank, but things turn serious when they're kidnapped and taken to a mysterious facility.

Who has taken them? The government? A terrorist organisation? An agency not of this world? They must do whatever it takes to find out.

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'Confined' is an intense and claustrophobic thriller that follows troubled Streak (Louisa Krause) who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building.

Stuck with Cooper (Jason Patric), a perverse rent-a-cop as her partner she tries to focus on the job at hand and not let the dark hallways play havoc on her delicate mental state. But as the night wears on and the shadows begin to move in the empty halls she realises the darkness inside her own mind might be the least of her worries.

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Slaughtered is a gory 'slasher' movie set during one terrifying night at a remote pub in the Australian outback. When a new worker joins the group of bar staff, the sexual tension starts to rise and so too does the body count, as something horrifying is lurking beneath them in the cellar.

The gruesome reality becomes clear as one-by-one the bar staff all meet a grisly demise, leaving bar girl Jamie alone in a desperate struggle for survival...

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Love and Mercy presents an unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys.

Set against the era-defining catalog of Wilson's music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost.

Eight friends gather far a dinner party to watch a passing comet. Unbeknownst to them, this beautiful, once-in-a-lifetime astrological event is about to set off a catastrophic chain of events that will twist their reality beyond all comprehension.

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Zürich in the mid-1950s: The young shy teacher Ernst Ostertag becomes a member of the gay organization Der Kreis. There he gets to know the transvestite star Röbi Rapp - and immediately falls head over heels in love with him.

Röbi and Ernst live through the high point and the eventual decline of the organisation, which, in the whole Europe, is seen as the symbol of gay emancipation. Ernst finds himself torn between his "bourgeois" existence and his commitment to homosexuality, for Röbi it is about his first serious love relationship.