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The Green Ray (1986)Le Rayon Vert / Summer
Delphine's travelling companion cancels two weeks before her holiday, so Delphine (Marie Rivière), a Parisian secretary, is at a loose end. She doesn't want to travel by herself, but has no means boyfriend and seems unable to meet new people. A friend takes her to Cerbourg; after a few days there, the weepy and self pitying Delphine goes back to Paris. She tries the Alps, but returns the same day. Next, it's the beach; once there, she chats with an outgoing Swede, a party girl, and a friendship seems to bud; then suddenly, Delphine bolts, heading back to Paris. On her way, a young man catches her eye; perhaps a sunset and the sun's green ray await. - Director:
- Eric Rohmer
- Cast:
- Marie Rivière, María Luisa García, Vincent Gauthier
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In Rebecca Miller's witty romantic comedy, Maggie (Greta Gerwig) is a vibrant New Yorker, who without success in finding love, decides to have a child on her own. But when she meets John Harding (Ethan Hawke), an anthropology professor and struggling novelist, she falls in love for the first time. Complicating matters, John is in an unhappy marriage with Georgette (Julianne Moore), an ambitious academic who is driven by her work. With some help from Maggie's eccentric best friends, married couple Tony (Bill Hader) and Felicia (Maya Rudolph), Maggie sets in motion a new plan that intertwines their lives and connects them in surprising and humorous ways. - Director:
- Rebecca Miller
- Cast:
- Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore
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When Marnie Was There (2014)Omoide no Mânî
When shy, artistic Anna moves to the seaside to live with her aunt and uncle, she stumbles upon an old mansion and a mysterious young girl, Mamie, who lives there. The two girls instantly form a unique friendship that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. As the days go by, a magnetic pull draws Anna back to the Marsh House again and again, and she begins to piece together the truth surrounding her strange new friend. - Director:
- Hiromasa Yonebayashi
- Cast:
- Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima
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Moomins on the Riviera (2014)Muumit Rivieralla
The Moomins, Snorkmaiden and Little My, in search of adventures of their own, set sail for the Riviera, where, after a journey fraught with menacing storms and desert island dangers, Snorkmaiden is dazzled by the attentions of a playboy and Moomin learns that jealousy's sting is the most painful of all. When Moominpappa befriends an aristocrat and adopts the name 'de Moomin', an exasperated Moominmamma retires to the relative calm of their trusty old boat, to wait for her family to come to their senses. For the very first time, the unity of the Moomins is threatened. - Director:
- Xavier Picard
- Cast:
- Maria Sid, Mats Långbacka, Kristofer Gummerus
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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)The Cellar
After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up in a survivalist's (John Goodman) underground bunker. He claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable. But, as his increasingly suspicious actions lead her to question his motives, she'll have to escape in order to discover the truth. - Director:
- Dan Trachtenberg
- Cast:
- Bradley Cooper, John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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In Jo Kuroda's mystery novels strange things happen...There is always a sinister rabbit called Mr Trickster...Someone always ends up dead...A man's wife disappears - when he finds her she is working in a brothel deep under the city. There is a universe called the Darkland that can only be entered through a hidden tunnel. There is a young girl the man had an affair with in the dead of winter, two years ago. She only meets him in the eerie, crumbling Starfish Hotel. Now, she's disappeared too...If you meet Jo Kuroda one night don't tell him your dreams... - Director:
- John Williams
- Cast:
- Kôichi Satô, Tae Kimura, Kiki
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Down-on-their-luck punk rockers 'The Ain't Rights' agree to a last-minute gig in a backwoods Oregon roadhouse, only to find themselves targeted by a ruthless club owner and his associates, leading to devastating consequences. From the internationally acclaimed filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier, "Green Room" is a claustrophobic thriller with a thick vein of dark humour... - Director:
- Jeremy Saulnier
- Cast:
- Anton Yelchin, Ed Squires, Imogen Poots
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Just when you thought Sion Sono's unique brand of subversive cinema couldn't get any more out there, he's back to explode expectations once again as he ventures even further into uncharted cinematic territory with an ingenious hybrid of Yakuza gang-action and hip-hop musical. In a futuristic, alternate-world Tokyo, the city is made up of ghetto slums and nightclub playgrounds where gangs of wayward youths rule the streets. The city is carved up into hoods, and the crossing of territorial lines quickly leads to riots and rumbles. On the turf ruled by the savage yakuza Big Buppa, the simmering tension is about to boil over into all-out war. Who will emerge victorious? Territory, friendship, pride, love... Everything is put on the line in a desperate struggle for supremacy! Based on a popular Manga series and told almost entirely in rap verse (by some of Japan's leading hip-hop talent), 'Tokyo Tribe' has to be seen to be believed. The aggressive assault of the beats and rhymes wreaks havoc as a massive ensemble cast shocks, excites, and incites an unparalleled sonic war! - Director:
- Sion Sono
- Cast:
- Akihiro Kitamura, Ryôhei Suzuki, Tomoko Karina
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Jackie (Kate Dickie) works as a CCTV operator in Glasgow. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, whom she thought she would never see again, whom she never wanted to see again. Now that she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him. - Director:
- Andrea Arnold
- Cast:
- Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston
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Ryan Gosling directs an all-star cast in this gripping thriller about love, family and the fight fight for survival in the face of danger. In the virtually abandoned town of Lost River, Billy (Christina Hendricks) a single mother of two, is swept into a dark and macabre underworld in a desperate quest to save her home and hold her family together. Meanwhile, her teenage son Bones (lain De Caestecker) discovers a mystery about the origins of the town that triggers his curiosity and sets into motion an unexpected journey that will test his limits and the limits of those he loves. - Director:
- Ryan Gosling
- Cast:
- Ben Mendelsohn, Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan
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Jo (Rita Tushingham) is an awkward, shy 17-year-old girl living with her promiscuous alcoholic mother, Helen (Dora Bryan) in the grey, bleak, tenement houses of Manchester. Desperately longing to simply be loved, when her mother's latest boyfriend drives Jo out of their apartment she spends the night with a black sailor on a brief shore leave. When Jo's mother abandons her to move in with her latest lover, Jo finds a job and a room for herself. Then Geoffrey (Murray Melvin) drifts into her world, a shy and lonely homosexual, with whom she agrees to share her flat. When Jo discovers that she is pregnant with the sailor's child, Geoffrey, Grateful for her friendship, looks after her, even offering marriage. But their brief taste of happiness is short-lived for Jo's fickle and domineering mother wants to be part of the picture. - Director:
- Tony Richardson
- Cast:
- Rita Tushingham, Robert Stephens, Dora Bryan
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Stations of the Cross (2014)Kreuzweg
14 year old Maria (Lea Van Acken) is a member of a strict branch of Catholicism that rejects all the reforms that were made in the Church since the 1960s. Maria lives her everyday life in the modern world, yet yearns to follow Jesus fully, to become a saint and go to heaven. Christian, a boy she meets at school, almost draws Maria away from her goal with an invite to join the school's gospel choir, but her strictly pious mother (Franziska Weisz) pulls her back in line, seeing his tentative approaches as a temptation to sin, along with participating in what she sees as the 'Devil's music'. Told in fourteen individual tableaus that parallel Christ's journey to his crucifixion, 'Stations of the Cross' is both an indictment of fundamentalist faith and the articulation of an impressionable teen's struggle to find her own path in life. - Director:
- Dietrich Brüggemann
- Cast:
- Lucie Aron, Anna Brüggemann, Michael Kamp
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Acclaimed director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) and executive producers Martin Scorsese (The Departed) and Steven Zaillian (Moneyball) present "Life Itself", a documentary film that recounts the inspiring and entertaining life of world-renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert - a story that is by turns personal, funny, painful, and transcendent. Based on his bestselling memoir of the same name, "Life Itself", explores the legacy of Roger Ebert's life, from his Pulitzer Prize-winning film criticism at the Chicago Sun-Times to becoming one of the most influential cultural voices in America. - Director:
- Steve James
- Cast:
- Roger Ebert, Stephen Stanton, Chaz Ebert
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Sleepless Night (2011)Nuit Blanche
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. - Director:
- Frédéric Jardin
- Cast:
- Tomer Sisley, Serge Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier
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English rose Gemma Bovery (Gemma Arterton) and her husband (Jason Flemvng) nave moved to a rustic cottage in Normandy in pursuit of the French dream. Their new neighbour, bored local baker Martin (Fabrice Luchini), is a romanticist and devotee of Flaubert. Fie becomes transfixed by his very own 'Madame Bovary', and takes a watchful interest in her life. When a dashing young man catches Gemma's eye, Martin begins to fear that she will fall to the same fate as her literary namesake. - Director:
- Anne Fontaine
- Cast:
- Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng
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