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Jenny Davin (Adele Haenel) is a young doctor who receives a late night call at the door of her practice after hours and decides to ignore it. The next morning she learns that the caller was a girl who has been found dead and that the police have no way to identify her.

Shocked and guilt-stricken by the news, Jenny resolves to discover the name of the young girl so that she will not be buried anonymously. Playing intelligently with the traits of traditional detective dramas, 'The Unknown Girl' is another characteristically engaging social commentary from the Dardenne brothers - a morally astute and compelling investigation of personal responsibility, justice and guilt.

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Exhilarating and astonishingly ambitious, "Victoria" is an adrenaline-fuelled heist thriller set on the streets of nighttime Berlin that features the staggering technical feat of being shot in a single, unbroken take.

Victoria, a young woman from Madrid, meets four local guys outside a nightclub in the early hours of the morning. Sonne and his friends are Berliners who promise to show her the real side of the city. But when the group are suddenly forced to repay a debt to a member of the city's criminal underworld, the night quickly spirals out of control.

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After stumbling upon a bizarre "competitive endurance tickling" video online, reporter David Farrier reaches out to request a story from the company. But the reply he receives is shocking - the sender threatens extreme legal action should he dig any deeper.

So, like any good journalist confronted by a bully, he does just the opposite: he travels to the hidden tickling facilities in Los Angeles and uncovers a vast empire, known for harassing and harming the lives of those who protest their involvement in these films. The more he investigates, the stranger it gets, discovering secret identities and criminal activity. Discovering the truth becomes Farrier's obsession, despite increasingly sinister threats and warnings. With humour and determination, Farrier and co-director Dylan Reeve summon up every resource available to get to the bottom of this tickling wormhole.

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A mysterious nanny, who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that were hidden in storage lockers and discovered decades later, is now considered among the twentieth century's greatest photographers.

Maier's strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never-before-seen photographs, films and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her.

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Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) moves from small town Ireland to Brooklyn, where she has the opportunity for work, for a future - and love, in the form of Italian-American, Tony (Emory Cohen). When a family tragedy forces her to return to Ireland, she finds herself drawn back into the life she left behind.

As a secret threatens to reveal itself Eilis has to confront a terrible dilemma - a heart-breaking choice between two men and two countries.

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From cult director Jim Jarmusch and with an all-star cast including Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, and John Hurt, 'Only Lovers Left Alive' is a film about music, love, and the transience of human culture.

Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, Hiddleston plays Adam, an underground musician who is reunited with his enigmatic lover Eve (Swinton). Their love story has endured several centuries, but their idyll is soon disrupted by Eve's wild younger sister (Wasikowska). Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them?

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Whilst holidaying in Marrakech, ordinary English couple, Perry (Ewan McGregor) and Gail (Naomie Harris), befriend a flamboyant and charismatic Russian, Dima (Steilan Skarsgard), who unbeknownst to them is a kingpin money launderer for the Russian Mafia.

Lured into a Russian mobsters plans to defect, the couple soon find themselves thrust between the Russian Mafia and British Secret Service agent Hector (Damian Lewis), neither of whom they can trust.

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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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Kate (Clémence Poésy) and Justin (Stephen Campbell Moore) live in the upstairs flat of a London house and are expecting their first baby. When an enigmatic couple, who are also expecting, move in to the flat below, they throw stark contrast to their new neighbours.

Pregnancy brings the women together until everything changes one night at a dinner party in Kate and Justin's flat and a psychological battle of wills ensues, with irreversible consequences.

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The poet John Clare's escape from Epping Forest; an epic march through hunger and madness, is an English journey to set beside "A Pilgrim's Progress". Toby Jones, lain Sinclair and a Straw Bear follow in his footsteps exactly 150 years after his death. En route they bump into Macgillivray, Dr.

Simon Kovesi and the wizard Alan Moore, their progress narrated by Toby's father Freddie, a maverick actor who featured in numerous David Lynch films. Captured in lustrous black and white photography, they discover the only truth of the road; whatever our hopes and delusions, we are always 'By Our Selves'.

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Kate Mercer (Charlotte Rampling) is planning a party to celebrate her 45th wedding anniversary. One week before the celebration, however, a letter arrives for her husband, Geoff (Tom Courtenay), containing news that reawakens troubling and long-hidden memories.

Though Kate continues to prepare for the anniversary, she becomes increasingly concerned by Geoff's preoccupation with the letter and the ensuing revelations about his past. By the time the party comes round, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

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Nadezhda (Margita Gosheva) is an English teacher who also works as a translator to earn extra cash. Stunned by a theft by one of her students she is determined to find the culprit. But meanwhile her personal life is put under huge pressure.

A bailiff tells her that her house is about to be seized because of unpaid mortgage payments. Determined to keep the house, she will do everything she can to get the money before it is too late. Her personal and professional life converge as she wonders, whilst her options start to run out, whether to question the principles she teaches her students.

Ma has created a whole universe in 'Room' for five-year-old Jack, where they have both lived for Jack's whole life. But when Ma decides they have to escape, she risks everything to give Jack the chance to make a thrilling discovery: the world.

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France 1940. As Hitler's armies take control of Paris and bring total occupation to France, Lucile (Michelle Williams) awaits news from her husband who is being held a prisoner of war.

Living with her mother-in-law (Kristin Scott Thomas) and leading a stifled existence in a town struggling to cope with their terrifying German rulers, Lucile's life is turned upside down when a handsome and charming German officer (Matthias Schoenaerts) is posted to live with them. Despite their hopeless situation they find themselves drawn to each other, until the desperate realities of war threaten to destroy them.

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Dr. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) feels like he's made it - he's moved into a luxury high-rise, seeking soulless anonymity.

However, the building's residents have no intention of leaving him alone and it isn't long before the veneer of civilisation begins to collapse, and darker human urges begin to surface, and Laing's good manners and sanity disintegrate along with the building.