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On a small southern Louisiana island exists a forgotten ramshackle town known as The Bathtub, the proud home of six-year-old Hushpuppy and her father Wink.

When her defiant father becomes ill and an environmental disaster causes ferocious floods to engulf the area, Hushpuppy is forced to survive on her own. Now she must face the elements, her destiny and prehistoric beasts that have awoken from their frozen graves.

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Emma Stone stars as one of cinema's most notorious and stylish villains, Cruella de Vil. Determined to become a successful fashion designer, a creative young grifter named Estella (Stone) teams with a pair of mischievous thieves to survive on the London streets.

But when her flair for fashion catches the eye of the legendary designer Baroness von Hellman (Emma Thompson), Estella rises to become the raucous, revenge-bent "Cruella".

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Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made - a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity.

Hoping to procure a million-dollar endowment from a wealthy society j matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up - a missing dinosaur bone, a leopard on the loose, and plenty of gender-bending mayhem among them. Bringing Up Baby's sophisticated dialogue, spontaneous performances, and giddy innuendo come together in a whirlwind of comic chaos captured with lightning-in-a-bottle brio by director Howard Hawks.

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A small town find themselves trapped in a snowstorm and under threat as a mysterious beast begins to pick them off one by one. As the bodies begin to pile up, it soon becomes clear that the killer is closer than first thought.

As the blame begins to shift from person to person, tensions rise and this trigger-happy community will do anything to ensure they are the last ones standing. This whodunnit horror with black comedy at heart is based on the UBISOFT video game of the same name.

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Ralph Fiennes and John Turturro play contestants battling for huge cash prizes and instant fame on a top-rated quiz show. But when charges surface that the hit programme is fixed and that players are being given the answers, it becomes far more than a game.

Now contestants, producers and the network itself get caught in the centre of an escalating scandal. Based on a true story, Quiz Show is entertainment at its most compelling.

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Following the closure of a gypsum mine in the Nevada town she calls home, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road in this "exquisite film" (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal).

Exploring an unconventional life as a modern-day nomad, Fern discovers a resilience and resourcefulness unlike any she's known before long the way, she meets other nomads who become mentors in the vast landscape of the American West.

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Inspired by true events, 'Persian Lessons' is a powerful and harrowing story of survival, anchored by exceptional performances. Nazi-occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) is arrested by SS soldiers alongside fellow Jews and sent to a camp in Germany.

He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch (Lars Eidinger). As the unusual relationship between the two men begins to incite jealousy and suspicion, Gilles becomes acutely aware that one false move could expose his swindle.

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22-year-old Leo (Félix Maritaud) sells his body on the street for cash. Men come and go but he remains; stuck in the same place and longing for love. Uncertain of what his future may bring, Leo hits the road.

Sometimes reckless, sometimes savage, sometimes tender but always with a pounding heart - Leo is ready for change.

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William O'Neal (LaKeith Stanfield), a thief turned FBI informant, infiltrates the Illinois Black Panthers to track their charismatic leader, Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), whose rising political prowess has captured the attention of J. Edgar Hoover's bureau.

As O'Neal manipulates both his comrades and handler, a battle wages in his soul. Will he align with the side of good - or follow commands to subdue Hampton by any means?

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After Cameron Post (Chloe Grace Moretz) is caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night, she's quickly shipped off to a conversion therapy centre that treats teens "struggling with same-sex attraction".

At the facility, Cameron is subjected to outlandish discipline, dubious "de-gaying" methods, and earnest Christian rock songs - but this unusual setting also provides her with an unlikely gay community. For the first time, Cameron connects with peers, and she's able to find her place among fellow outcasts.

Pixar's Soul introduces Joe, who lands the gig of his life at the best jazz club in town. But one misstep lands Joe in a fantastical place: The Great Before. There, he teams up with soul 22 (Tina Fey), and together they find the answers to some of life's biggest questions.

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From a screenplay by Shia LaBeouf, based on his own experiences, award-winning filmmaker Alma Har'el brings to life a young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father through cinema and dreams.

Fictionalising his childhood's ascent to stardom, and subsequent adult crash-landing into rehab and recovery, Har'el casts Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges as Otis Lort, navigating different stages in a frenetic career. LaBeouf takes on the daring and therapeutic challenge of playing a version of his own father, an ex-rodeo clown and a felon. Artist and musician FKA Twigs makes her feature-film debut, playing neighbour and kindred spirit to the younger Otis in their garden-court motel home. Har'el's feature narrative debut is a one-of-a-kind collaboration between filmmaker and subject, exploring art as therapy and imagination as hope.

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Texas, Christmas 1985 - Adrian (Cory Michael Smith) is home for the first time in three years having moved on from the repressed life he left behind.

Between his mother's warm affection, his father's begrudging, stilted conversation and his younger brother Andrew's (Aidan Langford) cold shoulder, Adrian is all too aware of the impact his absence has had on them. Time to make up for lost time. A mutual love of Madonna's music helps the brothers to reconnect. Their relationship starts to rebuild through the joy of "ungodly" music and movies as Adrian secretly helps him rebuild his cassette tape collection recently destroyed by local pastor. With his life in New York City falling apart Adrian is determined to make this home visit count - 1985 will be a Christmas to remember.

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Scott (Pete Davidson) has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven.

He's now reached his mid-20's having achieved little, living with his mother (Marisa Tomei) and spending his days hanging with his buddies and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey (Bel Powley). When his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter Ray (Bill Burr), it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.

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MLK/FBI is the first film to uncover the extent of the FBI's surveillance and harassment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Based on newly discovered and declassified files, utilizing a trove of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and unsealed by the National Archives, as well as revelatory restored footage, the documentary explores the government's history of targeting Black activists, and the contested meaning behind some of our most cherished ideals. Featuring interviews with key cultural figures including former FBI Director James Comey and directed by Emmy Award-winner and Oscar-nominee Sam Pollard, 'MLK/FBI' tells this astonishing and tragic story with searing relevance to our current moment.