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Unfolding in a series of eight mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa was inspired by the beloved director's own nighttime visions, along with stories from Japanese folklore.

In a visually sumptuous journey through the master's imagination, tales of childlike wonder give way to apocalyptic apparitions: a young boy stumbles on a fox wedding in a forest; a soldier confronts the ghosts of the war dead; a power plant meltdown smothers a seaside landscape in radioactive fumes. Interspersed with reflections on the redemptive power of creation, including a richly textured tribute to Vincent van Gogh (who is played by Martin Scorsese), 'Akira Kurosawa's Dreams' is both a showcase for its maker's artistry at its most unbridled and a deeply personal lament for a world at the mercy of human ignorance.

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Paris, 1789. The Bastille has been stormed and a breath of liberty blows through the streets of Paris. Francoise (Adèle Haenel), a young washerwoman, and Basile (Gaspard Ulliel), without a family or a name, discover the unique exhilaration of love and revolution.

With their friends and the working-class people of Paris, they begin to realize dreams of emancipation in the newly formed assembly where they witness, with both hopes and doubts, the creation of a new political system. Their debates and the riots on the streets hold the fate of their once sacred king and the birth of a republic. Freedom has a story.

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In rural Sweden around the turn of the century, three sisters reside in a vast manor house with their housekeeper. Agnes (Harriet Andersson) lives out the last days of her life in pain, hoping for companionship and affection.

Surrounded by her sisters, Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Maria (Liv Ullmann), Agnes takes comfort in the fact that her remaining time can be spent with those close to her. However, dissatisfaction in their day-to-day-lives, and the estrangement that they feel from one another, causes the sisters to become increasingly self-absorbed.

Explore your worst fears at the door and a haunting voice, Kristen McKay (Liv Tyler) and James Hoyt's (Scott Speedman) remote getaway becomes a psychological night or terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of it they hope to survive.

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I've Loved You So Long is the outstanding, critically celebrated breakthrough film of the year.

Kristin Scott Thomas (Four Weddings and a Funeral, The English Patient) offers a truly sensational performance in this utterly engrossing and deeply moving tale of two sisters who rebuild their relationship after fifteen years apart. The two women gradually rediscover common ground and learn how to relate to one another through the memories of their shared childhood, all the while the spectre of their time apart looming overhead... This intelligent and compassionate film is a testament to the power of family, love and forgiveness.

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Andreas (Philipp Hochmair) and Stefan (Lukas Turtur) lead a happy and passionate life: Together with their beloved tomcat Moses, they live in a beautiful old house in Vienna's vineyards. They work as a musician and as a scheduler in the same orchestra and they love their large circle of friends.

An unexpected and inexplicable outburst of violence suddenly shakes up the relationship and calls everything into question - the blind spot that resides in all of us.

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Have you ever consumed so much alcohol and drugs that you forgot what you did last night? Hollywood superstar Matty (Mathew Modine) does it all the time. He's got everything - fame, money, gorgeous women, fast cars and even faster friends.

But when Matty's strung out, there's nothing he wouldn't do for kicks... even commit murder! Assisting Matty on his modern descent into hell are nightclub owner Micky (Dennis Hopper), girlfriend Annie (Beatrice Dalle) and starring in her first feature film role, Supermodel Claudia Schiffer as his lover, Susan.

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When Miles Langford (Malcolm Mcdowell), the head of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest (Stacy Keach) provides "tactical education units".

These are amazingly human-like androids that have been programmed to teach and are supplied with devastatingly effective solutions to discipline problems. So when the violent, out-of-control students of Kennedy High report for class tomorrow, they're going to get a real education...in staying alive!

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Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas) is a veteran film director, afflicted by multiple ailments, the worst of which is his inability to continue filming. His physical condition doesn't allow it and, if he can't film, his life has no meaning.

His mixture of medications, along with the occasional flirtation with heroin, means that Salvador spends most of his days prostrate and forlorn. This drowsy state transports him back to reflect on his childhood in the 60's, when his family emigrated to Paterna, a village in Valencia, in search of prosperity, through to the appearance of his first desire and his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80's. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he may also find his salvation.

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Aspiring champion swimmer Kuba lives a normal, uneventful life at home with his mother and girlfriend. But Kuba has also been growing more curious about some of the boys at the gym. At a gallery opening one night, he meets Michal. Kuba drops his training program and begins to dream of another life.

Meanwhile, Michal takes on the task of convincing his mother and distant father that his lifestyle is not just a passing fancy. Kuba comes to recognize he has never experienced feelings as deep as those he has for Michal. It takes all the courage he can muster to face those who love him and dive in.

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The Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock creates a spellbinding portrait of a disturbed woman, and the man who tries to save her, in this unrelenting psychological thriller.

'Tippi' Hedren is Marnie, a compulsive thief and liar who goes to work for Mark Rutland (Sean Connery), then attempts to rob him. Mark impulsively marries the troubled beauty and attempts to discover the reasons for her obsessive behaviour. When a terrible accident pushes his wife to the edge, Mark forces Marnie to confront her terrors and her past in a shattering, inescapable conclusion.

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At an isolated research facility in the middle of the ocean, a team of scientists, led by Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows), are working on a cure for Alzheimer's by genetically altering the brains of sharks.

When a shark escapes and attacks a pleasure boat, the company sponsoring the research threatens to pull its funding and sends corporate executive Russell Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson) to investigate. McAlester has just 48 hours to prove the value of her work, but her experiments have made the sharks smarter. No longer happy to be injected, prodded, and caged, they begin to turn the tables. As a freak storm causes chaos on the surface, making it impossible to leave, the facility is flooded and the scientists must fight to survive against the rising water and the hungry sharks that now swim freely through the corridors.

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As a young boy Antoine's two passions in life were dancing to Arabic music and having his haircut by the voluptuous local hairdresser. In reaching middle-age his passions remain unchanged and a dream comes true when he meets and marries shy hairdresser Mathilde.

He moves into her salon where they embark on a reclusive life of intense passion, shunning the realities of life outside.

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Blond haired, blue-eyed Johnny travels to the island of Eleuthera intent on finding some artistic inspiration. After arriving he meets the confident, attractive black musician Romeo, and it is instantly clear that there is a spark between them.

Although Romeo has a fiancé, he has secretly played with the boys on the side before - but Johnny is not just any boy, and soon their relationship becomes far more complex than a simple fling. Struggling to overcome rampant homophobia, and anti-gay crusade erupting around them, it is going to take more than wishful thinking for their love to last.

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"The Taste of Tea", a strange yet heartwarming portrait of the unconventional Haruno family.

Amongst the classically picturesque tableau of cherry blossoms, green fields and bright yellow sunflowers, the idiosyncratic storyteller delicately balances traditionalism and cutting edge, live-action and animation, drama and comedy in his unique exploration of such universal themes as family, time and life.