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Examining the close bond shared by an elderly couple when one of them begins to suffer from an illness, Amour tells a heart-rending story of sacrifice, devotion and the limits that love can drive us to.

Amour is one of the most honest, intimate and deeply affecting portraits of love ever committed to film.

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Evocatively set during the eighties, the film charts the decline of two men both named Antonio Pisapia who lead entirely separate yet strangely parallel lives.

One (Toni Servillo) is a pop singer who finds himself washed up after a sex scandal ends his run of success; the other (Andrea Renzi) a football hero whose playing career is abruptly cut short by injury.

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Mathieu Kassovitz stars as the captain of an elite counter-terrorism police unit, sent to rescue 30 police hostages that have been kidnapped by rebel fighters. As negotiations become increasingly hostile, it becomes clear that the rebels have nothing to lose and everything to fight for.

Against the highly pressured backdrop of presidential elections, the stake are high and all bets are off...

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May 1945: Stranded with her younger siblings after their Nazi parents are imprisoned during the dying days of World War II, the young Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) leads the remains of her family across war-torn Germany.

Among the chaos of a defeated nation, Lore encounters Thomas, a young Jewish refugee who begins to follow and help them. Lore finds her fragile reality shattered by feelings of both hatred and desire for Thomas and, as the consequences of her parents' actions and beliefs slowly become apparent, she must begin to face the darkness within herself...

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A group of friends are summoned to the estate of a celebrated playwright to hear what they believe to be the reading of his will. Instead they are treated to a viewing of his work 'Eurydice', performed by a group of fresh young actors.

Having at one time or another all starred in the play themselves, they are tasked with judging whether or not it is deemed worthy of being performed within the late playwright's estate. However, when they slowly begin to interact with the play, acting out their performances from years long past, their absorption with both the on screen performance and their own memories causes their interaction to drift from reality into the increasingly surreal.

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Luciano (Aniello Arena) is a Neapolitan fishmonger who supplements his modest income by pulling off little scams together with his wife, Maria (Loredana Simioli). A likeable, entertaining guy, Luciano never misses an opportunity to perform for his customers and countless relatives.

One day his family urge him to try out for a reality TV show. As his perception of reality begins to change, Luciano plunges into a self-delusional fantasy that threatens to destroy his relationship with his loved ones.

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This film follows teen tearaways, Brit (Ashley Benson), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Cotty (Rachel Korine) and Faith (Selena Gomez) who hold up a restaurant with toy guns to fund their trip to Florida for two wild weeks of sexy fun and sun-drenched partying at 'Spring Break'.

But when they get arrested, and then bailed out by local drug dealer Alien (James Franco), they soon find themselves being sucked into a dangerously addictive adventure they will never forget...

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'Wadjda' is the story of a young Saudi girl whose burning desire for a bicycle leads her into bold defiance of her society's restrictive codes of gender and religion.

After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn't be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda's mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself. Although her cunning plans are continuously thwarted, she is determined to continue fighting for her dreams...

When he gets a devastating diagnosis, 27-year-old Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) navigates the road to recovery with the sometimes overbearing support of his crude best friend (Seth Rogen), his smothering mother (Anjelica Huston) and an inexperienced therapist (Anna Kendrick).

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A man finds himself in love with two women. Paul (Mimi Branescu) is successful and married to Adriana (Mirela Oprisor) but is having an affair with the younger Raluca (Maria Popistasu). In the days leading to Christmas, Paul decides he needs to choose between his two lives.

Radu Muntean's frank, resonant and highly acclaimed film examines the emotional impact of adultery upon its three participants.

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After spending time working with real police officers, actor-director Maiwenn turned her experiences into this film, investigating child molesters, teen prostitutes and abusive parents.

Trying to infiltrate this dangerous, murky world is a passionate, dedicated team of cops who will risk everything to uncover the truth. But as tensions rise and emotions reach boiling point some facts will become too difficult to bear...

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Paloma, an exceptionally intelligent 11-year old ( Garance Le Guillermic) wants to end it all on her 12th birthday.

Fascinated by art and philosophy, she documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations on the world around her within a Parisian apartment building. But as her birthday approaches, Paloma finally meets some kindred spirits in her solitary concierge Rene Michel (Josiane Balasko) and an enigmatic and elegant neighbour Mr Kakuro Ozu (Togo Igawa).

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Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, feature is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.

When an entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both financial and moral, catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of disaster.

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Recovering drug addict Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie) is given a day's leave from his rehab centre to apply for a job in the city.

Over the course of one day and night, he tries to reconnect with his old friends and family in Oslo, where the ghosts of his past mistakes wrestle with the hope to see some future by morning.

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This film tells the bittersweet story of teenager Anna, who returns home from boarding school to discover that her parents have separated.

As she prepares for her confirmation, Anna's world is further rocked when she grows close to a free-spirited local boy and her budding desire for him shakes her faith.