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Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm and Chris Hemsworth lead an all-star cast in this powerful thriller filled with gripping suspense and startling revelations. Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past.

Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption...before everything goes to hell.

In a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, the military commander has a secret weapon: a "shadow", a look-alike who can fool both his enemies and the King himself. Now he must use this weapon in an intricate plan that will lead his people to victory in a war that the King does not want.

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Oscar nominated for Best Foreign Language film, Rithy Panh's latest adapts his memoir 'The Elimination', which tells of his childhood when he and his family were expelled from Phnom Penh and deported to camps in the country by the Khmer Rouge who took over Cambodia in 1975.

Millions died from starvation, over-work or pure brutality. Rithy Panh was the only member of his family to survive. With a brilliant visual coup, Panh recreates and re-imagines life under the Khmer Rouge using tiny, hand-painted figurines. This allows him to visualize, in a profoundly affecting way these otherwise unfathomable traumas.

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An affair between actress Selena's (Juliette Binoche) and writer Leonard (Vincent Macaigne) is nearly discovered among their close friends in Leonard's thinly veiled autobiographical novel.

Fortunately for them, Alain (Guillaume Canet), both Selena's husband and Leonard's publisher rejects the book and remains seemingly oblivious to the whole ordeal, maybe because he's having his own affair as well' But eventually, the group must confront their double lives in a comedy of art, affairs and midlife crises.

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Unlike his High School friends who become respected professionals, Martin Blank (John Cusack) found a lucrative career as a hit man.But the job has lost its appeal and Martin faces an uncertain future.

Now, he finds himself back in his home town of Grosse Pointe to attend his ten-year High School reunion complete one last job and take another shot at rekindling a romance with the girl he stood up on prom night (Minnie Driver). With Dan Aykroyd as a hilarious rival assassin who wants Martin to join a union, 'Grosse Pointe Blank' is a killer comedy loaded with action and laughs.

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"Top Secret!" pits American rock star Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) against the dreaded East German High Command. It's a race against time as Nick teams up with Hilary Flammond (Lucy Gutteridge) to find her father before he can create the ultimate super weapon - the Polaris Mine.

Along the way, "Top Secret!" manages to do for war epics and Elvis films what "Airplane" did for disaster movies.

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Eve (Gabriela Cartol) is a conscientious hotel chambermaid. Punctual and enterprising, paying close attention to the details, she hopes her impeccable professionalism will bring her promotion to the Hotel Presidente's exclusive penthouse floor.

Long, laborious shifts prevent Eve from caring for her child while she helps guests with their own children. Aviles records her day-to-day activities, from the detail of ensuring rooms are immaculately presented each morning to enrolling in the hotel's adult education programme, which will help her chances of promotion. When things don't result as planned, Eve transforms her lonely explorations and newfound courage into the necessary strength to face a life outside the glimmering tower.

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Lisa Conroy (Regina Hall) is the last person you'd expect to find in a highway-side 'sports bar with curves', but as general manager at Double Whammies, she's come to love the place and its customers.

An incurable den mother, she nurtures and protects her girls fiercely - but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction...Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy, but what happens when reality pokes a bunch of holes in it?

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Ellie is a rock journalist who is a shadow of her former self. Her editor gives her the job of tracking down reclusive rock star Matthew Smith, who some think committed suicide after one great album, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend.

She enlists eccentric millionaire Charlie to help her and film the journey which will take them on a funny and heartwarming journey of discovery.

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Tina (Eva Melander) is a customs agent with a nose for trouble. She can literally smell human emotions, which is a handy talent for sniffing out suspicious border crossers.

But when a mysterious male traveller's scent confounds her, she's faced with hugely disturbing insights about who she is and what she wants.

Tonia (Krystyna Janda), a singer in a sleazy cabaret, is imprisoned without explanation. Days become weeks become months, varied only by the persuasion, intimidation and torture of interrogation.

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Lazzaro (talented newcomer Adriano Tardiolo) is a beautiful peasant whose sweet nature makes people mistake him for simple-minded. He happily does the bidding of anyone in his local village, which is ruled over by the evil Marchesa (Nicoletta Braschi).

He finds an unlikely friend in the Marchesa's petulant son Tancredi (Tommaso Ragno / Luca Chikovani), who convinces his hapless ally to help him stage a dramatic incident to secure a ransom. 'Happy as Lazzaro' follows the adventures of this young man living on the margins of his society, who can seemingly travel through time, arriving in the big city and appearing as a fragment of the past lost in the modern world.

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In this third instalment of the adrenaline-fuelled action franchise, super-assassin John Wick (Keanu Reeves) returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail.

After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin's guild, the High Table, John Wick is excommunicado, but the world's most ruthless hit men and women await his every turn.

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Reese Witherspoon plays Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter determined to be president of Carver High's student body. Popular teacher Jim McAlister (Matthew Broderick) decides to derail Tracy's obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate. Mr.

M never imagines that stopping Tracy is like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube.

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Weaving present day sequences with photography, scenes from her own films and portraits of her friends and family, the legendary French auteur Agnes Varda takes us on a memorable voyage through her life, during which she confronts the joys of creation and artistic success and the pain of personal

loss and ageing. It is a singular and stirring trip through events of the second half of the 20th Century: China and Cuba Revolutions, Women's Movement, New Wave cinema history and so on...