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"Dragged Across Concrete" follows two embittered police detectives and recently paroled convict who descend into the criminal underworld.- Director:
- S. Craig Zahler
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- Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles
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Sicario 2: Soldado (2018)Sicario: Day of the Soldado
In the drug war, there are no rules - and when the U.S. government begins to suspect that cartels have started trafficking terrorists across the US border, federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) calls on the mysterious Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro), whose family was murdered by a cartel kingpin, to escalate the war in nefarious ways. Alejandro kidnaps the kingpin's daughter to inflame the conflict - but when the girl is seen as collateral damage, her fate will come between the two men as they question everything they are fighting for. - Director:
- Stefano Sollima
- Cast:
- Abigail Marlowe, Isabela Moner, Benicio Del Toro
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When aimless slacker Sam (Andrew Garfield) wakes up one morning to find his beautiful neighbour Sarah (Riley Keough) has vanished without a trace, he embarks on a quest across the city to find her. This is an epic, code-cracking, acid-spiked amateur sleuth story that tips its hat to Hitchcock, Lynch and everything in between. - Director:
- David Robert Mitchell
- Cast:
- Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace
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Samantha Caine (Geena Davis), a suburban schoolteacher, suffers from amnesia. When her mysterious past begins to haunt her idyllic life, she sets out on a desperate search to discover her true identity. Aided by Mitch Henessey (Samuel L. Jackson), a dead-beat private detective, she follows a trail of clues into the middle of a terrorist conspiracy in the U.S. Intelligence community. They slowly learn that Caine is much more that a soft spoken teacher. Repressed from her memory is her former life as Charly Baltimore, a highly trained secret agent and killer .But Charly is slowly re-emerging, which spells trouble for the terrorists, and anybody else who gets in her way... - Director:
- Renny Harlin
- Cast:
- Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima
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Only once in its history, has the U.S. been at war with itself. In 1861, the Southern Confederacy is formed, and the American civil war ignites. Along the Kansas / Missouri border childhood friends Jake (Tobey Maguire) and Jack (Skeet Ulrich) join up as horseman, raiding the North's Union soldiers and sympathisers. With a harsh winter looming, their unit, known as the Bushwhackers must disperse and find shelter. Several squad members hole up in a hidden hillside dugout. Their vigil is brightened only by a compassionate young widow, Sue Lee (Jewel Kilcher). Then, the realities of the war intrude, splintering the group. In the intense and brutal battle, the young men reach turning points both in the fighting and in themselves. - Director:
- Ang Lee
- Cast:
- Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jewel Kilcher
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Ash Is Purest White (2018)Jiang hu er nü
Oiao (the extraordinary Zhao Tao) lives in a depressed mining town. Her boyfriend, Bin (Liao Fan), is a dashing gangster who works for a corrupt property developer. After his boss is murdered, Bin ascends in rank within the Jianghu (a criminal brotherhood) but finds himself vulnerable to rivals. When they both are arrested, Qiao makes a fateful decision: she takes the blame to save Bin. After five years in prison, she emerges to find her world has transformed. Her former associates have moved into legitimate businesses, while Bin has found another woman. Qiao seeks revenge, but, more importantly, she searches for a new identity in a changing China - a search that will take her to Three Gorges Dam and toward a powerful revelation. - Director:
- Zhangke Jia
- Cast:
- Tao Zhao, Fan Liao, Yi'nan Diao
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Sunset (2018)Napszállta
1913: Irisz (Juli Jakab) arrives in Budapest with dreams of working as a milliner at her late parents' legendary hat making shop. However, it soon transpires that she has a different motive - investigating the disappearance of her brother who worked at the store. So begins a journey deep into the dark underbelly of Hungary's turbulent society on the eve of the First World War. - Director:
- László Nemes
- Cast:
- Susanne Wuest, Vlad Ivanov, Evelin Dobos
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Casey (Haley Lu Richardson) lives with her mother, a recovering addict, in a little-known Midwestern town haunted by the promise of modernism. Jin (John Cho), a visitor from the other side of the world, attends to his estranged, dying father. Burdened by the future, they find respite in one another and the architecture that surrounds them. - Director:
- Kogonada
- Cast:
- John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey
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Loro (2019)Loro 1
Master filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (Youth, The Great Beauty) teams up once again with longtime collaborator Toni Servillo (II Divo) to reveal the scandalous and, until now, unseen private life of Italy's most infamous politician, Silvio Berlusconi. Told from the point of view of a corrupt pimp, 'Loro' depicts a world of unbridled hedonism and greed for power with a wickedly satirical sting. Biopics don't come more unauthorised than this! - Director:
- Paolo Sorrentino
- Cast:
- Toni Servillo, Elena Sofia Ricci, Riccardo Scamarcio
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Veteran criminal Junior Frenger (Alec Baldwin) has moved to Miami to get a fresh start...at robbing a whole new set of people. But when his streetwalker-gone-straight wife (Jennifer Jason Leigh) begins to suspect his criminal behaviour, and an obsessed cop (Fred Ward) begins to close in. Junior will need a lot more than luck and a bogus badge to escape a crossfire hotter than the barrel of a smoking gun! - Director:
- George Armitage
- Cast:
- Fred Ward, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh
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During the Apollo lunar missions from 1968 to 1972, those on-board were given 16mm cameras and told to film anything and everything they could, in space, in orbit, and on the surface of the moon itself. Two decades later, filmmaker Al Reinert went into the NASA vaults to create this extraordinary compendium of their journeys and experiences. Assembled from hundreds of hours of the astronauts' own footage, with a soundtrack made up of their memories and a specially composed score by Brian Eno, the film takes the form of one journey to the moon and back again, building with elegant simplicity and exquisite construction to create an overwhelming vision of human endeavour and miraculous experience. - Director:
- Al Reinert
- Cast:
- Jim Lovell, Buck Owens, Eugene Cernan
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Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho), an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer to a better place. His situation is delicate. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives. When Zama notices everything is lost, he joins a party of soldiers that go after a dangerous bandit. - Director:
- Lucrecia Martel
- Cast:
- Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele
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Bing Liu's Academy Award-nominated documentary 'Minding the Gap' is a coming-of-age saga drawing on over 12 years of footage in his Rust Belt hometown hit hard by decades of recession. In his quest to understand why so many of his peers in the skateboarding community ran away from home when they were younger, Bing follows 23-year-old Zack as he becomes a father and 17-year-old Keire as he gets his first job. As the story unfolds, Bing is thrust into the middle of Zack's tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend and Keire's inner struggles with racial identity and his deceased father. As we watch the boys grow up before our eyes, we experience the joy, sacrifice, and hope in the gap between childhood and adulthood. - Director:
- Bing Liu
- Cast:
- Kiere Johnson, Bing Liu, Zack Mulligan
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Fear and Trembling (2003)Stupeur et Tremblements
Amelie (Sylvie Testud), who spent her childhood in Tokyo, wants to go back as a corporate interpreter to the country of her fondest memories. As a woman and as a foreigner unable to grasp the codes of a strict hierarchical society, she fails miserably Scorned and humiliated by her immediate boss Fubuki (Kaori Tsuji) and the whole raft of her superiors Messrs Saito. Omochi.Tenschi and Haneda (Taro Suwa, Bison Katayama,Yasunari Kondo, Sokyu Fujito). Her life spins into a downward spiral that is both tragic and hilarious. She tries to understand the soul of modern Japan from the 44th floor of a company skyscraper in this clash of western and eastern cultures. - Director:
- Alain Corneau
- Cast:
- Sylvie Testud, Kaori Tsuji, Tarô Suwa
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The Girl on the Bridge (1998)La fille sur le pont
A girl on a bridge is preparing to take her own life. Adele (Vanessa Paradis) looks determined to jump but a passing stranger offers her an alternative ending. Gabor (Daniel Auteil) is a circus act on the search for a new assistant but is this where knife-throwers like him find their new targets or is this just love at first sight? Adele takes a gamble on fate and enters Gabor's strange but exciting world. As a double act they breathe life into each other and rediscover good fortune. With Gabor's skill and Adele's stunning looks they take their act to the edge and are soon thrilling audiences across Europe. Adele is in debt to Gabor for her new confidence in life and is sure it will help her find Mr. Right. However, the moment they are apart, luck deserts them and it is only now that they truly realize the effect they had on each other. This is a unique, enchanting romantic comedy that leaves a lasting impression. - Director:
- Patrice Leconte
- Cast:
- Vanessa Paradis, Daniel Auteuil, Frédéric Pfluger
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