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A contented ex-villain is forced to do one last spectacular robbery by a psychotic face from his past in this mould-breaking stylish thriller by director Jonathan Glazer. Gary Dove (Ray Winstone) is blissfully retired, living in a Spanish villa paradise with the wife he adores.

His perfect lifestyle is shattered by the arrival of his gangster nemesis Don Logan (Ben Kingsley), intent on persuading him to return to London for a big heist. Desperate not to sacrifice his carefully built idyll, Dove is drawn into a shocking battle of wills with Logan, ending in an explosive psychological showdown, and a sensational underwater bank robbery in which he must risk everything to protect the woman he loves.

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Hard up Nebraska Police Office Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) accepts a well-paying UN peacekeeping job courtesy of a private military contractor working on behalf of the UN.

She arrives in post-war Bosnia expecting a harmonized international effort, but instead finds chaos and disorder against a back drop of simmering ethnic tensions When a brutally injured young woman lands in the UN's care, Kathryn risks her own safety as she unearths an organised and brutal underworld of sex trafficking. Despite attempts to thwart her investigation and threats on her life she fights to uncover the truth and traces the path of criminality to a shocking source.

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With its stunning visuals and transcendent score, 'Valerie and Her Week of Wonders' is a potent mix of fairy tale, horror and surrealism, drawing the audience into the fantastical world inhabited by a young girl on the threshold of adulthood.

Caught between waking and dreaming, Valerie's enchanted realm is inhabited by vampires and phantasmagorical creatures evoked in a marvellous kaleidoscope of intoxicating imagery. Haunting and poetic, the film casts a powerful spell. Recognised as one of the most enduring and influential fantasies ever made, it has become a cult classic.

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Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) is about to begin his morning with an unexpected wake-up call.

Groggy, practically unable to move and with a heart that's barely beating, he hears the voice of thug Ricky Verona (Jose Pablo Cantillo), who reveals Chev has been poisoned in his sleep and only has an hour to live. Now, Chev must keep moving to stay alive: the only way to prolong the poison from stopping his heart is to keep his adrenaline flowing. As the clock ticks, Chelios wreaks havoc through the streets of LA and on anyone who dares stand in his way.

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Welcome to the world of The Brothers Bloom, where deception is an art and nothing is as it seems! Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo star as The Brothers Bloom, two notorious and enigmatic connien.

Looking to pull off one final con, Bloom (Adrien Brody) and Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) lure naive heiress Penelope (Rachel Weisz) on a journey that lakes them from Athens to Prague, and Mexico to St. Petersburg. With explosives expert Bang Bang (Rinko Kikuchi) providing a back drop of flames and flying bullets and Stephen's elaborate web of deceit pulling tighter, Bloom's feelings for Penelope begin to grow, and he soon starts to wonder if his brother has devised the most dangerous con of bis life.

Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid) was born with a rare genetic disorder where he can't feel any pain. When the girl of his dreams (Amber Midthunder) is taken hostage in a bank heist, he turns his inability to feel physical pain into an unexpected strength in the fight to get her back.

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His career. His marriage. His future. It's all on the line for DigiCom executive Tom Saunders (Michael Douglas). He rejected the passionate advance of his new boss (Demi Moore). Now she's charging him with sexual harassment.

Suddenly, long-time company man Tom must scramble for his corporate life - a scramble that will lead him into the dazzling cyberworld of DigiCom's new virtual reality corridor...and lay bare a shocking conspiracy among key company personnel.

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Spike Lee's remake of the critically acclaimed Korean masterpiece, 'Oldboy' follows the story of Joe Doucette (Josh Brolin), a man who is abruptly kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement, for no apparent reason.

When he is suddenly released without explanation, he begins an obsessive mission to find out who imprisoned him, only to discover that the real mystery is why he was set free.

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The plan was flawless. The execution was perfect. Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Now he wants more then the job's payoff…he wants payback.

Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker (Charlize Theron), Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-pedal chase that careens up, down, above and below the streets of Los Angeles.

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Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington headline and Allan J. Pakula directs this first-rate thriller based on the best-selling book by John Grisham.

Two Supreme Court Justices have been murdered and a lone law student (Roberts) turns her suspicion about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shock waves into the highest levels of government. She and a determined investigative reporter (Washington) want to tell the world what they have uncovered - if they live to tell it. The race is on and these two are more than runners. They're moving targets.

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This utterly compelling psychological thriller from Michael Haneke - one of cinema's most daring original and controversial directors - stars Daniel Auteuil as Georges, a television presenter who begins to receive mysterious and alarming packages containing covertly filmed videos of himself and his

family. To the mounting consternation of Georges and his wife (Juliette Binoche) the footage on the tapes - which arrive wrapped in drawings of disturbingly violent images - becomes increasingly personal, and sinister anonymous phone calls are made. Convinced he knows the identity of the person responsible, Georges embarks on a rash and impulsive course of action that throws up some unpleasant facts about his past and leads to shockingly unexpected consequences.

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The acclaimed sequel to the original 'Frankenstein', one of the most popular horror classics in film history, has now been restored in stunning high definition. The legendary Boris Karloff reprises his role as the screen's most misunderstood monster, now longing for a mate of his own.

The last horror film directed by James Whale features a haunting musical score that helps make 'The Bride of Frankenstein' one of the finest and most touching thrillers of its era.

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Bo Richards (Charlie Sheen) has trouble talking to girls. Roy Alston (Maxwell Caulfield) is filled with an uncontrollable rage. On the weekend of their high-school graduation, the two suburban outcasts head for Los Angeles and embark on a violent murder spree that shocks the nation.

But these young men are neither hardened criminals or foaming-at-the-mouth maniacs. They are simply 'The Boys Next Door'.

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As beautiful blonde Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), she is inexplicably attacked by a seagull.

Suddenly thousands of birds are flocking into town, preying on school-children and residents in a terrifying series of attacks. Soon Mitch and Melanie are fighting for their lives against a deadly force that can't be explained and can't be stopped in one of Hollywood's most horrific films of nature gone berserk.

Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster (Boris Karloff) out of lifeless body parts.