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Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) has just discovered he has an autistic brother named Raymond (Dustin Hoffman) and is now taking him on the ride of his life.

Or is it the other way around? From his refusal to drive on major highways, to his obsession with watching popular TV game-shows, Raymond first pushes hot-headed Charlie to the limits of his patience... and then pulls him completely out of his self-centred world. But what begins as a reluctant and unsentimental journey for the Babbitt brothers becomes a remarkable story which connects these two vastly different people in this poignant and powerful look at the unlimited potential of the human spirit.

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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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Peerless cook Eugenie (Juliette Binoche) has worked for the famous gourmet Dodin (Benoît Magimel) for the last 20 years.

Bonding over a passion for gastronomy and mutual admiration, their relationship develops into romance and gives rise to delicious dishes that impress even the world's most illustrious chefs. But Eugenie is fond of her freedom and has never wanted to marry Dodin. So, he decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her. 'The Taste of Things' is a delectable feast for the senses and a stunningly beautiful romance that simmers with emotion.

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A deeply resonant story that captures the complexities of human relationships, 'The Lost Weekend: A Love Story' explores the romantic relationship between John Lennon and his assistant-turned-lover, May Pang, a 22-year-old experiencing her first unforgettable love.

This fascinating insight into a lesser-known chapter in Lennon's life explores how their relationship shaped a prolific period for him post-Beatles that produced albums such as 'Mind Games' and 'Walls and Bridges', and collaborations with ilton John, David Bowie, Harry Nilsson, Mick Jagger, and Ringo.

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When Leontes (Will Keen), Sicilian king, becomes convinced his pregnant wife Hermione (Priyanga Burford) is conducting an affair with his closest friend Polixenes (Oliver Ryan), King of Bohemia, he is so enraged he banishes her new-born child, while Hermione apparently dies of grief.

Sixteen years later, the child, Perdita (Norah Lopez Holden), having been raised in Bohemia by shepherds, is in love with Florizel (Luke MacGregor), son of Polixenes, who forbids their marriage. The lovers travel to Leontes' court seeking happiness, which they find - in ways nobody expected. Blanche McIntyre directs a new version of Shakespeare's great play of the irrational and inexplicable. Set in a world of monsters, gods and natural disasters, travel from the stifling atmosphere of the Sicilian court, to the unbuttoned joy of a Bohemian festival.

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The one-hundred-year-old Fujiya inn stands in the quiet region of Kyoto. Mikoto (Riko Fujitani) is standing in front of the Kibune river at the back of the building when she is called back to work. But two minutes later, she finds herself back at the river again.

The whole inn seems to be stuck in a time loop! While trying to find the source of the time loop, characters confront discontentment with their employment, mortality, and the impending end of a relationship in this charming time adventure comedy.

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Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel star as Johnny Boy and Charlie; Italian-American cousins and small time criminals hustling, fighting and carousing, doing whatever it takes to survive in the mean streets of New York.

Johnny Boy spends his life getting into trouble, leaving Charlie to get him out of it. Charlie wants to rise up in the local mafia, but when Johnny Boy reneges on a debt, the local loan shark seeks revenge.

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In the summer of 2014, Bernard Jordan (Michael Caine) made global headlines. He had staged a "great escape" from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, commemorating their fallen comrades at the D-Day Landings 70th anniversary.

It was a story that captured the imagination of the world as Bernie embodied the defiant, "can-do" spirit of a generation that was fast disappearing. But of course, it wasn't the whole story. It was an inspirational but sanitised retelling of one man's need to come to terms with the lasting trauma of war. Bernie's adventure, spanning a mere 48 hours, also marked the culmination of his 60-year marriage to Rene (Glenda Jackson) - "The Great Escaper" celebrates their enduring love but always with an eye to the lessons we might learn from the Greatest Generation.

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"Close" is an elegant, poetic and empathetic study of youth from acclaimed writer-director Lukas Dhont. Thirteen-year-olds Léo (Eden Dambrine) and Rémi (Gustav De Waele) are inseparable; best friends, as close as brothers.

However as they start a new school year, the pressures of burgeoning adolescence challenge their bond with unexpected and far-reaching consequences.

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Following one of contemporary art's most renowned artists, Anselm Kiefer, this documentary is an expressive portrait of an artist at work.

Anselm allows audiences to experience a multi-dimensional voyage of discovery, mining cultural texts and Kiefer's personal history to contextualise his life's work, which explores human existence and the cyclical nature of history.

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In this wild and incredible tale, young Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) is brought back to live by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist.

Eager to learn and hungry for the worldliness she lacks, Bella runs off on an adventure that inspires in her a fantastical evolution leading to a fierce dedication to equality and liberation.

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D'Artagnan (François Civil), a spirited young man, is left for dead after trying to save a young woman from being kidnapped. When he arrives in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers.

He is unaware that his quest will lead him to the heart of a real war where the future of France is at stake. Allied with Athos (Vincent Cassel), Porthos (Pio Marmaï) and Aramis (Romain Duris), three musketeers of the King (Louis Garrel) with an audacious contempt for danger, D'Artagnan faces the dark machinations of the Cardinal of Richelieu (Eric Ruf). But it is when he falls madly in love with Constance Bonacieux (Lyna Khoudri), the Queen's confidante, that d'Artagnan truly puts himself in danger. For it is this passion that leads him into the wake of the one who becomes his mortal enemy: Milady de Winter (Eva Green).

Amidst a future war between humans and AI, an ex-special forces agent Joshua (John David Washington) grieving the disappearance of his wife Maya (Gemma Chan) is recruited to kill an Al architect who has developed a mysterious weapon that could end humankind...

Seven Oscar nominations were the result as celebrated director Martin Ritt guided Paul Newman to an Academy Award-nominated performance as Hud Bannon, the rebellious son of a respectable rancher who's continually at odds with his aging father.

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Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea.

Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.