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Adapted from Jojo Moyes' best-selling novel, 'The Last Letter from Your Lover' is a passionate, dual-narrative love story set in the French Riviera and London during the 1960's and present day. It tells the tale of elegant Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley) and how her life becomes inextricably interwoven with that of Ellie Haworth (Felicity Jones) in life changing events which connect them across almost half a century. - Director:
- Augustine Frizzell
- Cast:
- Shailene Woodley, Joe Alwyn, Wendy Nottingham
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The Investigation (2021)Efterforskningen
From the acclaimed director of Mindhunter and writer of Borgen, this brooding drama covers the six-month investigation into how and why Swedish journalist Kim Wall was murdered on a submarine where she was interviewing the eccentric inventor who had built it. Cutting edge forensic techniques are used and dogged policing sees the case finally brought to justice, but only after much obfuscation from the killer and seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the gathering of evidence. In what is to become his final investigation, determined detective Jens Møller never gives up, and forms close ties with the victim's family spurring him to seek justice at any cost. - Director:
- Tobias Lindholm
- Cast:
- Søren Malling, Pilou Asbæk, Pernilla August
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Martin Eden (Luca Marinelli), Neapolitan and working class, has his fate is changed forever when he defends a young boy from a beating. The boy repays him for his kindness by inviting him into his bourgeois home, and it is there that Eden meets Elena (Jessica Cressy), the daughter of an upper-crust industrial family. He resolves to become an accomplished writer to elevate himself to the family's social standing and eventually marry her. He proves himself quickly as an autodidact, but grapples with social politics and ultimately with how to deal with success. - Director:
- Pietro Marcello
- Cast:
- Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Vincenzo Nemolato
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When Sarah (Jodie Comer) starts working as a care assistant in a home for the elderly, she discovers she has a special talent for looking after the residents, one in particular. At 47 Tony (Stephen Graham) has early on set dementia causing moments of confusion and aggression that the staff find difficult to handle; Sarah begins to build a real bond with him. With the arrival of the Coronavirus pandemic, Sarah and her colleagues are left ill equipped, led by an overwhelmed manager, and made helpless by the powers that be. Faced with impossible choices, Sarah goes to extraordinary lengths to protect the residents. But the staff's heroism can only do so much. Confronted with the grim and imminent reality of losing Tony, to what extremes will Sarah go to save her friend? - Director:
- Marc Munden
- Cast:
- Jodie Comer, Stephen Graham, Ian Hart
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There is a philosophical theory that we should be born with a small amount of alcohol in our blood; that modest inebriation opens our minds to the world around us diminishing problems and increasing creativity. Intrigued Martin (Mads Mikkelsen) and three of his friends all weary high school teachers, embark on a risky experiment to maintain a constant level of intoxication throughout the workday. Initial results are positive, but as the units are knocked back and stakes are raised, it becomes increasingly clear that some bold acts carry severe consequences. - Director:
- Thomas Vinterberg
- Cast:
- Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang
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Will It Snow for Christmas? (1996)Y'aura t'il de la neige à Noël?
On a Provencal farm, a protective and devoted mother (Dominique Reymond) raises her seven illegitimate children. Their father is the farm's owner (Daniel Duval), an authoritarian egotist who treats the family as his personal property to be used as cheap labour. Unable to leave, it is only the mother's love for her children and unwavering strength that prevent the family from falling apart. - Director:
- Sandrine Veysset
- Cast:
- Dominique Reymond, Daniel Duval, Jessica Martinez
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Anthony Hopkins plays the eponymous role of a mischievious and highly independent man who, as he ages, refuses all assistance from his daughter Anne (Olivia Colman). Yet, such help has become essential following Anne's decision to move to Paris with her partner. As Anne's father tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality. - Director:
- Florian Zeller
- Cast:
- Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss
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When broke Irishman, Al Clancy (Trevor O'Connell), mistakenly agrees to mind his smart-ass 10-year-old nephew, Karl (Ryan Minogue-Lee), for a week, his job and home are placed in jeopardy. In a bold bid to save Al's unfulfilling but undemanding job as a poster boy, they steal the family camper-van, embarking on a madcap, impulsive postering tour across Ireland. But the unlikely pair soon discover it may be more difficult than they realised to survive a week in each other's company. - Director:
- Dave Minogue
- Cast:
- Trevor O'Connell, Ryan Minogue-Lee, Norma Sheahan
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Award-winning director Kelly Reichardt (Meek's Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy) returns with the eagerly awaited 'First Cow', a gripping and glorious story of friendship, petty crime and the pursuit of the American dream on the harsh frontier of the Pacific Northwest. In 1820's Oregon, two loners team up to seek their fortune through a scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner's prized Jersey cow - the first, and only, in the territory. A true masterpiece from one of the great modern American filmmakers. - Director:
- Kelly Reichardt
- Cast:
- Alia Shawkat, John Magaro, Dylan Smith
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It Must Be Heaven (2019)De repente, el paraíso
In Elia Suleiman's first film for a decade, his alter-ego ES escapes from Palestine seeking an alternative homeland, only to find that Palestine is trailing behind him. The promise of a new life turns into a comedy of errors: however far he travels, from Paris to New York, something always reminds him of home. A comic saga exploring identity, nationality and belonging, in which Suleiman asks the fundamental question: where is the place we can truly call home? - Director:
- Elia Suleiman
- Cast:
- Elia Suleiman, Tarik Kopty, Kareem Ghneim
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During the nineteenth century, a young woman named Madeleine embarks on a secret affair with a penniless Frenchman. Being from a respectable family, their affair is carried out in secret whilst her father parades various suitors in front of her. The frenchman is keen to marry, and while Madeleine suggests an elopement, he wishes to gain her father's concent. This is not part of her plans, but he blackmails her with threats of revealing their affair. A few weeks later, he dies of arsenic poisoning . Madeleineis the prime suspect... - Director:
- David Lean
- Cast:
- Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny
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A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, 'Minari' follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, 'Minari' shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home. - Director:
- Lee Isaac Chung
- Cast:
- Alan S. Kim, Yeri Han, Noel Cho
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Homeward (2019)Evge
Mustafa (Akhtem Seitablayev) and his college-aged son, Alim, have set out to a morgue in Kyiv to recover the body of Alim's older brother, Nazim, yet another casualty of the war with Russia. Although Nazim had been living in Kyiv with his Orthodox wife, Olesya, Mustafa is insistent that his son is given a traditional Muslim burial beside his mother's grave in Crimea. City life has exacerbated the generational gap between Mustafa and Alim. However, one commonality unites them - their shared language of Crimean Tatar. Along the way, they face many obstacles, and Alim is hard-pressed to accept his father's determination to uphold tradition at all costs. However, the on-going challenges encourage the pair to better understand each other and profoundly impacts their relationship. - Director:
- Nariman Aliev
- Cast:
- Akhtem Seitablaev, Remzi Bilyalov, Dariya Barihashvili
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Festen (1998)Celebration
To celebrate his 60th birthday, family patriarch Helge Klingelfeldt throws a lavish dinner party for all his friends and family. After years of tense estrangement Helge is particularly anxious that his three children, Christian, Michael and Helene support the party's festive mood by parading an impression of a happy and loving family. However, th eldest son's speech serves only to expose a secret that descends the celebration into a tragic and heartbreaking night that will never be forgotten. - Director:
- Thomas Vinterberg
- Cast:
- Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen
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Sonya (Aimee Lou Wood) and her Uncle Vanya (Toby Jones) throw their lives into maintaining the crumbling family estate, only visited occasionally by the radical and inspiring local doctor Astrov (Richard Armitage). However, when Sonya's father, Professor Serebryakov (Roger Allam), suddenly returns with his restless, alluring, new wife Yelena (Rosalind Eleazar), long-hidden truths start to emerge. - Director:
- Ross MacGibbon
- Cast:
- Roger Allam, Richard Armitage, Anna Calder-Marshall
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