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From the celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky comes his most autobiographical work and one that is regarded by many as his magnum opus.

Reflecting upon his own childhood and the destiny of the Russian people, 'Mirror' is a sublime expression of memory, imagination, thoughts and dreams intertwined with real life and family relationships. A transcendent, inspired and multilayered masterpiece that continues to grow in stature, 'Mirror' has an exceptional resonance and rewards countless viewings.

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London psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass (Morrissey) is charismatic, highly respected and at the top of his game.

When Detective Superintendent Washburn (Thewlis) asks Glass to analyse a beautiful woman who has been linked to the mysterious death of a famous sports star, his entire world is turned upside down. The woman in question is Catherine Tramell (Stone), best-selling American crime novelist whose fiction has a habit of turning into reality. The magnetism between the two is immediate and Glass is intrigued by Catherine both mentally and physically. Quickly sucked into her web of lies and seduction, Glass' own basic instincts are uncovered as professional boundaries are blurred. As people around him are mysteriously murdered, a deadly battle of wits ensues between Glass and Tramell, leading to a startling climax in which he must make a choice that will change both their lives forever.

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Cryptographer Alex Jacobs finds himself recruited and sent to a secret lab to decipher an encrypted message. After breaking the code that is housed inside a mysterious satellite, Alex becomes convinced that the message is a disturbing warning... from the future.

Once he returns home, a string of unexplainable incidents start happening, creating confusion and setting events into motion. Alex finds himself caught up in an unexpected journey to discover the reality about warnings and himself.

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If you liked the spirited misfits in 'The Mighty Ducks', then get a load of Disney's oversized underdogs in 'Heavyweights'! This uproariously funny and triumphant comedy follows a spunky group of adolescents during a wild summer at "fat camp".

When a neurotic fitness guru (hilarious Ben Stiller) buys the camp and imposes an absurd diet and exercise regime, the kids find it more than they can stomach. Now they must muscle up their self-esteem and devise a plan to take over before their entire summer wastes away. So funny you may split your pants, 'Heavyweights' delivers big-time laughs and crowd-pleasing fun!

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During the year 1961, the influential German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendnt reported for the 'New Yorker' magazine on the Nazi war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann. Her articles introducing her now-famous concept of the "Banality of Evil" triggered off an unprecedented controversy.

Using footage from the actual Eichmann trial and weaving a narrative that spans three countries, Margarethe von Trotta turns the often invisible passion for thought into immersive dramatic cinema.

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A colonial aristocrat with a dark, guilty secret, being held captive in his attic is his hideously disfigured brother, Edward (Alister Williamson), the victim of a strange and grotesque voodoo curse. In an attempt to escape, Edward fakes his own death and ends up being buried alive.

Unearthed by grave robbing body snatchers working for a sinister Doctor J. Neuhartt (Christopher Lee), Edward decides it's time to let his presence be known in a world of ghastly shadows.

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Five battle-hardened American soldiers are assigned to hold a French Chateau near the end of World War II.

Formerly occupied by the Nazi High Command, this unexpected respite quickly descends into madness when they encounter a supernatural enemy far more terrifying than anything seen on the battlefield.

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Canadian filmmaker, Guy Maddin presents My Winnipeg, an irreverent, witty, personal and sometimes hilarious homage to the hometown he loves and loathes in equal measure.

Described as a docu-fantasia, My Winnipeg merges re-enactments, archive, still photos and animation to recreate the filmmaker’s early years living with the dominant and fearsome Mrs Maddin , here played by the original femme fatale, Ann Savage, to his later attempts to leave the town that has cast its icy spell over him for his entire life. Commissioned by the Documentary channel in Canada the only stipulation he was given for making the film was that it had to be ‘enchanting’. Taking this as his starting point Guy started out on an odyssey that would lead him to the true meaning of home and locates for the viewer the magic spots that exist in Winnipeg; where pedestrians would rather use back lanes than front streets, where the homeless hide en masse on the rooftops of abandoned skyscrapers and where a strange civic law requires you to offer a room for a bight to any former owner or resident of tour current home.

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In a place almost untouched by time and in an age still blessed by innocence, a father and his two sons struggle to make sense of their changing relationships. The Reverend Maclean is head of his family; a stern man shaped by hard times in a land still largely wilderness.

His sons are Norman, serious and scholarly, and Paul, a hothead with a weakness for pretty girls and gambling. They are different but devoted and on the Big Blackfoot river they are in perfect harmony, bound by a passion for fly-fishing - the gentle, sometimes mystical art that slowly comes to symbolise their hopes and fears.

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I'm A Cyborg, the latest film from the Korean director Park Chan-wook, is a madcap fantasy, screwball romance. Young-goon is admitted to a mental institution, believing herself a cyborg, she charges herself with a transistor radio.

Il-soon a fellow inmate steals the other inmates' personality traits and believes he is fading and will one day turn into a dot. When Young-goon refuses to eat, Il-soon decides it's his job to get her on her feet again. This charming, tender and visually arresting film cements Park Chan-wook's reputation as one of the most gifted and playful filmmakers working today.

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1930s Los Angeles, a city both exotic and vulgar, glamorous and raunchy. L.A. is the city of first and last resort, where all dreams are supposed to come true, bustling with people from everywhere in search of health and wealth, fame and fortune.

So it is for Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell), a son of Italian immigrants who dreams of becoming a famous novelist and marrying a beautiful blonde, and Camilla Lopez (Salma Hayek), a Mexican who longs to marry a WASP and shed her last name. In a time when relations between Anglos and people of Mexican descent hang by tattered threads, Bandini and Camilla collide with one another, fighting the city and themselves to make their dreams come true.

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Jaime, Marta and their daughter Isabel, a well-off family, move to a luxurious new house. On the first evening in their new home, a group of three hooded men burst into the house. Their objective: to get as much money as possible out of them in one night.

'Kidnapped' is an intense and uncompromising shocker full of almost unbearable, nail-biting suspense.

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On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves Piel (voice of Frédéric Legros) - a young boy - alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar (voice of Jean Valmont), an adventurer travelling through space.

On board Jaffar's shuttle are the renegade Prince Matton (voice of Yves-Marie Maurin), his fiancee, and Silbad (voice of Michel Elias) who knows the planet Perdide well. Thus begins an incredible race across space to save Piel...

Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster star in the action-packed crime thriller, Inside Man. A tough cop, a clever bank robber and a power broker fuel a dangerous game of cat and mouse full of hidden agendas and explosive surprises.

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Edwin Anthony had a very nasty accident and lost something very vital. So they gave him Percy. Now Edwin wants to know where Percy's been before.

When a nasty accident leaves Edwin (Hywel Bennett) an antiques dealer, missing a particular part of his body, he becomes the first to experience a new groundbreaking transplant procedure carried out by Sir Emmanuel Whitbread (Denholm Elliott)...He awakes to find himself in hospital with a newly fitted part, which the nurses have affectionately named 'Percy', and has gone from nonentity into an instant celebrity overnight!! Edwin Focuses his attention on the more important matter in hand, who did Percy belong to? This quest leads him on a wild journey filled with lots of young beautiful women and his wife of the donor, Moira (Cyd Hayman). Taking refuge in Moira's house from the press and public, Edwin soon realises that Percy has a lot of 'female friends' and attempts to carry on where Percy's owner had left off...