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Parker (Jason Statham) is a hardened professional criminal who lives by his own code - don't steal from people who can't afford it and don't hurt people who don't deserve it. But when he's double-crossed by his crew and left for dead, it's time for payback.

Forming an unlikely alliance with a sexy Palm Beach resident (Jennifer Lopez), they hatch a plan to track down the gang, hijack their latest heist and take everyone down.

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Polly (Laura Fraser) is trapped in a dead-end job working for intrusive Professor Julius Greengrass (Richard E. Grant). Her relationship with boyfriend Chapman (Adam Fenton) is falling apart, and jealous sister Jimi (Antonia Bernath) rarely leaves her side.

When Polly has the chance to escape, her nearest and dearest have other ideas. Alone in her flat, Polly struggles to keep her grip on reality. Mysterious sounds surround her, voices in the darkness, whispers of deceit. Polly knows she's not cuckoo, but why won't the noises go away? She turns to the one person she can trust - her boss. But Julius has a dark secret of his own. He wants Polly, and he'll do anything to get her.

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Blood, gore, severed heads, but a tender love story at heart. Takashi Miike is back! One night in Tokyo. Leo (Masataka Kubota), a young boxer down on his luck, meets his 'first love' Monica (Sakurako Konishi), a callgirl and an addict, but still an innocent.

Unwittingly caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, Leo and Monica find themselves pursued through the night by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin hired by the Chinese Triads. Prepare for unadulterated mayhem and carnage and fall for 'First Love'.

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When famous Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sterling (Samuel L. Jackson) moves into a new home on an up-tight all-white New England resort island, he is mistaken by his new neighbors as a thief, who call the police.

The Chief of Police, Cecil Talliver and his band of bungling deputies show-up and then the fun begins. When Talliver realizes that he and his deputies have shot at a famous man, he must engineer a cover-up by using a con-artist Amos Odell (Nicolas Cage) who is currently sitting in a jail cell.

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In 1930s Korea, during Japanese occupation, Sookee (Tae-ri Kim) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on an enchanting and lavish estate with her domineering uncle.

Yet Sookee has a secret, she has been recruited by a swindler posing as an illustrious Count to spy on the Lady so he can eventually seduce her and steal her fortune. However, this swindler is not the only one with a desire to seduce.

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Jorge toils away alongside the ever-present Heimlich Manoeuvre instructional poster that hangs in the diner kitchen. From behind the counter and away from the bustle around him, Jorge reaches out quietly to the newly-hired Chinese waitress Amy (Eugenia Yuan).

She reciprocates in friendship, but the differences between them are too great for anything more. He is continually tormented at work by his co-worker Jerry (Aaron Paul) and at home in his Harlem bedsit by his inner demons. Set in the vicinity of JFK airport, which happens to be one of the most culturally diverse neighbourhoods in the world, Choking Mann captures the feelings that newcomers to America experience as they struggle to find a place and purpose in their strange, adopted land.

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Comedy superstar Jim Carrey plays a hot-blooded teen who becomes the reluctant donor to a sultry – and extremely thirsty – nocturnal nymph (Laruen Hutton) in this funny, sexy send-up of the horror genre! Mark (Carrey) has just one thing on his mind: going all the way.

But while his girlfriend keeps telling him he has to wait, he meets a beautiful vampire countless (Hutton) who’s ready for action! Mark’s just happy to get past second base...but after a one-night stand with the sexy seductress, Mark starts behaving more than a little batty and realises he must find a way to break his lover’s fiendish spell...or be prepared to work the graveyard shift forever!

Following the death of her father, India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) meets her charismatic uncle (Matthew Goode), whom she never knew existed. When he moves in to comfort India and her mother (Nicole Kidman), the two find that the newest member of their family might actually be their worst nightmare.

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Businessman Martin Meadows (Ray Liotta) returns to his suburban home and confronts his wife Emily (Andie MacDowell) whose drinking is beginning to threaten their children's safety.

A Domestic Dilemma, based on the story by Carson McCullers, is a hard-edged portrayal of one couple's struggle with alcoholism. In the second tale, up and coming boxer Eddie Megeffin (Matt Dillon) is pressured by his beautiful young wife, Arlene (Kyra Sedgwick) to accept a big payday bout with a championship contender. Although he's not ready, Eddie is eager to please Arlene - who has been all but forgotten due to his rigorous training schedule. Will Eddie's sacrifices pay off? Or will Arlene simply return to Kansas City. Henry (Scott Glenn), a writer, befriends Mara (Juliette Binoche), a prostitute. Struck by her mysterious charm and beauty, he invites her to dinner and the two are passionately drawn together. Henry offers the kindness Mara has never known but is it too threatening to her pained existence? Mara, written by Henry Miller, is the touching tale of two lovers whose entire relationship is limited to a single night.

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"Burden" is the shocking, thought-provoking and moving true story of disavowed South Carolina Klansman Mike Burden (Garrett Hedlund).

When a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan opens in a small South Carolina town, the idealistic Reverend Kennedy (Forest Whitaker) resolves to do everything in his power to prevent long-simmering racial tensions from boiling over. But the members of Kennedy's congregation are shocked to discover that his plan includes sheltering Mike Burden, a Klansman whose relationships with both a single-mother (Andrea Riseborough) and a high-school friend (Usher Raymond) force him to re-examine his long-held beliefs.

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Peggy (Judy Geeson) is recovering from a nervous breakdown when she is attacked by an unseen assailant. As she struggles to break free, her attacker's artificial arm comes loose and Peggy blacks out in sheer terror.

Peggy and her new husband Robert (Ralph Bates) spend their honeymoon at the country school where Robert is a teacher. The school is eerily deserted. Except for the headmaster Michael (Peter Cushing) and his wife Molly (Joan Collins). Returning to her cottage. Peggy is once more attacked by a man with one arm. Robert goes to London on behalf of the headmaster, but leaves his shotgun behind to reassure Peggy. Michael visits Peggy at the cottage late one night, and she notices for the first time that he only has one arm. Terrified, she reaches for the gun.

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It's 1981 and Londoner John Self (Nick Frost) - a successful director of commercials, a hedonist and habitual drunk - is invited to New York by film producer Fielding Goodney in order to shoot his first film. But things are not straightforward.

Self's cast of acting legends and up-and-coming stars find their egos and emotional issues aggravated by the roles they've been given. Back home, his father is invoicing him for his childhood and Self is starting to suspect his girlfriend, Selina, is cheating. He is also receiving phone calls from a mysterious stalker who seems to know his every move, demands money and threatens retribution... Meanwhile, Goodney's budget increases by the day. Is John Self's life about to implode?

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In 1981, disenchanted with what the communist ideal has become, KGB Colonel Grigoriev decides to change the world by passing on secret documents to Pierre, a French engineer working in Moscow.

With Pierre acting as a go-between, the valuable documents find their way into the hands of France's President Mitterrand and the French Secret Service, who give the Moscow source the codename 'Farewell'. Based on a true story, Farewell reveals one of the most astounding espionage cases to come out of the Cold War.

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Judge Jeanne Charmant Killman (Isabelle Huppert) is assigned the job of investigating a high-profile case of corruption and embezzlement at a giant state-supported company. Under her orders the CEO Michel Humeau (Francois Berleand) is taken in to custody.

As her investigation gathers momentum, Killman uncovers an immense scandal reaching into the upper echelons of government. The deeper she delves and the more she uncovers, the more powerful she becomes. However, under the pressures of her sudden influence and notoriety, Killman's private life begins to unravel, and she finds herself probing both the limits of her own power and its intoxicating grip.

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Quiet please - action! Mel is back on the big screen, but this time it's not quite as noisy! A has-been modern director goes to the head of a big studio with a groundbreaking idea which looks back to the early days of moviemaking - let's make a silent movie.

Greeted at first by stunned silence, the whisper soon goes around Hollywood that this is a picture that will save the studio!