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It's summer in Sweden...A primary school teacher decides to teach her colleagues a lesson they'll never forget. Teenage girls are indulging in a webcam tease and seducing strangers. University students are taking male bonding to a new level.

And as day turns to night, a coach driver decides enough is enough and won't drive his passengers any further.

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Madadayo follows the last two decades in the life of Hyakken Uchida (Tetsuo Matsumura), a writer and teacher who retires in the war years of the early 1940's.

Beginning in the 1943 (the year Kurosawa made his first feature), the beloved teacher is joined by his students and colleagues each yeah for a birthday celebration, toasting "Mahda-kai? (Are you ready?)" to which his answer is always "Madadayo!" which means "Not yet!", acknowledging that death may be near but life goes on - it is both a triumphant denial of death and a gentle plea for more time.

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Suburban mother Tara's (Gemma Arterton) life is outwardly perfect. But she's deeply unhappy and unfulfilled in her life of routine with her husband Mark (Dominic Cooper) and their children. These feelings become so overwhelming, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery.

Through a series of risky and incendiary encounters, she discovers the woman she really is and the life she really wants.

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Tokyo is made up of three vignettes entitled Interiour Design , Merde and Shaking Tokyo, each with their own unique insight into this fascinating city.

The quirky stories lead the viewer through a little seen Tokyo in the company of a headstrong young couple, a bizarre sewage man and a long time hermit forced out of hiding to find the pizza delivery girl he loves.

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Kinetta... a desolate Greek resort town, inhabited during the off-season by migrant workers.

In this colourless setting, the film studies the cryptic activities of an inscrutable trio: a plain-clothes cop with a passion for cars, tape recorders and Russian women; a loner clerk who is a part-time photographer; and a hotel maid with aspirations to be an actress. They barely speak, passing the time by staging outlandish re-enactments of local murders. Their efforts are obsessive, the details exhaustive, their purpose... questionable. .

Married at seventeen to Baron von Instetten (Wolfgang Schenk) a much older district councillor who previously had designs on her mother, the bored and naive Effi (Hanna Schygulla) spends his long absences innocently dallying with the charming Major Crampas (Ulli Lommel).

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Aloys Adorn is a middle-aged private detective who lives and works with his father. He experiences life from a safe distance, through a video camera he keeps recording 24 hours a day, and the massive collection of surveillance tapes he organises and obsessively watches at home.

But when his father dies, Aloys is left on his own and his sheltered existence begins to fall apart. After a night of heavy drinking, Aloys wakes up on a public bus to find that his camera and precious observation tapes have been stolen. Soon after, a mysterious woman calls to blackmail him. She offers to return the tapes if Aloys will try an obscure Japanese invention called telephone walking with her, using his imagination as their only connection. As he is drawn deeper and deeper, falling in love with the voice on the other end of the phone, the woman opens up a new universe that may allow Aloys to break out of his isolation and into the real world.

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When Carol (Cate Blanchett) walks into a New York City department store and meets Therese (Rooney Mara) an unlikely friendship sparks. Carol is an elegant socialite going through a bitter divorce while Therese is just starting out in life; unsure of who she wants to be.

Mesmerized by each other, they face a choice: deny their hearts desires or defy society's conventions but in doing so, risk life as they know it.

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Zoli (Zoltán Fenyvesi) and Barba (Ádám Fekete) are inseparable friends and outcasts. Both physically disabled, they live a rehabilitation facility where life seems rather aimless. Zoli needs life-saving surgery but doesn't want his absent father to pay out of guilt and pity.

Enter Rupasov (Szabolcs Thuróczy), a mysterious wheelchair-using man newly released from prison. He quickly adopts the two friends and offers them a chance to make some extra money by helping him in his work. That work, however, is murder. Rupasov is a hitman. Inspired by his own experiences working as a volunteer for disabled people, director Attila Till skilfully blends reality with fantasy as he offers a gentle probe into the lives of those who live on the edge of society.

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Visionary Czech director Karel Zeman is treasured by generations of filmmakers worldwide, from Terry Gilliam and Jan Svankmajer to Tim Burton and Wes Anderson.

His pioneering combination of live-action and animation makes him, alongside his Western counterpart Ray Harryhausen, one of the great masters of 20th Century fantasy cinema. Zeman's wildly inventive and comic take on the surreal adventures of Baron Munchausen explodes on to the screen in a riot of colour, visual wit and poetic verve. A celebration of human imagination, this film is widely recognised as one of cinema's timeless classics.

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This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi.

While appealing his sentence - six years in prison and a 20 year ban from filmmaking - Panahi is seen talking to his family and lawyer on the phone, discussing his plight with Mirtahmasb and reflecting on the meaning of the art of filmmaking.

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For two decades, Carlos was the most wanted terrorist on earth. In various disguises and under numerous pseudonyms he headed a worldwide organisation responsible for ruthless killings, hijackings and bombings.

Professional revolutionary, playboy, dandy and assassin, he left a trail of destruction and broken hearts in his wake as he went about his lethal travels across the world. This is the story of Carlos the Jackal.

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Set on a post-apocalyptic Earth where technology has been outlawed after nuclear disaster, the film follows the story of Avatar, the kindly, eccentric sorcerer-ruler of Montagar, a rainbow paradise inhabited by elves and fairies.

Avatar's evil brother Blackwolf dominates Scortch, a bleak land of goblins and wraiths. When the power-hungry Blackwolf attacks Montagar, Avatar, accompanied only by a spirited young woman and a courageous elf, must enter the darkness of Scortch to save his world.

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When recycling technician Sam Treadwell (David Andrews) finds that his android lover, the Cherry model 2000 (Pamela Gidley), malfunctions during a steamy lovemaking session, he leaves the safety of his everyday life and braves the lawless region of The Zone to find a replacement model from a remote

warehouse. His guide for this dangerous journey is the renegade tracker E. Johnson (Melanie Griffith) - an undeniably real woman.

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From the mind behind 'Evangelion' comes a hit larger than life. When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens.

A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.