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When petty thief Olivier (played by a youthful Gerard Depardieu) breaks into an unassuming Parisian apartment, he inadvertently enters the world of leather-clad dominatrix Ariane (Bulle Ogier), who entertains clients in her black marble dungeon.

Olivier's fascination with Ariane soon turns to love, forcing him to question his own assumptions about sex, perversion and power.

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Overworked true crime magazine editor George Stroud (Ray Milland) has been planning a vacation for months.

However, when his boss, the tyrannical media tycoon Earl Janoth (Charles Laughton), insists he skips his hols, Stroud resigns in disgust before embarking on an impromptu drunken night out with his boss's mistress, Pauline York (Rita Johnson). When Janoth kills Pauline in a fit of rage, Stroud finds himself to have been the wrong man, in the wrong place, at the wrong time: his staff have been tasked with finding a suspect with an all too familiar description...Stroud's very own!

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Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the remote forest, an important place from his childhood and, he believes, the possible location of his former existences.

Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and the spirit of his long lost son returns. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave - the birthplace of his first life.

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Determined to conquer his addiction to the opposite sex, Percy (Leigh Lawson) takes to the high seas in search of a life of celibacy. Meanwhile, a major catastrophe takes place which has rendered the entire male population impotent...

But all is not lost: Percy's self-imposed exile has ensured his bits are still in working order, and on his return he discovers he's now the only male capable of saving the human race!

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When Anastasia (Georgina Haig) can take no more and kills her abusive husband, she is dragged away to face the horror of a Siberian gulag prison camp. Her arrival upsets the balance of power in the freezing cold shack she shares with the other inmates.

They see her as weak and predict she will die within a week. With hostility and brutality all around her, Anastasia must fight to survive...

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The clock is ticking for Johnny Depp in 'Nick of Time', a twist-filled, race-against-time thriller directed by John Badham. And indeed it is a race, filmed in "real time" so that onscreen events unfold minute by nail-biting min as they would in real life.

No sooner does accountant Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) arrive at L.A.'s Union Station with his six-year-old daughter than he's plunged into a nightmare. Two shadowy strangers (Christopher Walken) separate Watson from his little girl, slap a gun into his hand and present a devil's bargain: kill a top government official before she leaves a nearby political rally...or never again see his beloved child. The clock starts now.

An all-star cast and jazzy score highlight this charming comedy, a deft satire of classic caper films like Rififi. Big Deal On Madonna Street hilariously details the plight of a sad-sack group of bumbling thieves and their desperate attempts to pull off the perfect heist.

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Filip (Jerzy Stuhr), a clerk in a small Polish town, buys an 8mm camera to film the baby his wife (Malgorzata Zabkowska) is expecting. His bosses take an interest in it and commision him to film the company's 25th anniversary celebrations.

When the result wins a prize at an amateur film festival, Filip, encouraged by his success, becomes consumed by his new found passion. But, as he develops his creative skills, Filip soon discovers that his devotion to making films has unexpected consequences as tensions arise in his marriage, his managers impose censorship upon him and his films inadvertently lead to the sacking of a colleague. Featuring a superb performance from Jerzy Stuhr, 'Camera Buff' is a compelling exploration of the power and responsibility of the filmmaker.

When outlaws on the run invade the home of an unsuspecting, seemingly innocent, frontier family to hide out for the night, an unexpected game of cat and mouse ensues, leading to seduction, role reversal, and ultimately, bloody revenge.

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In the small coastal town of St. Malo, Brittany, the body of a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. Suspicion falls on the dour Rene Sterne (Jacques Gamblin) a once famous painter, now art teacher, who was the last person to see her alive.

His marriage to the buoyant Vivianne (Sandrine Bonnaire), already under strain beneath the weight of gossip and rumour, is further tested when shallow but successful novelist, journalist, and TV host Germain-Roland Desmot (Antoine de Caunes) arrives, a flamboyant ladies' man with a vacation home in St. Malo and an interest in Vivianne. A powerful psychological thriller that puts both the characters and the community under a microscope.

Based on the true story, this sweeping saga tells the tale of Pocahontas, the impetuous Native American beauty (Q'orianka Kilcher) whose relationship with Captain John Smith (Colin Farrell) sets off a battle for a new nation.

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"When you know how to die, you know how to live", that's the philosophy of an amazing man named Morrie Schwartz.

A retired professor, he's been a lifetime of inspiration to his students, including Mitch Albom, who abandoned early dreams of being a jazz pianist for a flashy career as a celebrity sports reporter. Now Morrie's facing his biggest challenge: a terminal illness. Typically, Morrie turns this tragedy into something positive. In dying, he will teach others how to live life to the full - and how to be honest with those they love. And who better to benefit from Morrie's invaluable lessons in life than Mitch, a man for whom money and celebrity have come to mean more than love and happiness.

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The story of the greatest lover who ever lived, died, and lived again. Chilling and sensual interpretation of the classic horror tale, starring veteran actor Frank Langella and screen legend Laurence Olivier.

When a ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby the sole survivor, Count Dracula, emerges from the storm to take up residence in the Carfax Abbey. Very soon local beauty Mina dies mysteriously, raising the suspicions of her father, Professor Van Helsing. Convinced of Count Dracula's evil, Van Helsing is horrified to discover his late daughter's friend Lucy has become involved with the sinister Count. But can Lucy be persuaded she is in danger, or is she too much in the thrall of her new found passion?

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Against a raw, unforgiving backdrop of parched desert and frozen mountains, MacConnachie (Robert Shaw) and Ansell (Malcom McDowell) run for their lives.

But even as they cross a seemingly endless expanse of open territory, the walls of their "cage" begin to close in as a relentless helicopter pilot stalks them in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

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Jennifer Aniston leads an all-star cast in this hilarious crime comedy penned by legendary author Elmore Leonard. She plays pampered housewife Mickey, who is kidnapped by two petty crooks (John Hawkes) and who plan to extort a $1 million ransom from her wealthy husband (Tim Robbins).

A pretty solid plan save for the fact that he is having an affair with a voluptuous mistress (Isla Fisher) and doesn't want her back. As the crooks switch to plan B, a furious Mickey decides it's time get even!