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Lee (Robert Sheehan) and Sol (Osy Ikhile) are hiding out on a beach in Southern India living a slacker life of sex, drugs and parties. Trouble comes to paradise when Vix (Sofia Boutella), a beautiful girl from Lee's past, turns up.

Things get worse when Lee accidentally kills a holy cow and the gang find themselves up against crooked cops, local hoodlums, gangsters...and mysticism.

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'God Help the Girl' is an enchanting coming-of-age tale set in Glasgow over the course of one hazy summer. Eve (Emily Browning) is a catastrophe; low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music.

When she meets two kindred spirits in posh Cass (Hannah Murray) and fastidious James (Olly Alexander), they decide there's only one thing to do: form a pop group.

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When, beset by debt, Madame de...

(Danielle Darrieux) decides to sell a pair of earrings that were a wedding gift from her husband Andre (Charles Boyer), she unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events that will have serious consequences, not only for the Parisian couple but for Andre's mistress and for an Italian Baron (Vittorio De Sica) who purchases the, by then, much-travelled jewellery.

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Based on the most shocking political assassination of our time. On February 28, 1986, as he was walking home from a cinema with his wife, the Swedish Prime Minister was gunned down on a Stockholm street.

There are various theories about who could have been behind the murder but, with no weapon found, and conflicting witnesses' reports, the facts surrounding the assassination of Olof Palme remain a mystery. In a world full of suspects, how do you uncover the truth?

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"The Last Act", from Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson, tells the story of Simon Axler (Al Pacino); an aging actor who is struggling to separate scenes from his play from real life events.

As his world slowly starts turning upside-down, Simon embarks upon an affair with a friend's lesbian daughter (Greta Gerwig) but soon finds it is difficult to keep pace with her.

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A car collides with a swan outside a zoo. Two women passengers die but the driver, Alba Bewick (Andréa Ferréol), survives with a leg amputation.

Obsessed with the accident, the zoologist husbands of the dead women - twins Oliver and Oswald (Eric and Brian Deacon) - become fascinated by the processes of decay and embark on an affair with the amputee. As dead animals decompose to the playful rhythms of Michael Nyman, symmetry is elevated beyond obsession, and Sascha Vierny's cinematography pays homage to Vermeer.

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A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thor (Baldur Einarsson) and Christian (Blær Hinriksson) experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend.

When summer ends and the harsh nature of Iceland takes back its rights, it's time to leave the playground and face adulthood.

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In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted to a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam.

But when the US president (Donald Pleasence) crash-lands inside, only one man can bring him back: notorious outlaw and former special forces war hero Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), but time is short. In 24 hours, an explosive device implanted in his neck will end Snake's mission - and his life - unless he succeeds.

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Writer/director Olivier Assayas returns with "Personal Shopper", an ethereal and mysterious ghost story. Kristen Stewart stars as Maureen, a young American living in Paris and working as a high-fashion personal shopper to the stars.

She is also a spiritual medium, and grieving the recent death of her twin brother, haunts his Parisian home, determined to make contact with him.

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It is 19th Century Europe and Captain Harry Flashman (Malcolm McDowell) is a gutless bully who seeks admission into European high society.

Seeing a chance to promote their own menacing political schemes devious Otto von Bismarck (Oliver Reed) and Rudi Von Sternberg (Alan Bates) convince Flashman to disguise himself as a Prussian noble so that he can marry a gorgeous duchess (Britt Ekland). However, the hoax is discovered, and Flashman flees the continent, experiencing one calamity after another as well as some of history's most significant events in this hilarious romp that might just make you laugh instead of marvel at the next comic book 'hero' you encounter!

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Visionary director Wes Anderson's 'Isle of Dogs' tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to vast Trash Island, Atari sets off in search of his bodyguard dog, Spots.

With the assistance of his newfound mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture.

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Set against the backdrop of an iced-over contemporary Helsinki, and based on Leo Tolstoy's False Note, Frozen Land takes you on a journey through a strikingly bleak and occasionally blackly funny landscape where money's the goal and drink abounds, and where loneliness and desperation push people to

the edge of their lives and sanity. Divided into chapters 'Unemployment', 'Booze', 'The Axe', 'Family', 'Snowpile' and 'Police', Frozen Land is a brilliantly devised web of interconnecting Finnish fates Set in motion by the printing of a forged 500 Euro note, the film bounces between the lives of a pair of young computer hackers, a depressed policewoman, a mullet-haired car thief and a vacuum salesman and recovering alcoholic who falls off the wagon with a vengeance. At the forefront of a new generation of Finnish filmmakers, Aku Louhimes' gripping visuals form the compelling backdrop for an exceptionally powerful ensemble of performances in a compelling and thrillingly inventive work that suggests a harsh but beautiful world determined by fate.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's fascinating tale of studio politics in early Hollywood in breathtaking brought to the screen by director Elia Kazan and screenwriter Harold Pinter.

Robert De Niro heads a powerful cast as studio head Monroe Stahr, a thinly disguised Irving Thalberg character in command of his studio but haunted by a love lost to the past.

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Straight from the pages of Peter O'Donnell's newspaper comic strip, Monica Vitti is Modesty Blaise - the world's deadliest female agent! With her outlandish James Bond-style weapons and ever-changing hair colour, international super spy Modesty Blaise (Monica Vitti) and her faithful sidekick Willie

Garvin (Terence Stamp) battle villains the world over. Modesty and Willie become embroiled in a government conspiracy involving diamonds, a Middle Eastern sheik and a heist plot by arch-villain Gabriel played in high camp by Dirk Bogarde in a wig and sinister glasses.

"The Other Side of Hope" follows the fortunes of Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a young man who has travelled to Helsinki from his home in Syria to seek asylum. For first-time visitors, Finland's capital city can be a strange and confusing place. But help is out there for those who know where ti find it.