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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.

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When a worker at Gartley's Blue Ribbon Laundry is pulled into the titular laundry press and folded like a sheet, police officer John Hunton (Ted Levine) is called to investigate.

Was it an accident, or is something more sinister going on? As more deaths and injuries occur under the watchful eye of owner Bill Gartley (Robert Englund), Hunton, with his demonologist brother-in-law Mark Jackson (Daniel Matmor) come to believe the machine might be possessed, and the town itself to be hiding a much deeper secret.

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Brian and Julie, a young couple, are about to have their first child. But far from bringing them happiness, following the birth Julie descends into a psychotic form of post natal depression. Her increasingly frightening behaviour forces Brian to place her in a psychiatric hospital.

Brian and Julie's faith - in their marriage, each other and God - is tested to near destruction as Julie's world disintegrates into darkness and psychological torment. After several weeks in a mental hospital, during which Julie forms an attachment to a male fellow inmate, Brian despairs of ever getting her back again. Sarah, his work colleague tries to help but her motives are not entirely unselfish and Brian has to fight against his attraction to her. When Julie finally returns to sanity, Brian is faced with another problem - she has run away from the hospital and disappeared.

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Nick Hume (Kevin Bacon) is a mild-mannered executive with a loving family and a perfect life, until one gruesome night when his teenage son is senselessly murdered during a gas station holdup.

Transformed by grief and not satisfied with courtroom justice, Nick takes the law into his own hands - and wages an all-out war against a gang of vicious street thugs.

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Often described as 'the Spanish Clockwork Orange', "Murder in a Blue World" is set in a violent near-future world. Honest citizens live in terror as gangs of leather clad, whip-wielding sadists roam the night time streets.

Meanwhile, in a top secret laboratory, pioneering mind control experiments are being conducted to pacify violent criminals. Against this background a beautiful nurse Ana (Sue Lyon) seduces and murders vulnerable men.

Von Trier's visually arresting debut sees a police detective, named Fisher (Michael Elphick), attempting to solve a series of grisly crimes using brutal and unconventional means. Awash with cinematic allusions, the film offers a foretaste of the fledgling director's later works.

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The brutality of modern society is fast encroaching on the picturesque seaside town of Weymouth. American tourist Simon Wells (Macdonald Carey) is looking for a relaxing holiday but he is mugged by the psychopatic King (Oliver Reed) and his gang of thugs.

Wells escapes with King's sister, Joanie (Shirley Anne Field), and they stumble upon a sinister establishment where nine ice-cold children are being subjected to a horrifying experiment. The shadowy authorities in control of the base will stop at nothing to safeguard their secret, but it is the mysterious children who will doom them all...

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Among Kaurismakis finest films, 'Drifting Clouds' follows the dwindling fortunes of restaurant hostess Ilona and her tram driver husband Lauri, who find themselves unemployed at the same time.

Embarking on an unforgiving search for work in a recession-hit Helsinki, Kaurismaki's comic masterpiece transforms the pair's plight into a hugely affecting story of hope and survival.

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What if one day you woke up to find your luck had run out? What if luck could be traded like picture cards, bought, sold or even stolen? Would you bet your life to become the luckiest person in the world? A master gambler presides over a mysterious contest that draws together people with

supernatural luck with extraordinary consequences...

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It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee (newcomer Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) is back on the block.

Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend (James Ransone) hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra (newcomer Mya Taylor), embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.

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Inspired, inspiring, tender and touching, 'Stories We Tell' is a brilliant documentary portrait of a complicated yet deeply loving family from Oscar-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley.

Taking her cue from a family joke about-not resembling her father, Polley sets out to uncover the truth about her mysterious mother and her own uncertain lineage. Playfully yet pointedly interrogating a cast of blood relatives and family friends, she slowly pieces together a puzzle of conflicting stories, myths and memories until she makes a discovery that will shake her family to the core.
At once an exploration of the function of storytelling, the elusive nature of truth and what it means to be part of a family, 'Stories We Tell' is funny, profound, poignant and one of the most original films of the year.