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Bill (Dylan Baker): a lonely middle-aged man, who has never been able to interact with the world around him, keeps his distance and prefers to exist in a lackluster state of self-imposed exile.

Karen (Sharon Stone): finds salvation in thrills that she knows are forbidden - acts that are empowering and taboo. Gary (Timothy Hutton): has a habit of falling asleep at his desk rather than go home to deal with his loveless marriage to Karen. Travis (Pruitt Taylor Vince): frozen in time, bears the guilt for a terrible tragedy from his past which has scarred him for life. This powerful drama embraces the stories of these four unlikely heroes, each consumed by a personal struggle to make sense of their lives.

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Three years after her untimely death, an upcoming exhibition celebrating famed war photographer Isabelle Reed brings her eldest son Jonah back to the family home, forcing him to spend more time with his father Gene and withdrawn younger brother Conrad than he has in years.

With the three of them under the same roof, Gene tries desperately to connect with his two sons, but they struggle to reconcile their feelings about the woman they remember so differently.

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Martin, a young American grad student (Elijah Wood) visiting Oxford, is drawn into a complex murder mystery when his landlady is brutally slain in acclaimed director Alex de la Iglesia's tense and stylish thriller.

The gifted student joins forces with the brilliant Professor Arthur Seldom (John Hurt) to solve a series of murders seemingly linked by a series of codes and symbols. As they try and crack the code and find a dangerous killer, an elaborate puzzle begins to unravel in which every action has an effect beyond anything that Martin could have imagined.

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As the manager of the council's women-only steam baths, Violet (Diana Dors) finds herself acting as den mother to the walking wounded who come through her doors.

Seeking escape from the world - and their men - the women are free to talk openly about their humdrum lives, vicious boyfriends, money worries and dead end jobs. Nancy (Vanesa Redgrave) and Sarah (Sarah Miles) come from privileged backgrounds, while Josie (Patti Love) is working class through and through, but all find common ground in their experiences. Now, however, the council are threatening to close down the baths, and the women must get together to fight...

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Lily is an awkward fast food waitress, excluded becuase she simply doesn't fit. Wrong dress, wrong walk, wrong talk, wrong everything. Yet beneath all the wrong is a little bit of wonderful. The object of Lily's affections, Jarrod, is more interested in er pretty workmate.

Jarrod is a video game champion, determined to win respect but pushing all the wrong buttons. His social switch is permanently off. But when Jarrod returns to his home town on a mission of revenge, lovestruck Lily follows him.

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Recovering drug addict Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie) is given a day's leave from his rehab centre to apply for a job in the city.

Over the course of one day and night, he tries to reconnect with his old friends and family in Oslo, where the ghosts of his past mistakes wrestle with the hope to see some future by morning.

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Terence Davies’s ode to his native Liverpool has wowed audiences and critics alike after being hailed as the highlight of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival where it received its premiere. This is a spectacular return to form by Davies, long-hailed as one of Britain’s greatest filmmakers.

Of Time and the City is an illuminating and heartfelt work, powerfully evoking life in post-war Britain while exploring the nature of love, memory, and the toll that the passing years take on the cities and communities that we cherish. No simple documentary, it is an entrancing piece of autobiographical cinema that reaches far beyond the city in which it is set, weaving a rich tapestry from archive and contemporary footage, music, voice, literary quotation, personal reminiscence and wickedly funny observation.

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An innocent Northern girl Rebekah Brooks (Maxine Peake) accidentally becomes Chief Executive of News International and gets caught up in a 70's Watergate style conspiracy.

When phone tapping becomes rife showbiz reporter Johnny Bristo turns whistle-blower and gives the inside story to the ever righteous Guardian newspaper.

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Velma (Courtney Love), a young newly wed, shares a working honeymoon with Norwood (Sy Richardson), a hit-man and bank robber. Norwood and his parents Sims (Joe Strummer) and Willy (Dick Rude) fail in the murder they have been hired to commit, pull a bank heist instead, and flee town.

When their misfueled car breaks down, they bury the stolen loot and hike into an almost deserted oilfield settlement. Unfortunately, this nameless village is a hideout of the coffee-addicted McMahon Bandit gang (Kathy Burke, Elvis Costello, Bif Yeager and The Pogues). Tension, fuelled by copious amounts of coffee, mounts as the bank robbers try to keep a low profile and the sultry Velma falls for two of the McMahons. Norwood tries to keep his cool and almost manages... until Dr Farben (Dennis Hopper) and his bodyguard (Grace Jones) arrive...

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From acclaimed filmmaker Terence Davies, 'A Quiet Passion' is a powerful study of' 19th Century poet Emily Dickinson that features a stunning performance from Cynthia Nixon.

Spanning a rebellious schoolgirl youth to her later years as a reclusive writer, Davies elegantly explores the hopes, dreams and desires of a woman who wrote some of the most important poems in American literature that still resonate today.

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Terence Davis' lyrical hymn to childhood revisits the same territory at his prize winning debut feature distant voices, still lives, this time focusing on his own memories of growing up in a working-class, catholic family in Liverpool.

Eleven-year-old bud (a heartbreaking performance from Leigh McCormack) finds escape from the greyness of 50's Britain through trips to the cinema and in the warmth of family life. But as he gets older, the agonies of the adult world-the casual cruelty of bullying, the tyranny of school and the dread of religion-begin to invade his life.

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Churchill follows Britain's iconic Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Brian Cox) in the days before the infamous D-Day landings in June 1944.

As allied forces stand on the south coast of Britain, poised to invade Nazi-occupied Europe, they await Churchill's decision on whether the invasion will actually move ahead. Only the unflinching support of Churchill's brilliant, unflappable wife Clementine (Miranda Richardson) can halt the Prime Minister's physical and mental collapse and help lead him to greatness. Also starring John Slattery as General Eisenhower. Supreme Commander of the Allied D-Day operations, and Julian Wadham as British military commander Field Marshal Montgomery.

Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) has a secret - a terrible fifty-year-old secret that the esteemed college classics professor kept hidden from everyone including his wife, his children and his down-and-out young lover (Nicole Kidman) - and it's about to ruin his entire life.

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A tense cat and mouse thriller set on the US. Mexican Border. Moises (Gael Garcia Bernal) is traveling by foot with a group of undocumented workers across a desolate strip of the border between Mexico and the United States, seeking a new life in the North.

They are discovered by a lone American vigilante, Sam (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and a frantic chase begins. Set against a stunningly brutal landscape, Moises and Sam engage in a lethal match of wits, each desperate to survive and escape the desert that threatens to consume them.

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A Nazi strike force plots to assassinate Winston Churchill while he is resting in a desolate Norfolk village. Colonel Radl masterminds the plot which, if successful, would change the outcome of the war. He enlists the help of Colonel Steiner and Liam Devlin.

Disguised as Polish airmen, German paratroopers land in England. Radl's plan appear to be going smoothly until an unforeseeable incident exposed the Germans. But the kidnap continues and Steiner, Luger in hand, approaches the unmistakable figure of Churchill...