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A sextet of rising stars, including Nick Stahl, Eddie Kaye Thomas, January Jones, Lori Heuring, and Amber Benson, proves that taboos were made to be broken. Everyone knows there are some things that nice girls and boys just don't do.

But when three college couples reveal their sexual secrets, the truth is more than anyone expected. From seduction to betrayal, from blackmail to murder, these six friends are about to discover that in the game of Taboo, the only rule is revenge.

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"Used to be nobody gave two nickels about me," ex-Confederate cavalryman Paul Cable observes. Cable liked it that way. Now the would-be homesteader is drawing too much notice. And far too many bullets.

Tom Selleck rides into Western adventure in grand, gritty style as Cable in 'Last Stand at Saber River', from the novel by Elmore Leonard. With his strong-willed pioneer wife (Suzy Amis) and two children (Haley Joel Osment and Rachel Duncan), Cable returns to his Arizona home to resume a quiet life. Instead, he finds Union sympathizers (David and Keith Carradine) have taken possession of the small spread. The war should be over. But Cable faces one more battle before the healing can begin.

Special Agent Emmanuel Ritter (Joaquín Cosio) leads a police investigation into a series of shocking deaths. But after a priest from the Vatican finds a link between the murders and an ancient demon, a descent into horror ensues.

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Set two years after his daughter went missing, 'The Child in Time' follows Stephen Lewis (Benedict Cumberbatch), a children's author, as he struggles to find purpose in his life without her.

His wife Julie (Kelly Macdonald) has left him, and his best friends Charles (Stephen Campbell Moore) and Thelma (Saskia Reeves) have retired to the countryside, battling demons of their own. With tenderness and insight, the film explores a marriage devastated, the loss of childhood, the fluidity of time, grief, hope, and acceptance. The Child in Time is a lyrical and heart-breaking exploration of love, loss, and the power of things unseen.

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Based on Lionel White's novel 'Obsession', 'Pierrot le Fou' transforms a story about a couple on the run into an entertaining, existential romance. Tired of his bourgeois life, Ferdinand Griffon (Jean-Paul Belmondo) leaves his wife and elopes with his former baby sitter, Marianne (Anna Karina).

When a dead body is found in Marianne's apartment, the two lovers flee to the South of France in a futile bid to escape Marianne's dangerous past.

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Mathieu Kassovitz stars as the captain of an elite counter-terrorism police unit, sent to rescue 30 police hostages that have been kidnapped by rebel fighters. As negotiations become increasingly hostile, it becomes clear that the rebels have nothing to lose and everything to fight for.

Against the highly pressured backdrop of presidential elections, the stake are high and all bets are off...

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Poland, in the politically turbulent late 1970's: Witek (Boguslaw Linda) is running to catch a train. From this banal event, Krzysztof Kieslowski imagines three different possible outcomes in the young man's life.

In the first scenario, Witek catches the train on which he meets some hard line communists and joins the party. In the second, as Witek runs for the train, his path is blocked by a ticket inspector; the ensuing struggle leads to his arrest and subsequent involvement in the political underground. In the final scenario, Witek misses the train and he returns to the medical studies that he intended to abandon. He falls in love with a female student, gets married and lives a quiet life as a doctor, showing little interest in politics.

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Fanny Lye (Maxine Peake) lives a quiet Puritan life with her husband John (Charles Dance) and young son Arthur (Zak Adams), but her simple world is shaken to its core by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious young couple (Freddie Fox and Tanya Reynolds) in need.

Events to escalate, changing all of their lives forever.

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The powerful feature-film debut of acclaimed young director Joe Stephenson, this compelling coming-of-age drama builds upon on a remarkable central performance from newcomer Scott Chambers.

Chambers plays Richard, a fifteen-year-old boy with learning difficulties who lives in a shabby caravan with his older brother, Polly. Life for the siblings is harsh, with the engaging, nature-loving teenager yearning for stability while frequently finding himself on the wrong side of his brother's destructive, often violent moods. Finding it easier to communicate with animals none more so than his beloved hen, Fiona Richard nevertheless forms a strong friendship with rebellious seventeen-year-old Annabel, whose family have recently acquired the farmland on which the brothers live. But growing conflict with the new landowners will lead to a situation that severely tests Richard's natural optimism, as a world of privilege collides with the brothers' precarious, marginalised existence.

When young drifter Chris (Raymond Laine) meets beautiful model Lynn (Judith Ridley) by a chance occurrence, the pair hit it off and a romantic relationship ensues. But with their wildly contrasting outlooks on life, it soon becomes clear that the coupling is doomed from the outset.

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When Carl Dawson's successful brother Justin dies in mysterious circumstances he travels to London to collect his belongings. Once there he discovers that the circumstances surrounding Justin's life and death are not as straightforward as they outwardly seem.

When he meets up with his brother's girlfriend Sunny they begin to dig deeper into Justin's affairs discovering another side to his life which neither was aware of. As they become drawn into a dangerous underground web of blackmail and deceit, Carl is forced to question who his brother really was and whether his death was really an accident.

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Arguably considered the true heir to Satyajit Ray, Adoor Gopalakrishnan is one of India's most outstanding filmmakers and Rat-Trap was his first film to gain widespread international acclaim. Remarkable for its focus on characterization and detail, Rat-Trap is set in rural Kerala.

Its story concerns Unni, the last male-heir of a feudal and decaying joint family. Unni's inability to accept the socio-economic changes of a new society result in his gradual withdrawal into a metaphorical rat-trap sprung from his own isolation and paranoia.

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The final part of Wim Wenders' loose trilogy of road movies (following on from Alice in the Cities and Wrong Move), Kings Of The Road (aka in the course of time) has been hailed as one of the best films of the 1970s and remains Wenders' most remarkable portrait of his own country.

After driving his car at high speed off road and into a river, losing all his worldly possessions, Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler) hitches a ride with Bruno Winter (Rudiger Vogler), who travels across Germany's hinterland repairing projectors in run-down cinemas. Along the way, the two men meet people whose lives are as at odds with the modern world as their own. In attempting to reconcile their past, the two men find themselves increasingly at odds with each other.

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The haunting story of two magazine reporters on an adventure with their friend to document his journey to reunite with his estranged sister. They track her to the remote world of 'Eden Parish', a self-sustained rural utopia overseen by a mysterious leader known as 'Father'.

It quickly becomes evident that this paradise may not be as it seems.

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Reeling from the suicide of this ex-lover Armin Meier, Fassbinder poured his energies into one of his most remarkably personal films, "In a Year of Thirteen Moons".

Volker Spengler gives an extraordinary performance as the transgendered Elvira, a man who has become a woman in a desperate bid to please a former lover (Gottfried John). Relaying various episodes from Elvira’s life, Fassbinder’s film is an intense and powerful exploration of loss and compassion that numbers among his very finest achievements.