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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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Alex (Lanah Pellay), a transgender waiter with a 'bad attitude' is fired from 'Bastards', an exclusive debauched London restaurant, and vows to get even.

After shooting up a DHSS office run by two gleefully sadistic clerks (Nigel Planer and Miranda Richardson), Alex escapes with a fellow down and out (Ron Tarr) into the country to plot a revolution. Meanwhile, Nosher Powell, an ex-boxer and now a popular fist-wielding politician, has been made Home Secretary with a licence to stamp on anyone who gets in his way. But Nosher has an important enemy - the head of DI5 Intelligence (Ronald Allen). Aided by Lemmy from Motorhead (code name 'Spider') the pair soon get to hear of Alex's plans for a people's uprising. With no money for guns or explosives, the gang construct bows and arrows and one night when the restaurant 'Bastards' is packed with the decadent rich...they attack! Seizing 'Bastards' and renaming it 'Eat the Rich', the gang begin serving up a different kind of menu altogether...

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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.

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John Schlesinger's brilliantly observed suburban drama finds a recent divorcee (Glenda Jackson) and a middle-aged Jewish doctor (Peter Finch) in a progressive love triangle with a bisexual artist (Murray Head).

Both discover a new freedom with their young lover, as they confront the conventions that have defined their lives.

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Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho), an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer to a better place. His situation is delicate.

He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives. When Zama notices everything is lost, he joins a party of soldiers that go after a dangerous bandit.

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Charleston, South Carolina is the most possessed city in the world. Evil thrives here. Something with which 30-year old exorcist Maria Abascal is intimately acquainted. She wrestles demons for a living. Especially Abigail, the one that lives within her.

The one who feeds on damned souls and who's violated the laws of Hell to live on Earth - and live on, inside Maria. Now, as they work as one, Maria will discover how personal her battle with evil has become, and how far Abigail will go to protect them both. It's a journey where the unspeakable is just a heartbeat away.

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A harrowing psychological thriller about an abandoned boy lured to America into the shadows of a dangerous father figure.

Inspired by true events, the film investigates the notorious, and horrific Washington sniper attacks that shocked the world, from the point of view of the two killers, whose distorted father-son relationship facilitated their long and bloody journey across America and documents the mechanisms that lead its subjects to embrace physical violence. Choosing their victims at random, they held the nation's capital in fear as the duo's sniper attacks took the lives of innocent men, women, and children, until their capture by police. The Washington Snipers paints a riveting portrait of 21st-century America and a haunting depiction of two cold-blooded killers that will endure long after they are dead.