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Donald Pleasence and Francoise Dorleac play a mismatched couple - he effeminate and petulant, she sensual and enigmatic - who share a bizzare sexual relationship, living in a remote castle. Their very isolation from the world prevents their eccentric partnership from foundering.

Only an outsider can disrupt their make-believe lifestyle. That disruption arrives in the belligerent form of Richard and Albert, two oddball gangsters straight out of a 1940's film noir, wounded, desperate and on the run. They demand shelter, and as Richard waits for instructions from his gangland boss, he slips into a dangerous round of gameplaying with his unwilling hosts. But it seems that Richard is not always to have the upper hand. With its larger-than-life performances, wicked black humour and superb use of striking outdoor locations - the film was shot on Holy Island in Northumberland - Polanski has created an exceptional film which is very different to but no less memorable than Repulsion.

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On the fifth anniversary of the end of the Bosnia civil war, former news reported Simon Hunt (Richard Gere, Primal Fear) mysteriously appears years after imploding on live television and disappearing into a self-imposed exile.

Hunt convinces his ex hot-shot cameraman Duck (Terrence Howard, Iron Man, Crash) to go on a dangerous journey to get an interview with a notorious wanted war criminal simply known as "The Fox". Together, with the help of a mysterious but beautiful informer (Diane Kruger, National Treasure) they drive deep into Serb territory, facing more intrigue and danger than they ever could have imagined – not only from the Serbs but from deep inside their own country.

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Winnipeg 1933: it's the midst of the Great Depression and beer Baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) announces a global competition to find the saddest music in the world.

Musicians from across the globe - from Mexican mariachi to Scottish bagpipers to African drummers - travel to Winnipeg to play their woeful tunes in hopes of winning the $25,000 grand prize. Failed Broadway producer Chester Kent (Mark McKinney) brings his amnesiac girlfriend Narcissa (Maria de Medeiros) home to his native Winnipeg and enter the competition as the American contingent. He soon finds himself embroiled in a family reunion as treacherous and twisted as the competition itself. Ultimately, a cataclysmic fire and the machinations of fate sort matters out for the sad characters and the denizens of the saddest city on earth. Part musical melodrama, part tongue-in-cheek social satire, Guy Maddin's expressionistic film achieves a level of lunacy rarely seen since the Marx Brothers.

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Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 'Drive My Car' is a masterful, moving and multi-award winning film based on a short story by Haruki Murakami. When the wife of Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a stage actor and director, suddenly passes away, she leaves behind a secret.

Two years later, Kafuku meets Misaki (Toko Miura), a reserved young woman assigned to be his chauffeur on a work trip to Hiroshima. As they spend time together, Kafuku confronts the mystery of his wife that quietly haunts him.

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Four friends, played by international superstars Marcello Mastroianni, Michael Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi and Philippe Noiret retreat to a country mansion where they determine to eat themselves to death whilst engaging in group sex with prostitutes and a local school teacher (Andrea Ferreol), who seems

to be up for anything... At once jovial and sinister, the film's jet-black humour has a further twist as the reputed actors (whose characters use their own names) buck their respectable trend for a descent into fart-filled chaos that delivers a feast for the eyes and mind.

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In the summer of 1982, video/filmmakers Peter Stuart and Adam Small came upon a large-scale project which immediately captured their imagination: The Better Youth Organisation of Los Angeles was planning a North American tour - eleven assorted punks travelling across the country in a broken down

school bus. It was a chance to explore and document the punk rock community more extensively than ever before. On August 17, 1982, armed with one production assistant, Stuart and Small set off in their rental truck on this journey through the underground. For six weeks and ten thousand miles they recorded the adventures of the two touring bands - Youth Brigade and Social Distortion. More than just concert footage, this film documents the rich collection of characters in and around the tour, and the hardships and dangers of life on the road.

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A satirical, subversive, surreal and irreverent story of rebellion, Vera Chytilova's classic film is arguably the most adventurous and anarchic Czech movie of the 1960's.

Two young women, both named Marie, revolt against a degenerate and decayed society by attacking symbols of wealth and bourgeois culture in hilarious and mind-warpingly innovative ways. Defiant feminist statement? Nihilistic, avant-garde comedy? Refreshingly uncompromising, Daisies is a riotous, punk-rock poem of a film that remains a cinematic enigma and continues to provoke, stimulate and entertain audiences and influence filmmakers even today.

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Bob (Michael Keaton) and Gail (Nicole Kidman) Jones are expecting their first child, but Bob has cancer and might not live to see their new baby. While fighting his illness, Bob decides to make a video of his life as a gift to his child.

In the process of making the video, he comes to the realisation that he has virtually no understanding of who he is or what his life has been about. With the help of a Chinese healer, Bob is thrust into a journey of self-discovery as he explores the density of the human heart and the expansiveness of the human soul. Accepting the inevitability of his illness, Bob discovers the rewards of family love and reconciliation while his video voyage becomes a celebration of life.

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Welcome to the Sonic Catering Institute, a creative retreat for artists whose work occupies a place somewhere between avant-garde music and outre cuisine.

Run by the eccentric Jan Stevens (Gwendoline Christie), the three-week workshop is playing host to a three-piece outfit comprising the severe and unbending Elie di Elie (Fatma Mohamed), the troubled Lamina Propria (Ariane Labed) and the electronically-obsessed Billy Rubin (Asa Butterfield). Their journey at the institute is documented by "dossierge" Stones (Makis Papadimitriou), whose digestive troubles are as turbulent as the creations his subjects are producing. But relations between the band members are deteriorating, their host's psyche is unravelling and the in-house doctor (Richard Bremmer) is driving everyone to distraction with his classical text pedantry.

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Frank's lover Johnny gets sent to prison. Offering to help out, Frank begins to visit Johnny's mum and soon sees that his beautiful dog Evie is being neglected. Frank's longing for Johnny mutates into love for the dog. He cares with increasing desperation.

His war of nerves with Johnny's wife intensifies. He can give poor Evie a good life! Can't Johnny see that? Can't his family see that? Hilarious yet touching, the film carefully preserves the stifling discretion of the era.

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The Party (Christmas Special 1973):

Albert and Harold are busy making preparations for Christmas. Albert is putting up Christmas decorations while Harold is at the travel agents booking some sunny festive fun in Majorca. He's made all the necessary arrangements, however there is one last thing to do: tell Albert to pack his bags in preparation for a short stay at the local old people's home...

A Perfect Christmas (Christmas Special 1974):
Fed up with staying at home every Christmas, Harold plans to take his dad abroad for the holiday. But his old man isn't going to make it easy for him: he pleads to go to Bognor instead, objects to every resort in the brochure and struggles to find his birth certificate for the passport. Then, just when it looks like Harold's Christmas is going to be another disaster, fate delivers one more twist...

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An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding. Meiko (Kotone Furukawa) is startled when she realises that the man who her best friend starts to have feelings for is her ex.

Sasaki plots to trick his college professor out of revenge, using his class-friend-with-benefits Nao. Natsuko encounters a woman who seems to be someone from her past, leading the two to confess the feelings they have harboured in their hearts. Three stories about the complexities of relationships, told through coincidences that happen in the lives of women in love.

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Echoing Downfall's contemplation of the darkest period in Germany's history, Sophie Scholl is a heartbreaking drama based on real life events and the activities of the While Rose resistance gi< Munich, 1943.

A group of students, including siblings, Sophie Scholl, instigate passive resistance in an attempt to,, overthrow the Nazi regime. Sophie and Hans are arrested for distributing leaflets and an intense psychological duel ensues in the interrogation room between Sophie and Gestapo officer Mohr; she lies and denies, then schemes and challenges. Ultimately crushing evidence is presented and though forced to confess Scholl fights to save the lives of her brother and friends. Based on transcripts of the interrogation and witness intend Marc Rothemund's Sophie Scholl is a tense and illuminating account of an extremely courageous stance taken against ovcrwhelming odds.

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Hooper (Anthony Hopkins) is a man seething with anger. His wife (Harriet Walter) has divorced him. He is permitted one day a week with his child. Fifteen years ago, he was an outspoken advocate of women's liberation, and now, he feels, he is a victim of the women's movement - a man without rights.

At a party one night, he meets a man whose ex-wife has just announced her plans to leave for Australia with their child and with her lesbian lover. Hooper is galvanized. He persuades the man to sue for custody, supplies legal costs out of his own pocket and becomes obsessed with his belief that the women's movement has created a wave of discrimination against men. A very rare film that asks hard and fundamental questions about the role of men: such as, is it ever too late for a man to learn that he can never love himself until he first learns to love somebody else?

From writer and director Steven Knight and starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, comes a mysterious tale of a fishing boat captain whose past is about to crash up against his life on a small island in the Caribbean and ensnare him in a new reality that might not be all it seems.