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Bored with their life in a rural Japanese village, three boys of Chinese descent decide to head for the bright lights of Tokyo in search of excitement and adventure. Soon, however, they find themselves caught up in Toyko's infamous Shinjuku district.

Here, debauchery, drugs and violence form the basis of their daily life. Before long they find themselves in grave danger as the local crimelord wants them all dead…

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Life is looking up for 14-year-old Walter.

Never mind that he's been abandoned to the care of his two ornery great-uncles at their dusty Texas farm - not when he can while away the time tending critters (including a scraggly mail-order lion) and listening to fantastic tales of his uncles' youthful adventures saving princesses and defying evil sheiks.

No one understands the women of Dallas like gynaecologist Dr. Sullivan Travis (Richard Gere). But when it comes to the women in his own life, things are a bit more complicated.

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In a mysterious farmhouse a family of four maintain a routine and isolated existence. After discovering they possess supernatural abilities, siblings Zac (Timothee Chalamet) and Eva (Kiernan Shipka) begin to unearth a dark family secret...

Living under the constant watch of a father that rules with strict routine and discipline, they live for nightfall, for moments of escape. But when their mother falls gravely ill, a dark truth begins to surface and their world is turned upside down. Zac and Eva must use their otherworldly abilities to escape or risk being torn apart forever.

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Polak's pioneering feature 'Ikarie XB1' is one of the cornerstones of contemporary sci-fi cinema. It predates Star Trek and Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' and was clearly an influence on both, as well as on almost every other science-fiction work that followed.

Adapted from a novel by Stanislaw Lem, the film is set in 2163 and follows a mission deep into space in search of alien life. During their perilous journey the crew confront the effects of a malignant dark star, the destructive legacy of the 20th century and, ultimately, the limits of their own sanity. With outstanding design and cinematography, 'Ikarie XB1' is imbued with a seriousness and intelligence rarely seen in science-fiction cinema of the period.

An eccentric New Yorker played by Larry David abandons his upper class life to lead a more bohemian existence. He meets a young girl from the south and her family and no two people seem to get along in the entanglements that follow.

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In a post-apocalyptic eternal drought, people kill for water. Where it is scarce and desperately needed, a farmer (Michael Shannon) defends his land from threat, and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soil in the hope of a better life for his family.

However, his daughter's boyfriend (Nicholas Hoult) wants the land for himself, and will go to any length to get it.

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Gina Gershon stars as Dr. Lauren Graham, an American psychologist visiting Prague for an academic conference. There she meets and falls in love with Czech writer Jiri Kolmar (Rade Serbedzija), a former political dissident whose family was tortured and gassed in the Nazi concentration camps.

But when Lauren goes to investigate her own Slavic roots, she uncovers some shocking family secrets that threaten her relationship with Jiri and prompt her toward a crisis of conscience.

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A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.

In an ode to the lost movies of the silent era, Canadian auteur Guy Maddin and co-director Evan Johnson embark on their ultimate epic phantasmagoria in 'The Forbidden Room'. Honouring classic cinema while electrocuting it with energy and featuring appearances by Charlotte Rampling, Mathieu Amalric and Geraldine Chaplin, this Russian nesting doll of a film takes viewers high into the air, around the world, and into dreamscapes, spinning tales of amnesia, captivity, deception and murder.

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Harvey Keitel plays J.R., an unemployed youth content to hang out with his buddies in New York's Little Italy. But love, in the person of a college-educated girl (Zina Bethune), soon throws J.R. into a turmoil that challenges his ways of looking at the neighborhood - and life itself.

Scorsese went on to make such landmark films as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Good Fellas. Each shows he's lost none of the fire and inventiveness seen here in his debut work.

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When a seismic weapon, known as the Hell Storm device, is stolen in Yemen, geophysicist Kate Ferris (Stacey Oristano) tries to warn against its global effect.

When her claims fall on deaf ears, Kate teams up with her daughter and estranged husband at the San Andreas fault line, the epicentre of the largest shockwave yet. In a harrowing race against the clock, Kate must figure out a way to stop the shockwave before it destroys all of humanity.

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In Ronald Neame's film of Joyce Cary's classic novel, Alec Guinness transforms himself into one of cinema's most indelible comic figures: the somewhat vulgar but dedicated painter in search of his artistic vision, Gulley Jimson.

As the ill-behaved Jimson searches for a perfect canvas, he determines to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted ideal. Jimson is a man, who's given up all else, including health, wealth and conventional relationships to live in a leaky houseboat. As the story develops it, like all great literature, manages to puncture almost all of life's rationalizing balloons.

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Havana, Cuba. 1959. A tropical island paradise is on the brink of revolution. Robert Dapes (Sean Connery), a cynical British mercenary, comes to the country at the request of one of Batista's most corrupt functionaries, General Bello (Martin Balsam).

But once there, Dapes finds himself unable to ignore the brutality and depravity of the Batista regime - and unable to resist Alexandra Pulido (Brooke Adams), an old lover now married to a wealthy Cuban landowner. Surrounded by volatile guerilla fighters and the human vultures present at all coups, he must come to terms with his shifting views if he has any thought of getting out...alive.

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Conceived, developed and produced by Don Boyd, Aria is a completely unique film both structurally and also in the sheer scale of the production itself.

Ten of the world's most creative and celebrated directors were each given the same brief: to choose a piece of opera music and then present a visual interpretation of that music with complete artistic freedom to stray from the narrative of the piece. The diversity of approaches and filmmaking styles resulted in an exhilarating operatic anthology by turns erotic, violent, funny and poignant. As well as the most prestigious collection of directors ever assembled, the stills photographers assigned to each were equally celebrated, among them David Bailey, Annie Leibovitz, Snowdon, Terry O'Neill and John Swannell. The impressive cast list includes John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Bridget Fonda, Elizabeth Hurley, Theresa Russell, Buck Henry, Beverly D'Angelo and Sophie Ward.

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The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe

Bernard Milan covets Louis Toulouse's job - director of a secret service. To get rid of his overly ambitious assistant, Toulouse sends Milan off on a wild goose chase after a dangerous spy who is in fact just an ordinary Joe. So Milan starts shadowing Francois Perrin, an absentminded violinist. This odd game of espionage entraps the three men in a web of hilarious situations as they go from one surprise to the next.

The Return of the Tall Blond Man
After a host of misadventures, the Tall Blond Man, with the charming Catherine by his side, has left for Brazil wearing his black shoe and carrying his violin. Tought Toulouse's killers are too ham-handed to upset his well-deserved holiday. Everything would be fine if, in Paris, a lowly police captain with an acute sense of justice, weren't investigating Milan's bizarre death. Colonel Toulouse has a major problem when the Tall Blond Man returns....And everything starts all over again.