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Based on Louisa May Alcott's universally beloved novel, 'Little Women' is a new three-hour adaptation, from award winning creator of 'Call the Midwife' Heidi Thomas and directed by Vanessa Caswill (Thirteen). Set against the backdrop of a country divided, the story follows the four March sisters: Meg (Willa Fitzgerald), Jo (Maya Hawke), Beth (Annes Elwy) and Amy (Kathryn Newton) on their journey from childhood to adulthood while their father (Dylan Baker) is away at war. Under the guidance of their mother Marmee (Emily Watson), the girls navigate what it means to be a young woman: From gender roles to sibling rivalry, first love, loss and marriage. Accompanied by the charming boy next door Laurie Laurence (Jonah Hauer-King), their cantankerous wealthy Aunt March (Angela Lansbury) and benevolent neighbour Mr. Laurence (Michael Gambon), 'Little Women' is a coming-of-age story that is as relevant and engaging today as it was on its original publication in 1868. - Director:
- Vanessa Caswill
- Cast:
- Maya Hawke, Kathryn Newton, Dylan Baker
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Elizabeth Olsen stars as a rookie FBI agent tasked with solving the brutal murder of a young woman in a Native American reserve. Enlisting the help of a local hunter (Jeremy Renner) to help her navigate the freezing wilderness, the two set about trying to find a vicious killer hidden in plain sight. The closer they get to the truth the greater the danger becomes with a town full of explosive secrets ready to fight back. - Director:
- Taylor Sheridan
- Cast:
- Kelsey Chow, Jeremy Renner, Julia Jones
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Nocturnal Animals (2016)Tony and Susan
Susan (Amy Adams) is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal). The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was lost. - Director:
- Tom Ford
- Cast:
- Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon
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Summer with Monika (1953)Sommaren med Monika
A chance meeting in a coffee shop between Harry (Lars Ekborg), a young errand boy, and Monika (Harriet Andersson), a wild and reckless girl who works in a nearby grocery shop, soon develops into a love affair. After a row with her father, Monika goes on a motorboat holiday. Their idyllic summer is soon shattered by the news that Monika is pregnant. Faced with sudden responsibility, Harry agrees to marry Monika and they set up home together in a small flat. Monika rapidly becomes bored with married life and looking after the baby. Soon Harry returns from a business trip to discover that his wife has been unfaithful with a former lover. A frank and tender portrait of first love, Bergman's film is also a realistic and uncompromising account of a disintegrating marriage. - Director:
- Ingmar Bergman
- Cast:
- Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen
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Lust, Caution (2007)Se, jie
Set against the backdrop of a transforming country, a young women finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game that will ultimately determine her fate. - Director:
- Ang Lee
- Cast:
- Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Wei Tang, Joan Chen
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Fanny and Alexander (1982)Fanny och Alexander
"Fanny and Alexander" is Bergman's dreamlike family chronicle. The Ekdahl's are an upper-middle-class theatrical family sheltered by their own theatrics from the deepening chaos of the outside world. One tumultuous year in the life of the Ekdahl family is viewed through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander (Bertil Guve), whose imagination fuels the magical goings-on leading up to and following the death of his father. His mother's remarriage to a stern prelate banishes Alexander and his sister Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) from all known joys, and thrusts them and the movie into a kind of gothic horror. The bishop is a Bergmanesque character whose severity has gone awry - he has become sinister - and the film's round rejection of him in favour of "kindness, affection and goodness" may be Bergman's fondest farewell to cinema. - Director:
- Ingmar Bergman
- Cast:
- Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Kristina Adolphson
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The rich are generally different. But in matters of the heart, they’re just as scatterbrained as the rest of us. Heiress Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly) is engaged to one man (John Lund) attracted to another (Frank Sinatra) and, just maybe, in love again with her ex-husband (Bing Crosby) in this effervescent musical reinvention of Philip Barry’s play The Philadelphia Story featuring an endlessly delightful Cole Porter score. Among High Society’s high points: Sinatra and Celeste Holm ask Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Crosby and Kelly share True Love, Der Bingle and Ol’ Blue Eyes swing-swing-swingle Well, Did You Evah? And Crosby and Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong jive with Now You Has Jazz. - Director:
- Charles Walters
- Cast:
- Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra
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Blade Runner 2049 (2017)Blade Runner 2
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years. - Director:
- Denis Villeneuve
- Cast:
- Harrison Ford, Bernie Leinfelder, Ryan Gosling
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Starring Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz, alongside Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson and Andrew Scott - "Denial" is the gripping and inspirational story of a relentless fight for justice. When writer Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) speaks out against the lies of Holocaust denier David Irving (Timothy Spall) she is faced with a high-stakes battle to uncover one of the darkest deceptions in history. Passionate, fiery and independent she decides she must face him in court to fight the battle for the truth, even though the odds are solidly stacked against her. - Director:
- Mick Jackson
- Cast:
- Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall
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Anyone who doesn't think Steve Martin is one of the funniest fellows on the planet should have his head examined. As The Man with Two Brains, madman Martin is just the guy to do it, playing Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, famed originator of zip-lock, screw-top brain surgery. The good doctor pines for his late wife - but slinky siren Dolores Benedict (Kathleen Turner) sashays into his life and changes all that. They're soon married but the truth quickly emerges: Dolores' beauty hides a calculating heart of stone. The situation is hopeless - until another brain specialist's oddball research offers a bizarre ray of hope... - Director:
- Carl Reiner
- Cast:
- Steve Martin, Sissy Spacek, Kathleen Turner
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In Mexico, Sicario means hitman. In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic FBI agent, Kate Macey (Emily Blunt), is enlisted by an elite government task force official (Josh Brolin) to aid in the escalating war against drugs. Led by an enigmatic consultant with a questionable past (Benicio Del Toro), the team sets out on a clandestine journey forcing Kate to question everything that she believes in order to survive. - Director:
- Denis Villeneuve
- Cast:
- Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro
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The second instalment of a planned trilogy loosely based on the works of the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, acclaimed British director Bernard Rose follows the remarkable IVANS XTC with The Kreutzer Sonata, a shocking new film set in contemporary Hollywood that graphically emphasizes Tolstoy's brutally controversial views on the corrupting power of sex and accompanying jealousy. Featuring bold, brilliant and utterly compelling performances from Elisabeth Rohm as the beautiful and talented pianist Abigail, and Danny Huston, as the wealthy philanthropist and enraged husband Edgar, who is consumed by feelings of carnal desire and violent jealousy, The Kreutzer Sonata explores the rich complexities of love, sex, obsession and paranoia in a raw, emotionally and sexually charged thriller. - Director:
- Bernard Rose
- Cast:
- Danny Huston, Elisabeth Röhm, Matthew Yang King
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Little Dorrit (1987)Nobody's Fault / Little Dorrit's Story
A story told in two films. The life of Arthur Clennam, the life of Amy Dorrit: two stories, two points of view in the noisy, busy, eager London of the late 1850's.- Director:
- Christine Edzard
- Cast:
- Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood
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In the sublime new film from Jim Jarmusch, Adam Driver gives a career-best performance as Paterson, a bus driver in the New Jersey city of the same name. He's also a poet, recording his daily observations and thoughts into a notebook. Paterson thrives on routine: he drives his bus route, he goes home for dinner with his wife Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), he walks his dog, he visits his local bar for one beer. By contrast Laura's world is ever-changing, with new projects and ideas striking her daily. The film quietly observes the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details. - Director:
- Jim Jarmusch
- Cast:
- Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Nellie
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Dunkirk (2017)Bodega Bay
The story unfolds on land, sea and air, as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk with enemy troops closing in. RAF Spitfires engage the enemy in the skies above the Channel, trying to protect the defenseless men below. Meanwhile, hundreds of small boats manned by both military and civilians are mounting a desperate rescue effort, risking their lives in a race against time to save even a fraction of their army. - Director:
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast:
- Michael Caine, Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan
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