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'Lose Your Head' is a psycho thriller inspired by the true story of a young Portuguese man who disappeared some years ago after a night of club hopping. Like thousands of other young tourists, Luis from Madrid arrives in Berlin to spend a carefree Summer weekend. After a break-up, Berlin's infamous club scene seems the ideal place to arty the pain away, make new friends and fall in love again. However, Luis resemblance to a young Greek student who had gone missing a few weeks ago gets him involved in a series of mysterious events. And what starts out like a romantic adventure turns into a desperate chase through the streets of Berlin, as Luis gets lost between paranoia and reality. - Director:
- Stefan Westerwelle
- Cast:
- Fernando Tielve, Marko Mandic, Sesede Terziyan
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Richard (David Tennant) has his life turned upside down when he meets Barbara (Vinessa Shaw), a beautiful aspiring actress on her way to Los Angeles. Leaving his inherited undertaker's business and his dull life behind, he crosses the Atlantic in pursuit of love and adventure, accidentally finding himself a career as a screenwriter. Thrown in at the deep end and unable to drive, he discovers that life in Southern California is far from straightforward. - Director:
- Mika Kaurismäki
- Cast:
- Tony Peers, Steve Huison, David Tennant
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Bed and Breakfast (2003)Bienvenue au gîte
Anyone who has ever dreamed of running their own B&B or better still owning a holiday home in the South of France should watch this film. Caroline and Bertrand make the break and escape high powered city jobs to fulfil their dream of running a Bed & Breakfast. The house that they have purchased couldn't be more idyllically placed nestled in a valley filled with beauty and splendid isolation. The dream, however is soon turned on it's head. The upmarket clientele envisioned by Caroline turn out to be quite the opposite but provide for a summer of fun and awkward moments, from boy scouts to meditating hippies not to mention illicit love affairs and naturists. All applications of city micromanaging serve to exacerbate Caroline's problems rather than solve them. Meanwhile, Bertrand, away from Paris takes to the open air and wild expanse of the countryside and village life with great enthusiasm but soon adds to Caroline's concerns when he befriends and parties with a gay couple who have converted their town house into a beautiful boutique B&B with fountains, swimming pools marble floors and sheer opulence. With their relationship at near breaking point Caroline sets out to win over the village (most of whom she's managed to alienate) by organising the millennial anniversary celebrations. Not having gone the way she would have liked Caroline packs her things and returns to Paris leaving Bertrand behind..... - Director:
- Claude Duty
- Cast:
- Marina Foïs, Philippe Harel, Annie Grégorio
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Cockles and Muscles (2005)Crustaces Et Coquillages
Marc (Gilbert Melki) and Beatrix (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) and their teenage children are to spend summer at the seaside house of Marc's youth. The summer heat soon kindles the senses as young love erupts, old flames fire up and sexual adventures ensue... the holiday is set to be anything but tranquil! Their daughter Laura takes off with her biker boyfriend, while their son Charly, finds he is the object of his best friend's desire. Beatrix, sensing tension between the boys, suspects they may be lovers, an assumption Charly chooses not to deny. While the free-spirited Beatrix encourages tolerance, her husband Marc struggles to accept his children's sexual awakening and maintain a sense of propriety. Things get steamier when Beatrix's lover Mathieu (Jacques Bonnaffe) shows up and Marc's first love reappears out of the big blue and secrets, revelations and misunderstandings build to a crescendo. - Director:
- Olivier Ducastel
- Cast:
- Gilbert Melki, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Sabrina Seyvecou
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My Angel (2004)Mon Ange
One night, Colette (Vanessa Paradis) gets a phone call that wasn't intended for her: a woman she's never heard of, who's coming out of prison. The woman asks her to go and pick up her little boy and bring him to meet her at station the next day. The woman's state of panic catches Colette off guard. She goes to pick up the boy, a certain Billy (Vincent Rottiers), who is actually no child but dangerously close to adulthood. In the station, at the appointed time, Colette fails to find Billy's mother, little knowing that Billy has just been orphaned to the murky business of a debt, which is all Billy will inherit. Although she doesn't know it yet, Billy's problems have just become Colette's. Their lives are now linked because she is all he has in the world and he maybe is all she has too. - Director:
- Serge Frydman
- Cast:
- Vanessa Paradis, Vincent Rottiers, Eduardo Noriega
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Harry, a part-time security guard and taxi driver, dreams of a new life in the far away paradise of Perth, Australia. For now, though, he works hard to save the money he needs to make his dream a reality. When the opportunity to make extra comes along - by driving high-class hookers to their clients - it awakens a dark and dangerous need for personal redemption which spills into rage and bloody retribution. - Director:
- Djinn
- Cast:
- Kay Tong Lim, Qiu Lian Liu, A. Panneeirchelvam
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Stephanie lives in Paris, where she moved many years ago to start a new life as a woman. Now working as a prostitute, she shares her love between two men Mikhail, an unemployed Russian immigrant and Jamel, a street hustler. The trio, battling with the harsh realities of their lives, find solace in each others arms. When she receives a call from her terminally ill mother, the trio return to the rural village where Stephanie grew up. The bleak solitude of the countryside evokes a flood of memories and emotions. Stephanie is haunted by her childhood as a boy and by the early death of her sister. But with the support of her lovers, she comes to terms with the events that have made her who she is today. Exquisitely shot by Agnes Godard (Beau Travail) and with a haunting musical score by Jocelyn Pook (Eyes Wide Shut and The Merchant of Venice) the landscape of the film evokes a time of tranquility and past innocence. With a stunning debut performance from the lead, Stephanie Michelini and featuring I Fell In Love With A Dead Boy performed by Antony from Antony And The Johnsons, Wild Side explores and question male identity in a sympathetic and non-judgemental way. Ultimately it shows us how the new family is anything but nuclear and instead is all about humanity, compassion and a sense of belonging. - Director:
- Sébastien Lifshitz
- Cast:
- Stéphanie Michelini, Yasmine Belmadi, Edouard Nikitine
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The Intruder (2004)L'Intrus
Sidney Trebor (Gregoire Colin) cuts an enigmatic figure; an emotionally distant man who prefers the company of his dogs. His contact with other people is limited to an affair with a local pharmacist (Bambou) and a wordless attraction to a beautiful and equally aloof dog breeder (Beatrice Dalle). An ailing heart forces Trebor have a black-market transplant. He recovers and travels to the bustling shipyards of Pusan in Korea, buys a boat and voyages south to his former home on a remote island near Tahiti. Here, he searches for the lost son he fathered years before. However he is uncertain of the welcome he will receive after all these years. - Director:
- Claire Denis
- Cast:
- Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Yekaterina Golubeva
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Gut-punching action, gory murders and Matrix-style special effects await you in the ultimate thrill ride that will leave you on the edge-of-your seat! Donny is a slacker whose life takes a terrifying turn when a fiery haired woman enters his life possessing a box which may hold the answers to human existence. Plunged into a harrowing adventure, the pair travel through time and fight off dangerous assassins bent on claiming the mysterious object. But time is running out for Donny, and soon he caught in the battle between good and evil, leaving the future of mankind in his bloody hands. - Director:
- Måns Mårlind
- Cast:
- Eric Ericson, Eva Röse, Jonas Karlsson
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The Colour of Lies (1999)Au coeur du mensonge / The Color of Lies
In the small coastal town of St. Malo, Brittany, the body of a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. Suspicion falls on the dour Rene Sterne (Jacques Gamblin) a once famous painter, now art teacher, who was the last person to see her alive. His marriage to the buoyant Vivianne (Sandrine Bonnaire), already under strain beneath the weight of gossip and rumour, is further tested when shallow but successful novelist, journalist, and TV host Germain-Roland Desmot (Antoine de Caunes) arrives, a flamboyant ladies' man with a vacation home in St. Malo and an interest in Vivianne. A powerful psychological thriller that puts both the characters and the community under a microscope. - Director:
- Claude Chabrol
- Cast:
- Sandrine Bonnaire, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Gamblin
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All About Them (2015)À trois on y va
Charlotte (Sophie Verbeeck) is cheating on Micha (Félix Moati) with Melodie (Anaïs Demoustier). Not suspecting a thing, yet feeling neglected, Micha in turn cheats on Charlotte. But also with Melodie. For Melodie, things are topsy-turvy. She lies to both of them. She is privy to each of their lies. And is in love with both of them at the same time. - Director:
- Jérôme Bonnell
- Cast:
- Anaïs Demoustier, Judith Rémy, Félix Moati
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Peter has it all: a wife and children who love him dearly, a comfortable home and a successful career. Then he meets flamboyant newspaper vendor Nassim, and the sexual desires he has struggled to suppress for so long start to boil to the surface. Uncomfortable with the pangs of genuine sexual attraction, yet eager to explore them further with this stranger, Peter eventually decides to meet Nassim on a park bench in the picturesque Keillers Park. They fall in love almost instantly. However, those around Peter abhor his newfound relationship. His wife divorces him and takes the children. His father and sister disown him and he loses his job. And while the joys of the gay scene and an exuberant nightlife provide short-term excitement for Peter and Nassim, the fate of their meeting one another has sealed another, more disturbing fate, one that will tear them apart. - Director:
- Susanna Edwards
- Cast:
- Mårten Klingberg, Pjotr Giro, Robert Jelinek
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One Two Another (2006)Chacun sa nuit
Pierre and Lucie are siblings who feel as though their bodies are two halves of a whole. They share everything, from their time spent away from home to their sexual conquests amongst friends. When they are not discussing their intimate thoughts and emotions, they play in their rock band, go to clubs, get drunk, and share their bodies amongst a close-knit group of friends. As adolescent urges and hormonal impulses reach boiling point, tensions begin to fray. One night, Pierre does not come home. With Lucie growing ever more desperate to find him, and rumours of a brutal crime circulating, she is devastated to learn of his murder. Disillusioned with the efforts of the local police, Lucie decides to take matters into her own hands, using her new found sexual powers to obtain answers in a perverse microcosm of a teen society that has until now remained out of sight, out of mind. - Director:
- Jean-Marc Barr
- Cast:
- Lizzie Brocheré, Arthur Dupont, Guillaume Baché
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In the City of Sylvia (2007)Dans la ciudad de Sylvia
"In the City of Sylvia" is one of the most acclaimed European films of recent years and marks the international breakthrough of Spanish director, Jose Luis Guerin. In the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock, Eric Rohmer and Robert Bresson, Guerín presents the deceptively simple tale of a man seeking the woman he met six years before. With only a sketch to identify her, he searches the streets and cafes of Strasbourg, hoping to encounter the object of his desire. - Director:
- José Luis Guerín
- Cast:
- Pilar López de Ayala, Xavier Lafitte, Laurence Cordier
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Ano Una is the directorial feature debut by Jonas Cuaron, son of Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer Alfonso Cuaron and is a wonderful love-story uniquely comprised entirely of photographic stills. A soaring tale of love transcending cultural and geographical barriers the film shows how a young American, Molly, disillusioned by her past experiences with me, falls for a teenage boy, Diego, while on holiday in Mexico. Equally smitten, he decides to leave everything he knows and travel to New York in pursuit of true love. - Director:
- Jonás Cuarón
- Cast:
- Eireann Harper, Diego Cataño, Michele Alban
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