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Beauty (2011)Skoonheid
Francois (Deon Lotz) lives a skilfully controlled, well managed life, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. A devoted husband and father, his repressed desires find release through mutually arranged group encounters with other married men. However, when he meets Christian (Charlie Keegan), the engaging handsome son of a long-lost friend, his obsessions become irrepressible and threaten to rip apart his long-maintained respectability. - Director:
- Oliver Hermanus
- Cast:
- Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan, Michelle Scott
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The future is dead. During an ecological collapse the world has evolved into nothing but a decaying mass of pollution. The Earth's inhabitants circle orbit within crowded space stations and desperate living conditions. Their only hope of paradise is the distant planet Rhea. But that takes money, lots of money. With the hope of funding a trip to Rhea young medic Laura has taken up employment upon the cargo space freighter Kassandra. But it's a ship with a dark and deadly secret and Laura's about to make a gruesome discovery. There's something strange hiding in the cargo bay, something watching her, something that's waiting to kill. - Director:
- Ivan Engler
- Cast:
- Anna Katharina Schwabroh, Martin Rapold, Regula Grauwiller
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Love Crime (2010)Crime d'amour
Ruthless executive Christine (Kristen Scott Thomas) takes delight in toying with the innocence of her assistant, Isabelle (Ludivine Sagnier), passing her young protégé's ideas on as her own. Confident of her control over Isabelle, Christine leads her into a confusing, perverse game of seduction and domination but ultimately underestimates Isabelle's ambition and cunning leading to an all-out boardroom battle with deadly consequences. - Director:
- Alain Corneau
- Cast:
- Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Patrick Mille
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In a future world that has been seemingly ravaged by war and poverty there exists a myth of hope among the people - a forbidden place known only as the Zone, the heart of which, if reached, grants one's innermost desires. Two men, a writer and professor, hire someone known as a Stalker; a guide who can navigate the treacherous and confounding path that leads to the centre of the Zone. 'Stalker' was instantly considered one of the most definitive artistic contemplations of human aspiration and the ambition we employ to achieve it. - Director:
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Cast:
- Alisa Freyndlikh, Sergey Yakovlev, Vladimir Zamanskiy
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Fin McBride (Peter Dinklage), a loner with a passion for trains, inherits an abandoned train depot in the middle of nowhere, a place that suits him just fine because all he wants is to be left alone. But that is not to be. Soon after moving in, he meets Olivia (Patricia Clarkson), a distracted artist, and Joe (Bobby Cannavale), a friendly Cuban with an insatiable hunger for conversation who parks his hot dog truck right next door. With absolutely nothing in common, they find their isolated lives coming together in a friendship none of them could foresee. - Director:
- Thomas McCarthy
- Cast:
- Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale
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Vienna, winter. Johann, a guard at the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum encounters Anne, a foreign visitor called to Austria because of the poor health of a friend. Never having been to Austria and with little money, she wanders the city in limbo, taking the museum as her refuge. Johann, initially wary, offers help, and they're drawn into each other's worlds. Their meetings spark an unexpected series of explorations - of their own lives and the life of the city, and of the way artworks can reflect and shape daily experience. - Director:
- Jem Cohen
- Cast:
- Steve Crilley, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Bobby Sommer
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Jealousy (2013)La Jalousie
Louis (Louis Garrel), a 30-year-old man lives with Claudia (Anna Mouglalis) in a small flat in Paris. They are both struggling actors and broke. Claudia was once a rising star, but now can't get any work. Louis does everything he can to help her get a role, but his efforts come to nothing. Eventually, she strays from the relationship leaving them both to face an uncertain future as the complications of love change their lives forever. - Director:
- Philippe Garrel
- Cast:
- Louis Garrel, Anna Mouglalis, Rebecca Convenant
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The World Is Yours (2018)Le monde est à toi
François (Karim Leklou) is a petty drug dealer whose dream is to settle down and set up a Mr. Freeze's ice lolly franchise in Morocco. But his ambition is smashed to pieces when he discovers that his own mother (Isabelle Adjani), a compulsive gambler and seasoned scammer, has burnt his savings that he was relying on to start their brand-new life. Putin, the local gang leader, offers François to do one last job in Spain so that he can make some money he desperately needs. Things go from bad to worse when the deal goes wrong and everyone around him gets involved: his disillusioned love Lamya (Oulaya Amamra), his stupid former father-in-law who just got out of prison, two inseparable and uncontrollable wannabe gangsters and last but not least...his glamorous and manipulative mother. - Director:
- Romain Gavras
- Cast:
- Karim Leklou, Isabelle Adjani, Vincent Cassel
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We Are the Flesh (2016)Tenemos la carne
A visionary and bizarre slice of Mexican cinema, 'We Are the Flesh' is an extraordinary and unsettling film experience, a sexually charged and nightmarish journey into an otherworldy dimension of carnal desire and excess, as well as a powerful allegory on the corrupting power of human desire. A young brother and sister, roaming an apocalyptic city, take refuge in the dilapidated lair of a strange hermit. He puts them to work building a bizarre cavernous structure, where he acts out his insane and depraved fantasies. Trapped in this maddening womb-like world under his malign influence, they find themselves sinking into the realms of dark and forbidden behaviour. Mixing the graphic, powerful imagery of Gaspar Noe's 'Love' and 'Enter the Void' with the surreal, hallucinatory impact of Alejandro Jodorowsky, 'We Are the Flesh' is a bizarre, psychedelic head trip, mixing intense, outrageously explicit imagery with a profound allegory on the nature of existence, to make this an unforgettable, boundary-pushing experience unlike anything you've ever seen. - Director:
- Emiliano Rocha Minter
- Cast:
- Noé Hernández, María Evoli, Diego Gamaliel
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My Name Is Hmmm (2013)Je m'appelle Hmmm...
"My Name Is Hmmm...", the debut from clothes designer Agnes Trouble AKA Agnes B., follows Celine as she escapes an absent mother and abusive father by smuggling herself aboard the cab of an international freight truck. The driver (visual artist Douglas Gordon) creates an unlikely bond with the eleven-year-old as they travel across the country. The reasons for their mutual need of each other becomes more clear as the suspicion of kidnapping heats up. Charming, surprising, visually inventive and humane, "My Name Is Hmmm..." shows the hand of a true visual stylist. - Director:
- Agnès B.
- Cast:
- Sylvie Testud, Philippe Peythieu, Ersin Leibovitch
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Starring Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kiberlain, Mademoiselle Chambon is an elegant and moving tale of an unexpected romance between a married man, Jean (Vincent Lindon), and his son's school teacher. Veronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain). As their feelings for each other slowly take hold, Jean and Veronique, who come from vastly different worlds, reach a painful turning point that will affect their lives forever. - Director:
- Stéphane Brizé
- Cast:
- Vincent Lindon, Geneviève Mnich, Sandrine Kiberlain
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Seventeen-year-old Naseema (Samina Awan) is a young Muslim woman keen to make something of her life. Taking a job in a local decorating shop, she is attracted to Adam (Tom Hudson), whose blinkered racism is encouraged by his family and friends. Naseema's older brother Yousef (Wasim Zakir) is sick of putting up with bigots in the town, confronting the violence he is met with, and is insistent that his sister conform to his idea of what a good Muslim girl should be. But his attitude toward race, religion and women is revealed as questionable when he embarks on a relationship with the feisty Michelle (Nichola Burley). - Director:
- Dominic Savage
- Cast:
- Tracy Brabin, Mohammed Rafique, Miriam Ali
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On February 5th 2004 twenty three Chinese drowned in Morcombe Bay. Their families in China are still paying off their debts. When a young girl, Ai Qin, pays £25,000 to be smuggled into the UK in order to support her family back in China, she becomes another one of 3 million migrant workers that have become the bedrock of our economy. Forced to live with eleven other Chinese in a two bedroom house, they work in factories preparing food for British supermarkets. Risking their lives for pennies, these unprotected workers end up cockling in Morcombe Bay at night. With an extraordinary debut performance from Ai Qin Lin in a film whose principal characters are played by Chinese former illegal immigrants, Ghosts offers a unique insight into a secret world that surrounds us. - Director:
- Nick Broomfield
- Cast:
- Zhan Yu, Tao Li, Ai Qin Lin
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It's the height of the holiday season at an idyllic lakeside campsite in Wester France. Seventeen-year-old Camille is bored with both her family and barman Fred, her summertime boyfriend. Enter Blaise, an enigmatic forty-something, who has been hired as a sailing instructor by his brother-in-law Eddie, the campsite director. Driven by the same profound sense of discontent, which brings them closer and closer together, their passions erupt as they begin a dangerous love affair. Their complicity feeds the rumours that exasperates their immediate circle and leads them further and further away from their responsibilities. - Director:
- Christophe Ali
- Cast:
- Denis Lavant, Isild Le Besco, Pascal Bongard
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Happy (2015)A Happy Time
Florent (Jordan Goldnadel), 23, is an upper class Parisian who dreams of going back to America, where he attended college. One summer he meets Alessia (Isabelle Ryan), an American girl, lost in the streets of Paris. Together and with random encounters while on a journey from Paris to Normandy, they explore their passions, which draws them closer as well as brings up their clashing differences. As they face a crucial crossroad in their lives, they will uncover new sides of themselves, while struggling to determine who they are personally, professionally and sexually and trying to break free from their upbringings. - Director:
- Jordan Goldnadel
- Cast:
- Arthur Jalta, Isabelle Ryan, Jordan Goldnadel
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