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Happy as Lazzaro (2018)Lazzaro Felice
Lazzaro (talented newcomer Adriano Tardiolo) is a beautiful peasant whose sweet nature makes people mistake him for simple-minded. He happily does the bidding of anyone in his local village, which is ruled over by the evil Marchesa (Nicoletta Braschi). He finds an unlikely friend in the Marchesa's petulant son Tancredi (Tommaso Ragno / Luca Chikovani), who convinces his hapless ally to help him stage a dramatic incident to secure a ransom. 'Happy as Lazzaro' follows the adventures of this young man living on the margins of his society, who can seemingly travel through time, arriving in the big city and appearing as a fragment of the past lost in the modern world. - Director:
- Alice Rohrwacher
- Cast:
- Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Alba Rohrwacher
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Twins Jeanne (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin) and Simon (Maxim Gaudette) are left two envelopes in their mother's will, asking them to find a brother they never knew existed, and father they believed to be dead. Journeying from Canada to Lebanon to unravel this mystery, they begin to uncover the terrifying secrets of their mother's tumultuous and brutal past, their discoveries moving them ever closer to a gut-wrenching and inevitable truth that will define their very existence. - Director:
- Denis Villeneuve
- Cast:
- Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette
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Let others in 1968 Prague fret over such things as a liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Prague surgeon and avowed womanizer Tomas is focused on the happiness of pursuit. He's determined to live with a lightness of being that's unfettered by things like commitment and Communism. A young doctor's quest for sex and his stumbling into love forms part of the rich storyline of this lyrical film from the landmark Milan Kundera novel, produced by Saul Zaentz and directed by Philip Kaufman. Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin indelibly form the romantic triangle at the center of Tomas' world. It's a shifting world of hope spoiled and renewed, of lives blighted by oppression and reinvigorated by deep, maturing love. - Director:
- Philip Kaufman
- Cast:
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin
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Lisa and Ian Lyons, a newly married city couple, decide to move back to the rural village where Lisa grew up. Trendy comedy club owner Ian isn't too keen, but how bad can it be? He soon gets an answer when Lisa's father offers him £20,000 to divorce her... when her brother tries to kill him... when he can't get a job... when he realises just how much he hates the countryside... As Lisa settles into work at the village school, Ian eventually buys the local photographer's business (despite never having taken a photograph before in his life). Determined to fit in, he joins the local football team, invites a comedian friend to perform at a charity gala night for the League of Ponies and even decides to compile a photographic Book of Country Fire Stations. But as much as he tries to love the countryside, it really doesn't love him... - Director:
- John Henderson
- Cast:
- Dylan Moran, Charlotte Coleman, Emma Chambers
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Touch of Spice (2003)Politiki kouzina
Fanis is a man torn between his Greek ethnicity and his emotional roots in Turkey, the country of his birth. Using the device of cuisine as a metaphor for national identity and personal feelings, we see Fanis grow from a boy whose grandfather imparts culinary and philosophical expertise from the Aladdin's cave of his spice shop, to a young man with a true passion for food. Deported to Greece with his family as a young boy, Fanis returns home after 35 years for an emotional reunion with his grandfather... and his first love. A bitter sweet journey of the senses, set against the historical backdrop of the deportation of thousands of Greeks from Istanbul, this is one of the biggest Greek films of all time. - Director:
- Tassos Boulmetis
- Cast:
- Georges Corraface, Ieroklis Michaelidis, Renia Louizidou
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If you miss the first five minutes, you miss one suicide, two executions, one seduction, and the key to the plot. In this star-studded, black-hearted spy thriller directed and co-written by the legendary John Huston , a potentially catastrophic diplomatic letter from the CIA must be recovered at all costs. Drafted in is Rone (Patrick O'Neal), a young agent with a photographic memory, to make his way through a treacherous maze of shadowy cities and shady characters. - Director:
- John Huston
- Cast:
- Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Nigel Green
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Sweet Bean (2015)Sweet Red Bean Paste / An
Struggling street food vendor Sentaro finds himself confronted with Tokue, an odd but sympathetic elderly lady looking for work. When he reluctantly accepts, it's not long before Tokue proves to have an extraordinary gift when it comes to making "an" - the sweet red bean paste filling used in his dorayakis - which starts a relationship that is about much more than just street food. With 'Sweet Bean', Kawase again focuses on people at the periphery of Japanese society and investigates their place in the flow of life itself. - Director:
- Naomi Kawase
- Cast:
- Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida
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When country girl Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley) marries a charismatic egomaniac named Willy (Dominic West), he unlocks the door to the tantalizing world of the Parisian arts scene. With her creative appetite sparked, Willy has Colette write novels under his name. The phenomenal success of her 'Claudine' series makes Willy famous and elevates them both to the high life. Although she is now the toast of the town, the lack of recognition begins to gnaw at Colette. In turn, their marriage starts to internally combust, fuelled by Willy's infidelities and Colette's growing interest in women, and the gender defying Missy (Denise Gough). On a downward spiral, Willy resorts to increasingly desperate measures to pay his debts and sabotage his wife, but Colette is developing resources of her own. - Director:
- Wash Westmoreland
- Cast:
- Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West
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Omar (Antonio Aakeel) and Pete (Jack Carroll) are half-brothers. When their Gran passes away, they go on a life changing road trip to find Omar's birth father (Asim Chaudhry). Armed with a biscuit tin containing a birth certificate, a photograph and their deceased mother's diary, the pair of likely lads head on a quest that will change their lives forever. Along the way they meet a dodgy fortune teller (Tom Binns), their racist aunt (Vicki Pepperdine) and uncle (Kevin Eldon) and a seedy guest house owner (Johnny Vegas). What could possibly go wrong? What follows is a hilarious journey of self-discovery and the true meaning of family, set amongst the bright lights of Blackpool. - Director:
- Jason Wingard
- Cast:
- Antonio Khela, Jack Carroll, Asim Chaudhry
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"Patrick Melrose" is a new kind of family saga which takes a scathing and sardonic view of the upper-classes, shining an unforgiving light on the privilege, greed, cruelty and vulnerabilities that lie within their ranks. Played to perfection by Benedict Cumberbatch, Patrick himself is many things: an aristocratic addict, a rakish and outrageously funny playboy, but he is also a man living as a victim of the sins of his parents (Hugo Weaving and Jennifer Jason Leigh). Based on the celebrated novels by Edward St. Aubyn, this intelligent, beautifully told series, follows Patrick as he embarks on a harrowing yet humorous decades-spanning odyssey to come to terms with the effects of childhood trauma. - Director:
- Edward Berger
- Cast:
- Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugo Weaving, Sebastian Maltz
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Drole de Drame (1937)Drôle de drame ou L'étrange aventure du Docteur Molyneux
From Marcel Carne, a comic masterpiece set in England circa 1900. Unassuming botanist Irvin Molyneux hides a dark secret: he writes lurid novels using the pseudonym Felix Chapel. His cousin, the Bishop of Bedford, Archibald Soper condemns the books (without realising a family member has written them) and invites himself to the Molyneux house for dinner. Panic ensues as the cook has walked out leaving Irvin's wife to act like the cook to avoid social ignominy. When Irvin can't explain his wife's absence the Bishop assumes he has killed her and calls Scotland Yard and the newspaper reporters. The Molyneux' escape to a cheap local hotel where psychopath William Kramps is holed up: he being a specialist in killing butchers and blaming novelist Felix Chapel for turning him into a killer and vowing to murder him. Molyneux returns to his home to attend to his houseplants, a big mistake as Kramps is waiting in the living room... - Director:
- Marcel Carné
- Cast:
- Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon
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Set in glamorous 1930’s London, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a Cinderella story for grown-ups. When dowdy middle-aged governess Guinevere Pettigrew loses her latest job, her luck appears to have run out. Desperate for employment, she shows up at the plush flat of Delysia Lafosse, a glamorous nightclub singer whose desire for celebrity is only eclipsed by her interest in men. Delysia immediately calls on her new "social secretary" to help her juggle her numerous suitors. Finding herself catapulted into the dizzying social whirl of London’s high society, every dream that Pettigrew had given up on becomes reality for 24 hours. - Director:
- Bharat Nalluri
- Cast:
- Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Ciarán Hinds
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Victor (Cary Grant) and Hillary (Deborah Kerr) are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro (Robert Mitchum), a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant (Jean Simmons) gets involved and they have a good old fashioned love triangle! - Director:
- Stanley Donen
- Cast:
- Cary Grant, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons
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Lean on Pete (2017)Charley Thompson
Fifteen-year-old Charley (Charlie Plummer) lives with his alcoholic father Ray (Travis Fimmel) in a run-down house in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. In an effort to help his dad stay afloat, Charley takes a job at a local racetrack where he befriends jaded trainer Del (Steve Buscemi) and burnt-out jockey Bonnie (Chloe Sevigny) while caring for an aging horse named Lean on Pete. But as things break down at home and Del announces Pete will be sold to an uncertain fate, the burden becomes too great for Charley to bear and he heads out into the vast American wilderness with Pete in tow. - Director:
- Andrew Haigh
- Cast:
- Steve Zahn, Travis Fimmel, Chloë Sevigny
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The Favourite (2018)Favorite
In early 18th-century England, a frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne, and her closest friend, Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz), governs the country while tending to Anne's ill health and volatile temper. When new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives, Sarah takes Abigail under her wing as she cunningly schemes to return to her aristocratic roots, setting off an outrageous rivalry to become the Queen's favourite. - Director:
- Yorgos Lanthimos
- Cast:
- Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz
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