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Cash (2008)Cash
When the brother of daring con artist Cash (Jean Dujardin) is murdered, he teams up with a master thief (Jean Reno) to pull off the ultimate act of vengeance. The hardboiled pair set about recruiting a team of specialised criminals to bring the villain down. But obsession and revenge make bitter partners, and when Cash realises there's a traitor in their midst, the game soon turns deadly. - Director:
- Éric Besnard
- Cast:
- Jean Dujardin, Jean Reno, Valeria Golino
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Of Freaks and Men (1998)Pro urodov i lyudey
Johann, darkly handsome and manipulative, is a turn of the 20th Century St Petersburg pornographer, peddling images of bare-bottomed floggings. He and his snaggle-toothed assistant Victor, worm their way into the lives of two wealthy families, manipulating adopted Siamese twins Kolja and Tolja and the delicately beautiful Lisa as subjects for his erotic films. - Director:
- Aleksey Balabanov
- Cast:
- Sergey Makovetskiy, Dinara Drukarova, Anzhelika Nevolina
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I Wish (2011)Kiseki
In the wake of their parent's divorce, 12-year-old Koichi (Koki Maeda) and his younger brother Ryunosuke (Ohshiro Maeda, Koki's real life brother) have been split up against their will. Koichi lives with his mother and grandparents in Kagoshima, in the shadow of a constantly rumbling volcano. Ryunosuke lives a comparatively spirited life with his rock-musician father in Fukuoka. But when Koichi discovers that a new bullet train line is due to open connecting the two towns, he determines that the intense energy generated by two trains passing in opposite directions will work a miracle, and their wish to be reunited will come true. - Director:
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- Cast:
- Kôki Maeda, Ôshirô Maeda, Hiroshi Abe
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Bullhead (2011)Rundskop
Working on the fringes of the murky underworld and constantly pumped on steroids and hormones, the domineering Jacky (Matthias Schoenaerts) initiates a shady deal with a notorious mafioso meat trader. But when an investigating federal agent is assassinated and a woman from his traumatic past resurfaces, Jacky is forced to confront his demons and face the far-reaching consequences of his decisions. - Director:
- Michaël R. Roskam
- Cast:
- Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Jeanne Dandoy
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The Silence (2010)Das Letzte Schweigen
On a hot summer day, a bicycle is found in a wheat field, and nearby, the body of a young girl. The killer is never found. 23 years later. Same date. Same place. Another bicycle. Another girl. This time round, an ageing detective convinced that history is repeating itself, comes out of retirement determined to track down the perpetrator with the help of his young colleague. Spanning a week in the investigation, both of them will begin a journey that will see intact worlds shatter apart. - Director:
- Baran bo Odar
- Cast:
- Ulrich Thomsen, Claudia Michelsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring
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The Yes Men Fix the World (2009)Les Yes Men refont le monde
A wickedly fun skewering of corporate greed, The Yes Men Fix The World is the true story of two mischief-makers who pose as the representatives of companies they despise. In this wonderfully therapeutic film, Yes Men Andy Bichlbaum and Bonanno impose cosmic (and comic) justice by any means necessary. To a television audience of 300 million, Andy (posing as a Dow Chemical spokesman) announces that Dow will finally compensate the victims of the Bhopal disaster, causing the company's stock to instantly plunge by $2 billion. At an oil industry conference, the Yes Men introduces a wonderful new Exxon miracle fuel made from the bodies of global warming losers. Through a series of increasingly brazen actions, The Yes Men Fix The World "shines with a raw wit and originality" (Newsweek) as it follows the twisted logic of corporate capitalism to its absurd conclusion, exposing the hilarious and awful absurdities of an economic system that ruthlessly rules the planet. - Director:
- Andy Bichlbaum
- Cast:
- Reggie Watts, Mike Bonanno, Andy Bichlbaum
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The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013)Kvinden i buret / Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes
Carl Morck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) is a disgraced detective who is reassigned to the newly created Department Q, a basement-bound job filing cold cases, and given a new assistant: Assad, a smart young cop. Although they receive explicit orders to only read and sort through the cases, Morck's stubborn nature throws them headlong into the mystery of a missing politician's disappearance five years earlier. Believing the case to be unsolved, they embark on a dangerous journey that will lead them into the dark underworld of Copenhagen. - Director:
- Mikkel Nørgaard
- Cast:
- Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Anne Bærskog Hauger, Per Scheel Krüger
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While travelling to visit their grandfather, two children are told the story of a family curse that has lasted two hundred years. During Napoleon's Italian invasion, Elisabetta Benedetti fell in love with French soldier Jean - but while Jean was distracted, Elisabetta's brother Corrado stole some gold that Jean was guarding, and set the curse in motion. The Benedettis become wealthy, corrupt and hated by their former friends, who rename them the Maledettis - the cursed. The children's grandfather Massimo is the last man to be directly affected by the curse - but will he pass it onto them? - Director:
- Paolo Taviani
- Cast:
- Claudio Bigagli, Galatea Ranzi, Michael Vartan
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When Aboriginal detective Jay Swan returns to his home town to solve the brutal murder of a teenage girl, he is immediately thrown into a web of lies and deceit. Alienated by the white-dominated police force to which he is attached and ostracised by the local Indigenous community, Jay must stand alone and attempt to unravel the truth before tensions boil over. - Director:
- Ivan Sen
- Cast:
- Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten
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Mrs Biggs, the true story of the woman behind Britain's most famous villain, Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs. Thought-provoking, heart-warming and life affirming, this series of five episodes tracks Charmian Biggs' (Sheridan Smith) remarkable evolution from naive young woman on a train, lured into the exciting world of charming rogue Ronald Biggs (Daniel Mays), to her life as a fugitive mother fighting to keep her family together against all odds. This is the inside story of one of the most infamous crimes of the twentieth century; but more than anything it is a sweeping love story told across three decades and from one side of the world to the other. - Director:
- Paul Whittington
- Cast:
- Sheridan Smith, Daniel Mays, Carol Bunting
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A Delhi boy resents the fact that he has no pain in his life. He has realized that all great musicians have had a painful life. In order to get his heart broken, he proposes to the most sought-after girl in Delhi University. The story of 'RockStar' is the seven years of the boy's life and relationship with the girl at the end of which he does become a huge musical star. But his heart also gets broken. - Director:
- Imtiaz Ali
- Cast:
- Ranbir Kapoor, Nargis Fakhri, Shammi Kapoor
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Fall of the Innocent (2011)Lidice / The Butcher of Prague
At the beginning of the story Lidice is just one of many small Czech villages trying to survive the war as best as it can. Day-to-day existence within the Protectorate flows along almost serenely and the biggest upheaval is a pub brawl where by accident a drunk father kills his own son. The crime is justly punished and the poor wretch Sima starts his sentence. But thanks to this he, alone, survives his family as well as his entire village which becomes the scapegoat for the assassination of Heydrich, a Nazi Officer. The tale of this deeply paradoxical hero is full of contradictions yet remains truly human and forms the spine of the whole film. - Director:
- Petr Nikolaev
- Cast:
- Karel Roden, Zuzana Fialová, Zuzana Bydzovská
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'Powder Room' is a comedy which follows Sam (Sheridan Smith), as her life is turned upside down on a big night out. When reunited with her old college friends, Sam is forced to revaluate her life and constructs an elaborate fagade in order to convince herself and her friends that she has it all. But once her dysfunctional yet devoted trio of best mates intervene, her carefully crafted charade begins to crumble amidst the shots, cigarettes, ciders and toilet transgressions. Faced with some very harsh realities, Sam must struggle to remain true to herself and reassess exactly what she wants from life. - Director:
- M.J. Delaney
- Cast:
- Sheridan Smith, Jaime Winstone, Kate Nash
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Set in the Darjeeling and Calcutta of the 70s, "Barfi!" is the story of three young people who learn that love can neither be defined nor contained by society's norms of normal and abnormal. Bar Pi. a hearing and speech impaired boy falls in love with the beautiful, ethereal Shruti. Worlds collide. And in spite of her deep affection for Barfi. Shruti gives in to societal and parental pressure to marry a 'normal man' and lead a 'normal life'. Many years later, their paths cross once again when Barfi. on the run from the police, is in search of Jhilmil, a mentally challenged girl who he grew up with. Caught in a cat and mouse game, in the search for the girl Barfi loves, Shruti realizes that she herself is still in love with him. She must now choose between her happiness and his. Will the search for Jhilmil lead Shruti and Barfi to reclaim their love or has Shruti lost her one chance at true happiness forever? Barfi is an uplifting story about human frailty. About impossible relationships. Unspoken words. And love. - Director:
- Anurag Basu
- Cast:
- Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Ileana D'Cruz
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Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson, and Lena Horne star in this classic musical which was a showcase for the best black talent of the 40's. Having just made 'Cabin In The Sky' Lena Horne shines again and makes the title song one of the great moments in the history of musicals, Fats Waller performs a rousing rendition of his signature tune, 'Ain't Misbehavin', Cab Calloway does 'The Jumping Jive' and joining Bill Robinson on the dance floor the Nicholas Brothers perform a jaw-dropping routine at the finale that has to be seen to be believed. - Director:
- Andrew L. Stone
- Cast:
- Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra
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