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When people talk about a bizarre urban myth at a University hospital people start dying inexplicably one after another... With this 'energy void' throughout, the world of this absurd black comedy, based upon the theatre play of the same name, starts to implode into itself.

An avant-garde story of 18 young students dying one after another.

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In the late '60s, a musician was discovered in a Detroit bar by two celebrated producers who were struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics. They recorded an album that they believed was going to secure his reputation as one of the greatest recording artists of his generation.

Despite overwhelming critical acclaim, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumours of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, it became a phenomenon. Feature follows two South African fans who set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation led them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Rodriguez. This is a film about hope, inspiration and the resonating power of music.

The story of a legendary, lovable canine that roamed the outback and found his way into the hearts of each and everyone he met along the way. He brought people together, helping some find love and others to find themselves.

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Ferran Adria is widely considered the greatest, most innovative chef in the world. In his award-winning kitchen the familiar disintegrates before being reincarnated by his masterly, artistic touch.

Each year his legendary restaurant, El Bulli - hailed five times as the best in the world and holder of three Michelin stars - closed for six months while Adria and his team retired to their Barcelona laboratory to create the coming season's menu. Anything was allowed - except copying oneself. Before shutting its doors permanently in 2011, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Gereon Wetzel gained unprecedented access to this theatre of culinary dreams, delving under the skin of the most groundbreaking dishes ever created and the team of gastronomic alchemists behind them. Prepare to open yourself to the brave new world of EL BULLI.

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The story about the lives of Jesus and Fausto, two low-paid Mexican labourers working illegally across the border in LA.

When they are offered big money and a sawn-off shotgun to break into the home of and take hostage a drug addicted single mother, the scene is set for a terrifying and unpredictable encounter that will end in a shocking act of violence.

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When 16 year old Jamie (Lucas Pittaway) is befriended by a charismatic local man John (Daniel Henshall) he has little idea of the world that awaits him. Friendly and welcoming, John gives no hint of the sadistic depravity of the crimes he is committing.

Crimes that would shake Australia to its very core and leave Jamie an accomplice to some of the most horrific killings the world has ever seen.

The story of a North African dictator (Sacha Baron Cohen) who, on a visit to New York, is stripped of his power and forced to get a real job at a Brooklyn health food store.

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As she cuts across the fields to take her father his lunch, Patricia meets Jacques. She is eighteen, he is twenty-six. She is pretty, with the fine manners of a young lady; he is a fighter pilot and a handsome young man. A full moon will do the rest on their second meeting.

There won't be a third rendezvous: Jacques is sent to the front. Patricia finds herself pregnant. The boy's rich parents accuse her of blackmail. Patricia and her father, the well-digger, will alone have the joy of welcoming her child. A joy that the Mazels will soon envy and seek to share when Jacques goes missing in action...

Marcel and Arletty's quiet, economically but emotionally rich life is disrupted when she is diagnosed with a serious disease. At the same time, Marcel takes a young illegal immigrant under his wing.

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Based on a true story, "Gang Story" is the epic tale of Edmond Vidal (Gerard Lanvin), one of the French underworld's most notorious figures having led the "Gang des Lyonnais" to a spate of successful armed robberies in the 1970s.

Overcoming dangerous gang rivalries and battles with the police, Vidal survived to enjoy the good life...until now. With his life-long friend Serge Suttel (Tcheky Karyo) in trouble, Vidal gets drawn into one last job. But fighting against his own history and facing a desperate situation, is this the end for Vidal?

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Meet 85 year-old Jiro Ono, widely praised as the world's greatest sushi chef. His tiny restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro, is tucked away in a Tokyo subway station and only seats ten, yet bears three Michelin stars and has an eight month-long reservation waiting list.

Jiro runs this culinary gem with a will of iron, deft fingers and his eldest son Yoshikazu. Their fascinating relationship lies at the heart of this wasabi-infused tale, as the apprentice struggles with the sometimes overbearing aura of the master. David Gelb's feature film debut nimbly explores every facet of Jiro's daily life, from his total commitment to the craft to his role as patriarch, making our mouths water along the way.

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Nathalie (Audrey Tautou) is living her dream life until her husband dies in an accident. To cope with her loss, she focuses on work and leaves little room for another romance. She is brought out of mourning three years later when she suddenly kisses her funny and dorky co-worker Markus.

Nathalie discovers that even though she lost "the one", if she keeps her heart open there may just be room for one more.

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Against the background of the Sicilian town Bagheria, simply called Baaria by its inhabitants, director Giuseppe Tornatore unfolds a semi-autobiographical, mesmerising epic of life in Italy in the twentieth century.

Following Peppino (Francesco Scianna) from his childhood in the 1930s, to his forbidden romance with the beautiful Mannina (Margareth Made), political ascent and fight against the mafia, Baaria is an emotional journey into the heart of Italy.

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Alex (Romain Duris) is a charming, funny and effortlessly cool professional break-up artist with just ten days to sabotage the relationship of a seemingly perfect couple.

But with one of his targets, the beautiful, feisty and independent Juliette (Vanessa Paradis), will he find that when it comes to love the perfect plan doesn't always exist?

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Inside Job is the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs.

Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.