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Exiled (2006)Fong Juk
1998. Macua. Every living soul jumps at any chance to make quick money. In this ruthless environment, for jaded hit-men wonder when the violence will end. After being sent to take out a renegade member of their gang, trying to go straight with his wife and newborn baby, they soon find themselves in the throes of a moral dilemma: whether to carry out their orders or defy their criminal boss and protect the life of their old friend. - Director:
- Johnnie To
- Cast:
- Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Libby Brien, Philip Hersh
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As the mourners and guests at a British country manor struggle valiantly to "keep a stiff upper lip," a dignified ceremony devolves into a hilarious, no-holds-barred debacle of misplaced bodies, indecent exposure, and shocking family secrets. Packed with extras including audio commentaries and an hilarious gag reel, Death at a Funeral blows the lid off the proverbial coffin. - Director:
- Frank Oz
- Cast:
- Matthew Macfadyen, Peter Dinklage, Ewen Bremner
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I Do (2006)Prete-moi ta main
Life is good for Luis. He's happily single, enjoys his job and is loved, cherished and pampered by his mother and five sisters. But, one day, they decide it's time for him to marry. Luis hurriedly hatches a plan to fend off their unwelcome intrusion into his love life. He will find the perfect woman, who will charm his family, exchange engagement rings... and disappear on the day of the wedding. After that, nobody will dare mention the word marriage to him again. By happy coincidence, Luis meets Emmanuelle, his best friend's sister, who's just arrived in Paris and is looking for a job. It seems like a win-win situation for both of them, but the best-laid plans of single men can go horribly wrong! - Director:
- Eric Lartigau
- Cast:
- Alain Chabat, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bernadette Lafont
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The Serpent (2006)Le serpent
Vincent Mandel (Yvan Attal) is a photographer caught up in an ugly divorce and fighting for custody of his children. His already troubled existence is blown apart by the appearance of a ghost from his past, Joseph Plender (Clovis Cornillac). Seductive, sympathetic, Plender is nonetheless utterly ruthless - a predator motivated by pure hatred of former classmate Vincent, and hungry for vengeance. It seems that Vincent's only chance to escape is to enter his world... - Director:
- Eric Barbier
- Cast:
- Yvan Attal, Clovis Cornillac, Pierre Richard
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Tune in. Turn on. Psych out! Take the ultimate in psychedelic trips with Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern! When a deaf runaway visits swinging San Francisco in search of her brother, she teams up with the aptly named Stoney and his out-of-sight hippie band 'Mumblin' Jim'. But the more she succumbs to that music - and danger-filled Flower Power scene - the more she realises that reality is a rotten place to be! - Director:
- Richard Rush
- Cast:
- Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson
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Mesrine: Killer instinct / Public Enemy Number 1 (2008)L'instinct de mort / L'ennemi public n°1
Featuring a career defining performance from Vincent Cassel, the two part saga follows the incredible series of hold-ups, prison breaks and kidnappings throughout the 70's and 80's across several continents.
Part 1: Killing InstinctsMesrine: Killer Instinct introduces us to Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), a loyal son and dedicated soldier back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algeria! War. Handsome and charming, he is soon seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and easy money if presents. Mentored by Guido (Gerard Depardieu) Mesrine soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder, choosing the high risk life of a gangster over the honest life of th hard working family. After pulling off an audacious heist he and his lover Jeanne (Ceciie France), flee to Canada where the opportunity of one big payout lures him out of hiding and propels him towards international notoriety.
Part 2: Public Enemy Number One
The incredible and brutal story of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel) continues in Mesrine: Public Enemy Number 1. Now back in France, Mesrine is finally in police custody and facing justice for his crimes but he is soon on the run once again. After escaping a courtroom and kidnapping the judge at gunpoint, Mesrine is declared Public Enemy Number One and is eventually condemned to a maximum security prison where he writes his first memoirs, establishing himself as a household name and anti-hero across France. Mesrine stages another daring escape and disappears into the lawless underworld, taunting the police and reinventing himself as a celebrity criminal through his savvy manipulation of the media. After such a monumental rise, comes the inevitable fall as the detectives close in, bringing the life of Jacques Mesrine to a full bloody circle.- Director:
- Jean-François Richet
- Cast:
- Gérard Depardieu, Vincent Cassel, Cécile De France
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"The Damned United" tells the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough (Michael Sheen) and his doomed 44 day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football; Leeds United. Taking the job without trusty lieutenant Peter Taylor (Timothy Spall) by his side, and with a changing room full of what in his mind were players loyal to his bitter rival Don Revie (Colm Meaney), would lead to an unheralded examination of Clough's belligerence and brilliance over 44 days. This is that story. The story of The Damned United. - Director:
- Tom Hooper
- Cast:
- Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, David Roper
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With stunning special effects this gritty realistic film plunges us into a world where aliens have landed...only to be exiled to a slum on the fringes of Johannesburg. Now, one lone human discovers the mysterious secret of the extraterrestrial weapon technology. Hunted and hounded through the bizarre back alleys of an alien shantytown, he will discover what it means to be the ultimate outsider on your own planet. - Director:
- Neill Blomkamp
- Cast:
- Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope
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A box-office sensation in France, comic star Jean Dujardin stars as secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, a.k.a. OSS 117 who in the tradition of Maxwell Smart and Inspector Clouseau somehow succeeds in spite of his ineptitude. After a fellow agent and close friend is murdered, Hubert is ordered to take his place at the head of a poultry firm in Cairo. This is to be his cover while he investigates Jack’s death, monitors the Suez Canal, checks up on the Brits and Soviets, burnishes France’s reputation, quells a fundamentalist rebellion and brokers peace in the Middle East. A blithe and witty send-up not only of spy films of that era and the suave secret agent figure but also neo-colonialism, ethnocentrism and the very idea of Western covert action in the Middle East - Director:
- Michel Hazanavicius
- Cast:
- Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, Aure Atika
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Congressman Stephen Collins is the rising star of his political party – until his research assistant/mistress is murdered, and buried secrets come tumbling out. Investigative journalist, Cal McCaffrey has the dubious fortune of both and old friendship with Collins and a ruthless editor, Cameron who assigns him to the story. As Cal and his partner Della step into a cover-up that threatens to shake the nation’s power structures, they discover one truth – when billions of dollar share at stake, no one’s integrity, love or life is ever safe. - Director:
- Kevin Macdonald
- Cast:
- Russell Crowe, Ashley Bell, Rachel McAdams
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At 14, school friends Steve 'Lips' Kudlow and Rob Reiner made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, went on to become the 'demigods of Canadian metal', releasing one of the heaviest albums in metal history, 1982's Metal on Metal. The album influenced a musical generaton including Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax, that went on to sell millions of records. But Anvil's career took a different path - straight to obscurity. Anvil The Story of Anvil is a timeless, and at times hilarious, feel good tale of survival and the unadulterated passion it takes to follow your dream. Directed by Sasha Gervasi, we follow the band as they attempt one last shot at the big time with their thirteenth album 'This is Thirteen' and a calamitous European tour. You don't have to be a metal head to love Anvil. This is an inspirational, heart warming and uplifting tale of two best friends who refuse to give up on their dream. Metal on Metal forever! - Director:
- Sacha Gervasi
- Cast:
- Robb Reiner, Steve 'Lips' Kudlow, Tiziana Arrigoni
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Present day London. Socially inept, exceptionally dull Minister Of International Development, Simon Foster, has caused outrage amongst his superiors and sparked a media-frenzy by accidentally mentioning a possible attack on the Middle East. Rabid, ruthless, profane and relentless Director Of Communications, Malcolm Tucker, has been sent in to pull the right strings, immediately dispatching Foster on a "fact finding" trip to Washington. Increasingly out of his depth, Simon Foster suddenly finds himself thrown into an anarchic world of abusive peaceniks, unhinged warmongers, infantile bureaucrats of Northampton to Washington’s West Wing, rest assured it can only get worse. - Director:
- Armando Iannucci
- Cast:
- Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini
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La Grande Vadrouille (1966)Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
During World War II, when their combat aircraft is shot down by the Germans, three English airmen (including Terry-Thomas as Sir Reginald) parachute to the comparative safety of Nazi occupied France. One lands on the scaffold of an amiable painter and decorator, Augustin (Bourvil). Another lands on top of a concert hall and is rescued by the irascible but patriotic conductor Stanislas Lefort (Louis de Funes). The third ends up in the otter enclosure of a Parisian zoo. When they try to help the airmen keep a rendez-vous at the Turkish baths in Paris, Augustin and Stanislas quickly find that they themselves have become targets for the German soldiers. Assisted by the daughter of a puppeteer and an anti-German nun, the two reluctant heroes accompany the three airmen on a reckless trek across France towards the safety of the neutral zone. - Director:
- Gérard Oury
- Cast:
- Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook
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The Grocer's Son (2007)Le fils de l'épicier
Thirty-year-old Antoine leaves Paris and reluctantly returns to the south of France to look after the family mobile grocery van while his father recovers from a heart attack. He gradually warms to his experience in the hills and his encounters with the villagers and love for the countryside. Evocatively capturing the bucolic beauty of provincial France, this gentle feel-good charmer sparkles with quirky humour and joie de vivre and guarantees to warm hearts with its classic story of a man finally coming of age. - Director:
- Eric Guirado
- Cast:
- Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme, Daniel Duval
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When gifted singer songwriter Charlotte Banks (Michalka) asks new kid in town Will Burton (Connell) to manage her fledgling rock band, she appears to have just one goal in mind: go head-to-head against her egotistical musician ex-boyfriend, Ben (Porter), at the biggest event of the year - a battle of the bands. Against all odds, the band of outcasts develop a sound that has a shot at success. Meanwhile, romance brews between Will and a musically gifted Sa5m - Sam with a silent 5 (Hudgens) and he must decide where his allegiance lies. When disaster strikes, it's time for the band to make a choice: do they admit defeat or face the music and stand up for what they believe in? - Director:
- Todd Graff
- Cast:
- Aly Michalka, Vanessa Hudgens, Gaelan Connell
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