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"Promising Young Woman" is a bold new vision that has ignited a debate starring Academy Award Nominee Carey Mulligan as 'Cassie': a wickedly smart but singularly focused woman, who in order to overcome events from her past lives a double life by night. Following an unexpected encounter. Cassie is given the chance to right the wrongs of the past. - Director:
- Emerald Fennell
- Cast:
- Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie
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Young and Beautiful (2013)Jeune and Jolie
Whilst on holiday with her family, seventeen year old Isabelle (Marine Vacth) experiences her first sexual relationship with an attractive young man. A few days later, and for no apparent reason, Isabelle casts him aside and behaves as if their encounter never happened. When she returns home to Paris, Isabelle begins a dangerous new career; she sets up a profile on an escort website and lies about her age in order to make appointments with older, wealthy clients in chic, expensive hotel rooms. On one hand she is a cool professional, catering to the sexual whims of the various men she encounters; on the other she is maintaining the illusion of being a regular school student for her parents and friends. However her double life spirals out of control, and she is forced to deal with the consequences of what she has been doing. - Director:
- François Ozon
- Cast:
- Marine Vacth, Géraldine Pailhas, Frédéric Pierrot
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"Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami" takes the viewer on an intimate and electrifying journey that moves between four cinematic layers - performance, family, artist and traveller - to explore the fascinating world of this pop cultural phenomenon. Jones' bold aesthetic echoes throughout unique musical performances that include hit songs Slave to the Rhythm and Pull Up to the Bumper. Larger than life, wild, scary and androgynous, Grace Jones plays all these parts - yet here we also discover her as lover, daughter, mother, sister and even grandmother, allowing us to explore the world inside the icon. - Director:
- Sophie Fiennes
- Cast:
- Grace Jones, Jean-Paul Goude, Sly & Robbie
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Barbara (2019)Tezuka's Barbara
One of Osamu Tezuka's most adult and sexually-charged works, Barbara (1973-74) was originally serialized as a follow-up to Ayako (1972-73) in Big Comic from July 1973 to May 1974. Its story deals with the erotic and bizarre experiences of a famous novelist called Yosuke Mikura whose life is tossed upside down by a mysterious girl named "Barbara". The controversial story, dealing with various taboos such as forbidden love, mystery, art, Eros, scandal and occultism, was said to have been impossible to be cinematized at the time of its original publication, but was made into a live-action film for the 90th Anniversary of Osamu Tezuka's birth by his son Macoto Tezka. - Director:
- Macoto Tezuka
- Cast:
- Gorô Inagaki, Fumi Nikaidô, Kiyohiko Shibukawa
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During the Second World War, Eric (Jeremy Irvine) is captured and held prisoner by the Japanese. Brutally tortured and forced, along with his fellow captives, to build the Thai-Burma Railway. Eric is left traumatised for years to come, despite the best efforts of his wife (Nicole Kidman). Many years later, an older Lomax (Colin Firth) resolves to track down one of his torturers, Takashi Nagase (Hiroyuki Sanada), hoping to find the answers that will enable him to finally let go of the hatred he has felt throughout his life. - Director:
- Jonathan Teplitzky
- Cast:
- Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård
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Daniel Plainview and son are independent oil men, looking for prospects in California at the turn of the 20th century. They are challenged by a young preacher, Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), whose own ambition is matched by Plainview's. Their battle forms the centre of a scary, darkly-comic historical journey into an abyss of madness. - Director:
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Cast:
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds
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Following the closure of a gypsum mine in the Nevada town she calls home, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road in this "exquisite film" (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal). Exploring an unconventional life as a modern-day nomad, Fern discovers a resilience and resourcefulness unlike any she's known before long the way, she meets other nomads who become mentors in the vast landscape of the American West. - Director:
- Chloé Zhao
- Cast:
- Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May
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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years (2016)Eight Days a Week
In 1962 four young men John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to form the 20th century musical phenomenon known as, "The Beatles". The band stormed Europe in 1963, and, in 1964, they conquered America. Their groundbreaking world tours changed global youth culture forever and, arguably, invented mass entertainment as we know it today. All the while, the group were composing and recording a series of extraordinarily successful singles and albums. However the relentless pressure of such unprecedented fame, that in 1966 became uncontrollable turmoil, led to the decision to stop touring. In the ensuing years The Beatles were then free to focus on a series of albums that changed the face of recorded music. Master storyteller and Oscar winner, Ron Howard, explores this incredible journey in his own unique way: How did The Beatles do this? How did they cope with all the fame and pressure? How did they not only survive, but go on to revolutionise popular music? With original interviews, footage, staggering live performances, and the intimate study of character that Ron Howard is known for, he puts us right inside this extraordinary adventure, answering the question everyone always wants to know: What was it like to be there?!! - Director:
- Ron Howard
- Cast:
- The Beatles, John Lennon, George Harrison
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A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, 'Minari' follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, 'Minari' shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home. - Director:
- Lee Isaac Chung
- Cast:
- Alan S. Kim, Yeri Han, Noel Cho
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Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) is an ambitious young jazz drummer, in pursuit of rising to the top of his elite music conservatory. Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), an instructor known for his terrifying teaching methods, discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer into the top jazz ensemble, forever changing the young man's life. But Andrew's passion to achieve perfection quickly spirals into obsession, as his ruthless teacher pushes him to the brink of his ability and his sanity. - Director:
- Damien Chazelle
- Cast:
- Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist
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Somebody Up There Likes Me (2019)Ronnie Wood: Somebody Up There Likes Me
This intimate portrait by Oscar-nominated director Mike Figgis is the first in-depth film biography of the artist, and traces his many lives and careers. A man still at the cutting edge in his seventies, the film tells the story from his humble beginnings in north London, where his older brothers shaped the musical powerhouse he would become, to the unique career that has not only spanned over 50 years (so far) but also traversed some of the most influential musicians the world has ever known including The Birds, Jeff Beck, The New Barbarians, Rod Stewart, The Faces and of course The Rolling Stones. Ronnie guides us on a journey through his life - painting and performing, accompanied by the friends, musicians end artists who have been part of his life over the years including Damien Hirst, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Imelda May and Rod Stewart. - Director:
- Mike Figgis
- Cast:
- Ronnie Wood, Sally Humphreys Wood, Imelda May
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"Marley" is the definitive film about one of the most loved international icons of the 20th Century. Bob Marley's music and message of love and redemption are known throughout the world and his story has finally been brought to life in this definitive work. Acclaimed director Kevin MacDonald joined forces with the Marley family to direct the ultimate authorised documentary film on the life, legacy and global impact of one of the most influential musicians in history. Marley marks the first time ever that Bob's family has authorised the use of their own private archives. - Director:
- Kevin Macdonald
- Cast:
- Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Jimmy Cliff
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When the tragic news broke, in February 1980, that iconic vocalist and frontman Bon Scott had passed away, the rock world went into shock. This young man - still only 33 years old - had been at the helm of AC/DC for less than six years, but in that time, he had become one of the finest and best loved lead vocalists in rock music. Some years later Classic Rock Magazine ranked Scott No.1 in a list of the '100 Greatest Frontmen of All Time'. Following this appalling event AC/DC briefly considered disbanding, but the group recruited vocalist Brian Johnson of the British glam rock band Geordie. AC/DC's subsequent album, 'Back in Black', was released only five months later, and was a tribute to Bon Scott. It went on to become the third best-selling album in history. This documentary film recounts the bizarre events, superb music and quite extraordinary changes that occurred for AC/DC in 1980. And with the help of rare archive, live and studio footage, expert opinion from those close to the band at the time and from the world's best rock writer, and photographs seldom seen before, this program becomes perhaps the best film to yet emerge on this year of turbulence in the career of AC/DC. - Director:
- Not Available
- Cast:
- Angus Young, Chris Slade, Stevie Young
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Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)Untitled Fred Hampton Project
William O'Neal (LaKeith Stanfield), a thief turned FBI informant, infiltrates the Illinois Black Panthers to track their charismatic leader, Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), whose rising political prowess has captured the attention of J. Edgar Hoover's bureau. As O'Neal manipulates both his comrades and handler, a battle wages in his soul. Will he align with the side of good - or follow commands to subdue Hampton by any means? - Director:
- Shaka King
- Cast:
- Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons
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"Here Are the Young Men" is a gritty, fresh and shocking Irish thriller based on Rob Doyle's best-selling book... Dublin teenagers Matthew (Dean-Charles Chapman), nihilistic Rez (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo), and the deranged Kearney (Finn Cole), leave school to a social vacuum of drinking and drugs, falling into shocking acts of transgression that will irrevocably change their lives. - Director:
- Eoin Macken
- Cast:
- Dean-Charles Chapman, Finn Cole, Anya Taylor-Joy
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