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One of France's greatest screen stars, Michel Piccoli, plays Gilbert Valence, a grand old theatre actor, who is given the shocking news that his wife, daughter and son-in-law have been tragically killed in a car accident.

Some time later, and over the worst of his grief, Valence busies himself with his daily life in Paris, turning down unsuitable roles in low brow television productions and caring for his nine-year old grandson. But when an American filmmaker (John Malkovich) absurdly miscasts him in an unlikely adaptation of Joyce's 'Ulysses', Valence finds himself suddenly compelled to make a decision about his life. Piccoli's performaance is the warm and engaging heart of veteran director Manoel de Oliveir's dryly witty and touching observations on art and ageing.

The Oscar-Winning film "Selma" tells the gripping and moving story of the pivotal moment in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s epic civil rights struggle. The historic protest march that he led from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965 was a triumphant demonstration of the power of the people.

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Noni (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is the music world's latest superstar, but the pressures of fame have her on the edge...until she meets Kaz (Nate Parker), a handsome young cop with political ambitions who's been assigned to protect her.

Drawn to each other, Noni and Kaz fall fast and hard, despite the protests of Noni's mother (Oscar Nominee Minnie Driver) and Kaz's father (Danny Glover). But Kaz's love might be the missing piece that gives Noni the courage to find her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be.

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September 1944 - Nazi Occupied Holland. When her temporary safe house is destroyed by a bomb, the beautiful young Jewish chanteuse Rachel Steinn (Carice van Houten) joins fellow refugees in an attempt to reach safe Allied territory by boat.

Tragedy strikes when a Nazi patrol intercepts their escape, ruthlessly killing everybody on-board including Rachel's family; only Rachel escapes the massacre. Embittered and desperate for revenge, she joins the Resistance where, assigned a new identity as the blond Security Service by seducing senior officer Muntze (Sebastian Koch). Without warning she becomes entangled in a deadly web of double-dealing and betrayal...

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Winner of the Best New Director award at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Benedikt Erlingsson's critically acclaimed debut feature 'Of Horses and Men' is a darkly comic country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human.

Set in the stunning Icelandic countryside, love, death and sex become interlaced in this playful, affectionate yet unflinching portrait of a remote valley community as seen from the horses' perspective.

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Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S.

Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Matt Damon) to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution.

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Pauline who has the mental age of a young child is obsessed with pretty flowers and her glamorous sister Paulette.

When Martha, her caretaker sister, dies suddenly, Pauline moves in with Paulette, hilariously interfering in the day-to-day running of her lingerie shop and her double life as an opera singer. Troubled by Pauline's prescence, Paulette sends her simple-minded sister to Brussels to live with their urbane sibling Cecile and her moody French boyfriend. But when Pauline finds her way back to Paulette, they're both in for a big surprise.

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Post-World War I England, 1921, an author and paranormal skepric (Rebecca Hall) is invited to a countryside boarding school by the head master (Dominic West) to investigate rumours of an apparent haunting.

But just when she thinks she has debunked the ghost theory, a chilling encounter makes her question all her rational beliefs.

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Jimmy Rabbitte, is a man with a vision - to bring soul music to Dublin. His friends Derek and Outspan ask him to manage their band and Jimmy agrees, but only on his terms.

He places an ad in the local paper which simply reads: "Have you got soul? If so, the World's Hardest Working Band is looking for you". And so were born The Commitments...

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Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) knows little about family. Less about sports. What the homeless teen knows are the streets and projects of Memphis. Well-to-do Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) knows little about his world. Yet when she and Michael meet, he's found a home.

And the Tuohys found something just as life-changing: a beloved new son and brother.

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Three employees of Seattle Magazine head to the scenic, seaside community of Ocean View to find and profile the man behind a bizarre and hilarious classified ad looking for a partner to travel through time.

Darius (Aubrey Plaza) along with fellow intern Arnau, follow Jeff (Jake Johnson), their party-hard boss, to profile the potential lunatic behind the preposterous proposition.
Tracking down the paranoid Kenneth (Mark Duplass), the source of their story, Darius must then face a series of challenges to prove that she can be trusted before she finds out the real reasons behind the desire to travel through time.
What this hapless three find is beyond expectation and soon they realise that although everyone's need for change is different, the power to hope for something better is universal.

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Marie-Jeanne and Robert have three children: Albert, Raphaël and Fleur. Over the course of twelve eventful years, we see five key days as seen through the eyes of each one of these characters. Five days are crucial in these lonely, vibrant, frustrated, elated and triumphant lives.

Five days whose consequences reverberate through this eccentric family like thunder and lightening of a gathering storm. These five days are more important then any other day. After you've experienced them, nothing will ever be the same again.

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Award-winning stars Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet and Dustin Hoffman bring to life the story of a man who awakened the world's imagination, and the people who inspired him. Finding Neverland is a tale about James M. Barrie's extraordinary journey to create the classic, Peter Pan...

from his first inspiration to the night of the play's premiere.

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From director Damian Szifron and producer Pedro Almodovar comes six stories, each exploring a different facet of revenge and the various brilliant, mad, toe-curling and hilarious flavours in which it can be dished out.

Whether it's taking out a belligerent crime lord, getting even with officious parking enforcement, retribution for infidelity, or good old fashioned road rage, 'Wild Tales' takes acts of vengeance for infuriating, often all too familiar situations and blows them out to a bitter and hysterical end in this outrageous, tense and ferociously funny dark comedy.

Based on the outrageous true story, 'Charlie Wilson's War' shows how one congressman who loved a good time, one Houston socialite who loved a good cause and one renegade CIA agent who loved a good fight conspired to bring about the largest covert operation in history.