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The Club (2015)El Club
Four ageing men live together in a secluded house on a windswept Chilean coastline. Each has been sent there to purge sins of the past, adhering to a strict regime under the watchful eye of a female caretaker. This fragile stability is disrupted by the arrival of a newly disgraced companion - bringing with him the past they thought they had left behind... - Director:
- Pablo Larraín
- Cast:
- Alfredo Castro, Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers
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After the Storm (2016)Umi yori mo mada fukaku
Author turned private detective, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe), struggles to make ends meet as he flitters away all the money he earns on gambling, barely able to pay child support for his son. After his father passes away his mother (Kiki Kirin) seems to have moved on, but family tensions are high with both Ryota and his sister believing each other is taking advantage of their mother. When a typhoon hits, holed-up in his mother's house with his estranged wife and son, Ryota attempts to rekindle his relationships with his family. A sensitive and powerful story of family ties remade, 'After the Storm' stands with the best of Kore-eda's work. - Director:
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- Cast:
- Hiroshi Abe, Yôko Maki, Satomi Kobayashi
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Dheepan (2015)Erran
Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger, forced to flee to France to escape civil war by posing as a family with a woman and young girl he has never previously met. Finding work as a caretaker of a housing block in the Parisian suburbs, Dheepan works to build a new life and home for his 'wife' and 'daughter', but the daily violence he confronts quickly reopens the violence from his past, and he is left fighting for their livelihood, and eventually their lives. From acclaimed director Jacques Audiard, and winner of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, 'Dheepan' is a powerful tale of family, love, social integration, and the overwhelming effects of warfare. - Director:
- Jacques Audiard
- Cast:
- Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby
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Precinct Seven Five (2014)The Seven Five
It all began in a Brooklvn precinct known as The Seven Five in the late 1980s. Brooklyn, New York was the murder capital of America and ground zero for the crack cocaine epidemic. One man led his crew on a rampage through the streets of East New York, robbing drug dealers at gunpoint, stealing countless kilos of cocaine and hundreds of thousands dollars in cash. His name was Officer Michael Dowd, a New York City cop, and his arrest in 1992 led to the largest police corruption scandal in New York City history. This is his story. - Director:
- Tiller Russell
- Cast:
- Michael Dowd, Ken Eurell, Walter Yurkiw
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Love and Mercy presents an unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys. Set against the era-defining catalog of Wilson's music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost. - Director:
- Bill Pohlad
- Cast:
- John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks
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In the sublime new film from Jim Jarmusch, Adam Driver gives a career-best performance as Paterson, a bus driver in the New Jersey city of the same name. He's also a poet, recording his daily observations and thoughts into a notebook. Paterson thrives on routine: he drives his bus route, he goes home for dinner with his wife Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), he walks his dog, he visits his local bar for one beer. By contrast Laura's world is ever-changing, with new projects and ideas striking her daily. The film quietly observes the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details. - Director:
- Jim Jarmusch
- Cast:
- Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Nellie
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From cult director Jim Jarmusch and with an all-star cast including Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, and John Hurt, 'Only Lovers Left Alive' is a film about music, love, and the transience of human culture. Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, Hiddleston plays Adam, an underground musician who is reunited with his enigmatic lover Eve (Swinton). Their love story has endured several centuries, but their idyll is soon disrupted by Eve's wild younger sister (Wasikowska). Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them? - Director:
- Jim Jarmusch
- Cast:
- Tilda Swinton, Loïc Corbery, Catherine Wilkening
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In Between (2016)Bar Bahar
When devout university student Nour (Shaden Kanboura) moves in with successful lawyer Laila (Mouna Hawa) and club DJ Salma (Sana Jammelieh), she is shocked by their lifestyle. As Laila fights to retain her freedom in the face of a new relationship, Salma falls for beautiful trainee doctor Dounia (Ashlam Canaan), a romance she must hide from her family. Nour is set for an arranged marriage to Wissam, an exemplary member of the community who may not be as respectable as he appears. 'In Between' follows the lives of these strong, independent minded Palestinian-lsraeli women in Tel Aviv. Away from the constraints of their families and enforced tradition, they find themselves 'in between' the free and unfettered lives they aspire to lead and the restrictions imposed on them by a blinkered society. First-time director Maysaloun Hamoud's exhilarating depiction of the lives of 'liberated' Palestinian women in Israel earned her the first Palestinian fatwa in 70 years. - Director:
- Maysaloun Hamoud
- Cast:
- Mouna Hawa, Sana Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura
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Malcolm (Shameik Moore) is a brilliant geek who is obsessed with '90s hip-hop. He and his two best friends play in a punk band together and get hassled at high school for their throwback style. When illegal substances are hidden in his backpack at an underground dance club, his life gets extremely complicated. Malcolm will go to crazy lengths to achieve his dreams: getting into Harvard University, getting closer to his fantasy girl Nakia (Zoë Kravitz) and cashing in his fortune in bitcoins. - Director:
- Rick Famuyiwa
- Cast:
- Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons
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A former crime boss, known as 'Samurai', is instructed by corrupt Mafia families to use his influence and connections to help turn the derelict waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. His resultant actions spark a collision course of epic proportions as a seven day countdown to the fall of Rome begins. As the road to the looming 'apocalypse' approaches, secrets begin to quickly unravel, as powerful gangsters, immoral politicians, and even the Pope, become caught in the crossfire. As Rome crumbles, all those involved must choose to sink or swim, by betraying those closest to them. - Director:
- Stefano Sollima
- Cast:
- Pierfrancesco Favino, Greta Scarano, Jean-Hugues Anglade
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Graduation (2016)Bacalaureat / Recycling Feelings
Romeo (Adrian Titieni), a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza (Maria-Victoria Dragus) with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study abroad in the UK. But on the day before Eliza's first entrance exam to university, she is assaulted in an attack which threatens to jeopardise her entire future. Now Romeo has a decision to make: there are ways of solving her predicament, but not without betraying the moral principles that he, as a father, has taught Eliza throughout her life. - Director:
- Cristian Mungiu
- Cast:
- Adrian Titieni, Ioana Chitu, Maria-Victoria Dragus
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The Golden Dream (2013)La Jaula De Oro
Three teenagers jump 'The Beast' - the infamous train that illegal immigrants board to take them from Guatemala, through Mexico, to the American border. The journey to a better life is fraught with danger. Facing exploitation at every turn, the only people they can trust on this perilous journey are each other. - Director:
- Diego Quemada-Díez
- Cast:
- Ramón Medína, Karen Martinez, Brandon Lopez
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With unprecedented access, Cartel Land is a harrowing look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy - the murderous Mexican drug cartels. In the Mexican state of Michoacan, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor", leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cadet that has wreaked havoc on the region for years. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley - a narrow, 52-mile-tong desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley - Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goat is to stop Mexico's drug wars from seeping across our border.
Filmmaker Matthew Heineman embeds himself in the head of darkness as Nailer, El Doctor and the cartels each vie to bring their own brand of justice to a society where institutions have failed. Cartel Land is a chilling meditation on the break-down of order and the blurry line between good and evil.- Director:
- Matthew Heineman
- Cast:
- Robert Hetrick
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What does it mean to film another person? How does it affect the person - and what does it do to the one who films? A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home: these scenes and others are woven into Cameraperson, a tapestry of footage captured over the 25-year career of documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson. Through a series of episodic juxtapositions, Johnson explores the relationships between image makers and their subjects, the tension between the objectivity and intervention of the camera, and the complex interaction of unfiltered reality and crafted narrative. A work that combines documentary, autobiography, and ethical inquiry, Cameraperson is both a moving glimpse into one filmmaker's personal journey and a thoughtful examination of what it means to train a camera on the world. - Director:
- Kirsten Johnson
- Cast:
- Kirsten Johnson
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"The Nice Guys" takes place in 1970s Los Angeles, when down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March (Ryan Gosling) and hired enforcer Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) must work together to solve the case of a missing girl. During their investigation, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power. - Director:
- Shane Black
- Cast:
- Russell Crowe, Frank Mottek, Ryan Gosling
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