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Robert (Daniel Zolghadri) believes that to be an artist is to suffer. So, he gives up on his affluent Princeton upbringing and drops out of high school in favour of life in a stuffy New Jersey apartment to really commit himself to his art.

Robert sustains his new lifestyle by working part-time at the comic store, and part-time at the office of a public defender. It is there he first meets Wallace (Matthew Maher), who, Robert finds out, once worked as a colour separator for the legendary Image Comics. Ignoring Wallace's borderline-deranged personality, Robert becomes besotted, leading him down a chaotic path of misadventures.

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In a frontier town run by powerful and corrupt men, fiercely independent Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps) embarks on a relationship with head-strong Danish immigrant Holger Olsen (Viggo Mortensen).

With the threat of the Civil War looming, their future becomes uncertain when Holger, a veteran, decides to fight for the Union. This leaves Vivienne to fend for herself against the unscrupulous mayor Rudolph Schiller (Danny Huston} and his partners in crime, iff landowner Alfred Jeffries (Garret Dillahunt) and his violent son Weston Jeffries (Solly McLeod). From writer-director Viggo Mortensen comes a female-forward reimagining of the classic "western", a love story that is both epic and intimate.

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In 1755, the impoverished Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) sets out to conquer the uninhabitable Danish heath in the name of the King.

But the sole ruler of the area, the merciless Frederik de Schinkel (Simon Bennebjerg), who believes the land belongs to him, swears revenge when the maid Ann Barbara (Amanda Collin) and her serf husband escape for refuge with Kahlen.

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As the world falls, young Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and ends up in the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth).

Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel, presided over by Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme). While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.

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Fallen Leaves is a timeless, hopeful and ultimately satisfying love story about two lonely souls' path to happiness - and the numerous hurdles they encounter along the way.

Set in contemporary Helsinki, and shot through with Kaurismaki's typically playful, idiosyncratic style and deadpan humor, this tender romantic tragicomedy is a timely reminder of the potency of movie-going from one of cinema's living legends.

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Idris Elba stars in this pulse-pounding thriller as a recently widowed husband who returns to South Africa on a long-planned trip to a game reserve.

What begins as a journey of healing turns into a fearsome fight for survival as he and his daughters find themselves hunted by a massive, rogue lion intent on proving that the savannah has but one apex predator.

Amidst a future war between humans and AI, an ex-special forces agent Joshua (John David Washington) grieving the disappearance of his wife Maya (Gemma Chan) is recruited to kill an Al architect who has developed a mysterious weapon that could end humankind...

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This personal drama from Emanuele Crialese stars Penélope Cruz as a vivacious mother to a teenager who starts to question her identity. A vivacious presence, her world buckles under the strain of protecting her children from their abusive father.

Radiant fantasy sequences punctuate this thoughtful and psychologically honest meditation on childhood trauma and shifting identity.

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In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families - one of white landholders, one of Black tenant farmers - are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South.

Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with cowriter Virgil Williams, crafts a uniquely American tragedy, imbuing bitter historical realities with a timeless weight. Featuring bone-deep performances from Rees's ensemble cast - including Carey Mulligan, Mary J. Blige, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, and Jonathan Banks - and backed by Rachel Morrison's darkly burnished cinematography, Mudbound is a searing humanist study of inheritance, based upon Hillary Jordan's novel.

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It's said that it takes a village to raise a child but 12-year-old Georgie (Lola Campbell) has other ideas. Living alone since her beloved mum died, Georgie fills the flat they shared with her own special magic.

But when her absent father Jason (Harris Dickinson) turns up out of the blue, she's forced to confront reality. A dreamy, witty and unmissable tale of family and fresh starts, "Scrapper" is a film that believes life's not so much about chasing rainbows but snatching fistfuls in both hands.

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23-year-old Bill (Jojo Bapteise Whiting) is determined to do anything to live the American Dream, and 12-year-old Matho (LaDainian Crazy Thunder) can't wait to grow up, but a series of destructive decisions put them into a corner - and force them to deal with the realities of the world around them.

A powerful tale of hope and belonging, "War Pony" is the acclaimed and utterly compelling directorial debut from Riley Keough and Gina Gammell.

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In a world where time has replaced money as the only currency, you can either live forever or die trying.

Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried star in this action-packed race against the clock, where one man finds himself falsely accused of murder and tries to bring down corrupt system, fighting, to stay alive when every second counts.

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During the last desperate days of WWII, a solitary prospector (Jorma Tommila) crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland. When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover that they have just tangled with no ordinary miner.

While there is no direct translation for the Finnish word "sisu", this legendary ex-commando will embody what sisu means: a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds. And no matter what the Nazis throw at him, the one-man death squad will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold back – even if it means killing every last Nazi in his path.

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When her husband Samuel (Samuel Theis) is mysteriously found dead in the snow below their secluded chalet, Sandra (Sandra Hüller) becomes the main suspect when the police begin to question whether he fell or was pushed.

The trial soon becomes not just an investigation, but a gripping psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel's complicated marriage. With conflicting evidence and inconsistent testimony, words are wielded like weapons and shocking truths come to light...

The Mandalorian and the Child continue their journey, facing enemies and rallying allies as they make their way through a dangerous galaxy in the tumultuous era after the collapse of the Galactic Empire.