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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.

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Celebrated writer-director Mia Hansen-Love (Things to Come, Father of My Children) makes a wise and wistful return with 'One Fine Morning', a profoundly moving portrayal of love, loss and contemporary womanhood, featuring a career-best performance from Lea Seydoux.

Set in Paris, Seydoux plays Sandra - a young, widowed mother who juggles her job as a translator with caring both for her young daughter and elderly father. Sandra's life is further complicated when she embarks on a passionate affair with Clement, an old friend in an unhappy marriage. Also starring Melvil Poupaud and Pascal Gregory, this Cannes Film Festival award-winner is a gently poignant romantic drama shot through with the director's characteristically charming touch.

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D'Artagnan (François Civil), a spirited young man, is left for dead after trying to save a young woman from being kidnapped. When he arrives in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers.

He is unaware that his quest will lead him to the heart of a real war where the future of France is at stake. Allied with Athos (Vincent Cassel), Porthos (Pio Marmaï) and Aramis (Romain Duris), three musketeers of the King (Louis Garrel) with an audacious contempt for danger, D'Artagnan faces the dark machinations of the Cardinal of Richelieu (Eric Ruf). But it is when he falls madly in love with Constance Bonacieux (Lyna Khoudri), the Queen's confidante, that d'Artagnan truly puts himself in danger. For it is this passion that leads him into the wake of the one who becomes his mortal enemy: Milady de Winter (Eva Green).

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Travis (Natey Jones) has just been released from prison and it quickly becomes apparent that everything has changed while he's been gone.

While girlfriend Candice (Alexandra Burke) is on the up and auditioning to star in a musical, teenage daughter Kenisha (Temilola Olatunbosun) is struggling in school and her relationship with her mum is tense. When Travis buys Candice her dream dress for an audition, rather than smoothing over the family's problems, it ends up creating even more...As secrets and desires left unsaid threaten to spill out, Travis is forced to re-examine who he is and how he wants to be perceived in the world.

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Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea.

Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.

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In 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope (Greg Kinnear). At the time, Miss World was the most-watched TV show on the planet with over 100 million viewers.

Claiming that beauty competitions demeaned women, the newly formed Women's Liberation Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the competition. Not only that, when the show resumed, the result caused uproar: the winner was not the Swedish favourite but Miss Grenada, the first black woman to be crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.

After the fall of the Galactic Empire, lawlessness has spread throughout the galaxy. A lone gunfighter makes his way through the outer reaches, earning his keep as a bounty hunter.

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Sooner or later, every police investigator comes across a case that remains unsolved and that haunts them. For Yohan (Bastien Bouillon), Clara's (Lula Cotton-Frapier)'s murder proves to be that case. What starts as a thorough investigation into the victim's life soon turns into a nagging obsession.

One interrogation follows another, there is no shortage of suspects and Yohan has more and more doubts. Only one thing is sure, the crime occurred on the night of the 12th.