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Deep in the heart of one of Jakarta's most deprived slums stands an impenetrable high-rise apartment block.

To most it is 30 floors of Hell to be avoided at all costs but for many of the city's most dangerous killers and gangsters, including the area's most notorious crime lord, it is a fortress-like safe house protecting them from the law. Even for the bravest and most experienced police officers it is considered a no-go area. In a desperate bid to flush these violent criminals and their leader from their haven once and for all, an elite SWAT team is tasked with infiltrating the building and raiding the apartments floor by floor, taking out anyone who stands in their way. Cloaked under the cover of predawn darkness, the SWAT members make their move and enter the block not realising that this is the easier part of the mission. Once inside, it soon becomes terrifyingly apparent that the real problem at hand is surviving long enough to be able to get out again.

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Meeting the other half's family can be nerve-racking for anyone. But for DJ and journalist Mingus (Chris Rock), the first encounter with the family of his French artist girlfriend Marion (Julie Delpy) may be even more of an ordeal than he had originally imagined.

The arrival of Marion's sausage-smuggling father (Delpy's real-life father Albert), oversexed sister (Alexia Landeau) and oddball ex-boyfriend (Alex Nahon) shatters the relative peace of the New York apartment where Marion and Mingus live with their two young children from previous relationships. During the two-day visit Mingus finds himself lost in translation, and his relationship with Marion (who is preoccupied selling her soul as a publicity stunt) is put to the test. As for Marion, she will soon have to decide what is most important to her - her boyfriend, her family or her soul.

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The common people of Rome are angry. Riots are widespread and the people's fury rapidly becomes focused on the Republic's most courageous general, Caius Martius. But Rome is also at war with the Volsces, a neighbouring state whose army is led by Martius's sworn enemy, Tullus Aufidius.

When the people of Rome turn on the heroic Caius Martius he finds an unlikely ally in his most-hated enemy and together they plot a heinous revenge…

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Eight years ago, after assuming the blame for D.A. Harvey Dent's death, a disgraced Batman (Christian Bale) mysteriously vanished. But everything changes with the appearance of a cunning cat burglar (Anne Hathaway) and the arrival of Bane (Tom Hardy), a ruthless madman.

Bane's reign of terror forces Bruce out of his self-imposed exile and into the ultimate battle for Gotham City's survival... and his own.

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Winner of the 2010 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, and heralded as possibly the best war film ever made, Restrepo focuses on the deployment of a US platoon in Afghanistan's hostile Korengal Valley.

Over the course of 15 months, the two filmmakers Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger (author of 'The Perfect Storm') lived with the unit shadowing their every move, resulting in extraordinary footage. From spectacular combat and ambush scenes to difficult discussions with local village elders, civilian and military deaths, never before has such access been granted. Restrepo is as close as it gets to seeing what life as a soldier is really like.

In "Prometheus", a team of scientists and explorers journey to the darkest corners of the universe searching for the origins of mankind. But what they find could threaten all life on Earth, leading to a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race!

"Ted" tells the story of John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg), a grown man who must deal with the cherished teddy bear who came to life as the result of a childhood wish... and has refused to leave his side ever since.

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When an argument between two young schoolboys results in one of the boys losing his teeth, the parents of both children decide to meet to discuss the matter.

Nancy Cowan, a neurotic investment broker, and her husband Alan, an ignorant high-flying corporate lawyer, join Penelope Longstreet, a politically correct campaigner and her husband Michael, a goofy wholesaler of sanitary goods, at their plush Brooklyn apartment. But what begins as a civilised chat soon spirals into a hilarious, alcohol induced night of violence, vomiting and verbal warfare as each couple sinks to the level of bickering children.

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Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, feature is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.

When an entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both financial and moral, catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of disaster.

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This is an epic and rigorous tale of a night and a day in a murder investigation. Police, prosecutors, a doctor and the murderers themselves try to locate a buried body through one long night in the Anatolian steppes.

Many long-buried thoughts and fears are also disinterred in the minds of the investigators as they go about their thankless task.

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When 16 year old Jamie (Lucas Pittaway) is befriended by a charismatic local man John (Daniel Henshall) he has little idea of the world that awaits him. Friendly and welcoming, John gives no hint of the sadistic depravity of the crimes he is committing.

Crimes that would shake Australia to its very core and leave Jamie an accomplice to some of the most horrific killings the world has ever seen.

Ming and Yan live parallel lives; one is undercover in the Triads for the police, the other is a mole in the police. Eventually their paths must cross...

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Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games.

Sixteen year-old Katniss Eyerdeen volunteers in her younger sister's place and must rely upon her sharp instincts when she's pitted against highly trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives. If she's ever to-return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

The story of a North African dictator (Sacha Baron Cohen) who, on a visit to New York, is stripped of his power and forced to get a real job at a Brooklyn health food store.

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After escaping from a violent cult in rural New York, Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) tries to reconnect with her estranged sister, Lucy (Sarah Paulson), and Lucy's well-to-do husband, Ted (Hugh Dancy), but the brainwashing she endured continues to prevent her from forming an identity of her own.

Overwhelmed with paranoia, guilt and shame, Martha isolates herself until Lucy begins to suspect her sister's emotional trauma has deeper underlying causes.