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When gifted singer songwriter Charlotte Banks (Michalka) asks new kid in town Will Burton (Connell) to manage her fledgling rock band, she appears to have just one goal in mind: go head-to-head against her egotistical musician ex-boyfriend, Ben (Porter), at the biggest event of the year - a battle of the bands. Against all odds, the band of outcasts develop a sound that has a shot at success. Meanwhile, romance brews between Will and a musically gifted Sa5m - Sam with a silent 5 (Hudgens) and he must decide where his allegiance lies. When disaster strikes, it's time for the band to make a choice: do they admit defeat or face the music and stand up for what they believe in? - Director:
- Todd Graff
- Cast:
- Aly Michalka, Vanessa Hudgens, Gaelan Connell
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At the heart of one of the toughest, most chaotic cities in the world, four fatherless brothers aspire to break free of their social status and its trappings. 'Linha de Passe' reunites director Walter Salles and writer/director Daniela Thomas, introducing a family of young actors making their onscreen debut. - Director:
- Walter Salles
- Cast:
- Sandra Corveloni, João Baldasserini, Vinícius de Oliveira
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A reluctant hero. An epic journey. A choice between the life he left behind and the incredible new world he's learned to call home.
- Director:
- James Cameron
- Cast:
- Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
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A Prophet (2009)Un prophète
A nineteen-year-old troublemaker starts a six year sentence in a notorious prison, a concrete hell where violence is the only language understood. Taken under the wing of a powerful mafia boss, he is initiated into a vicious and brutal way of life. As the years pass, he proves his worth, moving up the ranks within the prison. However, he has his own plans, and they don't involve taking orders from anyone. Using his ruthless cunning to extend his influence beyond the walls of the jail, he arranges drugs runs, hostage exchanges and violent assassinations. Once merely a petty criminal, he is soon on his way to establishing a criminal empire of his own. - Director:
- Jacques Audiard
- Cast:
- Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif
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The acclaimed new film tells the startlingly original and brutally honest story of 15 year-old Mia, brilliantly played by winner Katie Jarvis. A feisty and fiercely independent outsider, Mia is ostracised from her friends and lives uneasily with her volatile mother (Kierston Wareing) in a tough Essex estate from which she longs to escape. But the unexpected arrival of her mother's handsome and charismatic new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender) sparks a catalogue of events that threaten to turn Mia's world upside down. - Director:
- Andrea Arnold
- Cast:
- Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing
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Congressman Stephen Collins is the rising star of his political party – until his research assistant/mistress is murdered, and buried secrets come tumbling out. Investigative journalist, Cal McCaffrey has the dubious fortune of both and old friendship with Collins and a ruthless editor, Cameron who assigns him to the story. As Cal and his partner Della step into a cover-up that threatens to shake the nation’s power structures, they discover one truth – when billions of dollar share at stake, no one’s integrity, love or life is ever safe. - Director:
- Kevin Macdonald
- Cast:
- Russell Crowe, Ashley Bell, Rachel McAdams
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Meryl Streep stars as culinary legend Julia Child, whose cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, inspired fledgling writer Julie Powell (Amy Adams) to whip up 524 recipes in 365 days. Based on the best selling books, Julie and Julia introduces a new generation to the magic of French cooking and proves that, with the right combination of passion and fearlessness, anything is possible. - Director:
- Nora Ephron
- Cast:
- Amy Adams, Mary Kay Place, Meryl Streep
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When Kym, returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel, she brings a long history of personal crises, family conflict and tragedy along with her. The wedding couple's abundant party of friends and relations have gathered for a joyful weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym - with her biting one-liners and flair for bombshell drama - is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic. - Director:
- Jonathan Demme
- Cast:
- Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Debra Winger
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When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, lead by Sidney Mussberger (Paul Newman), comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. When the stock falls low enough, Sidney and friends can buy it up for pennies on the dollar, take over the company, and restore its fortunes. They choose idealistic Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins), who just started in the mail room. Norville is whacky enough to drive any company to ruin, but soon, tough reporter Amy Archer smells a rat and begins an undercover investigation of Hudsucker Industries. - Director:
- Joel Coen
- Cast:
- Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Leigh
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When Jess (Melissa George) sets sail with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong. Then the yacht hits a storm and the group is forced to board a passing ocean liner, a ship Jess is convinced she's been on before. Although it appears deserted, they soon find they are not alone... someone is intent on hunting them down, one by one. And Jess unknowingly holds the key to end the terror. - Director:
- Christopher Smith
- Cast:
- Melissa George, Joshua McIvor, Jack Taylor
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With stunning special effects this gritty realistic film plunges us into a world where aliens have landed...only to be exiled to a slum on the fringes of Johannesburg. Now, one lone human discovers the mysterious secret of the extraterrestrial weapon technology. Hunted and hounded through the bizarre back alleys of an alien shantytown, he will discover what it means to be the ultimate outsider on your own planet. - Director:
- Neill Blomkamp
- Cast:
- Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope
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A Very Long Engagement (2004)Un Long Dimanche De Fiancailles
From the highly acclaimed Director and star of 'Amelie', comes the truly amazing story of one woman's journey to discover the truth behind her lover's disappearance, whilst battling against the secrecy and absurdity of War. In 1919, Mathilde (Audrey Tautou) was 19 years old. Two years earlier, her fiance Manech (Gaspard Ulliel) left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was "killed on the field of battle". It's written in black and white on the official notice. But Mathilde refuses to believe it. If Manech had died, she would know. A former sergeant tells her in vain that Manech died in the no man's land of a trench named Bingo Crepescule, in the company of four other men condemned to die for self-inflicted wounds. Her path ahead is full of obstacles but Mathilde is not frightened. Anything is possible to someone who is willing to challenge fate... - Director:
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Cast:
- Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster
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London, 1818. A secret, love affair begins between a struggling poet, John Keats, and the respectable girl next door, Fanny Brawne. By the time Fanny's mother discovers their relationship, it is too late -the young lovers are swept away by powerful new emotions, riding a wave of romantic obsession that can only end in heartbreak. - Director:
- Jane Campion
- Cast:
- Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider
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The Elite Squad (2007)Tropa de Elite
It is 1997 and hundreds of thousands live in Rio’s notorious favelas. Drug trafficking militias have complete control within the slums while the police run their criminal enterprises outside. The elite Bope force fights to combat drug trafficking, but kiiping order has its price and their actions blur the line between right and wrong, justice and revenge. Two of the force's newest recruits, Neto (Caio Junqueira) and Matias (Andr Ramiro), are childhood friends: one is quick on the trigger to maintain order and the other refuses to compromise his ideals. Together they are the perfect replacement. Alone they may not have what it takes to survive. - Director:
- José Padilha
- Cast:
- Wagner Moura, André Ramiro, Caio Junqueira
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Blood Simple (1984)Blood simple.
Deep in the heart of Texas, a jealous bar owner Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya) hires a private eye to kill his wife Abby (Frances McDormand) and her lover. The sleazy hitman Loren Visser (M. Emmet Walsh) double-crosses the husband, killing him instead and pocketing the cash. The perfect crime or so it seems, but disposing of the corpse is not so simple. 'Blood Simple' uncoils its film noir plot with audacious style, dense atmosphere and blood-curdling twists. - Director:
- Joel Coen
- Cast:
- John Getz, William Preston Robertson, Holly Hunter
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