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Twenty-five-year old Mathieu (Pierre Niney) has always aspired to become a famous author, but despite all his efforts, he has never managed to be published. Meanwhile, he earns his living by working for a moving company.

One day, on a removal job, his destiny takes a new turn as he stumbles across the manuscript of an elderly and solitary man who has recently died. Initially hesitant, Mathieu eventually decides to steal the text and pretend he wrote it. Unexpectedly, he quickly becomes the bright new star of French literature. Everyone is now eagerly anticipating his second novel, and as each day passes and pressure mounts, Mathieu plunges ever deeper into a criminal spiral of lies in order to keep his dark secret hidden.

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2 Days in Paris follows a New York couple, French photographer Marion (Julie Delpy), and American interior designer Jack (Adam Goldberg), as they attempt to re-fuse their relationship with romance on a European vacation.

Their week in Venice didn't work as planned - The food didn't agree with Jack and, when he was well enough to go out, he was so focused on capturing the trip with his digital camera that he forgot to experience it

Based on a true story, Isabelle Huppert plays Marie, an illegal abortionist who risks the terrible consequences of discovery by the Nazis and Vichy government so that she can save her young family from the oppression of extreme poverty.

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Guido - a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colourful imagination and an irresistible sense of humour - has won the heart of the woman he loves and created a beautiful life for his young family. But then that life is threatened by World War II...

and Guido must rely on those very same strengths to save his beloved wife and son from an unthinkable fate!

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Bill (Callum Turner) and Percy (Caleb Landry Jones) are two disillusioned young men drafted into national service with the war in Korea looming. Instead of buckling down and enduring their training they skulk and skive in very way they can.

Whether that be stealing a superior's precious clock or finding girls in the local town, it's these gallivanting jaunts that turn out to be the real life lessons

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Marczewski's anti-totalitarian satire is a darkly comic examination of censorship.

Adapting the premise of Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo to late 1980s Poland, the film centres on a provincial film censor who is horrified to discover that the actors in a trite romantic weepie are refusing to perform their roles. With shades also of Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. and Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, the film deftly combines social observation and surreal humour. Directed by one of Poland's leading intellectual - and much censored - filmmakers, this multi-award-winning feature is a key film of the seismic political changes of 1989, and an enthusiastic manifesto for the freedom of the artist - and ultimately, of all humanity.

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John E. Wayne stars in this modern-day western as young man unjustly accused of horse theft. after buying two horses at an Arizona racetrack without getting a receipt he's stopped when riding across the land of a rancher named Robeson (Ernest Borgnine). He's accused of stealing the two horses.

Unable to prove ownership, he's beaten up and sent to jail where he's forced to work on a chain-gang. His only hope is to escape and prove his innocence.

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An old, but beautiful farm in Belgium is home to Pascale (Isabelle Huppert) and her twin sons Thierry (Jérémie Renier) and Francois (Yannick Renier). Although loving and ostensibly supportive of one another, each is still reeling from the divorce that divided the family some years earlier.

Now in their late teens, the boys have begun to move in different directions but neither seems compelled to embrace adulthood or the responsibilities that come with it. When Pascale falls in love again and dreams of beginning a new life she finds herself unable to rise from the shadow of her ex-husband and selfish children. Helpless and in a bid for survival, Pascale leaves the house in the hands of Thierry and Francois, never suspecting that in her absence, a fratricidal war will change their family forever.

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2 Outrageous Women Are Turning New York City Upside-Down! Elaine has been mugged, fired, dropped by her agent and she's ready to end it all. Instead, she accidentally holds up a wealthy couple and winds up with a full-length mink and a full-blown mystery that changes her life for good.

Internationally-acclaimed actress Hanna Schygulla stars as Elaine Hines, a toilet seat company temp by day and and would-be novelist by night, whose search for fame and fortune lead to murder and mistaken identity in this offbeat comedy of errors. Hoping to return the coat, Elaine finds herself on the trail of an elusive woman called Lulu (Deborah Harry). When a cryptic note takes her to a mobster's uptown hideaway, she walks straight into a shoot-out - and straight away with a briefcase of greenbacks. After turning herself into the police, Elaine's wildest dreams come true as she becomes published, rich and New York's trendiest heroine. But her troubles aren't over yet in this wacky tale of two women and one unforgettable misadventure in the tradition of Desperately Seeking Susan.

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As a psychotic thug devoted to his hard-boiled ma, James Cagney - older, scarier and just as electrifying - gives a performance to match his work in 'The Public Enemy' as 'White Heat's's' cold-blooded Cody Jarrett.

Bracingly directed by Raoul Walsh, this fast-paced thriller tracing Jarrett's violent life in and out of jail is also a harrowing character study. Jarrett is a psychological time bomb ruled by impulse. He murders a wounded accomplice and revels in the act. He neglects his sultry wife (Virginia Mayo) and adores his doting mother. It is among the most vivid screen performances of Cagney's career, and the excitement it generates will put you on top of the world!

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Lisa (Diane Kruger) and Julien (Vincent Lindon) have the perfect existence: still passionately in love, with a beautiful young son and a wonderful life ahead of them. But their lives are shattered when, out of the blue, Lisa is arrested for the brutal murder of a colleague.

Found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison, the couple's world collapses into a frenzy of fear and paranoia. Julien, convinced of his wife's innocence, embarks on a mission so perilous it will risk the lives of everyone he loves: he will stop at nothing to daringly break her out of prison. With the police tracking his every move, and only his own certainty of his wife's innocence to rely upon, how far will Julien go to save her? And at what cost? The most riveting thriller of the year will leave you on the edge of your seat.

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Captain Flagg (James Cagney) returns from the First World War trenches to the French village of Bar-le-Duc and the arms of his lover Charmaine (Corinne Calvet), intent on having a good time before returning to the front with the next batch of recruits.

Little does he know that his new Top Sergeant is Quirt (Dan Dailey), Flagg's arch enemy in love, and sparring partner across the occupied territories. Charmaine soon takes a shine to Quirt and when he and Flagg are called back up to the front, their battle of wits soon becomes a race to get back to Bar-le-Duc and capture Charmaine's heart.

Laced with Doris Day's vibrant performances of songs from the era, this 1955 Academy Award winner (Best Motion Picture Story) is based on the tough-minded tale of Etting's life with the man who boosted her career with strong-arm tactics and smothered her in an obsessive grip she escaped at great peril.

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Taillandier (Patrick Chesnais) is a well-known painter in his sixties, but despite his success he finds himself overwhelmed by depression and decides to give up on his art. With no direction or destination in mind, he leaves his home without giving an explanation to even those closest to him.

During his travels he has an unlikely encounter with Marylou (Jeanne Lambert), a young girl rejected by her own mother and also seeking out her path in life. As the pair travels together the bond between them grows closer, akin to a father-daughter relationship, as they give each other the helping hand they both need to make sense of their lives once more.

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Sexy Miranda works for a nightly radio talk show and regularly cruises for extra-martial sex whilst walking her dog during the day.

Handsome and successful scriptwriter Javier is a phone-sex junkie and the couple begin a steamy relationship after they meet whilst undergoing therapy at a sex addiction clinic. Shocking and surprising consequences follow as Miranda's policeman husband simultaneously investigates a murder case that inextricably becomes linked to her passionate adulterous affair. From the stylish opening credits, through the startling narrative twists and turns to the surprising and unexpected twist ending, you'll be gripped by the style and eroticism of this Hitchcockian tale of compulsive obsession!