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Golden Globe winner, Gerard Depardieu stars as Jesuit priest Dr. Joachim Ferrer, harbouring a secret from his violent past and having found solace in the church, he soon finds himself caught in a web of intrigue when a young Carmelite nun, Sarah, is rushed to the hospital.

Suffering from inexplicable pain and delusions, Joachim recognizes in Sarah the familiar symptoms of repression and denial. What no one knows is the terrifying secret she carries inside her,a secret her twin sister Gaelle, three thousand miles away, also shares... Caring turns to obsession and the doctor begins a private investigation, which takes him halfway across the world and leads him to Gaelle. Caught between his obsession to uncover the truth and his growing attraction to Gaelle, Joachim rejects his commitment to faith and follows his instincts to a terrifying and unimaginable conclusion.

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There are places where your eyes deceive you, your thoughts betray you and desire can get you killed.

Matt Dilon (Wild Things) stars with James Can (Misery), Natascha McElhone (Solaris), Gerard Depardieu (The Man In The Iron Mask) and Stellan Skarsgard (Ronin) in this exotic action thriller guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat. After a bogus insurance scam sparks an FBI investigation, front man Jimmy Cremmins (Dillon) flees to Cambodia to track down his partner in crime, Marvin (Caan). But Jimmy gets more than he bargains for when - against a backdrop of a raw, dangerous country driven by corruption, prostitution and ever-shifting loyalties - Marvin, draws him into a web of deceit and murder from which there may be no way out!

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In the brutal Civil War which took place, Hungarian volunteers supported the 'Red' revolutionaries in a war against the 'White' counter-revolutionaries who were seeking to restore the old Czarist order.

through its stylistic virtuosity, ritualistic power and sheer beauty, Jancso invites us to study the mechanisms of power almost abstractly and with a cold eroticism that clearly portrays the utter futility of war. Although the film was an Hungarian-Russian co-production, the Russian authorities banned it from being shown anywhere in the Soviet Union.

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When a gang of French crooks jet to Chicago to pull off a heist, they are convinced that they are about to commit the perfect crime. But things start to go badly wrong the minute the motley crew touch down in the Windy City.

First they seriously hack off some boys in the hood, then they steal a set of wheels from a badass street gang, before finally burgling the wrong house and accidentally ripping off Chicago's meanest mob boss. And to top it all, the local cops and the FBI would like a word... In over their heads and on the run from just about everyone in town, it looks like time may be up for our not so wise guys.

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This stylish, cult 1966 erotic thriller stars French new wave icons Jean-Louis Trintigant and Marie-France Pisier. Trintignant plays a drug courier smuggling a stash of cocaine from Paris to Antwerp on the Trans-Europ-Express.

Matters are complicated by surreal encounters with police, three filmmakers who are also on the train making a film about drug-traffickers and erotic-fantasy sequences featuring Pisier being bound and subjected to Trintignant's will.

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A thief and killer stalks the streets of Paris, leaving a calling card from "Monsieur Durand" at the scene of each crime.

But after a cache of these macabre identifications is discovered by a tradesman in the boarding house at 21 avenue Junot, Inspector Wens (Pierre Fresnay) takes lodging at the infamous address in an undercover bid to solve the crime, with unexpected help from his struggling-actress girlfriend Mila Malou (Suzy Delair).

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Considered as one of the greatest and most popular Polish films of all time, this epic is a spectacular historical romance and war film set in the Middle Ages.

Based on the best-selling book by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz, the magnificent scope of Knights compares with the best in Hollywood epics and is a film for viewers of all ages.

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A down at heel doctor (Gerard Sety) is offered a substantial sum of money by the US Military to shelter a new patient.

Why? Who and what is he? Soon the hospital beds are filled with international spies all after the secrets held by the patient Dr Malik is housing, a suspected physicist whose knowledge is very valuable.

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Four film-makers contribute to this startling and surprising cinematic compendium. Pasolini's segment, 'La Ricotta' is a biting satire which angered the Church so much that it secured a four month prison sentence for Pasolini on the grounds of blasphemy, and a ban on the film.

Orson Welles plays the director who is trying to shoot a sumptuous interpretation of The Passion with peasants as extras and a man with transgressive tastes as Jesus. Other episodes include Jean-Luc Godard's stark but stylish 'The New World' and Roberto Rossellini's uncharacteristically comedic 'Virginity'.

Kurt Russel and William Baldwin star as two feuding siblings carrying on an heroic family tradition as Chicago firefighters but when a puzzling series of arson attacks is reported, they are forced to set aside their differences to solve the mystery surrounding these explosive crimes.

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"Silence and Cry" is an elliptical, claustrophobic drama shot in the brilliant, breathtaking long takes that are Hungarian master Miklos Jancso's trademark.

Set in 1919, a young soldier fleeing an anti-Communist manhunt takes refuge at an isolated farm, only to discover that the peasant family who shelter him are already under police scrutiny. The final part of an epic unofficial trilogy, following 'The Round-Up' and 'The Red and the White', the film explores the cruel mechanics of oppression and resistance within the family, and how they echo the political turmoil that rages outside. The brutal beauty of 'Silence and Cry' reveals the terrible impact of tyrannical power, politics and history.

The story of Zazie (Catherine Demongeot), a ten year old kid who desperately wants to ride on the Paris Metro during her holidays. But when she finds out there is a 24 hour strike she runs riot through the city.

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This gripping and intelligent film by Stephane Brize is in the social realist tradition of the Dardennes and of Laurent Cantet, examining the dehumanizing effects of unemployment and also the workplace itself.

At the age of 51 and after twenty months of unemployment, Thierry (Vincent Lindon) starts a new job in security at a supermarket that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept in order to keep his hard-won job is the central question that Measure of a Man (La Loi du Marche) addresses.

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"I Clowns (The Clowns)" has been revered by Fellini enthusiasts since its release as among the Maestro's finest works - one in a register all its own.

The film plays out in dazzling colour and in episodic cascade: as the circus rolls into town, and the big-tent is erected, the clowns execute their acts with feverish bravado. It's all true - and yet not a "documentary" per se; rather, something inbetween a portrayal of gags-at-play and of all that makes the spark for childhood inspiration ignite into creative virtuosity.

When young Emil is sent to Berlin by his mother, the money he is carrying to give to his granny is stolen by a sinister man on the train. Once in Berlin, Emil follows the thief and enlists the help of a gang of youngsters - 'the detectives' - to help retrieve the stolen money.