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Two aimless drifters spend their days wandering the French countryside looking for trouble and women. Their hedonistic spree of petty crime and debauchery usually results in them fighting or running their way out of trouble.

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Alain (Laurent Lucas) seems to have it all - a beautiful wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a perfect home and a prestigious new engineering job.

But the unexpected sexual attentions of his boss's disconcertingly glacial wife (Charlotte Rampling) and the discovery of a rodent, unaccountably stuck in the waste pipe of his kitchen sink, spark the beginning of a strange, unsettling and sometimes shocking chain of events that disrupts Alain's orderly life and leaves him questioning his own sanity.

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Suzanne (Kristin Scott Thomas) and her husband Samuel (Yvan Attal) enjoy a pleasant, middle-class life with their two children.

When she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist, Suzanne is brought into contact with a builder called Ivan (Sergi Lopez), a tough yet down-to-earth odd-job man who has recently been released from prison. Their mutual attraction is sudden and violent, sending them on a whirlwind affair of the senses. As Suzanne's life spirals out of control, she must decide between her family and living this all-engulfing passion to the full.

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Academy Award winning writer Bill Condon creates a funny and moving portrait of Alfred Kinsey, a visionary driven to uncover the most private sexual secrets of a nation.

Featuring Academy Award Nominees Laura Linney and Liam Neeson, Kinsey follows the journey of a man who irrevocably changed American culture and created a media sensation with his book "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male". His work sparked one of the most intense cultural debates of the past century - a debate that rages on today.

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Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) built a ranch in the remote foothills of the Montana Rockies, raising his three sons away from the carnage of the Indian wars.

Alfred (Aidan Quinn), the eldest, is dutiful and reserved, Samuel (Henry Thomas), the beloved youngest, is compassionate and idealistic, and the middle brother Tristan (Brad Pitt) has a wild and untamable spirit. Into this masculine world enters Susannah Finncannon (Julia Ormond), a beautiful, intelligent woman who stirs passions and rivalry in all three brothers - changing the course of their lives and shaping their destinies forever...

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Sex, class and race collide at an exclusive French private school in this powerful and moving adaptation of Jean-Marie Besset's stage-play it takes us into the world of the "Grande Ecole", where students, particularly those from privileged backgrounds, are groomed to become the country's future

leaders. Paul is embarking on his first term at the school and he's finding it hard to fit in with his bourgeois classmates. To complicate matters he is also having difficulty suppressing his sexual attraction to his handsome roommate, Louis-Arnault. Understandably, his long-term girlfriend Agnes becomes jealous but proposes a bet: whoever beds Louis-Arnault first wins. If she emerges victorious, Paul will cease all contact with Louis-Arnault, but if Paul succeeds she will walk away. Meanwhile, Paul has also met Mecir, a young Arabic handyman, who teaches the naive student the intimate pleasures of the male body.

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Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) is a perennial playboy with a libido much younger than his years. During what was to have been a romantic weekend with his latest infatuation, Marin (Amanda Peet), at her mother's Hampton's beach house, Harry develops chest pains.

He winds up being reluctantly nursed by Marin's reluctant mother Erica Barry (Diane Keaton), a successful, divorced New York playwright. In the process, Harry develops more heart pangs - but this time the romantic kind - for Erica! However, some habits die hard. When Harry hesitates, his charming thirty-something doctor (Keanu Reeves) starts pursuing Erica and it is Harry who must undergo a true change of heart if he is to win her back.

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A bad-ass, Star-studded action-fest from Robert Rodriguez, Machete is the most outrageously explosive entertainment you're likely to see.

Danny Trejo stars as a hard-as-nails Mexican Federale seeking revenge against a vicious drug lord (Steven Seagal), a ruthless vigilante (Don Johnson) and a power-mad politician (Robert De Niro). He Is helped in his violent quest by a beautiful immigration agent (Jessica Alba), a tough revolutionary (Michelle Rodriguez) and by his brother, a priest (Cheech Marin), whilst also finding solace with a drug addict (Lindsay Lohan) along the way. Viva Machete!

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On a black and unholy Halloween night years ago, little Michael Myers (Will Sandin) brutally slaughtered his sister in cold blood. But for the last fifteen years, town residents have rested easy, knowing he was safely locked away in a mental hospital - until tonight.

Tonight, Michael (Tony Moran) returns to the same quiet neighbourhood to relive his grisly murder again...and again...and again. For this is a night of evil. Tonight is Halloween!

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Rob Zombie reinvents the ultimate slasher classic, unleashing Michael Myers for a bloody rollercoaster of a rampage like fans have never seen.

Including a retelling of the original story that unfolds at a breakneck pace, as well as a chilling new introduction that finally reveals the secrets behind Myer's disturbing childhood, Halloween breathes new life into one of film history's most terrifying tales.

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Tupac Shakur and Tim Roth star as two down-at-heel band members looking to make it big - or get high trying. When they stumble across the dead body of their drug dealer, they run out the back door - but not before getting high on his stash and stealing the rest.

With the cops coming at them from one side and killers coming after them from another, they're Gridlock'd and the only way they're going to escape is to hit the streets - running!

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The sleepy coastal community of Erin Island is about to receive some unexpected visitors. Vicious extra terrestrial predators have landed and they've got a thirst on...for blood.

With razor sharp tentacles and an insatiable hunger, the alien creatures are about to indulge in a feeding frenzy the likes of which has never been seen before. With a storm fast approaching and with no means of escape, the townsfolk have one last shot at survival. Will the locals find enough Dutch courage to survive The Grabbers?

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When Stanley Phillips (John Cusack) learns that his wife has died while serving on duty in Iraq, he is at a loss as to how to tell their two beautiful daughters.

Prepared to deal with it himself, he takes the girls on an impromptu road trip to Enchanted Garden Theme Park hoping to give them their last moments of innocence. The further they drive the closer they become, yet Stanley knows he must face the task of changing all their lives forever.

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As a wild storm rages over Lord Byron's literary house party, the poet suggests that his famous guests concoct a ghost story. But after deciding a seance would liven up the evening, they soon conjure up their deepest fears and are plunged into a surreal horror.

Is it merely the power of their own intense lust and vivid imaginations that is tormenting them or have they, in fact, raised the dead?

The intense story about a desperate young woman who is forced to go on the hunt alone for a maniacal serial killer who she believes has kidnapped her younger sister.