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North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s - George (Bradley Cooper) and Serena Pemberton (Jennifer Lawrence), love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George's hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton's passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning. - Director:
- Susanne Bier
- Cast:
- Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Rhys Ifans
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Blondie O'Hara (Jennifer Jason Leigh) resorts to desperate measures when her low-level hood husband Johnny (Dermot Mulroney) gets caught trying to steal from Seldom Seen (Harry Belafonte), a local crime boss operating out of jazz haunt The Hey-Hey Club. Out on a limb, Blondie kidnaps laudanum-addled socialite Carolyn (Miranda Richardson), hoping her influential politician husband can pull the right strings and get Johnny out of Seldom Seen's clutches. - Director:
- Robert Altman
- Cast:
- Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte
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Powerful, compelling and deeply shocking, 'Kids' spends twenty-four frenetic hours with a group of New York teenagers. Skateboarders Telly and Casper hang out, shoplift, do drugs and seduce girls. Jennie (Chloe Sevigny) follows the pair across the city, desperate to confront them with a terrible truth. - Director:
- Larry Clark
- Cast:
- Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloë Sevigny
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As this year's annual Purge begins, Leo, an enigmatic loner haunted by the death of his son, wants revenge. Eva (Carmen Ejogo), a single mother, is forced, along with daughter Cali (Zoë Soul), to leave her apartment when they are attacked. Shane (Zach Gilford) and Liz (Kiele Sanchez), a young couple, become victims of a carjacking. Seeking refuge in Leo's armoured car, Shane and Liz team up with these other three strangers. Now this unlikely group find out just how far they will go to protect themselves, and each other, as they fight to survive the night. - Director:
- James DeMonaco
- Cast:
- Cindy Robinson, Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo
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The Best Day of My Life (2002)Il Più bel giorno della mia vita
Troubled matriarch and widowed grandmother Irene lives alone in a decaying family villa, where she frets about her wayward children and her roses in equal measure. Since the death of her husband, eldest daughter Sara has lived in emotional solitude, unable to open up even to her adolescent son, Marco. She fills the gap by obsessing about whether he might have an accident, that might be on drugs or - worse still - that he might be gay like his uncle Claudio. Claudio himself feels detached from the family, initially able to accept himself as a gay man only through sexual contact without emotional ties, despite the offer of support from a loving partner. Claudio has never somehow managed to tell his mother about his sexual orientation and even though a successful layer, this need for secrecy puts a strain on his relationship. The middle child, Rita, is apparently the most settled but her passion for veterinarian Davide acts as a line of fracture, splitting her apart from her husband Carlo. - Director:
- Cristina Comencini
- Cast:
- Virna Lisi, Margherita Buy, Sandra Ceccarelli
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Satan (2006)Sheitan
On Christmas Eve, three young guys meet two gorgeous girls who invite them to spend the weekend in the country. They arrive and meet the maniacally grinning housekeeper Joseph (Vincent Cassell; La Haine, Irreversible). That evening, what begins innocently as Christmas dinner turns into disturbing conversations about sex, satanic possession and evil. As the weekend progresses, Joseph's behaviour only gets more erratic and the young friends realise their host has made a demonic pact, and all hell is about to break loose. Following in the footsteps of The Ordeal and Switchblade Romance this twisted tale is a must see for horror fans everywhere. - Director:
- Kim Chapiron
- Cast:
- Vincent Cassel, Olivier Barthelemy, Roxane Mesquida
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Gilly steps out of prison with nothing and no one except J, the friend he took the rap for. All Gilly wants is to start over with the money he's owed, but J, a two-bit hustler with a drug problem, has invested it in another drugs-for-guns deal. As J and Gilly do the rounds for the local boss Max, all hell breaks loose. J's deal is now out of control, Max is onto their scam, and so are the police. As violence escalates, the pair try to keep ahead of the game, but in the gritty underworld of drugs and guns, betrayal is the only way out. - Director:
- Glenn Durfort
- Cast:
- Adrian Dunbar, Andrew Howard, Louis Dempsey
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Having learned of the sudden death of his sister Elizabeth (Barbara Steele), Francis Barnard (John Kerr) sets out to the castle of his brother-in-law, Nicholas Medina (Vincent Price), to uncover the cause of her untimely demise. A distraught, grief-stricken Nicholas can offer only the vaguest explanations as to Elizabeth's death - at first citing "something in her blood", but later asserting that she quite literally "died of fright". What sort of unspeakable horrors are buried within the walls of this castle that could cause one's heart to stop so? With Francis determined to get to the bottom of this mystery, the terrible truth will not stay buried for long. - Director:
- Roger Corman
- Cast:
- Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr
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May is an ordinary grandmother from the suburbs. When her husband dies on a family visit to London, she recedes into the background of her busy, metropolitan children's lives. Stuck in an unfamiliar city, far from home, May fears that she has become another invisible old woman whose life is more or less over. Until, that is, she falls for Darren, a man half her age who is renovating her son's house and sleeping with her daughter. - Director:
- Roger Michell
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- Daniel Craig, Anna Wilson-Jones, Anne Reid
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Sherman McCoy was Wall Street's Master of the Universe - and everything in his life was right. Then one night he took a wrong turn at the wrong place with the wrong woman. And nothing has gone right since. Tom Hanks as McCoy, Bruce Willis as a jaded journalist, Melanie Griffith as McCoy's self-centered mistress and Morgan Freeman as an outspoken judge ignite 'The Bonfire Of The Vanities', the quintessential story of the go-for-it '80s. - Director:
- Brian De Palma
- Cast:
- Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith
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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow
An alien race, undefeatable by any existing military unit, has launched a relentless attack on Earth, and Major Wiiliam Cage (Tom Cruise) finds himself dropped into a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage is thrown into a time loop, forced to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again and again. Training alongside warrior Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), his skills slowly evolve, and each battle moves them one step closer to defeating the enemy in this intense action thriller. - Director:
- Doug Liman
- Cast:
- Tom Cruise, David Kaye, Emily Blunt
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While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of low-life burglar Freddy Russell. Although he's hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family's safety when Freddy's ex-con father rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge. - Director:
- Jim Mickle
- Cast:
- Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson
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'Ascension' is the riveting story of a group of medical students who come across the body of the world's most notorious vampire! When a mysterious stranger appears and offers the students $30 million to harvest the body and steal its blood for auction, it's an offer they can hardly refuse! But as the lure of riches collides with unimaginable terror, the students also find themselves relentlessly pursued by a vampire killer from the Vatican! - Director:
- Patrick Lussier
- Cast:
- Tom Kane, Jennifer Kroll, Jason Scott Lee
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Rescued from exile by a desperate Parliament, Charles II returns to the throne at the age of 30. As the Plague and the Great Fire brings London to its knees, Charles nurtures the wittiest, most lascivious and decadent court of all time. A sensitive and promiscuous lover, he entertains an array of mistresses including high-born Barbara Villiers; sparky streetwise actress Nell Gwyn and aristocratic French spy Louise de Keroualle. Still traumatised by the execution of his father, Charles is forced to play politics with the Parliament that killed him and proves himself a canny and ruthless politician. Meanwhile, with a lack of a legitimate heir, his squabbling family grow ever more frantic... - Director:
- Joe Wright
- Cast:
- Rufus Sewell, Rupert Graves, Charlie Creed-Miles
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