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Rory (Jude Law) an ambitious entrepreneur, persuades his wife (Carrie Coon), and their children to leave America and return to his native England during the 1980's. Sensing opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor.

However, all is not as it seems and soon the promise of a lucrative new beginning starts to unravel and the couple have to face the secrets and unwelcome truths that lie beneath the surface of their marriage.

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The first ever documentary to win the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, 'Sacro GRA' follows the stories of those living on the fringes of Rome's ring-road, the Grande Raccordo Anulare.

Gianfranco Rosi weaves a tapestry out of the river of traffic in perpetual motion and the people that inhabit it. The worlds of a nobleman, a botanist, a paramedic, an eel fisherman, and a modern-day prince all intersect while completely unaware of each other, and it is at these intersections that the simple beauties of life are revealed. Far from the iconic sites of Rome, the GRA is a repository of stories of those at the edges of the ever-expanding universe of the capital city.

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In acclaimed director Edgar Wright's psychological thriller, Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie), an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960's, where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy).

But the glamour is not all it appears to be, and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.

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Jean Fournier (Claude Mann), a young bank employee, is encouraged by his friend Caron (Paul Guers) to take an interest in gambling.

After winning money in a game of roulette, he decides to vacation in Nice, where he falls in love with Jackie (Jeanne Moreau), a divorced mother who rarely sees her child. Though Jackie also enjoys Jean's company, she constantly warns him that her passion for gambling will always be greater. Jean becomes jealous of not having Jackie's full attention and has mixed feelings about gambling, yet he's somewhat seduced by this new risk-taking lifestyle. Despite Jackie's cool facade and alleged control over her choices - she claims she is unattached to the money itself, but rather the thrill of the game, and doesn't mind going from rich to poor in a matter of seconds - she soon begins to reveal her vulnerability and the emptiness she often feels as result of her addiction.

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A band of Italian strolling players has come to perform, seeking fame and wealth. Lusty Camilla, the troupe's fiery prima donna, soon turns the heads of the Spanish viceroy, a soldier and a famous bullfighter.

To prepare for an impending war the viceroy demands great financial sacrifices from the local aristocrats, but when he then gives his official gilded coach to Camilla in order to win her love, the noblemen rebel. Camilla is pursued by the three infatuated men, but her first love is always the stage.

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French gangland boss Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) has been on the run in Italy for a decade in order to escape a death sentence. But when police finally close in, he turns to his old criminal friends to help him and his young family return to Paris.

With loyalty in short supply, it takes an insouciant stranger (Jean-Paul Belmondo) to come to the rescue.

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Six major directors of the French new wave each contribute a sparkling short film about a different neighbourhood in the legendary city of light:

Saint Germain De Pres
A classic new wave tale of sexual mores by Jean Douchet.
Gare Du Nord

Told in one stunning tracking shot, a disillusioned young wife becomes aware of life's different possibilities in this segment by Jean Rouche.
Rus Saint Denis
A witty exploration of an encounter between a brassy call girl and a mild-mannered dishwasher from Jean-Daniel Pollet.
Place D'Etoile
Eric Rohmer's near-farcical tale of a salesman who mistakenly believes he has killed a man in the street with his umbrella.
Monrparnasse and Levallois
Jean-Luc Godard's segment expands upon a plot line from 'Une femme est une femme' about a girl who worries that she has mixed up letters written to two different lovers.
La Muette
Claude Chabrol ruthlessly critiques the lives of a constantly bickering bourgeois couple, played by the director himself and Stephane Audran.

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Cult filmmaker Takeshi Kitano's dazzling new film is a thrilling tale of swordplay and adventure set in 19th Century Japan. Zatoichi is a blind wanderer whose humble facade disguises his prodigious skills as a master swordsman, gifted with a lightning fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision.

Arriving in a remote mountain town, he finds its people terrorised by the ruthless Ginzo gang and their mighty samurai ronin Hattori (Tadanobu Asano), who mercilessly dispose of all who get in their way. With his legendary cane sword at his side, Zatoichi's path is destined for many violent confrontations...

Primarily an account of the tough life led by Sicilian fishermen, this haunting and beautiful film by one of the fathers of Italian neo-realism is also a polemic which conveys the villagers' sense of frustration and injustice as they struggle for sustenance in the face of unscrupulous businessmen.

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Charting the turbulent relationship between a train-driver and a married woman as they plot to kill her husband, Renoir's adaptation of Emile Zola's classic novel is often cited by critics as one of the director's greatest films.

Made at the height of Renoir's 1930s poetic realism period, the film also has shades of film-noir with its sexually charged story and self-destructive, hard-boiled anti-hero. Featuring a truly unforgettable performance by Jean Gabin as Lantier, the tormented train-driver, 'La Bete Humaine' was one of Renoir's biggest successes and is just as compelling today as when it was first released.

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Set in the German prison camps of WW1, the film stars Jean Gabin as Marechal, and Marcel Dalio as Rosenthal.

Like the charming aristocrat Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay), these two French aviators were shot down and now spend most of their time escaping from German prison camps before inevitably being recaptured. Between escapes, they do what they can to amuse themselves, but after a tunnel they've dug is discovered, the three are sent to Wintersborn, a forbidding fortress of a prison commanded by former ace pilot Von Rauffenstein (Erich Von Stroheim). Von Rauffenstein cannot help but strike up a friendship with Captain de Boeldieu, a kindred spirit from the doomed nobility.

When a manipulative carnival man (Bradley Cooper) teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) to grift the wealthy in 1940's New York society, he learns that his new partner in crime might be his most formidable opponent yet.

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Through a bizarre chain of events, a jazz musician (Bill Pullman) and a young mechanic (Balthazar Getty) find their lives mysteriously entwined. On eis accused of his wife's murder, the other is drawn into a web of deceit by a temptress who is cheating on her gangster boyfriend.

These two tales are bound by the fact that both women are played by the same actress (Patricia Arquette).

Set across a three-year time period, 'Being a Human Person' peeks behind the curtain to reveal Andersson's unique, immersive, and at times arduous method of filmmaking, the personal demons he faces and the legacy of a master storyteller as he calls time on an incredible career.

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Kazuo Hara's infamous and audacious documentary follows Kenzo Okuzaki, an ageing Japanese WW2 veteran, on a mission to uncover the truth about atrocities committed as the war in the Pacific reached its bloody end.

Ultimately, Okuzaki blames The Emperor himself for these barbarities, and his obsessive pursuit of those he deems responsible soon escalates. Willing to confront the taboos of Japanese society in his fanatical quest for justice, Okuzaki is driven to unsettling acts of violence. Harrowing and extraordinarily powerful, Hara's film forces us to face the disturbing realities of war and, crucially, to question the complicity between filmmaker, subject and audience.