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It's the beginning of summer in a small village in northern Turkey. Lale and her four sisters are on their way home from school, innocently playing with local boys but prying village eyes view their games with suspicion and word soon reaches their family. Their home consequently becomes a prison at the hand of their uncompromising uncle and all the girls have to now live for is a future of arranged marriage. But these girls' rebellious streak will not be tamed so easily. Drawing vocal support from critics, festivals and audiences across the globe, this beautiful debut from director Deniz Gamze Erguven is a touching portrayal of innocent strength and resilience against modern misogyny. - Director:
- Deniz Gamze Ergüven
- Cast:
- Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu
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Isolation...alienation...happiness. In America they all go hand in hand. Buy a new TV and you will be happy. Still not happy? Experience alienation. Can't afford a new TV? Then live in isolation. 'Be happy', and if that doesn't work, pretend to make it work. For the characters in Todd Solondz' award winning, subversively funny film Happiness, the struggle to attain such a state is fraught with perils both heartbreaking and hilarious. - Director:
- Todd Solondz
- Cast:
- Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Heck and Rachel are a young London couple about to embark on a new life together when an unexpected meeting turns Rachel's world upside down. What follows is the romantic, hilarious and sometimes poignant journey familiar to anyone who has ever fallen in love at first sight. And what if you discover that the one person you are destined to spend the rest of your life with might not be your boyfriend, but a perfect stranger? Imagine Me & You shows that the path to true love isn't always straight... - Director:
- Ol Parker
- Cast:
- Piper Perabo, Lena Headey, Matthew Goode
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Varda by Agnès (2019)Varda par Agnès
Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Agnés Varda was a visual storyteller who eschewed convention and prescribed approaches to drama. In 'Varda by Agnés' - the director's swansong film - she offers a personal insight into her oeuvre, using excerpts from her work to illustrate her unique ideas and artistic vision. - Director:
- Agnès Varda
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- Agnès Varda, Sandrine Bonnaire, Hervé Chandès
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Edward Yang's multi-award-winning film looks at several turbulent weeks in the life of the Jian family. Husband and father NJ (Nien-Jen Wu) is a partner in a failing software company, which might just save itself by teaming up with an innovative Japanese games designer. Meanwhile his wife Min-Min (Elaine Jin) has gone off to a mountain retreat with a dubious guru, his teenage daughter Ting Ting (Kelly Lee) is getting her first, rough lessons in love, his young son Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang) is asking difficult questions and getting into trouble at school - and his mother-in-law has suffered a stroke and lies in a coma. In the middle of all the confusion NJ runs into his childhood sweetheart Sherry, the girl he jilted twenty years earlier, and starts to wonder about starting over. - Director:
- Edward Yang
- Cast:
- Nien-Jen Wu, Ray Fan, Elaine Jin
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Set in the late 1970's, the pulsating thriller follows Charlie (Florence Pugh), a young, fiery but unfulfilled British actress and idealist whose resolve is tested after she meets the mysterious Becker (Alexander Skarsgård), while on holiday in Greece. It quickly becomes apparent that his intentions are not what they seem, and their encounter entangles her in a complex plot devised by the spy mastermind Kurtz (Michael Shannon). Charlie takes on the role of a lifetime as a double agent but despite her natural mastery of the task at hand, she finds herself inexorably drawn into a dangerous world of duplicity and compromised humanity. Blurring the fine lines between love and hate, truth and fiction, and right and wrong, 'The Little Drummer Girl' weaves a suspenseful and explosive story of espionage and high-stakes international intrigue. - Director:
- Chan-wook Park
- Cast:
- Simona Brown, Michael Moshonov, Clare Holman
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Two ordinary inner-city Chicago kids dare to reach for the impossible -professional basketball glory - in this epic chronicle of hope and faith. Filmed over a five-year period, 'Hoop Dreams', by Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert, follows young Arthur Agee and William Gates and their families as the boys navigate the complex, competitive world of scholastic athletics while dealing with the intense pressures of their home lives and neighbourhoods. This revelatory film continues to educate and inspire viewers, and it is widely considered one of the great works of American nonfiction cinema. - Director:
- Steve James
- Cast:
- William Gates, Arthur Agee, Emma Gates
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Award-winning director Kelly Reichardt (Meek's Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy) returns with the eagerly awaited 'First Cow', a gripping and glorious story of friendship, petty crime and the pursuit of the American dream on the harsh frontier of the Pacific Northwest. In 1820's Oregon, two loners team up to seek their fortune through a scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner's prized Jersey cow - the first, and only, in the territory. A true masterpiece from one of the great modern American filmmakers. - Director:
- Kelly Reichardt
- Cast:
- Alia Shawkat, John Magaro, Dylan Smith
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Fresh from an unceremonious dumping by her boyfriend of 10 years, Paula (Laetitia Dosch) finds herself wandering the streets of Paris - jobless, homeless, and single - who no idea of what life holds for her next. At 31 years old, with little to show for it but a kidnapped cat and a sense of adventure, she sets out to reinvent herself - new job, new friends, new life - and finds that these things never do come easily. - Director:
- Léonor Serraille
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- Laetitia Dosch, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Grégoire Monsaingeon
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Emma (2020)Emma.
Jane Austen's beloved comedy about finding your equal and earning your happy ending, is reimagined in this delicious new film adaptation of 'Emma'. Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse (Anya Taylor-Joy) is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along. - Director:
- Autumn DeWilde
- Cast:
- Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth
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Prepare for the closest shave of your life in Stephen Sondheim's Victorian horror thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Captured here in its original theatrical stage production whilst on tour in Los Angeles in 1982, the star-studded cast lights up the stage and brings Sondheim's macabre yet humorous musical numbers to life with thrilling effect. George Hearn (Flags of our Fathers) plays Todd, the falsely imprisoned barber whose lust for revenge drives him to murder and the enigmatic Angela Lansbury (The Manchurian Candidate) plays his partner in crime, Mrs. Lovett, who bakes away the evidence in her pie shop. The combined horror and humour bleeds through every pour of the production with brooding menace as Todd serenades his blades in My Friend. All of the now much loved songs are included, the achingly beautiful ballad Johanna, the clever pun-strewn A Little Priest as Mrs. Lovett creates recipes for her pies and intricate choral and ensemble numbers. - Director:
- Terry Hughes
- Cast:
- Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal
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Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young, naive American who, upon his arrival in Vietnam, quickly discovers that he must do battle not only with the Viet Cong, but also with the gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and intense anger growing within him. While his two commanding officers (Oscar-nominated Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe) draw a fine line between the war they wage against the enemy and the one they fight with each other, the conflict, chaos and hatred permeate Taylor, suffocating his realities and numbing his feelings to man's highest value...life. - Director:
- Oliver Stone
- Cast:
- Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe
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1971: Glam Rock explodes onto the world scene in a blaze of glitter and guitars. At its centre, the flamboyant Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys Meyers). Together with outrageous American rocker Curt Wild (Ewan McGregor) they challenge conformity and take on the world! 1974: Suddenly, at the height of his career, Slade decides to fake his own death on stage. The stunt backfires and he is never seen again. 1984: It's the 10th anniversary of Slade's disappearance and journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale) is sent out to expose the truth behind the myth. - Director:
- Todd Haynes
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- Ewan McGregor, Janet McTeer, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
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Braindead (1992)Dead Alive
If you think Lionel seems o.k.. then you haven't met his family! Mother's boy Lionel Cosgrove is 25 and has never been kissed. Then, one fateful day in 1957, Lionel's uneventful existence changes forever. Drawn to the lovely Paquita, a young Spanish girl from the local corner shop, the couple plan a tryst at the nearby zoo. Thinking themselves alone at last, the young lovers are unaware that their every move is being observed from the bushes by Lionel's possessive Mum. Sneaking close, Mum stumbles against a cage, which contains a vicious Sumatran Rat monkey, which duly sinks its toxic fangs deep into her flesh. When the strange wound transforms into putrefying virus, Lionel and the unwitting Paquita are sent spiralling into an endless nightmare. - Director:
- Peter Jackson
- Cast:
- Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody
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Atomic Blonde (2017)The Coldest City
Charlize Theron stars as elite MI6's most lethal assassin and the crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Lorraine Broughton. When she's sent on a covert mission into Cold War Berlin, she must use all of the spy-craft, sensuality and savagery she has to stay alive in the ticking time bomb of a city simmering with revolution and double-crossing hives of traitors. Broughton must navigate her way through a deadly game of spies to recover a priceless dossier while fighting ferocious killers along the way... - Director:
- David Leitch
- Cast:
- Charlize Theron, Matt Lindquist, James McAvoy
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