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Jennifer Ehle plays Emma Desneuves, who decides to spice up her humdrum life in rural Rouen with weak-willed husband Charles (James Larkin) by responding to a lonely-hearts ad.

Emma, with her impulsive sensuality and boundless lust for life, meets her match in Paris in the shape of Gustave Coudray (Adrian Dunbar). A feckless failed toy salesman, he sparks a riotous adventure that drags the loved-up pair into the midst of a police hunt for a desperate masked robber known only as 'Le Terroriste'. It's an exhilarating, bawdy road trip with startling twists and turns, and an irresistible joie de vivre.

Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a 30-something man living comfortably in New York balancing a busy job and active social life. When the wayward Sissy (Carey Mulligan), turns up at his apartment unannounced, Brandon's carefully managed lifestyle spirals out of control.

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A wild life photographer (Amitabh Bachchan) falls head over heels in love with a young girl (Jiah Khan). And, she reciprocates his feelings. But there is the hitch. He is 60 and she is 18. This tabooed affair creates havoc in his and his family's life.

Like they say some love stories are never meant to be understood.

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Fifteen minutes of fame was never going to be enough for Suzanne (Nicole Kidman). Married to small-town restaurateur Larry Maretto (Matt Dillon), all she ever wanted was to be a high-flying anchorwoman on network TV.

Blessed with more determination than ability, she plans her way to the top and will do absolutely anything to achieve her goals - but as Suzanne's ambition grows, her grip on reality starts to slide...

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Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) to his association with Teamsters

union head Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) to the rift that forced him to choose between the two. An intimate story of loyalty and betrayal writ large across the epic canvas of mid-twentieth-century American history...

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Grace (Annette Bening) and Edward (Bill Nighy) have been married for 29 years and live in a small seaside town called Hope Gap. During a visit from their son Jamie (Josh O'Connor) Edward informs them both that he plans to leave Grace and walks out the door that very same day.

With the whole family knocked into disarray, Grace has to find a way through this new life which she least expected and, with the help of her son, achieve hope once again. 'Hope Gap' tracks the emotional unravelling of a tight knit family going through divorce and walking the thin line between love and hate.

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When seriously ill teenager Milla (Eliza Scanlen) falls in love with free-spirit Moses (Wallace), it's her parents, Henry (Ben Mendelsohn) and Anna's (Essie Davis), worst nightmare.

But as Milla's first brush with love brings her a new lust for life, things get messy and traditional morals go out the window. Milla shows everyone in her orbit - her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a budding child violinist, and a disarmingly honest pregnant neighbour - how to live like you have nothing to lose. What might have been a disaster for the family instead leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life.

When Jane (Sally Hawkins) is dumped at the altar, she has a breakdown and spirals into a chaotic world where love (both real and imagined) and family relationships collide with both touching and humorous consequences.

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From acclaimed writer/director Sofia Coppola comes an atmospheric thriller that unfolds at a secluded girls' boarding school in Civil War-era Virginia.

When a wounded Union soldier, Corporal McBumey (Colin Farrell), is found near the school he's taken in by its headmistress, Miss Martha (Nicole Kidman). As the young women provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries when McBumey seduces several of the girls. Taboos are broken and events take an unexpected turn in this gripping and haunting thriller also starring Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning.

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Four children shocked by the death of their mother conspire to hide her body in the basement to avoid being sent to an orphanage. Eldest daughter Julie takes on the maternal role, as life in their concrete wilderness of a home drifts on.

Jack shows little interest in younger brother Tom, who is retreating into his own fantasy world. And seems equally non-plussed that younger sister Sue seems to spend most of her time in the basement writing her diary with her dead mother. Absorbed in himself and his growing attraction to Julie, Jack excludes himself from family life. The arrival of Julie's boyfriend Derek jolts Jack to reality. There is now the chance that the children may be discovered, although, this is nowhere near as startling as what Julie and Jack are discovering about themselves.

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Murphy (Karl Glusman), an American living in Paris, wakes up on New Year's Day to a frantic phone call. His ex-girlfriend, Electra (Aomi Muyock), has been missing for months and her mother fears the worst.

This brings back the memories he has of his relationship with her and their exploration of sex together as well as with others.

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"Summerland" follows the story of fiercely independent folklore investigator, Alice (Gemma Arterton) who secludes herself in her clifftop study, debunking myths using science to disprove the existence of magic.

Consumed by her work, but also profoundly lonely, she is haunted by a love affair from her past. When spirited young Frank (Lucas Bond), an evacuee from the London Blitz, is dumped into her irritable care, his innocence and curiosity awaken Alice's deeply buried emotions. Bravely embracing life's miraculous unpredictability, Alice learns that wounds may be healed, second chances do occur, and that, just perhaps - magic really does exist.

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Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a sixteen-year-old, extrovert from the outskirts of Wolverhampton with raging hormones and gigantic dreams.

Even though she loves her big, boisterous family, Johanna yearns to get out and make a name for herself - which she does, reinventing herself as revered and feared music critic, Dolly Wilde. As she slaughters her way to greater and greater success, the lines between Johanna Morrigan and Dolly Wilde begin to haze. She has finally figured out how to build a girl - but is this the girl she wanted to build? Based on Caitlin Moran's book of the same name, 'How to Build a Girl' is an irreverent coming of age comedy about what it's really like to be a girl.

The film sees Doug (David Tennant) travel to the Highlands with his wife Abi (Rosamund Pike) and their three children to attend the birthday party of Doug's father, Gordie (Billy Connolly), where it's soon clear that when it comes to keeping secrets under wraps, their children are their biggest liability.

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Harry Papadopoulos (Stephen Dillane) has got it all; a mansion house, awards and a super-rich lifestyle. But when a financial crisis hits, Harry and his family lose everything.

Everything, except the forgotten Three Brothers Chip Shop half owned by Harry's larger than life brother Spiros (Georges Corraface) who's been estranged from the family for years. With no alternative, Harry and his family are forced to pack their bags and reluctantly join 'Uncle Spiros' to live above the neglected Three Brothers chippie. Together they set about bringing the chip shop back to life under the suspicious gaze of their old rival, Hassan, from the neighbouring Turkish kebab shop whose son has his own eyes on Harry's daughter, Katie. As each family member comes to terms with their new life, Harry struggles to regain his lost business empire but as the chip shop returns to life, old memories are stirred and Harry discovers that only when you lose everything can you be free to find it all.