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The New Eve (1999)La Nouvelle Eve
The French "Bridget Jones diaries". Camille (Karin Viard), a neurotic Parisian in weekly therapy, is desperate to find the right man. She tries everything from sex parties to accosting men in the street. Even the unrelentingly romantic truck driver, Ben (Sergi Lopez) is not enough. Her brother (Laurent Lucas) and Lesbian friend both try to help her get a grip. All to no avail until she falls in love with Alexis (Pierre-Loup Rajout), a Socialist Party activist and promptly joins the party becoming an ardent activist. Can Camille make Alexis love her and get him away from his wife? Can she get her life back on the straight and narrow? - Director:
- Catherine Corsini
- Cast:
- Karin Viard, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Catherine Frot
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Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley), is bursting with raw talent, charisma and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville. Her mum Marion (Julie Walters) has had a bellyful of Rose-Lynn's Nashville nonsense. Forced to take responsibility, Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house (Sophie Okonedo). 'Wild Rose' is an uplifting story with an original soundtrack about family, dreams and reality, and three chords and the truth. - Director:
- Tom Harper
- Cast:
- Jessie Buckley, Matt Costello, Jane Patterson
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The latest from the unique imagination of Peter Strickland, 'In Fabric' is a delirious retail nightmare that blends Euro-infused horror with absurdist dark humour, to ghostly effect. Set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period at a mysterious Thames Valley department store, the film follows the journey of a cursed artery-red dress as it passes from person to person with devastating consequences. - Director:
- Peter Strickland
- Cast:
- Gwendoline Christie, Sidse babett Knudsen, Caroline Catz
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From acclaimed filmmaker Terence Davies, 'A Quiet Passion' is a powerful study of' 19th Century poet Emily Dickinson that features a stunning performance from Cynthia Nixon. Spanning a rebellious schoolgirl youth to her later years as a reclusive writer, Davies elegantly explores the hopes, dreams and desires of a woman who wrote some of the most important poems in American literature that still resonate today. - Director:
- Terence Davies
- Cast:
- Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Duncan Duff
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Black Angel (2002)Senso '45
Italy - 1945: The war and Fascism is coming to an end. Livia, the wife of a high-ranking ministry official is on her way to Venice in order to meet Helmut Schultz (Gabriel Garko), an SS Lieutenant with whom she is having an affair. During the trip she relives the high points of the torrid sexual abandonment that has shaped her destiny. Once in Venice she finds the city in chaos, but amongst the madness, a surprise awaits Livia (Anna Galiena)...a surprise that sees her personal setbacks reflected in historic and political events. - Director:
- Tinto Brass
- Cast:
- Anna Galiena, Gabriel Garko, Franco Branciaroli
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Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) lives in contented retirement until her tranquil life is suddenly disrupted. The dark secrets she's been hiding since her university days have been uncovered by M15. She finds herself in their custody, accused of providing intelligence to the KGB. Cut to 1938 where Joan is a promising physics student at Cambridge University. There she falls for a young communist named Leo Galich (Tom Hughes) and through him, begins to see the world in a new light. After graduation, Joan secures a job in a weapons research facility where she comes to the realisation that the world is on the brink of nuclear disaster. Now Joan is forced to answer an impossible question: exactly what price would she pay for peace? - Director:
- Trevor Nunn
- Cast:
- Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore
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This stylish Wong Jing production is a prime example of what makes Hong Kong's fantasy movies so unique and visually stunning. It follows the lustful progress of a wealthy squire who has one obsession which is to bed more women than any other man in history! However, although he is proud of his own sexual prowess, he is extremely strict with his own daughter, Yau (Loletta Lee). When she is sent away to study, he has her disguised as a man and fitted with a special chastity device to protect her from men like himself. However, she falls in love with a handsome swordsman who is pursuing the deadly Mirage Lady (Shu Qi), who has the power to drain her enemies by seducing them! The plot thickens when the lecherous Squire marries off his dim-witted son to a beautiful girl, not knowing that she is really the Mirage Lady in disguise. Now it is up to the daughter, Yau, aided only by her handsome swordsman--her fellow student with his mechanical penis--to save the world from sexual domination by the irresistible Mirage Lady... - Director:
- Chin Man Kei
- Cast:
- Shu Qi, Loletta Lee, Xu Jin Jang
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The Captive (2000)La captive
Acclaimed director Chantal Akerman becomes the latest filmmaker to take inspiration from Marcel Proust’s epic masterwork 'In Search of Lost Time'. Adapted from the fifth volume, 'The Captive' tells the story of Ariane, who lives under her lover Simon’s surveillance in a grandiose Parisian apartment. Simon harbours an obsessional need to know everything about her. He has her accompanied everywhere she goes and subjects her to endless questioning. Knowing of Ariane’s attraction to women, Simon imagines that she leads a double life, which only serves to increase his desire for her. Akerman’s film is an elegantly constructed and compelling meditation on love, desire and obsession. - Director:
- Chantal Akerman
- Cast:
- Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy
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The Succulent Succubus (2011)Kairaku no sekai: Miradashimasho!
Momo (Celebrity Japanese porn star Sho Nishino) is unlucky in love and even unluckier in life. Having been diagnosed with an illness that gives her just six months to live, she meets a succubus who offers to grant her one wish in return for her soul. 'The Succulent Succubus' is an erotic comedy starring two of Japan's biggest adult stars; Sho Nishino and Asami. - Director:
- Mototsugu Watanabe
- Cast:
- Shô Nishino, Asami, Minami Aoyama
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A Fantastic Woman (2017)Una mujer fantástica
Marina Vidal's life is thrown into turmoil following the sudden death of her partner, Orlando. Met with suspicion from the police and contempt from her lover's relatives. As tensions rise between her and Orland's family, she is evicted from their shared home and banned from attending his funeral. But faced with the threat of losing everything, Marina finds the strength to fight back. Sebastián Lelio returns with a groundbreaking, deeply humane and Oscar-winning story about a trans woman's fight for acceptance. Anchored by a powerhouse performance from rising star Daniela Vega, 'A Fantastic Woman' is an urgent call for compassion. - Director:
- Sebastián Lelio
- Cast:
- Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco
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Happy as Lazzaro (2018)Lazzaro Felice
Lazzaro (talented newcomer Adriano Tardiolo) is a beautiful peasant whose sweet nature makes people mistake him for simple-minded. He happily does the bidding of anyone in his local village, which is ruled over by the evil Marchesa (Nicoletta Braschi). He finds an unlikely friend in the Marchesa's petulant son Tancredi (Tommaso Ragno / Luca Chikovani), who convinces his hapless ally to help him stage a dramatic incident to secure a ransom. 'Happy as Lazzaro' follows the adventures of this young man living on the margins of his society, who can seemingly travel through time, arriving in the big city and appearing as a fragment of the past lost in the modern world. - Director:
- Alice Rohrwacher
- Cast:
- Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Alba Rohrwacher
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Born into a tight-knit wrestling family, Paige and her brother Zak are ecstatic when they get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try out for WWE. But when only Paige earns a spot in the competitive training program, she must leave her family and face this new, cut-throat world alone. Based on the incredible true story, this heartwarming comedy follows Paige as she proves that what makes her different is the very thing that can make her a star. - Director:
- Stephen Merchant
- Cast:
- Dwayne Johnson, Lena Headey, Vince Vaughn
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"All Is True" explores the human story behind a dark and little known period in the life of William Shakespeare (Kenneth Branagh). The year is 1613, Shakespeare is the greatest writer of the age. When his beloved Globe Theatre is burned to the ground, he decides to return to his home town of Stratford-upon-Avon. There he faces his neglected family. Still haunted by the death of his only son, Hamnet, he struggles to mend broken relationships with his wife, Anne (Judi Dench) and daughters. In so doing, he is ruthlessly forced to examine his own failings as an absent husband and father. In the search for peace, he must also finally confront the dark heart of his family's secrets and lies. - Director:
- Kenneth Branagh
- Cast:
- Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen
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Set in 1946, this engrossing drama follows Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley), a British woman whose colonel husband (Jason Clarke) is charged with rebuilding war-ravaged Hamburg. When she joins him there during the bitter winter months, she learns they will be sharing their home with a German widower (Alexander Skarsgard) and his troubled daughter. Before long, the unusual arrangement intensifies political divides and stirs deep personal wounds. In this increasingly charged environment, enmity and grief give way to unexpected passion and betrayal. - Director:
- James Kent
- Cast:
- Keira Knightley, Ned Wills, Pandora Colin
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An Impossible Love (2018)Un Amour Impossible
1960: Rachel (Virginie Efira) is working as a secretary when she begins a passionate but stormy affair with the callous Philippe (Niels Schneider). The liaison results in the birth of a daughter, who Philippe refuses to acknowledge. Whilst Rachel's love for her daughter is unconditional, Philippe's presence in their daughter's life has dangerous consequences that endure, to the present day. A heartbreaking story of a toxic love affair across the decades, Catherine Corsini's beautiful 'An Impossible Love' is as emotionally raw as it is elegantly shot. - Director:
- Catherine Corsini
- Cast:
- Virginie Efira, Niels Schneider, Jehnny Beth
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