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Tsumugi (2004)

A disturbing Japanese 'youth' drama centred on a teenage girl, Tsumugi (Sora Aoi), a coquettish and sensual teenager who is attracted to her teacher and a boy her own age, forming a bizarre triangle between the three. An erotic, mildly sadomasochistic and very risque film that focusses on Aoi, whose powerful sexuality and impish personality dominates..
The Secret in the Attic (2005)
A beautiful woman marries a wealthy man and at first, they have a happy marriage, her new husband proving to be an enthusiastic lover. Soon their romance cools and his wife discovers that it is because of something or someone hidden in the attic that her husband sneaks up to every night...

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Directed by Michael Winterbottom, the film charts the intensely emotional and physical relationship between Matt (Kieran O'Brien) and Lisa (Margo Stilley), a young American student in London, from their first encounter at the Brixton Academy to their eventual split.

Intercutting between the couple's uninhibited sexual encounters and electrifying gig footage of Black Rebel, Motorcycle Club, The Von Bondies, Elbow, Primal Scream, The Dandy Warhols, Super Furry Animals, Franz Fredinand and Michael Nyman, 9 Songs tells a truly modern love story.

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A bittersweet modern love story starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci as Sam and Tusker, long-term partners who are revisiting their past and coming to terms with Tusker's illness on a road trip across England.

'Supernova' is a deeply moving portrait of a couple navigating difficult circumstances with wry humour and affection.

A real tour de force from the director Pedro Almodovar 'Law Of Desire' is a wildly funny, emotionally intense and deeply moving drugs-and-sex fuelled murder mystery, a breathless, vibrant riot of flaming passions run wild.

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Directed by Pete Travis 'City of Tiny Lights' stars Riz Ahmed and Billie Piper in a unique portrait of contemporary London as a multicultural metropolis teeming with intimidation and deceit.

Riz Ahmed is Tommy Akhtar, a deadbeat private eye with a taste for cigarettes and bourbon and a finely tuned moral compass that he keeps hidden behind a sharp cynicism. When he walks into his office one morning to find high-class prostitute Melody seeking his help, he takes on a job that goes beyond a simple missing person case into something far more sinister.

Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden.

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A coming-of-age comedy about love, life and friendship starring British rising stars Jessica Brown Findlay and Felicity Jones. From the moment they meet, seventeen-year-old wild child Emelia and shy, sensible Beth are firm friends despite their differences.

Beth is desperate to break free from her eccentric, dysfunctional family - her father Jonathan, a once famous writer suffering from writer's block and her outspoken and single-minded mother Joa, who cannot hide her resentment at having given up a once promising acting career. Before long, Emelia is bringing her own brand of chaos to the household with explosive consequences.

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The story of Kika (Veronica Forque), a Madrid makeup artist whose relationship with Ramon (Alex Casanovas) leads to criminal schemes involving Kika's maid Juana (Rossy De Palma), Juana's amorous, criminal brother Pablo (Santiago Lajusticia), and Ramon's youth-obsessed father Nicholas (Peter Coyote).

Overseeing all, is the muckraking, reality tabloid television show presided over by the formidable Andrea Scarface (Victoria Abril).

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"Promising Young Woman" is a bold new vision that has ignited a debate starring Academy Award Nominee Carey Mulligan as 'Cassie': a wickedly smart but singularly focused woman, who in order to overcome events from her past lives a double life by night. Following an unexpected encounter.

Cassie is given the chance to right the wrongs of the past.

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The single life is no laughing matter for Jessica Stein, an attractive journalist working for a big-city newspaper. After string of really bad dates, Jessica's search for "Mr. Right" seems pointless.

But an intriguing personal ad catches her eye and ultimately leads her to find a quirky soul mate in Helen Cooper. With no previous experience to draw upon, the girls muddle along, making up the rules as they go, blurring the lines between friendship and love with surprising results.

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In this first-ever full-text film of William Shakespeare's greatest work, the power surges through every scene.

The timeless tale of murder, corruption and revenge is reset in an opulent 19th-century world, using sprawling Blenheim Palace as Elsinore and staging much of the action in shimmering mirrored and gold-filled interiors. The energy is electrifying, due to a luminous cast. The excitement of the Bard's words and an adventurous filmmaking style lift the story from its often shadowy ambience to fully-lit pageantry and rage.

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Following the closure of a gypsum mine in the Nevada town she calls home, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road in this "exquisite film" (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal).

Exploring an unconventional life as a modern-day nomad, Fern discovers a resilience and resourcefulness unlike any she's known before long the way, she meets other nomads who become mentors in the vast landscape of the American West.

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Ten year old Laure isn't like most girls. She prefers football to dolls and sweaters to dresses. When her family move to a new neighbourhood, local girl Lisa mistakes Laure to be a boy.

Indulging in this exciting new identity, Laure becomes Michael, and so begins a summer of long sunny afternoons, playground games and first kisses. But with the school term fast approaching, how long can Laure keep her secret?

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Natalie Portman gives the performance of a lifetime as Nina, a stunningly talented but dangerously unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom.

Pushed to breaking point by her driven artistic director (Vincent Cassel) and the threat posed by a seductive rival dancer (Mila Kunis), Nina's tenuous grip on reality starts to slip away. As the pressure builds, Nina's all-consuming obsessions spin out of control, plunging her into a waking nightmare that will threaten not only her sanity, but her life.

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Described by the British press as 'the most sexually explicit film to ever reach our cinema screens', 'Baise Moi' is the brutal and shocking tale of two young girls, who, after being subjected to violence, rape and humiliation in the degenerate society in which they live, break free to embark on an

ultimately self-destructive road trip of sex and murder, always staying one step ahead of capture, but always hell bent on taking more and more risk.