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From acclaimed director Ken Loach comes this astonishing story of triumph and adversity in modern day Britain. Daniel Blake (Dave Johns) has worked as a joiner for most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with single mother Katie (Hayley Squires) who is battling to keep her two young children fed. Daniel and Katie find themselves in a no-man's land, striving to pull themselves out of the welfare bureaucracy of modern day Britain. - Director:
- Ken Loach
- Cast:
- Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy
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Shy, failing magician Corky (Anthony Hopkins) finally finds success with a ventriloquist act featuring a dummy called Fats. With a shot at the big time on the horizon the pressure gets the better of him however and in a panic he flees the city back to the security of his hometown. When he reunites with an old high school flame Fats takes on a life of his own with devastating consequences. - Director:
- Richard Attenborough
- Cast:
- Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret
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From legendary director Richard Attenborough comes the epic story of a true cinematic icon, Charlie Chaplin. In this award-winning masterpiece we follow Chaplin's increasingly complicated life from a poverty stricken music hall entertainer in England to eventual triumph in America. The story of Chaplin is the story of cinema as we watch him grow from developing silent era slapstick to becoming one of the most important, pioneering fathers of film making, the art-form of a new century. But although he was able to reflect wondrous, magical humour in his work his private life was afflicted with infamy, sadness and a growing sense of loss. - Director:
- Richard Attenborough
- Cast:
- Robert Downey Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Rhys
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Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine. Feature is a tragic tale of a writer's love for a Holocaust survivor, adapted from William Styron's best-selling novel. Sophie (Meryl Streep) is a Polish Catholic haunted by the 'choice' she had to make in a Nazi concentration camp. Now in the United States, she has found a reason to live in Nathan (Kevin Kline), a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo (Peter MacNicol) a young writer just arrived in New York City who bears witness as the happiness of Sophie and Nathan becomes endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions. - Director:
- Alan J. Pakula
- Cast:
- Meryl Streep, Josef Sommer, Kevin Kline
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A raw, vital and groundbreaking exploration of the adult film industry, 'Pleasure' is the unflinching first feature from writer-director Ninja Thyberg. Bella (newcomer Sofia Kappel) arrives in Los Angeles from her hometown in Sweden, with dreams of becoming the next porn superstar. However, as her ruthless ambition leads her into increasingly dangerous territory, Bella struggles to reconcile her dreams of empowerment with the realities of the darker side of her industry. One of the most audacious breakouts of Sundance Film Festival 2021, Thyberg's captivating debut addresses powerful ideas of consent and agency in sex work, through a fearless and uncompromising lens. - Director:
- Ninja Thyberg
- Cast:
- Sofia Kappel, Zelda Morrison, Evelyn Claire
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The Burning Sea (2021)North Sea / Nordsjøen
After fifty years of prosperous offshore drilling in one of the world's largest oil fields, a seismic rift rips through the ocean floor of the North Sea, causing an oil rig to collapse. A team of researchers, including submarine operator Sofia (Kristine Kujath Thorp), immediately begin the search for the missing and to locate the cause of the destruction. What they discover is just the start of a potentially apocalyptic catastrophe... - Director:
- John Andreas Andersen
- Cast:
- Kristine Kujath Thorp, Henrik Bjelland, Rolf Kristian Larsen
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The Quiet Girl (2022)An Cailín Ciúin
CoIm Bairead's beautifully understated feature debut finds a young girl coming to terms with loss and the importance of family in rural Ireland. Cait (Catherine Clinch), a quiet, neglected young girl, is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. At first intimidated by her new environment, she quickly blossoms in the care of Eibhlin (Carrie Crowley) and her farmer husband, Sean (Andrew Bennett). As this new home becomes an idyll for her, Cait senses that something is plaguing her new foster parents - an unspoken pain that Eibhlin and Sean never discuss, which Cait's youthful curiosity begins to uncover. - Director:
- Colm Bairéad
- Cast:
- Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett
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Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife, Etheline (Angelica Huston), had three children - Chas, Margot, and Richie - and then they separated. Chas (Ben Stiller) started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the ninth grade. Richie (Luke Wilson) was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal., failure, and disaster. - Director:
- Wes Anderson
- Cast:
- Gene Hackman, Wes Anderson, Gwyneth Paltrow
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Rose (Ann Skelly), an adopted child, wants to discover her biological parents. When Rose finds her birth mother Ellen (Orla Brady), it quickly becomes clear that she has no wish to have any contact. But Rose is determined, and Ellen is forced to reveal a secret she has kept hidden for over 20 years. This revelation forces Rose to accept the nature of how she came into existence. Rose believes she has little to lose when she sets out to confront her father, Peter (Aidan Gillen). What Rose cannot foresee is that she is on a course that will prove both violent and unsettling. - Director:
- Joe Lawlor
- Cast:
- Ann Skelly, Orla Brady, Aidan Gillen
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For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector - "Commander Peter Quincy Taggart" (Tim Allen), "Lt. Tawny Madison" (Sigourney Weaver) and "Dr. Lazarus" (Alan Rickman) - set off on thrilling and often dangerous missions in space... and then their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beamed up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director and no clue, the actors must turn in the performance of their lives in this hilarious adventure. - Director:
- Dean Parisot
- Cast:
- Tim Allen, Joe Frank, Sigourney Weaver
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From the best-selling novel comes a captivating mystery. 'Where the Crawdads Sing' tells the story of Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones), an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world; but when one of them is found dead, she is immediately cast by the community as the main suspect. As the case unfolds, the verdict as to what actually happened becomes increasingly unclear, threatening to reveal the many secrets that lay within the marsh. - Director:
- Olivia Newman
- Cast:
- Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson
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In the late 90s, a video archivist (Harry Shum Jr.) unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the conspiracy behind them.
- Director:
- Jacob Gentry
- Cast:
- Harry Shum Jr., Kelley Mack, Chris Sullivan
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Compartment No. 6 (2022)Hytti nro 6 / Compartment Number 6
Young Finnish archaeology student Laura (Seidi Haarla) is convinced by her lecturer - and lover - to take a trip to an ancient site of petroglyphs near the Arctic Circle. However, when she boards the long-distance train to take her there, she finds that she has to share her carriage with the boorish and belligerent Ljoha (Yuriy Borisov), a foul-mouthed, misogynistic drunk travelling to his new job as a miner. Initially, they seem to have nothing in common, but, like the landscape they're travelling through, the more time Laura spends with Ljoha the more he thaws, revealing an unforeseen kindness beneath the macho facade. This chance meeting between the two occupants of compartment no.6 brings about an awakening within them, forming a bond they will never forget. - Director:
- Juho Kuosmanen
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- Yuriy Borisov, Valeriy Nikolaev, Seidi Haarla
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A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Jessica Holland, who, after hearing a loud 'bang' at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia. She experiences auditory hallucinations and tries to find the sources of the sounds causing her insomnia. Soon, she begins to confront the unsettling sights and sounds that call her identity into question. - Director:
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Cast:
- Tilda Swinton, Agnes Brekke, Daniel Giménez Cacho
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Hit the Road (2021)Jaddeh Khaki
Driving across endless miles of rugged landscape, a family navigates a long road trip alongside a range of conflicting emotions. Dad's (Mohammad Hassan Madjooni)'s got a broken leg and a mood to match whilst Mum (Pantea Panahiha) fusses over her two children and their pet dog. And when he's not drawing on the car windows, their energetic youngest son (Rayan Sarlak) couldn't be louder as he sings along to the car radio whilst his elder brother (Amin Simiar) tries to concentrate on the road ahead. As the journey twists and turns and their destination draws ever closer, the chaotic claustrophobia in the car grows as does the love and affection they have for each other. Accompanied by a brilliant soundtrack, Panah Panahi's thrilling debut feature is a treasure; tender, quirky, and laugh-out-loud funny. Get ready to take an unmissable journey along the dusty road of life. - Director:
- Panah Panahi
- Cast:
- Pantea Panahiha, Hasan Ma'juni, Rayan Sarlak
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