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Reminiscence (2021)The Jade Earring
Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman), a private investigator of the mind, navigates the darkly alluring world of the past by helping his clients access lost memories. His life is forever changed when he takes on a new client, Mae (Rebecca Ferguson). As Bannister fights to find the truth about Mae's disappearance, he uncovers a violent conspiracy, and must ultimately answer the question: how far would you go to hold on to the ones you love? - Director:
- Lisa Joy
- Cast:
- Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Thandie Newton
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Living in a remote Aboriginal community in the northern part of Australia, Charlie (David Gulpilil) is a warrior past his prime. As the government increases its stranglehold over the community's traditional way of life, Charlie becomes lost between two cultures. His new modern life offers him a way to survive but, ultimately, it is one he has no power over. Finally fed up when his gun, his newly crafted spear and his best friend's jeep are confiscated, Charlie heads into the wild on his own, to live the old way. However, Charlie hasn't reckoned on where he might end up, nor on how much life has changed since the old days... - Director:
- Rolf De Heer
- Cast:
- David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr, Luke Ford
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Journey in the unknown...in Marvel Studio's 'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness'. When the MCU unlocks the Multiverse, Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) must enlist help from old and new allies as he traverses mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities in order to confront a surprising adversary. Enter a new dimension of Strange in this supernatural adventure filled with plot twists and exhilarating action sequences. - Director:
- Sam Raimi
- Cast:
- Benedict Cumberbatch, Ross Marquand, Bridget Hoffman
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How the west was really won...After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus (Peter Strauss), a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta (Candice Bergen), a young woman sympathetic to the Cheyenne people and distrusting of the US government. As they travel to reach the safety of the base camp, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta, and his disgust for her anti-American stance. It is only when they are witness to the horrible massacre of the Cheyenne village that Honus' firmly held beliefs are truly shaken. - Director:
- Ralph Nelson
- Cast:
- Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence
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Drive My Car (2021)Doraibu mai kâ
Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 'Drive My Car' is a masterful, moving and multi-award winning film based on a short story by Haruki Murakami. When the wife of Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a stage actor and director, suddenly passes away, she leaves behind a secret. Two years later, Kafuku meets Misaki (Toko Miura), a reserved young woman assigned to be his chauffeur on a work trip to Hiroshima. As they spend time together, Kafuku confronts the mystery of his wife that quietly haunts him. - Director:
- Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
- Cast:
- Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima
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Adrift in the Depression-era Southwest, Clyde Barrow(Warren Beatty) and Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) embark on a life of crime. They mean no harm. They crave adventure - and each other. Soon we start to love them too. But nothing in film history has prepared us for the cascading violence to follow. Bonnie And Clyde turns brutal. We learn they can be hurt - and dread they can be killed. - Director:
- Arthur Penn
- Cast:
- Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
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It's 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitler's grip on occupied Europe, and plan to launch an all-out assault on Sicily; but they face an impossible challenge - how to protect the invasion force from potential annihilation. It falls to two remarkable intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew Macfadyen) to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war - centred on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. Operation Mincemeat is the extraordinary and true story of an idea that hoped to turn the tide for the Allies - taking impossibly high risks, defying logic, and testing the nerves of its creators to breaking point. - Director:
- John Madden
- Cast:
- Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly MacDonald
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When a disgraced spy surfaces with information concerning a double agent at the top of the British secret service, George Smiley (Gary Oldman), an ex-MI6 agent, is drawn back into murky field of espionage. Tasked with investigating which of his trusted former colleagues has chosen to betray him and their country, Smiley narrows his search to four suspects - all experienced, skilled and successful agents. However, past histories, rivalries and friendships make it far from easy to pinpoint the man who is eating away at the heart of the British establishment. - Director:
- Tomas Alfredson
- Cast:
- Gary Oldman, Michael Sarne, Colin Firth
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In 1961, Kempton Bunton (Jim Broadbent), a 60 year old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government invested more in care for the elderly - he had long campaigned for pensioners to receive free television. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge - Kempton had spun a web of lies. The only truth was that he was a good man, determined to change the world and save his marriage - how and why he used the Duke to achieve that is a wonderfully uplifting tale. - Director:
- Roger Michell
- Cast:
- Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Stephen Rashbrook
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True Things (2021)True Things About Me
Bored by the daily tedium of her office job, Kate (Ruth Wilson) is sleepwalking through life when a chance sexual encounter with a charismatic stranger (Tom Burke) awakens her. High on infatuation and the exhilaration of this new relationship, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to this mysterious new man. Hoping he will provide the escape she so desperately desires, she embarks on an emotionally dangerous journey that slowly begins to consume her. With a cast that also includes Hayley Squires, 'True Things' is the unmissable new film from acclaimed director Harry Wootliff. - Director:
- Harry Wootliff
- Cast:
- Ruth Wilson, Tom Burke, Hayley Squires
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Lucy (Scarlett Johansson), is tricked by her boyfriend into delivering a briefcase where she is grabbed and held hostage by the merciless Mr. Jang (Choi Min-Sik). His thugs surgically implant a package loaded with a powerful synthetic substance in her to smuggle it across the border. The package leaks and she develops superhuman traits. Lucy enlists the help of professor Samuel Norman (Morgan Freeman), whose decades of research on the brain's potential makes him unparalleled in the field and the only person with the ability to see where this might lead. Relentlessly pursued by her former captors Lucy begins to turn the tables and transform into a warrior evolved beyond human logic. - Director:
- Luc Besson
- Cast:
- Scarlett Johansson, Laura D'Arista Adam, Eunyul Hong
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Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021)Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle
Based on the unbelievable true story of Japan's lost soldier...Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide, stay alive whatever happens, the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, his role will be to wage a guerilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after, Onoda 10.000 days later. - Director:
- Arthur Harari
- Cast:
- Yûya Endô, Kanji Tsuda, Yûya Matsuura
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From award-winning writer/director Justin Chon and inspired by true events, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of an American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a uniquely Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander) and stepdad to their beloved daughter Jessie. Struggling to make a better life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past when he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home. - Director:
- Justin Chon
- Cast:
- Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O'Brien
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Uncharted (2022)Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Street-smart thief Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor "Sully" Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg) to recover a fortune lost by Ferdinand Magellan 500 years ago. What starts as a heist job for the duo becomes a globe-trotting, whiteknuckle race to reach the prize before the ruthless Moncada (Antonio Banderas), who believes he and his family are the rightful heirs. If Nate and Sully can decipher the clues and solve one of the world's oldest mysteries, they stand to find $5 billion in treasure and perhaps even Nate's long-lost brother...but only if they can learn to work together. - Director:
- Ruben Fleischer
- Cast:
- Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas
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The Worst Person in the World (2021)Verdens verste menneske
Acclaimed filmmaker Joachim Trier returns with 'The Worst Person in the World', a wistful and subversive romantic drama about the quest for love and meaning. Set in contemporary Oslo, it features a star-making lead performance from Renate Reinsve as a young woman who, on the verge of turning thirty, navigates multiple love affairs, existential uncertainty and career dissatisfaction as she slowly starts deciding what she wants to do, who she wants to be, and ultimately who she wants to become. As much a formally playful character study as it is a poignant and perceptive observation of quarter-life angst, this life-affirming coming of age story... - Director:
- Joachim Trier
- Cast:
- Renate Reinsve, Mia McGovern Zaini, Anders Danielsen Lie
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