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The life of two brothers is shattered by the sudden appearance of their father, whom they know only from a 10 year old photograph.

Is he really their father? Why has he come back after so many years? The boys find some answers on a remote and desolate island travelling with this man who turned their lives upside down.

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A dark and harrowing drama involving murder, suspense and plenty of seat-gripping experiences for the viewer! Jerry Black (Jack Nicholson), a homicide detective, undertakers one last case on the day of his retirement.

An eight-year-old girl has been found murdered in the snow-covered mountains of Mexico and her mother begs Black to unravel the mystery of her daughter's death. With the help of local waitress Lori (Robin Wright Penn) and her young daughter Chrissy (Pauline Roberts), Black embarks on an unpredictable and riveting hunt for the killer where things are not always as they seem. Sean Penn's unique portrayal of this murder mystery makes for sensational viewing.

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When Angela begins researching her thesis on violence in TV and Cinema she enlists the help of her tutor, Figueroa, who searches through the University library for violent material for her to watch.

Upon finding Figueroa dead in the University projection room, Angela takes the tape he has been viewing and, too shocked to watch what she glimpses of it, forces herself to play it back with the contrast turned down, only allowing her to hear the bloodcurdling screams that fill the soundtrack. When a fellow student, Chema, persuades her to view the tape properly, they discover the horrifying truth of what she has in her possession: a "snuff" movie.

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The triumph of the human spirit is the theme of Rosi's epic film, in which Carlo Levi is exiled in 1935 by the ruling fascist dictatorship to a poverty-stricken village in the Basilicata region of southern Italy.

Levi finds himself in a stark world little changed since the middle ages in which the peasants scratch a meagre living from the land. But as Levi grapples with this new environment, it is the peasants' wisdom, humanity and spirit that help him to cope with his sense of helplessness and isolation.

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On a remote Mediterranean island, Mario Ruoppolo (Massimo Troisi), a shy and simple-minded fisherman's son, is hired to deliver mail to exiled 'poet of love' Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret).

As the two develop an improbable but tender friendship, Mario enlists Neruda's help to win the heart of a beautiful woman. During the sometimes hilarious courtship, Mario awakens the poet within himself and journeys on a life-changing course of romance and self-discovery.

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Zhenya (Maryana Spivak) and Boris (Aleksey Rozin) are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations.

Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page - even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha (Matvey Novikov). Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.

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Based on the novel by Labour MP Chris Mullin, and adapted for the screen by Alan Plater (Fortunes of War), 'A Very British Coup' imagines what might have happened if a Left-Wing Labour MP had become Prime Minister of the UK at the end of the 1980s.

Radical Leftist Harry Perkins (Ray McAnally), an unassuming working class politician from Sheffield, stands for open and honest government. Despite a landslide victory for Labour, Perkins is fighting for his seat from day one as the right-wing establishment and its American allies scheme to plot his downfall. Adultery, blackmail and conspiracies abound, Perkins remains committed to his socialist agenda. But when politics gets dirty, can he play the game and win?

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Among the most exciting voices in genre cinema to emerge in recent years, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead return with their third feature, 'The Endless'. Benson and Moorhead play brothers, former members of a "crazy UFO death cult", who receive a mysterious video cassette in the mail.

The tape contains an eerie calling card from their past, inviting them to attend an event called the Ascension. Despite their apprehension, the pair agree to return for one day. At first their old friends in the cult seem warm and welcoming, but things soon turn strange as the brothers find themselves drawn into a vortex of bizarre rituals, strange messages, unseen forces and sinister supernatural secrets that threaten to tear apart the very fabric of reality.

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Oscar and Golden Globe nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, "Tangerines" is a powerful and eloquent plea for peace and a poignant statement on the futility of violence stemming from racial and ethnic divisions.

Set in 1992, during the growing conflict between Georgia and Abkhazian separatists in the wake of the Soviet Union's dissolution, this compassionate story focuses on two Estonian immigrant farmers who refuse to flee Georgia, staying on to harvest their tangerine crop. When the fighting arrives on his doorstep, Ivo treats two wounded soldiers from opposite sides. During their extended period of convalescence under Ivo's roof, the enemies are forced not only to confront the reasons that fuel their hatred for each other, but also the conflict which rages around them.

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Inspired by real events, "Land of Mine" follows the dramatic story of the young German prisoners who, as World War II came to an end in 1945, were forced to defuse and remove two million mines on the Danish Coast.

Presided over by tough veteran Sergeant Carl Rasmussen (Roland Mailer), these teenage POW's were treated with hostility whilst being forced to dig up the mines from the sand with their bare hands with little training. When Rasmussen begins to sympathise and promises their release back to Germany when the task is completed, they soon realise that the war is far from over.

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Giuseppe Tomatore's loving homage to the cinema tells the story of Salvatore (Marco Leonardi, Salvatore Cascio, Jacques Perrin), a successful film director, returning home for the funeral of Alfredo (Philippe Noiret), his old friend who was the projectionist at the local cinema throughout his

childhood. Soon memories of his first love affair with the beautiful Elena (Agnes Nano) and all the highs and lows that shaped his life come flooding back, as Salvatore reconnects with the community he left 30 years earlier.

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Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Bela Tarr's epic rendering of Laszlo Krasznahorkai's novel, about the decline of Communism in Eastern Europe, is a unique and visionary masterpiece that defies classification and transcends genre.

Set in a struggling Hungarian agricultural collective, a group of lost souls reeling from the collapse of their Communist utopia face an uncertain future, until the arrival of a charismatic stranger in whom they believe lies their salvation. The collective's individual experiences and fates are gradually revealed in Tarr's immaculately composed, brilliantly photographed and bleakly comic tour-de-force, which confirmed his place as one of contemporary cinema's few genuine auteurs.

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September 26th 1983 - the cold war-era Soviet missile detection system flags five incoming missiles from the United States. Protocol dictates an immediate response, and the firing of retaliatory nuclear warheads, before it is too late.

"The Man Who Saved the World" is the astonishing true story of Lt. Colonel Stanislav E. Petrov, the man, who, for a few short minutes, held the fate of the world in his hands, as he decided whether to authorise a Soviet strike back, or to follow his instinct and wait, risking the wrath of his superiors, and the future of his nation... Ten years in the making, it is the remarkable story of an everyman hero, and the amazing secret Petrov kept to himself for more than a decade. He humbly asserts he was merely "in the right place at the right time", but, this film demonstrates that rarely has a single decision made by one man had such a profound effect on the modern world.

A murdered girl's defiant mother (Frances McDormand) boldly paints three local billboards, each with a controversial message, igniting a furious battle with a volatile cop (Sam Rockwell) and the town's revered chief of police (Woody Harrelson).

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Like most, Clara felt there was no place safer than home. She would go about her daily routine blissfully unaware of the uninvited guest watching her every move.

When small things start to change around her flat, she begins to question her sanity, but nothing can prepare her for the horrifying truth. Soon she will discover the sickening extremes her twisted predator has in store for her...