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During a road trip with his two best friends, Noah (Thibaut Cattelin), a young introverted engineer, meets "bad boy" Lohan (Jules Bahloul), with whom he will share the last 7 days of his trip. The two boys are going to experience a real roller coaster of emotions.

But after so much experience and after multiple sentimental rebounds, Noah will have to face the reality that not everything is always so rosey.

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One of the DGSE's (The General Directorate for External Security) top agents, Guillaume Debailly aka 'Malotru1, returns after a six-year undercover mission in Damascus.

Upon his arrival in Paris, Malotru's department gets hit with a major crisis: 'Cyclone', a secret agent operating in Algeria has completely vanished off the grid. Duflot, Director of the Bureau, assigns recently inducted psychiatrist, Dr. Balmes, to observe and draw up surveillance reports on each member of the force. In the midst of locating Cyclone, The Bureau must also maintain a close eye on promising new recruit, Marina. Once her training is complete, she will be sent on a difficult mission to infiltrate Iranian nuclear activity. But before being sent off, she has to complete a full test of her abilities: eluding pursuers, resisting violent interrogation tactics, remaining undercover at all times, and of course mastering manipulation. Malotru manages to make progress on the Cyclone case, but the many lives he has led as an undercover agent are now beginning to haunt him. When he discovers Nadia, the love of his life is in Paris, he breaks the Bureau's number one rule and secretly continues to live by his previous legend in order to reunite with her. For love, he is willing to risk it all... not only for himself, but the entire Bureau.

She loves him when he goes away for months. She loves him when he refuses to marry her. But when callow David Sutton (Van Heflin) chooses to marry someone else, Louise Howell's (Joan Crawford) love for him takes a darker turn. Give her a gun and she'll love him to death.

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Nicholas Hoult stars as Renfield, the tortured aide to history's most narcissistic boss: Dracula (Nicolas Cage). For centuries, Renfield has slavishly served Dracula by procuring his master's prey and doing his every bidding, no matter how debased.

But now, Renfield is ready to look for a new life outside the shadow of The Prince of Darkness, if only he can figure out how to end the toxic, codependent relationship...

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"Giant" is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land-rich Texans love, swagger, connive and clash in a saga of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons.

It's also one of the most beloved works of director George Stevens, who won an Academy Award for this film, one of 10 Oscar nominations the film earned.

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When Adam (Will Hutchins) has his first sexual experience his life is changed forever. He has to work and pursue his art. As well as coming to terms with being out to his friends and family.

He discovers growing up that fast is a balancing act of trying to keep everyone else happy as well as being true to himself. Being single was easy. Being out is hard.

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A powerful and romantic tale of a second chance at love and the power of redemption. When the right person comes along, anything can happen. After becoming concerned about her father Howard (James Cosmo), Grace (Catherine Walker) hires a caretaker in the form of Annie (Brid Brennan).

As a result of his reclusive nature, Howard initially rejects any help from Annie, but gradually the pair begin to bond, and Howard re-considers opening his heart to love and to be loved once more.

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Screen legends Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw team up with Martin Balsam and Hector Elizondo to deliver a sure-fire entertainment that's gripping and exciting from beginning to end and is guaranteed to give you the ride of your life.

A gang of armed professionals hijack a New York subway train somewhere outside the Pelham station threatening to kill one hostage per minute unless their demands are met. Forced to stall these unknown assailants until a ransom is delivered or a rescue is made, transit chief Lt. Garber (Matthau) must shrewdly outmaneuver one of the craftiest and cruelest villains (Shaw) in a battle of wits that will either end heroically or tragically.

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Bryn Cartwright (William Thoma), a wealthy roofing contractor, Rugby Club Chairman and local kingpin rules the roost until Fatty Lewis (Huw Ceredig), a local handyman, falls off a ladder on a Cartwright job. Bryn refuses to pay compensation.

The twins, Fatty's wayward sons, devise a wickedly comic way of getting even and Bryn ends up paying dearly. Representing the thin blue line of the Law are Terry (Dougray Scott) and Greyo (Dorien Thomas), two local policemen who employ their own dubious peacekeeping methods as events spiral out of control.

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Boris Karloff's legendary performance has become a landmark in the annals of screen history. As the mummy, Im-Ho-Tep, he is accidentally revived after 3,700 years by a team of British archaeologists.

It is revealed in a flashback that he was a high priest, embalmed alive for trying to revive the vestal virgin whom he loved, after she had been sacrificed. Alive again, he sets out to find his lost love. Today, over 50 years after The Mummy was first released, this brooding dream-like film remains a masterpiece not only of the genre, but for all time.

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In a restaurant run by two Italian immigrants, the tables sit empty despite the extraordinary talents of Primo the chef (Tony Shalhoub) and the ambitious efforts of his brother Secondo (Stanley Tucci).

A celebrity night at their restaurant promises not only to turn their business around but to change their lives.

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Alfred Hitchcock's landmark masterpiece of the macabre stars Anthony Perkins as the troubled Norman Bates, whose old dark house and adjoining motel are not the place to spend a quiet evening.

No one knows that better than Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), the ill-fated traveller whose journey ends in the notorious "shower scene". First a private detective, then Marion's sister (Vera Miles) searches for her, the horror and the suspense mount to a terrifying climax where the mysterious killer is finally revealed.

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The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. Chaplin is the sweet innocent, Keaton the stoic outsider, but Lloyd - the modern guy striving for success - is us. And with its torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts, Safety Last! is the perfect introduction to him.

Lloyd plays a small-town bumpkin / trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success. Laugh-out-loud funny and jaw-dropping in equal measure, Safety Last! is a movie experience par excellence, anchored by a genuine legend.

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Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.) returns from college in America to his father's (Claude Rains) mansion in Wales. After meeting Gwen Conliffe (Evelyn Ankers) in the local village, he escorts her to the local fair.

She tells him the local legend of the werewolf, but he laughs it off - even when gypsy fortune teller Maleva (Maria Ouspenskaya) and her son Bela (Bela Lugosi) also tell him to beware. Later in the evening Gwen's friend Jenny is attacked by a wild wolf. Larry rescues her, but is bitten in the process. Sure enough, when the next full moon comes round, Larry finds himself transformed into the wolfman - a murderous creature that can only be destroyed by silver.

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The screeching strings, the plunging knife, the slow zoom out from a lifeless eyeball: in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' changed film history forever with its taboo-shattering shower scene.

With 78 camera set-ups and 52 edits over the course of three minutes, 'Psycho' redefined screen violence, set the stage for decades of slasher films to come, and introduced a new element of danger to the movie-going experience. Aided by a roster of filmmakers, critics, and fans - including Guillermo del Toro, Bret Easton Ellis, Jamie Lee Curtis, Eli Roth, and Peter Bogdanovich - director Alexandre O. Philippe pulls back the curtain on the making and influence of this cinematic game changer, breaking it down frame by frame and unpacking Hitchcock's dense web of allusions and double meanings. The result is an enthralling piece of cinematic detective work that's nirvana for film buffs.