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Anaïs in Love (2021)Les amours d'Anaïs
In this sparkling and elegant romantic comedy, the free-spirited and giddily impulsive Anais (Anais Demoustier) careers from one lover to the next while trying to find some direction in her life. Following a brief dalliance with an older man (Denis Podalydes), she finds herself captivated instead by his beautiful long-time partner Emilie (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), a successful and beguilingly charismatic writer, and an affair begins which may just offer the contentment Anais has been searching for. Featuring stunning Paris and Brittany locations, and a lead performance of immense charm by Anais Demoustier, the debut film by writer-director Charlene Bourgeois-Tacquet is playful, passionate, and thoroughly enchanting. - Director:
- Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
- Cast:
- Anaïs Demoustier, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Denis Podalydès
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"Emily" tells the imagined life of one of the world's most famous authors, Emily Brontë. The film stars Emma Mackey as Emily, a rebel and misfit, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. "Emily" explores the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling) and Anne (Amelia Gething); her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) and her care for her maverick brother (Fionn Whitehead) whom she idolises. Frances O'Connor makes her directorial debut with "Emily," from her own original screenplay. - Director:
- Frances O'Connor
- Cast:
- Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Fionn Whitehead
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After a tumultuous year, Cassie Bowden (Kaley Cuoco) has relocated to Los Angeles, living her best sober life with her supportive new boyfriend, Marco (Santiago Cabrera). She still works for Imperial Atlantic but now moonlights as an informant for the CIA. Cassie's latest mission takes her to Berlin, where she inadvertently witnesses a murder and spots a mysterious blonde with a very familiar tattoo. Does Cassie have a doppelganger? Meanwhile, Megan Briscoe (Rosie Perez) has been outside of the U.S. and on the run from authorities for over a year, and when Cassie misinterprets a cryptic message from her, she may end up placing them both in even more danger. Scaling new career heights in her Emmy-nominated performance, Kaley Cuoco returns for an addictively intriguing new season. - Director:
- Silver Tree
- Cast:
- Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Zosia Mamet, Deniz Akdeniz
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In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper (Jessie Buckley) retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her. What begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears in visionary filmmaker Alex Garland's feverish, shape-shifting new horror film. - Director:
- Alex Garland
- Cast:
- Jessie Buckley, Sonoya Mizuno, Rory Kinnear
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When veteran detective Danny Frater (James Nesbitt) arrives at a hospital mortuary for a routine ID check on a young woman's body, he gets a devastating shock: the corpse turns out to be his estranged daughter, Christina. Although the medical evidence points to suicide, Danny refuses to accept the findings of the autopsy, and he sets out on a chaotic and often agonising crusade to discover what really happened. Through a series of intense exchanges with those in Christina's orbit - played by the mesmerizing cast of Joely Richardson, Anne-Marie Duff, Richard E Grant, Antonia Thomas, Niamh Algar, Sam Heughan, Sacha Dhawan and Ben Miller) - Danny must decide who, if anyone, is responsible for Christina's death and what he's going to do about it. - Director:
- Dries Vos
- Cast:
- James Nesbitt, Imogen King, Sacha Dhawan
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"The Traveler's Wife" follows the spellbinding and intricately out-of-order love story between Clare Abshire (Rose Leslie) and Henry DeTamble (Theo James). At 6 years old, Clare meets Henry, a traveler visiting from another time. Fourteen years later, when a beautiful redhead wanders into the library where Henry works claiming she has known him all her life and that she is his future wife, a magical romance ensues that is as sprawling and complicated as Henry's attempts to explain his "condition". Over six episodes, the genre-bending drama series expertly weaves themes of love, loss, marriage and survival - in a story that defies the laws and logic of time. - Director:
- David Nutter
- Cast:
- Rose Leslie, Theo James, Everleigh McDonell
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In the sixth season of 'Outlander', the Frasers strive to maintain peace and flourish within a colonial society which - as Claire (Caitríona Balfe) knows all too well - is unwittingly marching toward Revolution. Against this backdrop, which heralds the birth of the new American nation, Claire and Jamie (Sam Heughan) have built a home together at Fraser's Ridge. They must now defend this home - established on land granted to them by the Crown - not only from external forces, but also from the increasing strife and conflict in the community within their care. - Director:
- Kate Cheeseman
- Cast:
- Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Sophie Skelton
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)Massive Talent / Unbearable Weight
In this wildly entertaining, action-packed comedy, Oscar winner Nicolas Cage plays...Nick Cage! Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, the fictionalized version of Cage accepts a million-dollar offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan (Pedro Pascal). Things take an unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative (Tiffany Haddish) and he must use his legendary acting skills, channeling his most iconic and beloved characters to become a real-life action hero. - Director:
- Tom Gormican
- Cast:
- Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Tiffany Haddish
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The Phantom of the Open (2021)The Fantastic Flitcrofts
"The Phantom of the Open" tells the remarkable true story of Maurice Flitcroft (Mark Rylance), a crane operator and optimistic dreamer from Barrow-in-Furness who, with the support of his family and friends, managed to gain entry to the 1976 British Open qualifying, despite never playing a round of golf before. With pluckiness and unwavering self-belief, Maurice pulls off a series of stunning, hilarious and heartwarming attempts to compete at the highest level of professional golf, drawing the ire of the golfing elite but becoming a British folk hero in the process. - Director:
- Craig Roberts
- Cast:
- Mark Rylance, Ian Porter, Tommy Fallon
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Midwich is a sleepy commuter town and a great place to bring up children. One evening, some of its inhabitants fall unconscious. Humans, animals, pass out without warning, without reason. For twelve hours no one can get into the Blackout Zone, and no one knows what's happening inside. Then suddenly everything returns to normal. But not quite. For something truly inexplicable has happened. Every woman of child-bearing age has fallen pregnant. The spawn of these pregnancies are The Midwich Cuckoos, a group of chillingly unusual "children". They will change this community forever, dividing loyalties, threatening lives both within the town and beyond and require a terrifying sacrifice in order to prevent them causing catastrophe. - Director:
- Alice Troughton
- Cast:
- Dexter Sol Ansell, Keeley Hawes, Synnove Karlsen
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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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This action-packed reimagining of the classic series stars the multi-talented Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall, a mysterious former CIA operative who draws upon a vast range of skills to defend innocent people in desperate need of a helping hand. Robyn may appear to be an ordinary single mom who is busy raising her teenage daughter. But when injustice arises, she takes covert action as 'The Equalizer', an enigmatic vigilante who evens the odds and brings justice to those who need it most. - Director:
- Liz Friedlander
- Cast:
- Queen Latifah, Tory Kittles, Adam Goldberg
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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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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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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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