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In a mesmerising career best, Matt Dillion plays failed architect turned serial killer Jack, who over the span of 12 years leads us through his thought processes behind his increasingly depraved acts of murder which he names 'incidents'.

With a supporting cast that includes Bruno Gantz, Uma Thurman, Riley Keough and Sofie Grabol, Lars von Trier returns to the directors chair with the original uncut version of his most daring and shocking film to date.

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When police officer Tadek (Jim Carrey) finds similarities between an unsolved murder and a crime outlined in a book by famed writer Krystov Kozlov (Marton Csokas) Tadek begins to track Kozlov and his girlfriend, a mysterious sex-club worker (Charlotte Gainsbourg).

As his obsession with Kozlov grows, Tadek descends into a deadly underworld of sex, lies, and corruption to find the shocking, deadly truth,

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From producer and director Steven Spielberg, with a script by screenwriter and playwright Tony Kushner, comes 'West Side Story'.

An adaptation of the 1957 musical, the film tells the tale of forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.

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The collateral damage of civil war is all-encompassing and unforgiving; a brutal setting for tense negotiations, especially when the results could have monumental consequences. Jon Hamm and Rosamund Pike star as CIA agents in this nail-biting intelligent thriller.

In 1972, former US diplomat, Mason Skiles (Jon Hamm), was caught up in a terrorist attack that changed his life forever. 10 years later, whilst working as a mediator in Boston, Skiles receives an unwanted invitation to visit Beirut, a territory plagued by war and violence. Quickly dragged back into the system he hastily left, Mason is assigned a mission of negotiating a swap with a terrorist group: a kidnapped American CIA agent for a terrorist leader. Obligated to cooperate, Skiles is assigned a cultural attache (Rosamund Pike) to help navigate the city. Unravelling clues and uncovering political agendas along the way, the duo discover that relationships between America, Palestine and Israel may be more convoluted, and even more corrupt, than first thought...'The Negotiator' is a suspenseful drama that questions government loyalties, how far one person is willing to push themselves in the pursuit of justice and where the moral line in the sand is drawn when faced with the severest of situations. Clandestine operations and a web of intrigue intertwine.

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Filmmaker and recluse Alex (Jonny Mars) lives in a van. He sets up his camera in rural areas in the US, in the no-man's land near highways. During a rare visit to his distant mother, she reveals a dark truth hidden since his childhood that threatens to unravel him.

Confused and unstable, Alex sets out to confront the looming shadow he has been running from all his life. But as he delves deeper in search of answers, Alex's grip on reality becomes increasingly more tenuous and before long he finds himself unable to determine right from wrong.

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For years, hulking lawman Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and lawless outcast Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) have traded smack talk and body blows.

But when cyber-genetically enhanced anarchist Brixton (Idris Elba) gains control of an insidious bio-threat that could alter humanity forever, Hobbs and Shaw must partner up to bring down the only guy who might be badder than themselves!

Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams star as Max and Annie, whose weekly couples' game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother (Kyle Chandler) plans a murder mystery party that turns out to be more than they bargained for.

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"The Legend of Ben Hall" tells the true story of one of Australia's most notorious criminals. After two ears on the road, bush-ranger Ben Hall considers surrending to the law when an old friend entices him back to a life of crime.

Taking on a fresh recruit the gang ride again, before long becoming the most wanted men in the British Empire. When they are declared outlaws, the three decide to flee^he colony forever. But their trusted friend becomes a police informant setting a cunning trap for the outlaws, and on the cold morning of May 5th 1865, Ben Hall emerges alone from his camp...and becomes a legend.

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Convinced they'll score big money fast by kidnapping a young surrogate mother (Juliette Lewis) carrying the child of a wealthy Southwestern couple, two small-calibre crooks soon run into major problems.

Realizing too late that they're in over their heads, the kidnappers fight to keep their plan from unraveling amid a rising tide of bloodshed, mind games and greed.

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Notorious outlaw Taylon Flynn (Lance Henriksen) is old, ill and unable to reconcile the man he was to the man he has become. But some men don't change.

When Flynn's estranged daughter finds herself in trouble dusts off his guns, summons the inner demons he buried long ago and sets out to exact hell and damnation on those responsible.

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Mr. King, the boss of the criminal underworld, dreams of going legit and attaining respectability. He kept his daughter Gráinne away from the street and groomed her for a career in show business. She was to be his ticket out of the ghetto until she went into meltdown and her career fell apart.

Fionn runs Mr. King's drug smuggling operation. Fionn has a bodyguard Diarmuid, whom he saved from the street as a boy. Fionn takes care of everyone and everything. He is the people's true chief. Mr. King sees the threat, tries to have Fionn assassinated, but fails. To avoid a gang-war, Fionn agrees to marry the King's daughter. It looks as if peace will reign in the underworld, but Gráinne has other plans.

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Sid's (Sidney James)'s idyllic dream of long lie-ins and fraternal wine-making with his pal Trevor (Peter Butterworth) is shattered when Ronald Baines (Terry Scott) and his family move in next door.

Things go from bad to worse due to some accidental property destruction on Sid's part - and daughter Sally's (Sally Geeson)'s over-enthusiastic attempt to put out a bonfire!

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In the world of martial arts, there is one man above all: Bruce Lee.

Young, hungry and looking for an opportunity to make a name for himself, Lee (Philip Ng) challenges legendary Shaolin monk and kung fu master, Wong Jack Man (Xia Yu), to a fight when he hears that he's crossing the Pacific to observe the state of kung fu in America. Their legendary fight would change the history of martial arts forever.

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Legendary CIA agent Scott Wheeler (Jean-Claude Van Damme) wakes to find himself imprisoned aboard a high-security government black site repurposed from a navy submarine.

Suspected of attempting to sell a CIA dongle that allows for the decoding of a drive containing information about CIA operatives around the world, Wheeler is interrogated before seizing his chance to escape his captors. Trapped on the ship and under fire, Wheeler must befriend rookie agent Cassie (Jasmine Waltz) and German special forces operative Marco (Dolph Lundgren) in order to get off the ship alive.

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Cliff Richard, in his final film role, stars as Tim Matthews, an ambitious young financier who gets the shock of his life when he's assigned a new posting in Birmingham - a far cry from the New York job he was promised! Making the most of the things he lives on the canal in a converted barge, but

he manages to put his foot right in it when he meets the pretty Sarah (Deborah Watling) and refuses her a loan! Featuring twelve classic songs including the Top 30-selling title track and filmed extensively on location in Birmingham, 'Take Me High' co-stars Debbie Watling, Hugh Griffith, George Cole and Anthony Andrews.