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Unemployed teenager Ronnie (Robert Buchanan) and his hapless pals spend their time hanging around the rainy parks and dingy cafes of Glasgow, but their world is about to change when Ronnie hatches a plan to make them all rich.

This epic drama explores the life and music of Elvis Presley as seen through the prism of Presley's complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

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London, 1953. Mr. Williams, played by Bill Nighy, is a veteran civil servant, a cog in the city's stifling bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild following WWII. After a shattering health diagnosis, it dawns on him he has not been living his life to the full.

Amidst the fog of his paperwork, and his loneliness at home, he yearns to find fulfilment before it's too late. He is encouraged in his search by two younger colleagues - the vibrant Margaret (Aimee Lou Wood) and idealistic new recruit Peter (Alex Sharp) - and a hedonistic stranger, Sutherland (Tom Burke), encountered during a desperate trip to the seaside.

Margherita is a film director who quickly finds out that her lead Hollywood actor (John Turturro) is rather difficult to work with. If his demands weren't enough, her mother's health has recently declined and Maigherita struggles to find die balance and harmony between work and family life.

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What connects us? Is it our relationships? Proximity? Love, hate, confusion? What draws us together or keeps us apart? In this groundbreaking work, director Robert Altman poses answers to these questions by intricately intertwining the stories of legendary writer Raymond Carver.

'Short Cuts' burst onto the scene in 1993 and set the stage for an entirely new way of thinking about storytelling that has been fully comprehended and embraced by modern filmmakers in recent years. Winning a special award for its ensemble cast at the 1994 Golden Globes, Short Cuts features a seemingly endless dream cast. Never before and not since its release has a single film captured the range of human emotions and interactions like Short Cuts has. You're invited to experience the countless moments that make up these characters' lives at a time and in a place where death is never far away and life is on the tip of everybody's tongue.

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From acclaimed Palme d'Or winning director Nanni Moretti comes The Caiman, at once an irresistible comedy and a full frontal attack on former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlisconi.

Bankrupt in his professional and personal life, Z-grade movie producer Bruno is finding it hard to raise the finance for his latest project. Entangled in debt, struggling with a capsizing marriage and wayward kids, Bruno is going under. By chance, he meets a young director who gives him her script, The Caiman. At first Bruno takes it for a half-hearted thriller; a more careful - if belated - reading reveals a film about Berlisconi. As his professional and personal life disintegrate around him, Bruno rediscovers his dignity and passion as he fights to finish the film.

Former Economist Editor Bill Emmott and filmmaker Annalisa Piras explore Italy's political, economical and social decline over the past 20 years, the product of a moral collapse unmatched elsewhere in the West.

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In season 5 of worldwide hit 'The Bureau', JJA (Mathieu Amalric), Director of Internal Security, has taken over managing the Bureau as Marie-Jeanne (Florence Loiret Caille) is testing her fieldwork skills on the ground in Egypt.

The DGSE will be shaken up by rumors published about Malotru's (Mathieu Kassovitz) fate: is he really dead? What role did DGSE and the CIA play? In the end, Malotru, dead or alive, will never stop confronting each one of his own dead ends, in Sinai, in Jeddah, Phnom Penh, Moscow, Cairo and...in Paris.

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From writer-director Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) comes a unique film starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.

Although Padraic (Farrell) and CoIm (Gleeson) have been lifelong friends, they find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, bringing alarming consequences for both of them.

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She's back. Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd), the girl who broke Duane Jackson's (Jeff Bridges) heart, has returned to Anarene, Texas.

And now Duane is not only harried by a busted business, a sarcastic wife (Annie Potts) and a rambunctious son - who steals his mistresses - but also by Jacy, who's come home to find herself...and the love she left behind.

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This outrageous comedy finds a rogues' gallery of wealthy guests (from business tycoons to heiresses) aboard a hyper-luxury yacht, whose downtrodden staff - under the command of their captain and avowed Marxist (Woody Harrelson) - must respond to their every belittling whim in the hope of winning

tips. Among the super-rich patrons are the oh-sobeautiful couple Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), two models and social-media influencers who have been invited on a free trip to show off the kind of lavish lifestyle many could only dream of.

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Jack Nicholson returns as private eye Jake Gittes in this atmospheric 'Chinatown' follow-up that's hit upon "the elusive sequel formula for somehow enhancing a great original". Much has changed since we last saw Jake. The war has come and gone, 1948 Los Angeles teems with optimism and fast bucks.

But there's one thing Jake knows hasn't changed: "Nine times out of ten, if you follow the money you will get to the truth". And that's the trail he follows when a routine case of marital hanky panky explodes into a murder that's tied to a grab for oil - and to Jake's own past.

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This long-forgotten gem in Renoir's canon is the director's only truly epic film. Made towards the end of France's left wing "Popular Front" government when Europe was on the brink of war, 'The Marseillaise' is a markedly political film about a country in flux.

With an innovative new-reel style, the film follows a cross-section of people - from the citizens of Marseilles to Louis XVI - who are affected by the shifting political and social forces in the early days of the French revolution.

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The stunning debut from Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells, 'Aftersun' juxtaposes a hopeful coming-of-age story with a poignant, intimate family portrait that leaves an indelible impression.

At a fading vacation resort in the late 1990's, 11-year-old Sophie (Frankie Corio) treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie's tender recollections of their last holiday become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father, she knew with the man she didn't, in Charlotte Wells' superb and searingly emotional debut film.

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Dovzhenko's landmark 'film poem' style brings to life the collective experience of life for the Ukranian workers, examining natural cycles through his epic montage. He explores life, death, violence, sex and other issues as they relate to the collective farms.

An idealistic vision of the possibilities of communism made just before Stalinism set in and the Kulack class was liquidated, 'Earth' was viewed negatively by many soviets because of its portrayal of death and other dark issues that come with revolution.