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Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) is a young film student struggling to find a firm direction in life when she meets the seemingly unwavering and decisive Anthony (Tom Burke). The two immediately take to one another and an intense romance blossoms between them.

However, as the relationship develops it becomes clear that Anthony is not being honest about all aspects of himself and Julie slowly discovers that the)' could have potentially devastating consequences for them both. One of Britain's most unique filmmakers Joanna Hogg (Archipelago, Unrelated) presents a deeply personal examination of her own youthful experiences in this beautifully crafted, Martin Scorsese produced portrait of self discovery, 'The Souvenir'.

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Working the underbelly of the Paris streets as a narcotics cop, Lucien 'Lulu' Marguet (Didier Bezace) is a man who refuses to play by the rules, much to the disenchantment of his superiors.

Assigned to the drug squad, he is driven only by a desire to rid the streets of dealers and prevent innocent lives being destroyed by addiction to heroin. However Lulu's professional ideals are constantly tested by the pressure of poor funding, and corrupt, incompetent colleagues.

Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney (Mark Ruffalo) uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything - his career, his livelihood, and his family - to expose the truth.

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Ambitious, award-winning German series, 'Babylon Berlin' is thrilling crime period drama.

Opening in the fall of 1929 Berlin, during the tumultuous weeks before Black Friday's stock market crash, the third series sees Inspector Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) and Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries) assigned to investigate the death of an actress, only to realise that the film industry is as rotten as the underworld. In the meantime, the Black Reichswehr are regathering their forces for their next attempt to bring down democracy and provoke more clashes with the Communists.

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A carefully crafted, open-to-everything mixture of live-wire reality and controlled narrative, Medium Cool is the debut fiction feature of Haskell Wexler, who had already established himself as one of Hollywood's premiere cinematographers in the post-studio-system-era on such films as Elia Kazan's

America, America and Mike Nichols' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. In 1968, he hurled himself into the tear-gas of the cultural-political moment. The result was, alongside Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider, a seminal early work of what came to be known as "the New Hollywood". John plays a television cameraman who has become disenchanted as a creative subservient to the mainstream. Eileen depicts a newly relocated war-widow swept up in the maelstrom of the conflicts of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago - the actual events of which serve as the spontaneous backdrop for Wexler's picture.

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Laura (Penelope Cruz) and her children travel from Buenos Aires to the small Spanish village where she was born to attend her sister's wedding. Unexpected events soon lead to a crisis that exposes the family's hidden past.

Suspicions mount, loved ones begin to turn on one another, and dark secrets long hidden threaten to come to light, revealing shocking truths.

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Inga (Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir) runs a dairy farm with her husband in a remote valley of Iceland where they work long hours for a tight income due to their buyers, a money-grubbing monopoly known as the co-op.

However, when Inga's husband tragically dies she learns her debts are even greater than she thought and takes it upon herself not to repay them but to expose the co-op's greed and corruption by any means necessary.

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Berlin, 1929: a metropolis in turmoil. Speculation and inflation are tearing away at the foundations of the young Weimar Republic. Growing poverty and unemployment stand in stark contrast to the excesses and indulgence of the city's night life and its overflowing creative energy.

Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch), a young police inspector from Cologne, is transferred to Berlin. Together with stenotypist Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries) and his partner Bruno Wolter (Peter Kurth), Rath is confronted with a tangled web of corruption, forcing him into an existential conflict as he is torn between loyalty and uncovering the truth. With the political unrest and rising National Socialism, even an institution like the 'Rote Burg', Berlin's police headquarters is increasingly becoming the melting pot of a democracy whose days are numbered. This is 'Babylon Berlin'.

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After serial burglar Maurice Faugel (Serge Reggiani) is released from his latest stint behind bars, he quickly returns to his criminal ways and plans a robbery with Silien (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Rémy (Philippe Nahon).

After murdering an old associate in retaliation for the killing of his former girlfriend, Maurice becomes racked with suspicion and distrust of everyone around him amid rumours that Silien has become a police informant. When Maurice and Rémy carry out a robbery of their own, the police quickly close in on them and Maurice begins to unravel the deadly web of deceit that has formed around him.

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Patrick Keiller's imaginative and highly original film documenting a journey undertaken by the unseen 'researcher' Robinson and his similarly unseen companion, the film's narrator (voiced by Paul Scofield).

London is a journal of 1992, the year of John Major’s re-election, IRA bombs and the first crack in the House of Windsor. Scathing reflections on the recent past are enlivened by offbeat humour and wide-ranging literary anecdotes.

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In Series 4 of the critically-acclaimed French spy series 'The Bureau', Malotru (Mathieu Kassovitz) is hiding out in Moscow while being relentlessly pursued by the CIA and DGSE (France s Directorate-General for External Security).

In order to survive he explores a collaboration with the Russian secret service. Back in Paris, the Bureau of Legends, the most confidential branch of the DGSE, is in the crosshairs of JJA (Mathieu Amalric, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), the new Director of Internal Security within the DGSE. JJA feels very strongly that The Bureau is due for a big shake-up: believing it had been under Malotru s influence for far too long. The Bureau nevertheless goes ahead and launches two large-scale operations: one to infiltrate Russian hackers in Moscow, the other to track French jihadists across the Middle East. Both missions push the Bureau agents to their limit, and up against the unavoidable shadow of Malotru.

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Based on the internationally bestselling Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante, the critically acclaimed global smash hit returns for a second season. Lila (Gaia Girace) and Elena (Margherita Mazzucco), now 16, are on the cusp of womanhood.

Lila is just married but worries that she has lost her identity in taking her husband's name; Elena is a model student but acknowledges that while she no longer belongs in the neighborhood she is yet to find her place in the outside world. During a holiday in Ischia, the two girls reconnect with their childhood acquaintance Nino (Francesco Serpico), an encounter that will forever change the nature of their bond, propelling the girls onto two completely contrasting paths, threatening their close connection with jealousy and betrayal as they follow, lose and find each other again.

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The three films here give a glimpse of the range of Straub and Huillet - films in German, French and Italian from 1967 to 2003, all adapted from pre-existing texts.

They have been described as the greatest of unknown film-makers and their works have never been available on video in the UK before this set.

Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1967)
Bach's life told from the vantage of his second marriage is the subject of this almost documentary-like him shot in many of the places Bach (Gustav Leonhardt) worked. Bach's music is the raw material for this portrait of the man.
Sicilia! (1998)
Based on a 1939 work banned in fascist Italy, the film follows the return to Sicily of an emigrant who spent years abroad. His conversations provide some of the most memorable moments in contemporary cinema.
Une Visite au Louvre (2004)
Cezanne's comments on his fellow-artists, as put into writing by the poet Joachim Gasquet (voice of Jean-Marie Straub), are read out as the camera shows a selection of the works in the Louvre that he admires or criticises.

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Sandrine Bonnaire won a Best Actress Cesar for her portrayal as Mona - a young and defiant drifter in this tragic story. Using a largely non-professional cast Varda recollects Mona's story through flashbacks of those who encountered her, producing a splintered portrait of an enigmatic woman.

She's not a kind girl but courageous while wandering in the winter. She announces in 1984 the collective conciousness of homeless people dying from the cold.

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Ricky (Kris Hitchen) and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self employed delivery driver.

It's hard work, and his wife's job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.