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Jonathan (Jannis Niewöhner) is 23; he and his aunt, Martha (Barbara Auer), work on their farm. Jonathan also devotes himself to looking after his father Burghardt (André Hennicke), who has cancer. But his father stubbornly sabotages his son's efforts to care for him.

Jonathan finds it increasingly difficult to cope until they hire a young caretaker, Anka (Julia Koschitz), to help. Jonathan and Anka fall in love; her experience of working at a hospice helps Jonathan to gain a new insight into his father's situation. But then Burghardt's long-lost boyhood friend Ron (Thomas Sarbacher) appears on the scene and his health visibly improves. The family sees Ron as an intruder; then Jonathan discovers that, many years ago, his father and Ron were deeply in love. All at once, the facade of cherished family beliefs crumbles and long-repressed secrets come to light. Can Jonathan forgive his father?

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A fabulously delicious, totally erotic, forbidden love story, 'Wild Awakening' is equal part drama and gay soap opera! Emma and Toni run a riding school where men are forever seemingly running around topless.

Toni's life is mostly notable for his uncontrolled and promiscuous gay sex life - so when he falls for the foreman's gorgeous son Aaron, it causes shockwaves around the close-knit community, and for Aaron's homophobic father. Stacked full of the hottest latino men you've ever laid eyes on, and dripping with sensuality, 'Wild Awakening' is about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on!

In Marvel's Doctor Strange, a world-famous neurosurgeon seeking a cure finds powerful magic in a mysterious place known as Kamar-Taj - the front line of a battle against unseen dark forces bent on destroying our reality.

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In what is already being heralded as one of her greatest performances, Marion Cotillard plays Sandra, whose employment is threatened when, behind her back, upper management offer the workforce a significant bonus if they vote for Sandra to lose her job.

With only a single weekend to spare she must confront each of her co-workers and persuade them to change their decision so she can maintain her livelihood. Join Sandra on her precarious, humbling and inspirational journey...

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Why is it the people you're closest to that always seem to cause you the most grief? "Two Doors Down" features a cast of truly distinctive characters - Beth (Arabella Weir) and Eric (Alex Norton), Cathy (Doon Mackichan) and Colin (Jonathan Watson), Christine (Elaine C Smith) and daughter Sophie

(Sharon Rooney), Ian (Jamie Quinn) and Jaz (Harki Bhambra) - all ready to support each other through life's highs and lows. That sounds like a blessing but it's often more of a curse. From day-to-day, apparently trivial, events to life-defining decisions and ordeals, what starts out as friendly interest usually snowballs into trodden toes, crossed boundaries and seriously frayed tempers. Also featuring the New Year's Eve special.

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Disillusioned with his life in Paris, Pierre Tomas (Pascal Cervo) drops everything to travel through France. Via phone numbers written in bathroom stalls, coincidental rendezvous, and Grindr, a smartphone app, Pierre never ceases to find a parking spot for the car he so dearly maneuvers.

As he wanders the country for four days and four nights, his lover, Paul (Arthur Igual), will try to find him, using the same app that compasses Pierre. In a game of absurdist cat and mouse, these two lovers try, in their own ways, to find their way back to one another.

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Winner of three Academy Awards including best picture, "Moonlight" is a breath-taking coming-of-age story and the best reviewed film of the year.

"Moonlight" follows the story of Chiron (Ashton Sanders) from his early childhood in his depressed Miami neighbourhood to adulthood in Atlanta as he navigates the dangers of drugs, violence, family, love and sexuality.

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"I Am Michael" is the incredible true-life story of Michael Glatze (James Franco), a high profile gay youth activist who created a national controversy when he claimed to no longer be gay and became a straight Christian pastor.

The film follows Michael from his life in San Francisco with his boyfriend Bennett (Zachary Quinto), where he pursues political activism, a journalist career at XY Magazine, social awareness, and sexual exploration, to his days of personal self-discovery. After a traumatic scare, Michael is plagued by doubt and paranoia, and begins a religious reawakening. Michael renounces his gay lifestyle, rejects his friends, and endeavors to find his "true self". He explores Buddhism and Mormonism, yet ultimately lands at a Christian Bible school in rural Wyoming where he meets his girlfriend, Rebekah (Emma Roberts), and becomes the pastor of his own church. This powerful new film captures one man's haunting journey through modern concepts of love, denial and redemption.

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Andreas (Philipp Hochmair) and Stefan (Lukas Turtur) lead a happy and passionate life: Together with their beloved tomcat Moses, they live in a beautiful old house in Vienna's vineyards. They work as a musician and as a scheduler in the same orchestra and they love their large circle of friends.

An unexpected and inexplicable outburst of violence suddenly shakes up the relationship and calls everything into question - the blind spot that resides in all of us.

Two young professional soccer players share a hotel room the night before their first big game. Out of nowhere, one kisses the other. This 'pass' echoes through the next ten years of both their lives - a decade of fame and failure, secrets and lies, in a sporting world where image is everything.

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Inspired by scripture and rooted in history, 'The Young Messiah' imagines a year in the boyhood of Jesus (Adam Greaves-Neal). When the mystery of Jesus' divinity begins to unfold in his early years, he turns to his parents for answers.

But Mary (Sara Lazzaro) and Joseph (Vincent Walsh), in an effort to protect their child, are afraid to reveal all they know. How do you explain the ways of the world to its creator? Follow the young Messiah as he and his family take the extraordinary journey from Egypt to Nazareth and on to Jerusalem - where his true identity and profound destiny are revealed.

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In this Hitchcock-influenced thriller from acclaimed director Jacques Rivette, a brilliant medical researcher learns that a trusted colleague may have been responsible for the seemingly accidental death of her father.

Embarking on a mission of vengeance, she soon finds herself embroiled in a mystery of lust and intrigue and unearths some disturbing truths about her own family.

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Fiesta is not just a film about the Spanish Civil War, it is a historical drama which serves as a setting fro the parallel evolution of two individuals caught up in a conflict similar to those developing around the world.

One is a young man who grows from a privileged and pampered youth into a uniformed killer in the space of a few days; the other, a cynical older man who has devoted himself to war – a man who recognizes the wrong he is doing but is powerless to stop himself.

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Before the Rain unravels within an unstable and hostile climate where ingrained anxiety and Fears of the past and present and political unrest lead to hate and violence. Comprising of three stories, Words, Faces and Pictures. Each focus on conflicted love haunted by a greater context.

Both doomed by history and complicated by love. In Words we meet Kiril a young monk who has taken a vow of silence in a reclusive monastery. He meets Zamira a young Albanian girl who stands accused of murder and on the run from a revenge mob. In Faces we meet Aleksander, a disillusioned war photographer just returned from assignment and hoping to rekindle and relocate his affair with Anne a married London based picture editor. The final story, Pictures, sees Aleksander return to his native village in Macedonia, now politically divided. Despite the cost, he helps Hana, his first love, whose daughter is accused of murder. Set mostly in Macedonia during the early 1990s the film occupies a time just after the countries independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.

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When Laure (Valerie Lemercier) leaves her apartment to have dinner with a couple of friends, she unwittingly drives directly into one of the biggest traffic jams that Paris has ever seen.

Once there, she is captive to the Paris night and, with nothing else to do, she listens to the radio and lets her imagination run wild. Soon, the motorists blocking the streets begin offering shelter to pedestrians caught in the rain. Remaining cautious, Laure keeps the doors of her car firmly closed. But she sees a stranger (Vincent Lindon) and impulsively decides to take a chance. And so begins a night of unplanned and unrestrained sensuality.