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Catherine Breillat's film 'Sex Is Comedy' was inspired by her own experiences shooting a sex scene in her controversial feature 'A Ma Soeur'.

Anne Parillaud plays film director Jeanne, a demanding perfectionist who has a challenge on her hands creating convincing on-screen passion between her reluctant young lead actor and actress (Gregoire Colin and Roxane Mesquida) who can barely conceal their dislike for each other. But the shooting of the film's most intimate scene brings the growing tensions between all three simmering to the surface. With disarming humour and brutal honesty, Breillat examines and atempts to understand what happens on a shoot when scenes involving physical intimacy arise.

Long nights and loneliness in the underbelly of Buenos Aires. Shot over four years with non actors, sex workers and creatures of the night. Lived, directed and acted by Edgardo Castro, whose directing remininsces on Pasolini and early Gaspar Noe.

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Line of Duty returns for an explosive second series with another high octane police corruption tale. When a police convoy is ambushed by armed criminals, three officers are killed and a protected witness critically injured.

Convinced that the gunmen were tipped off by a police source, AC12 - DS Steve Arnott (Martin Compston), DC Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) and Superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) joined by DC Georgia Trotman (Jessica Raine) - must track down the leak. Initially AC12's most valuable witness, suspicion soon falls on the sole surviving officer, DI Lindsay Denton (Keeley Hawes). In pursuit of their prey, AC12 find a web of corruption and vice with links to the very top of the force.

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Beatrice (Juliet Stevenson) and her teenage son Elliot (Alex Lawther) spend a week packing up the contents of their remote holiday house in the South of France.

Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his sexuality and she in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément (Phénix Brossard) enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and finally, each other. "Departure" is an intimate story beginning at dawn on the first day and ending at night on the sixth day, charting the end of a summer, the end of a childhood and the end of an otherwise nuclear, middleclass family.

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When a counterterrorism raid goes tragically wrong, Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott refuses to participate in a cover-up.

Ostracised by colleagues, he transfers to an anticorruption unit, AC-12, in the process of investigating one of the Force's most respected officers, Detective Chief Inspector Tony Gates. Not only has Gates just been awarded Officer of the Year, his squad has returned the best crime figures for three consecutive years. But can anyone really be that good? Arnott doesn't think so and soon he and Gates are embroiled in a game of cat-and-mouse but as the stakes get higher it isn't just careers on the line it's lives.

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Jayson Bend - International Super Spy. He's sexy, he's highly capable...

and he likes men! When the owner of the largest global hair salon chain threatens to launch a satellite that would turn him into the most powerful man in the world, it falls on Jayson's broad shoulders to thwart his plans, It could be his toughest assignment yet, and when he teams up with Swiss agent Alec DeCoque things start to get very sticky indeed. Look no further world, your first gay super-spy has arrived and he ain't taking any prisoners!

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Sixteen-year old Antonio (Leonardo Pazzagli), a typically handsome basketball player, Blu a head strong and sexually confident woman, and new kid Lorenzo (Rimau Ritzberger Grillo), an openly gay fashionista and huge Lady Gaga fan - form the sort of intimate bond only teenagers can, creating a

protective shield for each other from their fellow classmates and home dramas. But with barely containable hormones constantly bubbling to the surface, complications inevitably arise between the best of friends, eventually creating a circumstance none could predict.

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At its heart, a love story between two lost boys, 'I Promise You Anarchy' manages to be at once chilling and heart-rending. Miguel, from a middle-class family, and Johnny, from a humble barrio, are skateboarders, are best friends and lovers.

To finance their lifestyle, they sell their own blood, and those of their gang of skateboarders and acquaintances, to clandestine clinics, until a big delivery job for the mafia goes wrong. Echoing the laid back eroticism of Gus Van Sant at his most playful, with shades of a modern-day neo-noir, this visually arresting film is a sumptuous and occasionally chilling journey into the illicit underbelly of Mexico s capital.

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James (Reef Ireland), 18, has been released from juvenile detention after serving time for his involvement in the suspected drowning of a young boy in a river years earlier.

Ravaged with uncertainty, dealing with an estranged family and forced to face the dead boy's mother, James is set upon a journey of self discovery, shocking revelations and danger as questions surrounding the boy's death brim to the surface. Complicating matters further James also becomes embroiled in a love triangle between himself, Anthony and the holidaying Damien. Old friendships are questioned, family ties are tested and lives are put on the line as James must find his path to the truth. It's a path that will lead him...Downriver.

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Sally Wainwright writes and directs this one-off British television drama which follows the lives of renowned authors the Brontë sisters.

Set in 1840s Yorkshire, sisters Anne (Charlie Murphy), Charlotte (Finn Atkins) and Emily (Chloe Pirrie) must come together after their troubled brother Branwell (Adam Nagaitis) struggles to come to terms with a failed love affair and becomes consumed by alcohol and drug addictions. With their family situation worsening by the day, the sisters turn to writing as a way to escape the hardships of their family life. The cast also includes Jonathan Pryce and Rebecca Callard.

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Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt) is infatuated by the seemingly perfect couple she sees from her daily commuter train that runs past their house. One day she sees something shocking and in that moment, everything changes.

Driven by intrigue and obsession, Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afar, but to what lengths will she go to uncover the truth?

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Poland, 1990. The winds of change are blowing in Poland. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, fight for their happiness and fulfill their desires.

Agata (Julia Kijowska) is a young mother, trapped in an unhappy marriage, who seeks refuge in another, impossible relationship. Renata (Dorota Kolak) is an older teacher fascinated with her neighbor Marzena (Marta Nieradkiewicz) - a lonely former local beauty queen, whose husband works in Germany. Marzena's sister Iza (Magdalena Cielecka) is a headmistress in love with the father of one of her students.

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A teenager, Keiran (Anthony Boyle) wakes up near a cliff, injured and unable to remember how he got there. He is chained to Mr. Andrews, a teacher from his school (Robert Render), and there is a gun gaffer-taped to each one's hand.

An unknown person soon sends them shocking instructions of what they must do next, as the horror of the situation unfolds with nail-biting consequences. As family members (Vivian Jamison and Caroline Burns Cooke) try to unravel the devastating events, they face unexpected twists that will keep viewers guessing the truth to the very end.

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Fabio is a 21 year old hustler working the heady streets of Rio when he meets Edu, a successful author. They embark on a passionate and wild relationship. But whilst Fabio is sexually adventurous and carefree, Edu has demons to face, and finds emotional connections difficult.

Together they must try to navigate a path together - can they really live for the moment, or will the crushing realities of life crush them completely?

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Featuring a brand new soundtrack from Radiohead's Thom Yorke, Massive Attack and Elbow and narrated by Dominic West (The Wire), journalist Mark Donne has put together a fascinating documentary exposing the tax avoidance 'industry' operated by the highly secretive, centuries old institution, The

City of London. 'The UK Gold' takes a powerful swipe against the British Empire behind the white gloves, and tells the story of a contemporary crisis and an ancient practice, which shows how deep deception is ingrained in our proudest institutions and traditions.