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This visually dazzling romantic drama is based on a fable about the minstrel Ashik Kerib by the great Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov.

Refused the hand of the woman he loves because of his poverty, Ashik Kerib vows to wander the world for 1,001 nights in search of his fortune - unless he returns a rich man, she will marry another.

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Peter has it all: a wife and children who love him dearly, a comfortable home and a successful career. Then he meets flamboyant newspaper vendor Nassim, and the sexual desires he has struggled to suppress for so long start to boil to the surface.

Uncomfortable with the pangs of genuine sexual attraction, yet eager to explore them further with this stranger, Peter eventually decides to meet Nassim on a park bench in the picturesque Keillers Park. They fall in love almost instantly. However, those around Peter abhor his newfound relationship. His wife divorces him and takes the children. His father and sister disown him and he loses his job. And while the joys of the gay scene and an exuberant nightlife provide short-term excitement for Peter and Nassim, the fate of their meeting one another has sealed another, more disturbing fate, one that will tear them apart.

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Unanimous winner of all three main prizes at the 1973 Locarno International Film Festival, Zanussi's landmark film is a dazzling kaleidoscope of ideas and images. Illumination explores the life of a self-absorbed young physicist trying to understand his place in the universe.

He thinks science will provide the answers, but ultimately learns far more about himself through experiencing love, betrayal, loss, and facing his own mortality. As much a philosophical essay as a narrative feature, Illumination is a cinematic mosaic combining art and science, intellect and emotion. Innovatively structured, this unflinching examination of one man's life became an iconic cultural marker for a whole generation.

Includes the Following: - Dare - In the closet - Area x - The young and evil - Dish :) - Bugcrush - Astoria, Queens

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Film recounts the adventures of Gustave H., a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars; and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.

The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting; a raging battle for an enormous family fortune; a desperate chase on motorcycles, trains, sleds, and skis; and the sweetest confection of a love affair - all against the backdrop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.

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A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his teacher.

Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, and finds himself strangely compelled as the boy becomes more dangerously involved with his class-mate's attractive mother. However, as the line between reality and fiction becomes blurred, the boy's intrusion unleashes a series of uncontrollable events.

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Set in a poor, steamy Havana, 'The Last Match' centers on an intense love affair between two hitherto heterosexual young men. Reiner and Yosvani - best friends and soccer mates.

In order to support his mother, wife and baby, Reiner prostitutes himself to older male foreigners while the shy Yosvani is reluctantly engaged to a girl and lives with her bombastic loan shark father. Sharing a kiss at a nightclub, the two men succumb to their desires, followed by a lusty rooftop encounter where they quickly fall hard for one another. But as their love intensifies, the challenge is not with them but with the unforgiving outside world they exist in. A brilliantly evocative and emotional film, 'The Last Match' is an unashamedly sexy and romantic tour de force.

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An edifying must-see that has received accolades at film festivals the world over, We Were Here is the first film to take a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and impact of a definitive chapter in a city's queer history.

It explores how the inhabitants were affected by, and how they responded to, a calamitous epidemic. Though a San Francisco-based story, We Were Here extends beyond San Francisco and beyond AIDS itself. It speaks to our capacity as individuals to rise to the occasion, and to the incredible power of a community coming together with love, compassion, and determination. In the face of adversity they stood strong and united. This is their story.

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Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece. Based on a true story from the acclaimed Bafta and Academy Award winning director Roman Polanski. They were degraded, they were hoarded up and they were sent to die.

A brave few fought back, but one man would not be beaten, would not be taken and would stay and hide. Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a brilliant Polish pianist, a Jew, escapes deportation. Forced to live in the heart of the Warsaw ghetto, he shares the suffering, the humiliation and the struggles, and manages to escape and hide in the ruins of the capital.

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Krysztof Kieslowski?'s 'A Short Film About Love' was expanded from one of the most lyrical episodes in 'Dekalog', his celebrated cycle of short films based on the Ten Commandments. A young man falls in love with an older woman who lives across the courtyard in the same Warsaw apartment block.

He watches her and her succession of lovers until she becomes aware of his spying and confronts him with a sexual invitation.

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Lars von Trier's bold, brilliant and controversial new film tells the story of Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg and newcomer Stacy Martin), a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, from birth to the age of 50. One night, a gentle old bachelor named Seligman (Stellan Skarsgard) finds Joe beaten up in an alley.

After taking her to his flat he cares for her wounds and questions her about her life, listening intently as, over the film's eight chapters, she recounts the lusty, labyrinthine story of her life...

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The new film from Alexander Sokurov, the acclaimed director of 'Russian Ark', is a tale of the devoted loving bond between a father and his teenage son and the conflicted emotions that arise as the latter begins to make his own way in the world.

The second part of a proposed trilogy about familial love that began with 'Mother and Son', the film bears Sokurov's hallmark visual splendour, intensity and sense of suspended time. Intimately photographed and expressively played by non-professional leads Andrey Shchetinin and Aleksey Neymyshev, 'Father and Son' is a haunting and powerful exploration of a love almost mythological in virtue and scale.

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'The Hooligan Factory' tells the story of Danny (Jason Maza) who wants something more from life. Expelled from school and living in his grandfather's flat, he longs to live up to the image of his estranged father "Danny Senior".

Meanwhile legendary football hooligan "Dexter" (Nick Nevern) is about to be released from ShowerShank prison and is on a quest of his own, one of vengeance against his nemesis and rival firm leader "The Baron". But when Danny's and Dexter's paths cross they embark on a journey as old as hooliganism itself. 'The Hooligan Factory' is a hilarious take on the football hooligan genre, you've seen Footsoldier, you've seen Football Factory and you saw Green Street but you have never seen anything like this.

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Father Adam (Andrzej Chyra) is relocated to a rural village where he runs a refuge for youths with troubled pasts. It is there where he meets handsome local outsider, Lukasz (Mateusz Kosciukiewicz) and soon Adam struggles to reconcile his attraction to the young man and his spiritual calling.

To the village, his energy and enthusiasm are appreciated and the locals accept him as one of their own. Everybody wants to be close to him, feeding off of his vitality and power, but no one knows that Father Adam harbours his own secret.

Eight early short films from Roman Polanski. These are the internationally acclaimed:
- Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958)
- A Murder (1957)
- Teethful Smile (1957)
- The Lamp (1959)
- Let's Break the Ball (1957)
- When the Angels Fall (1959)
- The Mammals (1962)
- The Fat Man and the Thin Man (1961)