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Peter Strickland's startlingly original directorial debut centres around Katalin Varga (Hilda Péter), who, after being banished by her husband and her village, is left with no other choice than to set out on a quest to find the real father of her son, Orban (Norbert Tankó). Taking Orban with her under another pretence, Katalin travels through the Carpathians where she decides to re-open a sinister chapter from her past and take revenge. The hunt leads her to a place, she prayed eleven years prior, she would never set foot in again... - Director:
- Peter Strickland
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- Hilda Péter, Norbert Tankó, László Mátray
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Master genre exploder Bong Joon Ho swirls pathos, dark satire, action, and horror into an exhilarating twenty-first-century fairy tale. An all-star cast including Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Steven Yeun, and Jake Gyllenhaal is led by An Seo Hyun as Mija, a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "superpig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set pieces dazzle, Okja's beating heart is the connection between a girl and her superpig, made all the more poignant by the brilliant special effects that bring its animal star to unforgettable life. - Director:
- Joon-Ho Bong
- Cast:
- Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Seo-Hyun Ahn
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Narvel Roth (Joel Edgerton) is the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of this beautiful and historic estate, as he is to pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Norma Haverhill (Sigourney Weaver). When Mrs. Haverhill demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great-niece Maya (Quintessa Swindell) as a new apprentice, chaos enters Narvel's spartan existence, unlocking dark secrets from a buried violent past that threatens them all... - Director:
- Paul Schrader
- Cast:
- Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, Quintessa Swindell
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An artist and ceramist in Portland, Oregon is on the verge of an important show, but she's plagued with personal problems. Her neighbour-slash-landlady (a fellow or rival artist, as it happens) is failing to fix the hot water in her apartment. Her cat has almost killed a pigeon in their street and she feels obligated to look after the poor injured thing in a cardboard box, instead of working. Her mother (an administrator in the community arts centre where the artist works) is querulously estranged from her dad, who appears to have free loading house guests from Canada. And her bipolar brother, who also has artistic leanings is digging a huge hole in his back garden... - Director:
- Kelly Reichardt
- Cast:
- Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, André Benjamin
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In 1889, Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini (Cristiana Dell'Anna) arrives in New York City, greeted only by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Witnessing the vast inequality of the city, Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to help society's most vulnerable, but must first overcome the prejudices and indifference of those in power. However, despite these momentous setbacks, her broken English, and poor health, she remains determined to use her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything that the world has ever seen. - Director:
- Alejandro Monteverde
- Cast:
- Cristiana Dell'Anna, John Lithgow, David Morse
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On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr and Mrs Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman), are out and she has the rare chance to spend an afternoon of abandon with her secret lover, Paul (Josh O'Connor), the boy from the manor house nearby who is Jane's long-term love despite the fact that he's engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents' friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane's life forever. - Director:
- Eva Husson
- Cast:
- Odessa Young, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth
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The Chorus (2004)Les Choristes
1948. Clement Mathieu (Gerard Jugnot), an unemployed music teacher, finds a job as proctor in a correctional boarding school for minors. He is stunned by the harsh reality of the school's routine - particularly the extreme, largely ineffectual policies of the school's director Rachin (Francois Berleand). Mathieu sets out to change the pupils' lives by acquainting them with the magic and power of music... - Director:
- Christophe Barratier
- Cast:
- Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Jean-Baptiste Maunier
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Broker (2022)Beurokeo / Baby Broker
On a rainy night in Busan, So-young (Lee 'IU' Ji-eun) leaves her baby outside a 'baby box', a safe place set up in Korean churches for new mothers to leave unwanted infants. Instead, he's picked up by Sang-hyun (Song Kang-ho) who runs an unofficial adoption brokerage and plans to find him a new home. So-young tracks down both Sang-hyun and his business partner (Gang Dong-won) and decides to join their pursuit - unaware they're being tailed by two detectives (Doona Bae, Lee Joo-young) who are determined to stop them. - Director:
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- Cast:
- Kang-ho Song, Dong-won Kang, Doona Bae
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Close (2022)We Two Boys, Together Clinging
"Close" is an elegant, poetic and empathetic study of youth from acclaimed writer-director Lukas Dhont. Thirteen-year-olds Léo (Eden Dambrine) and Rémi (Gustav De Waele) are inseparable; best friends, as close as brothers. However as they start a new school year, the pressures of burgeoning adolescence challenge their bond with unexpected and far-reaching consequences. - Director:
- Lukas Dhont
- Cast:
- Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Émilie Dequenne
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Fallen Leaves (2023)Kuolleet Lehdet / Dead Leaves
Fallen Leaves is a timeless, hopeful and ultimately satisfying love story about two lonely souls' path to happiness - and the numerous hurdles they encounter along the way. Set in contemporary Helsinki, and shot through with Kaurismaki's typically playful, idiosyncratic style and deadpan humor, this tender romantic tragicomedy is a timely reminder of the potency of movie-going from one of cinema's living legends. - Director:
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Cast:
- Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Janne Hyytiäinen
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In this wild and incredible tale, young Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) is brought back to live by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist. Eager to learn and hungry for the worldliness she lacks, Bella runs off on an adventure that inspires in her a fantastical evolution leading to a fierce dedication to equality and liberation. - Director:
- Yorgos Lanthimos
- Cast:
- Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe
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Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader's (writer of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull) The Card Counter is told with Schrader's trademark cinematic intensity. An ex-military interrogator turned gambler is haunted by the ghosts of his past decisions. Redemption is the long game in this revenge thriller featuring riveting performances from stars Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, and Tye Sheridan. - Director:
- Paul Schrader
- Cast:
- Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan
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American activists Paul Sullivan (Brad Dourif) and his fiancee Ingrid Jessner (Frances McDormand) journey to Belfast to probe allegations of brutal human rights abuses by British security forces. When Paul is killed under mysterious circumstances, the official reports list him as an IRA accomplice. But Ingrid and British policeman Paul Kerrigan (Brian Cox) question the findings and begin to uncover a shocking high-level conspiracy. Now, with their safety in jeopardy, they must decide whether to risk everything to reveal the truth. - Director:
- Ken Loach
- Cast:
- Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif
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il buco (2021)The Hole / Il Buco
During the economic boom of the 1960s, Europe's highest building is being built in Italy's prosperous North. At the other end of the country, young cavers explore Europe's deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. The bottom of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 metres below Earth, is reached for the first time. The intruders' venture goes unnoticed by the inhabitants of a small neighbouring village, but not by the old shepherd of the Pollino plateau whose solitary life begins to interweave with the group's journey. 'il Buco' chronicles a visit to the depths of life and nature and parallels two great voyages to the interior. - Director:
- Michelangelo Frammartino
- Cast:
- Claudia Candusso, Paolo Cossi, Mila Costi
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'Typist Artist Pirate King' is a magical, empathetic, hopeful journey through England and the mind. When Audrey Amiss (Monica Dolan) and her psychiatric nurse Sandra Panza (Kelly Macdonald) take to the road in an electric car, searching for an art exhibition, they meet all manner of people along the way, and as a friendship develops between them, there is reconciliation with the past. - Director:
- Carol Morley
- Cast:
- Monica Dolan, Kelly MacDonald, Gina McKee
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