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Master thief Doc McCoy knows his wife has been in bed with the local political boss in order to spring him from jail. What he can't know is the sinister succession of double-crosses that will sour the deal once hes on the oustisde - and executing the ultimate robbery.

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When devout university student Nour (Shaden Kanboura) moves in with successful lawyer Laila (Mouna Hawa) and club DJ Salma (Sana Jammelieh), she is shocked by their lifestyle.

As Laila fights to retain her freedom in the face of a new relationship, Salma falls for beautiful trainee doctor Dounia (Ashlam Canaan), a romance she must hide from her family. Nour is set for an arranged marriage to Wissam, an exemplary member of the community who may not be as respectable as he appears. 'In Between' follows the lives of these strong, independent minded Palestinian-lsraeli women in Tel Aviv. Away from the constraints of their families and enforced tradition, they find themselves 'in between' the free and unfettered lives they aspire to lead and the restrictions imposed on them by a blinkered society. First-time director Maysaloun Hamoud's exhilarating depiction of the lives of 'liberated' Palestinian women in Israel earned her the first Palestinian fatwa in 70 years.

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Theo Angelopoulos' first feature tells the compelling true story of a crime of passion. In a remote village in Northern Greece, a middle-aged woman and her lover murder her husband and bury the body in the garden.

But as they attempt to flee the country, their escape plan fails and they return to the village just as the investigation into the husband's disappearance begins. Largely performed by the people of the village where the actual murder took place, 'The Reconstruction' is a multi-layered study of a crime and of the wider problems facing Greek society, which marked Angelopoulos as a filmmaker of great talent and individuality.

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Distinguished Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos directs the great Marcello Mastroianni in this extraordinary and beautifully photographed tale of self-discovery. Mastroianni plays Spyros, a schoolmaster of late middle-age who is disenchanted and unfulfilled by life.

Deciding to undertake a solitary journey to find emerging springtime flowers for his cherished beehives, Spyros encounters a young female hitchhiker with whom he begins to become obsessed. Charged with quiet emotional intensity, The Beekeeper' is a moving and powerful film about a man's struggle to find release from the spectre of the past.

Robert De Niro and Meryl Street are together again. in Falling In Love they play Frank Raftis and Molly Gilmore, two everyday people who meet first by chance, and later by choice. There's jus tone thing standing between Frank and Molly's intense, newfound love - both are already married.

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Diane Lane delivers an Academy Award-Nominated performance in this erotic thriller about passion so intense, it consumes everyone in its path. Edward and Connie Sumner (Richard Gere and Lane) seem to have the perfect marriage.

But when Connie's chance encounter with a handsome stranger erupts into a sexually charged affair, desire becomes obsession, and the consequences of her betrayal take a deadly turn.

In the middle of the Second World War, Alyosha (Vladimir Ivashov) is commended for destroying two German tanks. Rather than take a medal, he requests a four-day pass to visit his mother. The film is about this journey and the life enhancing encounters therein.

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Meet Kenny, Australia's most loveable toilet plumber. Part philosopher, part comedian and all heart, Kenny is one of the cogs in society's machinery: a knight in shining overalls taking care of business with his faithful 'Splashdown Crew'.

Follow Kenny the affable portable loo plumber as he tackles every septic challenge that come his way, be it car rallies, Mardi Gras The Melbourne Cup, or that Mecca waste management, the Nashville Pumper and Cleaner EXPO, or 'POO HQ', as Kenny likes to call it. With fly-on-the wall honesty and wit, Kenny lifts the lid on one of Australia's roughest diamonds as he juggles family tensions, fatherhood and sewage with charm humour and unflinching dignity.

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Dustin Hoffman gives an unforgettable performance as Ratso Rizzo, a scrounging, sleazy small-time con man with big dreams. Jon Voight is magnificent as Joe Buck, the good-looking, naively charming Texan 'cowboy' who is convinced that he is the salvation of many lonely, love starved New York Women.

These two characters are drawn together in this powerful and compassionate film.

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Chris Kyle's (Bradley Cooper) mission is to protect his brothers in arms while being a prime target of insurgents.

Despite the danger, as well as the toll on his family at home, Chris serves through four harrowing tours of duty in Iraq, personifying the spirit of the Seal creed to "leave no one behind". But upon returning to his wife, Taya (Sienna Miller), and kids, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.

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One of the most underrated British films produced between the end of the swinging sixties and the beginning of the hippy seventies.

Leonard Whiting plays a young dreamer who is trapped in a working class existence: living in a council house with a father who has no horizon higher than working in the local factory. Jean Simmons is the mature woman, living in a leafy Surrey house with her stockbroker husband and two children, but desperately unhappy. When the two unlikely lovers meet on a train to London, Whiting ignores the come-on from Susan Penhaligon by saying today I am going to climb Mount Everest, and so begins his charm offensive of the mature woman across London s 1970s landscape.

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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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From legendary filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, 'Elle' is a gripping psychological noir thriller. Starring iconic actress Isabelle Huppert in a career-defining role, 'Elle' follows Michele LeBlanc (Huppert), founder and CEO of a successful video game company, who is attacked in her own home.

Upending our expectations, Michele begins to track down her assailant, and soon they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game, one that at any moment may spiral out of control.

Spanning 25 years, 'Suzanne' is the story of destiny. Following Suzanne (Sara Forestier) from her childhood through to her adult life, we discover life as she does, through family, the ties that bind them, keep them together, and the love she pursues... to the point of leaving everything behind.

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Two of the most popular stars in screen history are brought together for the first time in the follow-up to "True Grit". The film returns John Wayne to the role of the rapscallion, eye-patched, whisky-guzzling Deputy Marshall.

katharine hepburn is prim Eula Goodnight, a Bible-thumping missionary who teams up with the gun-fighter to avenge the death of her father. While in pursuit of the outlaws, a warm rapport develops between the rough-and-tumble lawman and the flinty Reverend's daughter.