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Wildly entertaining, violent and stylish, One Last Dance is the story of an assassin (Francis Ng, star of Johnnie To's Exiled) hired to kill the men responsible for kidnapping an important man's son. But his task is not as simple as it first seems and he must take many lives before he can get close to discovering the kidnapper's true identity. - Director:
- Max Makowski
- Cast:
- Francis Ng, Lung Ti, Vivian Hsu
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Mrs. Lowry and Son (2019)Mrs Lowry & Son
The film paints the relationship between L.S. Lowry (Timothy Spall), one of Britain's most iconic artists, and his mother Elizabeth (Vanessa Redgrave), with whom he lived until her death. We see Lowry in the beginnings of his career, as he yearns for his work to be appreciated in London. However, his disdainful mother actively tries to dissuade her bachelor son from pursuing his artistic ambitions. At the same time, the film explores how Elizabeth is the very reason Lowry paints anything at all, as he desperately seeks to create something, anything, which will make her happy. This powerful yet humorous story imagines the impact this obsessive mother and son relationship had on the great artist. - Director:
- Adrian Noble
- Cast:
- Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Spall, Stephen Lord
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Bryn Cartwright (William Thoma), a wealthy roofing contractor, Rugby Club Chairman and local kingpin rules the roost until Fatty Lewis (Huw Ceredig), a local handyman, falls off a ladder on a Cartwright job. Bryn refuses to pay compensation. The twins, Fatty's wayward sons, devise a wickedly comic way of getting even and Bryn ends up paying dearly. Representing the thin blue line of the Law are Terry (Dougray Scott) and Greyo (Dorien Thomas), two local policemen who employ their own dubious peacekeeping methods as events spiral out of control. - Director:
- Kevin Allen
- Cast:
- Llyr Ifans, Rhys Ifans, Dorien Thomas
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Ben Sharrock's critically adored 'Limbo' is a wry, funny and poignant cross-cultural satire that subtly sews together the hardship and hope of the refugee experience. Set on a fictional remote Scottish island, it follows a group of new arrivals as they await the results of their asylum claims. Among them is Omar (Amir El-Masry), a young Syrian musician struggling with the guilt, regret and grief that comes with leaving his former life behind. This deadpan comedy-drama from a bold new voice in British cinema shines a light on the hearts and lives of those at the centre of a crisis that is mostly only experienced through the headlines. - Director:
- Ben Sharrock
- Cast:
- Sidse babett Knudsen, Bobby Paton, Kenneth Collard
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The Green Butchers (2003)De Gronne Slagtere
Director Andres Thomas Jensen bring us a darkly funny tale from cutthroat world of small town butchers. Sitting in the same macabre drawer as "Delicatessen", "The Green Butchers" tells the story of Bjarne – an emotionally damaged stoner, and Svend – an unloved tyrannical nerd, who decide to go into business together with the sharpest skill they possess: butchery. - Director:
- Anders Thomas Jensen
- Cast:
- Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Dany Verissimo-Petit, Mads Mikkelsen
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Happy as Lazzaro (2018)Lazzaro Felice
Lazzaro (talented newcomer Adriano Tardiolo) is a beautiful peasant whose sweet nature makes people mistake him for simple-minded. He happily does the bidding of anyone in his local village, which is ruled over by the evil Marchesa (Nicoletta Braschi). He finds an unlikely friend in the Marchesa's petulant son Tancredi (Tommaso Ragno / Luca Chikovani), who convinces his hapless ally to help him stage a dramatic incident to secure a ransom. 'Happy as Lazzaro' follows the adventures of this young man living on the margins of his society, who can seemingly travel through time, arriving in the big city and appearing as a fragment of the past lost in the modern world. - Director:
- Alice Rohrwacher
- Cast:
- Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Alba Rohrwacher
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Unheroic yet elegiac, tragic yet uplifting, devastating yet deeply moving. Featuring gripping action on a scale unattainable by conventional war movies, Stuart Cooper's award-winning 'Overlord' is unlike any war film you have ever seen. This powerful and passionate film follows the journey of an ordinary young English soldier, Private Beadows, from his swift, dramatic induction into the army toward his inexorable destiny upon the hell-ravaged beaches at Normandy during in the D-Day invasion. Seamlessly weaving genuine WWII footage into a startlingly authentic story, beautifully shot by Stanley Kubrick's acclaimed cinematographer, the legendary John Alcott, 'Overlord' is not simply a unique piece of fiction, but an exceptional piece of history. Produced by the Imperial War Museum, digitally restored and now available for the first time since it was made over 30 years ago, 'Overlord' is a mesmerising cinematic achievement. - Director:
- Stuart Cooper
- Cast:
- Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball
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A bittersweet modern love story starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci as Sam and Tusker, long-term partners who are revisiting their past and coming to terms with Tusker's illness on a road trip across England. 'Supernova' is a deeply moving portrait of a couple navigating difficult circumstances with wry humour and affection. - Director:
- Harry Macqueen
- Cast:
- Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci, Pippa Haywood
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A small town find themselves trapped in a snowstorm and under threat as a mysterious beast begins to pick them off one by one. As the bodies begin to pile up, it soon becomes clear that the killer is closer than first thought. As the blame begins to shift from person to person, tensions rise and this trigger-happy community will do anything to ensure they are the last ones standing. This whodunnit horror with black comedy at heart is based on the UBISOFT video game of the same name. - Director:
- Josh Ruben
- Cast:
- Sam Richardson, Milana Vayntrub, George Basil
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Prophecy (1979)Prophecy: The Monster Movie
Robert Foxworth and Talia Shire star as a doctor and his wife who travel to Maine to research the impact of the lumber industry on the local environment. They begin to investigate a succession of mysterious and terrifying events: ecological freaks of nature and a series of bizarre and grisly human deaths. Something unimaginably horrible waits in the woods. Something unwittingly created by man, that will become an uncontrollable, merciless machine of destruction. - Director:
- John Frankenheimer
- Cast:
- Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante
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Their target: Humanity. Their mission: Total Annihilation! The world has just been decimated by an unstoppable, merciless army of killer robots, and millions of innocent souls have been wiped out! Only a handful of survivors have managed to escape the deadly alien apocalypse, and they must endure a non-stop struggle to save themselves from destruction, and somehow find a way to defeat the marauding death machines...before the entire human race becomes extinct! - Director:
- Terence Fisher
- Cast:
- Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price
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Ignored in school, internationally celebrated for their hair but not known for their intelligence, 'headbangers' have been championed on film before, but not like this... Meet Terry and Dean, lifelong friends who have grown-up together: shotgunning their first beers, forming their first garage band and growing the great Canadian mullet known as 'hockey hair'. Now the lives of these Alberta everymen are captured on film by 'documentarian' Farrel Mitchner in a rock 'n' roll exploration of the depths of friendship, the fragility of life, growing up gracefully and the art and science of drinking beer like a man. This is one hilariously ballsy mockumentary, well placed between both Spinal Tap and American Movie, which comes with instructions for us all: Turn Up The Good, Turn Down The Suck! - Director:
- Michael Dowse
- Cast:
- Paul Spence, David Lawrence, Gordon Skilling
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Before We Vanish (2017)Sanpo suru shinryakusha
Three aliens on a reconnaissance mission to Earth take over the bodies of human hosts to explore the world they re about to invade. On the way they steal individual concepts from the minds of anyone who crosses their path, from work, to free will, to love, leaving behind them a trail of soulless bodies. In doing so they start to unwittingly define the essential aspects of what it means to be human. The film follows Narumi (Masami Nagasawa), whose husband, Shinji (Ryuhei Matsuda), becomes one of the three hosts. As the invasion grows nearer, Narumi's attempts to save humanity from extinction become increasingly entwined with Shinji's decision on whether to save the humanity within himself. - Director:
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Cast:
- Masami Nagasawa, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hiroki Hasegawa
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Ryan Reynolds stars in this action-packed comedy as a bank teller who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, and soon decides to become the hero of his own story...one he rewrites himself. Also starring Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery and Taiki Waititi, and directed by Shawn Lew, 'Free Guy' is ranid-fire fun. - Director:
- Shawn Levy
- Cast:
- Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, Dwayne Johnson
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Hutch (Bob Odenkirk) is a nobody. As an overlooked and underestimated father and husband, he takes life's indignities on the chin and never rocks the boat. But when his daughter (Connie Nielsen) loses her beloved kitty-cat bracelet in a robbery, Hutch hits a boiling point no one knew he had. What happens when a pushover finally pushes back? Hutch flips from regular dad to fearless fighter by taking his enemies on a wild ride of explosive revenge. - Director:
- Ilya Naishuller
- Cast:
- Bob Odenkirk, Aleksey Serebryakov, Connie Nielsen
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