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Few true stories tread the thin line between good and evil as precariously as that of Jan Mikolašek, a 20th century Czech herbal healer whose great success masked the grimmest of secrets.

Mikolašek won fame and fortune treating celebrities of the interwar, Nazi, and Communist eras with his uncanny knack for "urinary diagnosis". But his passion for healing welled up from the same source as a lust for cruelty, sadism, and an incapacity for love that only one person could ever quell - his assistant, František. As a show trial threatens to pry open these secrets and undo him, Jan's dichotomies are put to a final test, with the fate of his life's only love in the balance. A personal tale as replete with twists as the century itself, and a reflection on the price one pays for single-mindedly following one's calling.

Haunted by her long suppressed past and pressured by family to seek treatment from mystical healers for her infertility, a Kosovar woman Lume (Adriana Matoshi) struggles to reconcile the expectations of motherhood with a legacy of wartime brutality.

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Sao Paulo is an urban jungle, and a desperate father has lost his son... Theo (Wagner Moura) is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighbourhood; he is a hardworking doctor, husband, and father.

However, Theo has chosen his career over his family and his wife announces that she wants a divorce. Nothing could prepared him for the day he comes home to discover his 15-year-old-son, Pedro, has gone missing. Theo takes to the road in search of his son - a journey that leads him across Brazil, where will discover what truly matters to him. This film whisks us through the Sao Paulo nightscape - from swanky suburbs to shantytown slums. Theo embarks on a journey of discovery, exposing the realities of Brazil's population outside the realms of big cities and picture-perfect beaches.

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When Karole and Ali decide that that they want to be mom's, they're not fully aware of the challenges and the exhaustion they will face along the way. Their lives are complicated because they share a small flat with Ali's annoying ex-boyfriend.

But they put up with him because he has the secret ingredient they need to make a baby. After their enthusiastic first attempt, the women face many obstacles, but they're determined to keep trying because they're in love and miracles can happen. A bracinlgy honest look at two women in love and their unflinching desire to be more to each other than lovers.

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Paris, 1789. The Bastille has been stormed and a breath of liberty blows through the streets of Paris. Francoise (Adèle Haenel), a young washerwoman, and Basile (Gaspard Ulliel), without a family or a name, discover the unique exhilaration of love and revolution.

With their friends and the working-class people of Paris, they begin to realize dreams of emancipation in the newly formed assembly where they witness, with both hopes and doubts, the creation of a new political system. Their debates and the riots on the streets hold the fate of their once sacred king and the birth of a republic. Freedom has a story.

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In the not too distant future, Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) discovers a mysterious girl named Viola (Daisy Ridley). She has crash-landed on his planet, where the women have disappeared and the men are afflicted by "The Noise", a force that puts all their thoughts on display.

In this dangerous landscape, Viola's life is threatened and, to protect her, Todd must discover his inner power and unlock the planet's dark secret sin this thrilling action-adventure based on the best-selling novel 'The Knife of Never Letting Go'.

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Adding a little spice to a waning marriage, Anne (Toni Collette) and Bob (Harvey Keitel), are hosting a luxurious dinner when Anne realises there are 13 guests.

Panic-stricken, she insists her loyal maid Maria (Rossy de Palma) disguise herself as a mysterious Spanish noblewoman to even out the numbers. But a little too much wine and some playful chat leads Maria to accidentally endear herself to a dandy British art broker (Michael Smiley). Their budding romance will have Anne chasing her maid around Paris and finally plotting to destroy this most unexpected and joyous love affair.

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William O'Neal (LaKeith Stanfield), a thief turned FBI informant, infiltrates the Illinois Black Panthers to track their charismatic leader, Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), whose rising political prowess has captured the attention of J. Edgar Hoover's bureau.

As O'Neal manipulates both his comrades and handler, a battle wages in his soul. Will he align with the side of good - or follow commands to subdue Hampton by any means?

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Following the closure of a gypsum mine in the Nevada town she calls home, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road in this "exquisite film" (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal).

Exploring an unconventional life as a modern-day nomad, Fern discovers a resilience and resourcefulness unlike any she's known before long the way, she meets other nomads who become mentors in the vast landscape of the American West.

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A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, 'Minari' follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother.

Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, 'Minari' shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

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When Ruth and Alex first moved to Brooklyn, it was the 1970s - years before redevelopment, and years before they would realise that they won't always be physically able to climb several flights of stairs just to get home Still highly active, yet feeling the undeniable effects of age, the couple

opts to put their apartment on the market and over one crazy weekend, they discover that finding a new apartment is not about winding down but starting a whole new adventure!

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When Frank (Johnny Depp) crosses paths with the mysterious and seductive Elise (Angelina Jolie), his holiday takes an unexpected and dangerous turn.

When armed assassins chase him from his hotel room in a hail of bullets, Frank begins to understand that he and Elise have been drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse. As the net begins to close around them, Frank soon realizes that to escape with his life, he will have to learn to fight back.... or die.

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In the 1840's, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis.

The days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother. When one such tourist, Roderick Murchison (James McArdle), arrives in Lyme on the first leg of a European tour, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte (Saoirse Ronan), who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Mary, whose life is a daily struggle on the poverty line, cannot afford to turn him down but, proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, she clashes with her unwanted guest. They are two women from utterly different worlds. Yet despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.

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Every day Italian coastguard, Marshal Serra (Claudio Amendola), patrols the dangerous waters between Italy and Libya searching for 'sea wrecks', the lethally overcrowded boats that carry refugees and migrants fleeing their homelands.

Their first port of call is often Lampedusa, the tiny Italian-controlled island where Viola (Carolina Crescentini), a young woman who runs the immigrants' reception centre, battles a constant stream of emotional crisis and medical emergencies. Serra and Viola have their own troubled histories, but they forge a close bond both through their shared humanity and their involvement with Dhaki, a young Egyptian boy whose mother is missing. Despite Lampedusa's big heart, the inevitable pressures imposed by this huge human influx provokes hostility among the native population - until a major distress call forces the islanders to put aside their differences and unite their forces for an urgent rescue mission.

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The unforgettable friendship of two unforgettable men.

The tension and terror that is present-day South Africa is powerfully portrayed in director Richard Attenborough's sweeping story of black activist Stephen Biko (Denzel Washington) and a liberal white newspaper editor who risks his own life to bring Biko's message to the world. After learning of apartheid's true horrors through Biko's eyes, editor Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) discovers that his friend has been silenced by the police. Determined not to let Biko's message go unheard, Woods undertakes a perilous quest to escape South Africa and bring Biko's remarkable tale of courage to the world. The riveting, true story offers a stirring account of man at his most evil and most heroic.