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Reminiscent of indie hit Weekend, In Bloom is the most realistic depiction of a gay relationship to come out of the U.S. in some time. This funny, witty, intelligent, painfully honest tale is set during one hot Chicago summer, where two young men fall in love.

Blond, pot-smoking and pot-dealing Kurt and cute but moody grocery store clerk Paul are best pals, lovers and roommates, and, on the surface, their relationship is strong and intimate. But when a sexy young customer makes a play for Kurt, subtle fissures in their relationship and an unsatisfied longing for what they don't have are exposed, threatening their relationship.

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A recently ordained priest, sent to help an aging priest run a small parish church in rural Mexico. Upon arriving at his new post, he meets a beautiful young woman with a religious passion that borders on obsession.

Quickly, her passion for her faith becomes helplessly entangled in a growing attraction to the new priest. But when the handsome priest crosses the line that separates temptation from sin, he finds himself torn between the divine and the carnal, the righteous and the unjust.

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Deep in the sun-blistered Sonora desert beneath a cicada tree, Arizona border police discover a decomposing male body. Lifting a tattered t-shirt, they expose a tattoo that reads 'Dayani Cristal'.

'Who is Dayani Cristal?' tells the story of a migrant who found himself in the deadly stretch of desert known as 'the corridor of death' and shows how one life becomes testimony to the tragic results of the U.S. war on immigration. As the real-life drama unfolds we see this John Doe, denied an identity at his point of death, become a living and breathing human being with an important life story.

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Pain is universal ... but so is hope. From acclaimed Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu comes the third film in his trilogy, Babel, a critically celebrated and emotionally gripping film about the barriers that separate humankind.

A tragic accident in Morocco sets off a chain of events that will link four groups of people who, divided by cultural differences and vast distances, will discover a shared destiny that ultimately connects them. Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael Garcia Bernal lead an outstanding international ensemble cast in this breakthrough film.

'Detroit' tells of the events that transpired one terrifying evening during the civil unrest that tore apart the city of Detroit, and its traumatic aftermath. Starring John Boyega and Will Poulter, 'Detroit' is a brutally tense thriller based on one of the most explosive events in recent history.

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Set in a quiet, rural village in France which becomes saturated with anxiety when a tragic accident results in the death of a local teenage boy, One Day In Summer presents itself as a rites of passage for an ensemble of characters caught up in the unassuming narrative of this coming of age story.

The heat-drenched summer landscape acquires a sinister and brooding aspect as everyone looks for someone to blame. Amidst this tense dissection of a small community's secrets the film casts a restrained yet penetrating gaze upon the life-changing summer of a teenage boy. After the death of his best friend, Sebastien has to come to terms with conflicting feelings towards him. His unspoken longing and sexual awakening are cut short by the freak accident that robs him of his friendship and their last summer together before university. With a heady mix of unrequited feelings and resentment complicated by past bereavements and class difference Sebastien's inner turmoil is sharply contrasted against the shimmering heat and beautiful countryside of France. Sebastien's confusion is further complicated by the admiring advances if the son of the town's mayor who Sebastien blames for the death of his friend.

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Tbilisi, 1992: Civil war is raging in the capital of the newly independent Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Amidst the mayhem, two inseparable fourteen-year-old friends, Natia and Eka, find their childhood coming to an end, with dysfunctional families, broken relationships and volatile politics all coming to a head. But the problems of disillusioned love, early marriage and oppressive male dominance will suddenly be thrown into sharp relief when one of the girls is given a gun...

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Inspired by a real article on housewife prostitution, the film examines Godard's theory that if you lived in Paris, at that time, one had to prostitute oneself to survive.

This 'sociological fable' is shot through the eyes of Juliette (Marina Vlady), a housewife who spends one day a week in central Paris selling her body on the street in the hope that she will be able to escape the high rise suburban drudgery, in which she lives with her family, and find happiness.

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Mariagrazia's two favoured sons have emigrated to America and lost contact with her, whereas she refuses to acknowledge the one who stayed. On the first full moon after her wedding, Sidora (Enrica Maria Modugno) discovers the horrific truth about a husband that she barely knows.

A large olive jar is broken, with awkward consequences for owner and repairer alike. A tiny village's inhabitants petition their landowner for the right to bury their dead respectfully. And Pirandello himself (Omero Antonutti) has a conversation with his long-dead mother.

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Maria and Hermann Braun marry in Germany close to the end of World War II but are shortly separated.

Just after being sent to the Russian Front, Hermann is reported missing and, although Maria believes he is still alive, her brother in law, just returned from a POW camp in Russia, confirms his death. Alone, Maria uses her beauty and ambition to prosper in Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s. 'The Marriage of Maria Braun' is heartbreaking study of a woman picking herself up from the ruins of her own life, as well as a pointed metaphorical attack on a society determined to forget its past.

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Lee Guem-ja (Lee Yeong-ae) has been released from jail having served 13 years for the kidnapping and murder of a child. A seemingly unassuming prisoner, Guem-ja has in fact been plotting her revenge on the man who was responsible for her incarceration.

With the help of some of her fellow inmates her plan will soon be complete. But, just as her trap is ready, Guem-ja finds herself re-united with her long lost daughter. Will her daughter be able to bring her the peace she so desires and will her long committed quest for revenge lead to salvation or damnation?

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In the 28th century, Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories.

Under assignment from the Minister of Defence, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha - an ever-expanding metropolis where species from all over the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures with each other. There is a mystery at the centre of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets. Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.

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Whether you fear death or not, it comes, and at that moment everyone loses 21 Grams... 21 Grams is an intense, critically acclaimed thriller with outstanding performances from Academy Award winners Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts.

When a horrific accident traumatically binds three people's lives together, events unfold that take them to the heights of passion, the depths of obsession and the promise of revenge.

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Narrated by Daisy Ridley 'The Eagle Huntress' tells the story of Aisholpan a 13-year-old nomadic Kazakh child of the Altai Mountains.

With the help of her father she battles the elements and deeply ingrained prejudice to try and become the first female in 12 generations of her family to be an eagle huntress. Let your heart soar and follow Aisholpan through finding and rearing her baby eagle, to taking part in the annual prestigious Golden Eagle Festival.

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Beginning with a kinetic, bone-crushing car accident, 'Amores Perros' imaginatively interweaves the stories of its three victims: Octavio (Gael Garcia Bernal) a young man who has fallen in love with his violent brother's wife; Valeria (Goya Toledo), a beautiful Mexican model for whom physical

appearances are everything and El Chivo (Emilio Echevarria), a former political assassin now exiled from his family. The result is a moving, visceral eulogy to life, loss and dog fighting on Mexico's mean streets.