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"Derek" is a glorious, yet fitting remembrance of one of independent film's most important artists, Dered Jarman.

It was lovingly crafted by artist filmmaker Isaac Julien, who assembled a moving collage of rare home movies, film clips and interviews, as well as a cinematic love letter from actor Tilda Swinton written a decade after Jarman's death, The film tells the story of Jarman's life and chronicles everyday England from the 1960s to the early 1990s. It also includes clips of Jarman's feature-length and Super-8 films. Swinton's letter serves as the poetic overlay, telling the truth about the life Jarman led and the cultural abyss left by his absence. Painter, author, gay militant, AIDS activist and, above all, filmmaker, Derek Jarman was one of Britain's fest-loved and most original artists who touched the lives of everyone he met.

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Welcome to the world's most notorious slum: Rio de Janeiro's 'City of God'. A place where combat photographers fear to tread, where police rarely go, and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20.

This is the true story of a young man who grew up on these streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and ultimately may be his only way out.

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When Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly (Rose Byrne) discover that their new next-door neighbours are none other than a University fraternity club - led by charismatic president Teddy Sanders (Zac Efron) - they try to play along and make the best of an awkward situation.

But when the frat's parties grow increasingly more epic, both sides of the property line begin to fend for their turf. As the neighbours' relentless sabotage and one-upmanship threaten to either get the college kids kicked off the block or make the newlyweds lose what's left of their sanity, thus begins an epic Greek war for the ages.

For Gary King (Simon Pegg) and Andy Knightley (Nick Frost) it was supposed to be the ultimate reunion - one night, five friends, twelve bars. A boozy quest to 'The World's End' pub on which only the strongest will survive. Having the time of their lives, they're ready to take on the world... but tonight they might just have to save it.

At his own risk, Daniel solicits Marek, one of the Eastern European boys that hangs around the Gare du Nord. He invites Marek to his home but when the doorbell rings and it isn't Marek standing there, Daniel realises he has fallen into a trap.

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Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning toilets and an endless run of bad breaks.

Only when Caine (Channing Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along. Her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.

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San Francisco, 1985: Bad boy Todd, a handsome and established dancer, watches the innocent new understudy Frankie with interest. As opposites attract, the pair quickly realise they want to be more than just friends. As their relationship deepens, together they face a new kind of test.

A disease is spreading across the city and few know anything about it. But as they quickly learn to navigate a world filled with risk, they also find it is full of hope. With electrifying dance sequences and an 80s soundtrack, "Test" lovingly recreates gay life in 1980s San Francisco.

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In the forsaken lands of seventeenth-century Europe, an unfamiliar voice calls out to orphaned Krabat in a dream, enticing him to an old mill. Suspecting that the boys he meets there are keeping a dark secret, Krabat discovers that the mill's master practices necromancy and the dark arts.

The sorcerer's plan may put the life of his best friend, Tonda, in danger, and thus Krabat must choose between power and loyalty. But which will he choose?

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Headstrong Earlene (Ashleigh Sumner) meets the handsome and mysterious Bruno (Miles Szanto) at Venice Beach. These outsiders quickly become friends and when Bruno's latest scam goes wrong, it forces them to go on the run.

On their journey, they meet a sexually confused carjacker, a pair of Scottish ex-strippers and a tap-dancing drag queen, all of whom settle into a little place deep within the Nevada desert. This gaggle of runaways and rebels teach Bruno and Earlene that it is not about the destination, but the getting there that counts.

A Super-Secret Organisation recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training programme just as a dire global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

The year is 1462. Transylvania enjoys peace under the rule of Vlad III (Luke Evans) and his beloved wife, Mirena (Sarah Gadon). But, a war with the Turks and a pact with a demon are about to change Vlad's life forever.

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Big Eden is a tiny town tucked away in the timberland of north-western Montana, where cowboys lounge on the porch of the general store to pass the time away, and keep an eye of things.

Although it's been years since he was back, Henry Hart, a successful but lonely New York artist, returns to Big Eden, the town of his childhood, to care for the ailing grandfather who raised him. Once home, Henry finds he must come to terms with his relationship to Dean Stewart, his best friend from High School and the object of his unrequited love. Henry's feelings for Dean, which caused him to flee Big Eden nearly twenty years ago, seem to have only grown stronger over the intervening years. At the same time, Henry's reappearance sparks a transformation in Pike Dexter, the shy, unassuming, Native American owner of the town's general store. Pike is as surprised as anyone, and completely unprepared, when he finds himself falling in love with Henry. As this unspoken triangle unfolds under the scrutiny of Big Eden's community, nearly everyone in town develops a stake in its outcome. When tragedy strikes and Henry chooses to leave once again, and Pike is unable to articulate feelings which might alter Henry's course, it is ultimately the people of Big Eden that must join together in an effort to help two of their own find true happiness.

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Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) and the Dwarves of Erebor have reclaimed the vast wealth of their homeland, but now face the consequences of having unleashed the terrifying Dragon Smaug (voice of Benedict Cumberbatch) upon Lake-town.

Meanwhile, Sauron, the Dark Lord, has sent forth legions of Orcs to attack the Lonely Mountain, and Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) finds himself for fighting for his life as five great armies go to war. As darkness converges, the races of Dwarves, Elves and Men must decide - unite or be destroyed.

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From director Damian Szifron and producer Pedro Almodovar comes six stories, each exploring a different facet of revenge and the various brilliant, mad, toe-curling and hilarious flavours in which it can be dished out.

Whether it's taking out a belligerent crime lord, getting even with officious parking enforcement, retribution for infidelity, or good old fashioned road rage, 'Wild Tales' takes acts of vengeance for infuriating, often all too familiar situations and blows them out to a bitter and hysterical end in this outrageous, tense and ferociously funny dark comedy.

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Lucy (Scarlett Johansson), is tricked by her boyfriend into delivering a briefcase where she is grabbed and held hostage by the merciless Mr. Jang (Choi Min-Sik). His thugs surgically implant a package loaded with a powerful synthetic substance in her to smuggle it across the border.

The package leaks and she develops superhuman traits. Lucy enlists the help of professor Samuel Norman (Morgan Freeman), whose decades of research on the brain's potential makes him unparalleled in the field and the only person with the ability to see where this might lead. Relentlessly pursued by her former captors Lucy begins to turn the tables and transform into a warrior evolved beyond human logic.