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Meryl Streep stars as culinary legend Julia Child, whose cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, inspired fledgling writer Julie Powell (Amy Adams) to whip up 524 recipes in 365 days.

Based on the best selling books, Julie and Julia introduces a new generation to the magic of French cooking and proves that, with the right combination of passion and fearlessness, anything is possible.

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Takako Matsu plays a middle-school teacher whose four-year-old daughter is found dead Shattered, she finally returns to her classroom only to become convinced that two of her students were responsible for her daughter's murder.

No one believes her, and she may very well be wrong, but she decides, nevertheless, that it's time to take her revenge. What happens next is all-out psychological warfare waged against her students in an attempt to force them into confessing what she knows in her heart to be true: they are guilty and must be punished.

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Alain (Laurent Lucas) seems to have it all - a beautiful wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a perfect home and a prestigious new engineering job.

But the unexpected sexual attentions of his boss's disconcertingly glacial wife (Charlotte Rampling) and the discovery of a rodent, unaccountably stuck in the waste pipe of his kitchen sink, spark the beginning of a strange, unsettling and sometimes shocking chain of events that disrupts Alain's orderly life and leaves him questioning his own sanity.

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Tom Selznick (Elijah Wood) is the most talented pianist of his generation. Years after a catastrophic performance and racked with stage fright, he reappears in public for his long awaited return.

In a packed theater, in front of the expectant audience, Tom finds a message written on the score: "Play one wrong note and you die". Without leaving the piano, he must discover the anonymous sniper's motives and look for help without anyone realizing…

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Roger Brown is successful, charismatic and always gets what he wants. By day he is an unrivalled corporate head-hunter and husband to his beautiful wife Diana, but by night is a prolific art thief with a keen eye for great antiquities.

However, Roger's ambition soon gets the better of him as he is lured into a dangerous game of cat and mouse when he goes after the biggest heist of his life, only to discover his victim is also a skilled head-hunter in the most literal sense.

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As an unidentified virus sweeps the country, the Korean government declares martial law. As the country descends into chaos, one city, Busan, is rumoured to have successfully fended off the virus outbreak and remains the only beacon of hope for those not yet infected.

But when the virus breaks out on an express train to Busan, passengers on board must fight for their own survival...453 km from Seoul to Busan. The struggle to survive. Get on board to stay alive!

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A passionate and secret love story as told by each one of the protagonists, Ana and Otto, from the age of eight until the age of twenty five. It all starts in 1980, when after school a girl and a boy start to run for different reasons.

Since that afternoon when the world escaped from their grasp, the lives of Ana and Otto will be intertwined in a single circle that will begin to close seventeen years later, in Finland, on the very edge of the arctic circle.

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Once is the inspirational tale of two kindred spirits who find each other on the bustling streets of Dublin. One is a street musician who lacks the confidence to perform his own songs. The other is a young mother trying to find her way in a strange new town.

As their lives intertwine, they discover each other's talents and push one another to realise what each had only dreamt about before and work through their past loves and reveal their budding love for one another, through their songs. Once is their inspiring story..

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Following the death of his mother, the young 'J' Cody (James Frecheville) goes to live with his estranged gangster relatives. With conflict escalating between his family of criminals and the police's armed robbery division, 'J' finds himself at the centre of a cold-blooded vengeance plot.

As he naively navigates his way through the criminal underworld, he is forced to question where his loyalties lie as he tries to decipher who he can trust and who can protect him as he struggles for his own survival.

This true life story follows the struggles of T.E.Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) in uniting the hostile Arab factions and leading them to victory over the ruling Turkish Empire during the First World War.

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Academy Award nominee Agnieszka Holland brings to the screen the extraordinary and powerful story of the real-life Welsh journalist who uncovered Stalin's genocidal famine in Ukraine, which killed almost 10 million during The Holodomor of 1932 and 1933.

Gareth Jones (James Norton) is an ambitious Welsh journalist, who gained fame after his report on being the first foreign journalist to fly with Hitler. On leaving a government role, Jones decides to travel to Moscow in an attempt to get an interview with Stalin himself. Hearing murmurs of government-induced famine, Jones travels clandestinely to Ukraine, where he witnesses the atrocities of man-made starvation. Deported back to London, Jones publishes an article revealing the horrors he witnessed, but is accused of being a liar by those who have an interest in silencing him. As the death count mounts, Jones has to fight for the truth.

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From Golden Globe Nominee Director Paul Schrader, 'First Reformed' is a brooding, thriller-drama centred around Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke), a troubled priest of a small, historical church in upstate New York, who starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with Mary (Amanda

Seyfried) and her husband Michael, an unstable environmental activist. Consumed by thoughts that the world is in danger and motivated by the church's lack of action, Toller embarks on a perilous self-assigned undertaking with the hope that he may finally restore the faith and purpose he's been longing for in his mission to right the wrongs done to so many.

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Whilst on holiday, young timid ladies companion (Joan Fontaine) meets handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) whose wife Rebecca has recently died in a boating accident. The two fall in love and marry.

However, her joy is short lived when she returns to the de Winter estate and soon discovers that Rebecca still has a strange, unearthly hold over everyone there.

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Hailed as one of the best comedies ever made and nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture, the story focuses on army surgeons who develop a lunatic life-style in order to handle every day horrors encountered in Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean war.

Though highly skilled and deeply dedicated, this irreverent mob of madcaps is equally adept at making a shambles of army bureaucracy.

Stephen King and director Frank Darabont comes one of the most tense and terrifying films since The Shining. After a mysterious mist envelops a small New England town, a group of locals trapped in a supermarket must battle a siege of otherworldly creatures... and the fears that threaten to tear them apart.