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Anthropologist Harold Munroe (Robert Kerman) is hellhound as he travels into the green inferno of South America's rain-forest in an attempt to find a documentary crew lost months before.

Instead of survivors he discovers a world of cannibalistic excess beyond his wildest imaginings but when he returns home and screens the footage left behind by the eviscerated filmmakers, chaos erupts as the screen is filled with some of most disturbing images ever committed to celluloid.

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Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) continue their adventures as Ant-Man and The Wasp.

Together, with their families, they explore the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new ueatures and embarking on an adventure that will push them beyond the limits of what they thought possible.

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Life is not always like the movies. Love is not always at first sight. Very often, a relationship develops slowly and it takes many years between boy meets girl and boy gets girl. Hum Tum is a refreshing look at the eternal battle of the sexes, as it follows the lives of Karan and Rhea.

Karan is a cartoonist and his characters "Hum" and "Tum" reflect his perspective on the strange love-hate relationship between men and women. Rhea is a sensitive, well bred and self-confident. She can give as good as she gets and is not afraid of standing up to men. Initially, the two have very little in common. But, as life would have it, their paths keep crossing and, over the course of a decade, their relationship evolves, from hate to mutual respect, friendship and finally.. In a cinematic universe that offers simplistic scenarios to the complex relationship between men and women, Hum Tum is novel look at the trials and tribulations of 'every man' and 'every woman' and their attempts to understand one another.

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Wheelchair-bound heiress Penny Appleby (Susan Strasberg) arrives at the Cote d'Azur to live with her estranged father. Penny's stepmother Jane (Ann Todd) informs her that her father has left suddenly on business.

That night Penny visits the summer house, where she sees her father's corpse propped up in a chair. Further disturbing incidents are also witnessed solely by Penny. A local doctor, Pierre Gerrard (Christopher Lee), speculates that the girl might be going insane. Penny confides in the family's chauffeur Bob (Ronald Lewis), believing that Jane and Gerrard are attempting to have her certified and thus cheated out of her inheritance. Penny's trust is cruelly betrayed before the horrifying truth is revealed...

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54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train... But this is only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country.

Does the new all-girl group Dessert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda is determined to find the answer, but this proves far harder than he had imagined...

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Beginning with the forty minute version of Dumplings that includes newly shot footage as well as that taken from the feature length release, director Fruit Chan explores society's obsession with youth and the lengths to which people will go to prolong it.

The second segment is Cut, directed by the irrepressible Park Chan-wook, the story of a film extra with a grudge who forces a good-natured director to prove that deep down he has a nasty streak. The collection concludes with Box, a ritualistic tale of a female novelist who is haunted by a childhood trauma, directed by the cult legend Takashi Miike. Narrated almost without words amongst a series of eerie locations, the film has all the hallmarks of its director.

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From the hugely talented director of A Tale Of Two Sisters comes Memories, a harrowing tale of psychological trauma sees a woman wandering the streets having forgotten her own name whilst her husband struggles to remember why she left in the first place.

With the discovery of a dead body in the husband's car it's not long before the truth begins to rear its ugly head. In The Wheel a group of puppets terrorize a village, causing pain and death at every turn. When the leader of a theatrical troupe tries to destroy them, without much success others begin to steal them, leading to inevitable tragedy. Finally in Going Home, a policeman - Wai, blunders into the apartment of a man who has been caring for his dead wife for the past three years. It transpires that the man is intent on resurrecting his lost love and Wai is soon forced to befriend him if he is to have any chance of escaping alive.

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Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett), Shuri (Letitia Wright), M'Baku (Winston Duke), Okoye (Danai Gurira) and the mighty Dora Milaje (Marija Juliette Abney / Keisha Tucker / Ivy Haralson / Maya Macatumpag) fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers after the death of beloved King

T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman). Banding together with War Dog Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o) and Everett Ross (Martin Freeman), the heroes strive to forge a new path.

In Marvel Studies' 'Thor: Love and Thunder'; the God of Thunder (Chris Hemsworth) teams up with King Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend-turned-Mighty-Thor Jane Foster (Natalia Portman) to take on a galactic kilter known as Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale).

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Journey in the unknown...in Marvel Studio's 'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness'.

When the MCU unlocks the Multiverse, Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) must enlist help from old and new allies as he traverses mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities in order to confront a surprising adversary. Enter a new dimension of Strange in this supernatural adventure filled with plot twists and exhilarating action sequences.

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For the first time in the cinematic history of 'Spider-Man', our friendly neighbourhood hero's identity is revealed, bringing his Super Hero responsibilities into conflict with his normal life and putting those he cares about most at risk.

When he enlists Doctor Strange's (Benedict Cumberbatch)'s help to restore his secret, the spell tears a hole in their world, releasing the most powerful villains who've ever fought a Spider-Man in any universe. Now, Peter (Tom Holland) will have to overcome his greatest challenge yet, which will not only forever alter his own future but the future of the Multiverse.

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A brilliant ensemble stars in this enthralling film from Marvel Studios. 'Eternals' follows a group of ancient heroes from beyond the stars who have protected humanity since the dawn of our existence.

When Deviants - monstrous creatures who were thought gone forever - mysteriously reappear, the Eternals return, hoping to save humanity once again.

Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) must face the past he thought he left behind and confront his father, leader of the dangerous Ten Rings organisation.

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Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) - aka Black Widow - confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises.

Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.

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Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) returns in 'Spider-Man: Far from Home'. Our friendly neighbourhood Super Hero decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the gang on a European vacation.

However, Peter's plan to leave super heroics behind for a few weeks is quickly scrapped when he begrudgingly agrees to help Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) uncover the mystery of several elemental creature attacks. Spider-Man and Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) join forces to fight the havoc unleashed across the continent but all is not as it seems.