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Jackie Chan is Condor, an adventurer hired to track down a lost hoard of gold buried in the North African desert by a German patrol as the Nazi war machine crumbled at the end of World War II.

The hero is joined by three beautiful women in a race to get the gold and outwit the evil forces relentlessly pursuing them.

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First there was an opportunity...then there was a betrayal. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home.

They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.

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"Show Me Love" is the comic and heartbreaking story of Agnes (Rebecka Liljeberg), Elin (Alexandra Dahlström) and their teenage friends growing up in the small town of Amal. Nothing ever happens until Elin snows up at Agnes' birthday party and Elm's life takes an unexpected turn.

Stuck in the middle of two love interests, Elin tries to come to terms with her real self - and the courage it takes to be different.

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Action superstar Donnie Yen and Cynthia Khan team up with legendary martial-arts director Yuen Woo-ping in this fan-favourite fourth entry in the 'In the Line of Duty' film series. Yen and Khan play a pair of no-nonsense cops on the case of a major drug trafficking operation.

When an immigrant dock worker is targeted by the criminals, the officers must protect this innocent man from an international crime syndicate.

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Living in Bangkok, where he fights bare-knuckle in the local gyms, heroin addict Billy Moore (Joe Cole) is arrested and sent to Klong Prem jail for selling drugs.

There, unable to speak the language, it's a matter of daily survival, as he is forced to live in unimaginable, unsanitary conditions, forever fearful of beatings from guards and other prisoners. It's only when Billy takes up Muay Thai boxing that he is able to see a way out of this hellish environment.

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Recent widower Shigeharu Aoyama is advised by his son to find a new wife, so he seeks the advice of a colleague having been out of the dating scene for many years. They take advantage of their position in a film company by staging an audition to find the perfect woman.

Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu becomes enchanted by Asami, a quiet, 24-year-old woman, who is immediately responsive to his charms. But soon things take a very dark and twisted turn as we find that Asami isn't what she seems to be...

1976: A timid sound engineer (Toby Jones) arrives in Italy to work on a mysterious horror film, mixing bloodcurdling screams with the grotesque sounds of hacked vegetables. But as the onscreen violence seeps into his consciousness reality and fantasy become blurred and a nightmare starts to awake...

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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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After a young teenage mother dies during childbirth, midwife Anna resolves to try to trace the baby's relatives.

Guided by the girl's personal diary she meets Seymon, the charming proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant who impeccably masks his cold and brutal acts as the head of one London's most notorious Eastern European crime families. Seymon's volatile son Kirill, who is also part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood, and the family's mysterious driver, Nikolai, soon cross her path as Anna accidentally unleashes the full fury of the Vory...

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Daniel Craig returns one last time as James Bond, starring alongside Oscar winner Rami Malek in 'No Time To Die'. Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) from the CIA turns up asking for help.

The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

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Combining a surreal and distinctive take on the classic vampire yarn with an allegory about US/Mexican relations, Cronos concerns elderly antique dealer Jesus Gris (Federico Luppi) who, with his eight-year-old granddaughter Aurora (Tamara Shanath), discovers an ancient artifact that once belonged

to a 16th-century alchemist. Unbeknownst to Gris, the device - which resembles an ornate mechanical beetle - houses an immortal parasite that will grant eternal life to its host. The cost? An extreme aversion to daylight and an agonising thirst for human blood. Hot on the trail of the device is a dying millionaire (Claudio Brook) and his brutish nephew (Ron Perlman).

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It's midwinter. Five youngsters are heading for the Jotunheimen mountain area to go snowboarding. On the slope, one of them has a bad fall and breaks a leg. There is no sign of any other people around, and their mobile phones are out of range.

They catch sight of a mountain hotel in the distance, and decide to find shelter there. The hotel lies emtpy and silent, obviously closed down years ago. The phone lines are dead, and the youngsters realize they have to spend the night in the hotel. But it turns out they're not alone. In the basement they discover a filthy dungeon of a room, where somebody has recently lived...

Koldo and Clara are made for each other and they plan to celebrate their marriage accompanied by their nearest and dearest. But a black cloud is looming over them. On the happiest day of their lives, all hell is about to break loose.

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Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana) is a New York police officer investigating a series of disturbing and inexplicable crimes.

When he discovers that the crimes are of supernatural origins, he must join forces with an unconventional priest (Edgar Ramirez), schooled in the rituals of exorcism, to combat the frightening and demonic possessions terrorizing their city. Filled with action and thrilling suspense, the film is inspired by the book, which details Sarchie's bone-chilling real-life cases.

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It has been just 15 minutes after authorities lost contact with the people locked in the building under quarantine. Nobody knows what happens inside. Outside is chaos SWAT unit enters the interior of the house to monitor the situation and determine what is happening. A seemingly quick and easy task.

But everyone knows. Sometimes appearances can be deceiving...