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"Dune: Part Two" explores the mythic journey of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) as he unites with Chani (Zendaya) and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.

Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.

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Partly based on his own memoirs (Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War), Che: Part One follows Ernesto Che Guevara's transformation from humble physician to military leader during the Cuban Revolution, depicting his eventual overthrowing of the repressive Batista regime.

Meticulously researched and containing intense and realistic depictions of guerrilla warfare, this is a captivating portrait of one of the most controversial figures of the Twentieth Century. An astounding and moving story of one man's belief and the events that would eventually shape him into becoming a legendary symbol of rebellion and hope.

"Life" is an intense sci-fi thriller about a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns into one of primal fear when they find a rapidly evolving life-form that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew and all life on Earth.

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A wry and comic look at the shifting of power in sexual relationships, Francois Ozon's film is adapted from a play written but never staged by the celebrated German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

When the smooth-talking Leopold (Bernard Giraudeau), a successful businessman of 50, seduces 20-year-old Franz, the youngster falls under his spell and moves in with him. But Leopold soon reveals his true colours and Franz contemplates returning to her girlfriend (Ludivine Sagnier) - until Leopold seduces her too. The arrival of Leopold's former lover Vera, a male to female transsexual, only complicates matters further.

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World-travelling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson aren't looking to turn their lives upside down. Each is at a point in life where expectations are behind them. Yet four days after meeting, they won't want to lose the love they've found.

Academy Award winners Meryl Streep (earning her 10th Oscar nomination for this performance) and Clint Eastwood (who also produces and directs) bring blazing starpower and powerful conviction to the beloved characters of Robert James Waller's rhapsodic bestseller of love, choice and consequence. 'Streep and Eastwood are so visually and spiritually right they seem to have walked right off the page,' Entertainment Weekly proclaims. Also right are the small details and large emotions of once-in-a-lifetime love. With luck, a love like that happens to some of us sooner or later. For Robert and Francesca, it was later. And it was glorious.

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Marine Vacth (Jeune et Jolie) plays Chloé, a young woman who falls in love with her psychoanalyst Paul (Jérémie Renier). When they decide to move in together, everything seems perfect until a series of discoveries lead her to believe that he may be living a double life.

As she searches for the truth, Chloé's investigations plunge her into a dark and bewildering world of smoke, mirrors and doppelgangers where nothing is as it seems, and no one can be trusted.

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Made by cinematic 'boy wonder' Orson Welles when he was only in his mid-twenties, Citizen Kane is generally accepted as the greatest American movie of all time. But it might never have seen the light of day.

Its daring subject-matter was clearly the fabulously wealthy newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst, who responded with predictable fury to Welles' less-than-flattering interpretation of his life. Using all his power and influence, Hearst set out to destroy both the film and the genius who had made it.

An edge-of your-seat sci-fi thriller, 'Voyagers' follows a crew of young astronauts on a decades-long mission to populate a new planet. As disturbing secrets are uncovered, the crew decends into chaos fueled by paranoia, lust, and the hunger for power.

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When her friend Javi lures her back into the field for the first time since a devastating tornado encounter, storm chaser Kate crosses paths with Tyler, a charming daredevil with a thirst for tornado-tracking adventures.

Kate's caution clashes with Tyler's risk-taking, but as storm season intensifies, they'll need to team up to tame, and survive, an unprecedented outbreak of destructive tornadoes.

"Wonka" tells the wondrous story of how a young dreamer named Willy Wonka (Timothée Chalamet) becomes the world's greatest inventor, magician and chocolate maker.

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Charlie Chaplin's final film is a delightful romantic comedy, filled with the clever touches for which he's famous.

Written, directed and composed by Chaplin, it revolves around Russian emigre countess Natascha (Sophia Loren), forced into prostitution in Hong Kong, who stows away in wealthy American Ogden's (Marlon Brando's) stateroom to blackmail her way to the States. Since Ogden has a mind of his own, and can even resist Natascha's charms, what follows is one of the funniest tugs of war ever devised! A wealth of talent supports these stars. There's Chaplin's son, Sydney, as Brando's cruise companion, Tippi Hedren as his icy wife, Patrick Cargill as the ultimate gentleman's gentleman and Margaret Rutherford as a dotty old dame. Chaplin himself tops it off with a cameo as the ship's steward! The gags are pure Charlie and his actors make the most of them, sailing in and out of slamming doors - and outrageous situations - with ease.

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Micky (Tuppence Middleton), a young woman suffering from amnesia, begins a tormented road to recovery, having survived a house fire that took her childhood friend's life. Left with terrible injuries, Micky struggles to regain her memories and piece together what happened.

Soon she discovers that the fire may not have been an accident and that a sinister obsession may have cost her more than she knows.

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Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In 'F for Fake', a free-form sort-of documentary by Orson Welles, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully reengages with the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous lines between illusion and truth, art and lies.

Beginning with portraits of the world-renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and his equally devious biographer, Clifford Irving, Welles embarks on a dizzying journey that simultaneously exposes and revels in fakery and fakers of all stripes - not the least of whom is Welles himself. Charming and inventive, 'F for Fake' is an inspired prank and a clever examination of the essential duplicity of cinema.

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"The Paperboy" is the story of two brothers: Ward (Matthew McConaughey), a successful reporter and Jack (Zac Efron), a college dropout. Ward returns to his hometown to investigate the case of a wrongly convicted, but deeply unsavoury man, who has been sentenced to death for murdering a sheriff.

As the brothers dig deeper, it becomes clear that they are on a journey filled with lust and betrayal.

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Hannah (Katrin Cartlidge) and Annie (Lynda Steadman) were inseparable when they shared an apartment, years ago. Now, they are reunited for one weekend on the town.

As they encounter several people with whom they were students in London in the mid-1980s, these 'Career Girls' awaken their memories - of loves lost and old rivalries - that builds a picture of just how they have changed in the intervening years.