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"Sympathy for the Devil" was made at a time when The Rolling Stones were at the peak of their creative powers and Jean-Luc Godard, who after making some of the great French New Wave cinema had taken a revolutionary political direction with his filmmaking.

Possessing Godard's idiosyncratic style it can be viewed as two movies in one. In the first, rock and roll superstars The Rolling Stones create their latest song 'Sympathy for the Devil' in a London studio as they compose material for their forthcoming 'Beggar's Banquet' album. In the second, a series of abstract fictional vignettes, Godard probes topics as diverse as race, pornography and the irony of interviewing celebrities, which features a unique demonstration by Black Power revolutionaries and a TV interview with one Eve Democracy about the relationship between culture and revolution. For many people the main attraction of 'Sympathy for the Devil' is seeing the band (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman) take a loose outline of a song and turn it into a stirring, fully realized creation. Beginning as a ballad, the track gradually acquires a pulsating groove, which gets Jagger into a rousing vocal display of soulful emotion that Godard is lucky enough to capture on film.

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City of London, trading floor, 2008, in a world of cutthroat deals it takes a unique person to succeed. Single-minded to the point of ruthless, David (Mark Stanley) is this person. But beyond the aura of success lies a secret. There are layers to David...

once chipped away, what lies behind the facade? As David climbs the corporate ladder, the past threatens to rise up and engulf him. As he struggles, a woman comes into his life. There have been many, but Vanessa is different - she matters. David's desperate to hold on to her, while she believes in a future for them. But can David keep the secret of his past at bay?

From director and writer Sam Mendes (1917 and Skyfall), and set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s, 'Empire of Light' is a moving drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times.

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This triumphant celebration of the incomparable Whitney Houston (Naomi Ackie) is the untold story of the complex and multifaceted woman behind The Voice.

From New Jersey choir girl to one of the best-selling and most awarded recording artists of all time, follow the inspirational, poignant - and so emotional - journey through Houston's trailblazing life and career, with show-stopping performances and a soundtrack of the icon's most beloved hits as you've never heard them before.

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William O'Neal (LaKeith Stanfield), a thief turned FBI informant, infiltrates the Illinois Black Panthers to track their charismatic leader, Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), whose rising political prowess has captured the attention of J. Edgar Hoover's bureau.

As O'Neal manipulates both his comrades and handler, a battle wages in his soul. Will he align with the side of good - or follow commands to subdue Hampton by any means?

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Speeding through the Moroccan desert to attend an old friend's lavish weekend party, wealthy Londoners David and Jo Henninger (Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain) are involved in a tragic accident with a local teenage boy.

Arriving late at the grand villa with the debauched party raging, the couple attempts to cover up the incident with the collusion of the local police. But when the boy's father arrives seeking justice, the stage is set for a tension-filled culture clash in which David and Jo must come to terms with their fateful act and its shattering consequences.

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On the cusp of turning 40, relentlessly laced into corsets by her exasperated staff, the uptight world of the Austrian monarchy is the last thing Empress Sisi (Vicky Krieps) cares about.

Decadence is far more exciting - so she heads off on a grand trip across Europe to call on old friends (and old flames). But the strings tying her to royal duty continue to tighten, and her attempts to make life more exciting turn into acts of rebellion. A vibrant, refreshingly mischievous take on the period drama with an award-winning lead in Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), 'Corsage' is the stunning, stylish new film from acclaimed director Marie Kreutzer.

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London, 1953. Mr. Williams, played by Bill Nighy, is a veteran civil servant, a cog in the city's stifling bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild following WWII. After a shattering health diagnosis, it dawns on him he has not been living his life to the full.

Amidst the fog of his paperwork, and his loneliness at home, he yearns to find fulfilment before it's too late. He is encouraged in his search by two younger colleagues - the vibrant Margaret (Aimee Lou Wood) and idealistic new recruit Peter (Alex Sharp) - and a hedonistic stranger, Sutherland (Tom Burke), encountered during a desperate trip to the seaside.

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Alain Delon in his star-making role, plays Tom Ripley, an American who travels to Europe on an all-expenses-paid mission to convince his friend, the charismatic playboy Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet), to travel to San Francisco at the request of the wealthy Greenleaf family.

Initially, the pair enjoy the good life in Italy, often to the anger and dismay of Philippe's much put-upon fiancee Marge (Marie Laforet). However, as Tom's funds begin to run dry, it becomes more and more apparent that Philippe has no intention of returning to the U.S., forcing Tom to consider more calculated means of maintaining his extravagant lifestyle.

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Set in 'The Summer of Love', 1967, Sonny and Cher appear as themselves - Americas favourite singing sensation! Cher is happy and content with their singing success but Sonny insists on accepting a movie offer from Mr. Mordicus (George Sanders).

He daydreams of himself as Sheriff Irving Ringo, Jungle Morry and Johnny Pizzicato but Cher and Mr. Mordicus have very different ideas to Sonny.

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It's 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitler's grip on occupied Europe, and plan to launch an all-out assault on Sicily; but they face an impossible challenge - how to protect the invasion force from potential annihilation.

It falls to two remarkable intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew Macfadyen) to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war - centred on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. Operation Mincemeat is the extraordinary and true story of an idea that hoped to turn the tide for the Allies - taking impossibly high risks, defying logic, and testing the nerves of its creators to breaking point.

A 1950s housewife living in the utopian experimental community of Victory begins to worry that her husband's glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets.

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Me and You and Everyone We Know is a comic and poetic take on contemporary relationships. In her feature debut as director, Miranda July casts herself as Christine, a drifting video artist who falls for down-on-his-luck shoe salesman Richard (John Hawkes).

Recently separated from his wife, Richard struggles with his parental responsibility for seven year old Robby and teenage Peter. Left unsupervised while their dad works, the two boys amuse themselves on their PC, constructing animal pictures using the punctuation keys, and getting involved in some increasingly risque instant-messaging. Orbiting this central quartet are an assortment of expertly drawn characters, whose lives intersect in sometimes bizarre but always believable ways; from the curator of the gallery to whom Christine has submitted her video project to Robby & Peter's next door neighbour, a young girl who collects consumer goods for a "hope chest" in her bedroom.

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Idris Elba stars in this pulse-pounding thriller as a recently widowed husband who returns to South Africa on a long-planned trip to a game reserve.

What begins as a journey of healing turns into a fearsome fight for survival as he and his daughters find themselves hunted by a massive, rogue lion intent on proving that the savannah has but one apex predator.

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Michael Taylor (Ryan Reynolds) returns to his hometown to attend a family celebration only to be faced with the sudden and tragic death of his mother (Julia Roberts).

Whilst mourning his mother’s death, Michael is forced to deal with past conflicts with his father (Willem Dafoe); is reunited with his childhood co-conspirator and aunt, Jane (Emily Watson) and forges a new and closer relationship with his estranged wife (Carrie-Anne Moss).