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Distinguished Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos directs the great Marcello Mastroianni in this extraordinary and beautifully photographed tale of self-discovery. Mastroianni plays Spyros, a schoolmaster of late middle-age who is disenchanted and unfulfilled by life.

Deciding to undertake a solitary journey to find emerging springtime flowers for his cherished beehives, Spyros encounters a young female hitchhiker with whom he begins to become obsessed. Charged with quiet emotional intensity, The Beekeeper' is a moving and powerful film about a man's struggle to find release from the spectre of the past.

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Natasha (Natalya Pavlenkova) is a middle-aged admin employee at a zoo where her female co-workers take pleasure in making fun of her. She lives with her God-fearing mother and leads a dull existence without prospects, until one day she grows a tail.

Medical examinations follow where she meets Peter (Dmitriy Groshev), a young radiologist, and her dreary life is turned upside down.

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Veniamin (Pyotr Skvortsov), a teenager in the midst of a mystical crisis, has his mother, schoolmates and entire high school turned upside down by his questions.

- Can girls go to their swimming classes in bikinis? - Does sex education have a place in school? - Should the theory of evolution be taught as part of the Natural Sciences? The adults are soon overwhelmed by the certitudes of the youngster who swears only by Scripture. No one but Elena (Viktoriya Isakova), his biology teacher, will alone challenge him on his own ground.

Marcel and Arletty's quiet, economically but emotionally rich life is disrupted when she is diagnosed with a serious disease. At the same time, Marcel takes a young illegal immigrant under his wing.

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Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed woman in her late thirties who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory and lives with her tyrannical mother (Annie Girardot), with whom she has a volatile love-hate relationship.

But when one of Erika's students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer (Benoit Magimel), attempts to seduce her, the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered, unleashing a previously inhibited extreme and uncontrollable desire.

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Delicious students, who we can only assume are studying for a masters degree in stripping, head off for a vacation to a location remote enough to ensure undisturbed carnage should a killer be lurking nearby...

Luckily for fans of psycho sexual thrillers a black gloved saw-wielding killer has followed them to their bordello of nudity and soon starts effective slayer multi-tasking by molesting and mutilating his way through a cast of fine beauties including the ever delicious Suzy Kendall!

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In the quiet, peaceful, countryside town of Sam-mae-ri, Korea, things run at a laid back, idyllic pace. But the subdued atmosphere, scenic views and community spirit are about to be torn apart and ripped to shreds.

What was once a popular tourist resort is about to become a one-way ticket to hell on earth. Within the surrounding mountain area the severed limbs of a young girl have just been discovered. The local law enforcement immediately assumes it's a case of homicide. But they're wrong, very wrong. Soon the beloved small town of Sam-mae-ri will be turned into a gruesome bloodbath, for deep within its cold, dark forests a monstrous, insatiable beast awaits… and it's getting hungry. Following in the footsteps of The Host, Chaw is another remarkable entry into the new wave of Korean cinema and the Asian monster movie revival. Darkly humorous and equally terrifying, Chaw is the flesh-eating, mutant offspring of Twin Peaks and Razorback. Mankind has a very PIG problem.

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The second feature film from German provocateur Jorg Buttgereit, depicts seven suicides across seven days of the week. As a chain letter from the self-proclaimed Brotherhood of the Seventh Day circulates, encouraging its recipients to end their lives, a series of grim vignettes unfold.

In one, a young woman massacres a room of concert-goers before turning the gun on herself; in another, a man, wracked by some unspecified mental torment, repeatedly slams his head into a wall before collapsing in a pool of his own blood...These are just some of the depictions of death and despair that make up the tortured fabric of Der Todesking.

When five cops are called to investigate a distress call at an abandoned police station, they will instead discover a Satanic slaughterhouse of horrific physical agony and psychosexual torment. But for those who survive, the worst is yet to come.

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During the Japanese occupation, a group of freedom fighters smuggle explosives to destroy facilities controlled by the Japanese forces. A group of resistance fighters led by the leader's second in command try to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul.

It's a game of cat-and-mouse as it's up to a Korean-born Japanese police officer to infiltrate the resistance at all costs by befriending an antique dealer who's involved in the plot but never exposed.

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"Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies" sees three young snowboarders left behind on a mountain, seeking shelter in an après-ski tavern that is hosting an end of season party.

But things go from bad to worse when a scientific experiment to create environmentally friendly snow unleashes an epidemic of zombies and mutant wildlife. As the local lederhosen drunkards run amok, Steve (Laurie Calvert), Branka (Gabriela Marcinkova) and buxom tavern owner Rita (Margarete Tiesel) have to find a way to survive their wurst nightmare without schnapping!

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Ten years before the events which saw young Renton join the crew of the Gekko came the so-called Summer of Love - the cataclysmic world-changing event enacted in no small part by his father, Adroc Thurston, in conjunction with the mysterious girl known only as Eureka.

Unaware of the full impact of his forebear many years previously, can Renton follow in his father's footsteps and also find a way to bring much-needed change to the planet? First, however, he needs to learn a lot about himself and the world around him, which means facing up to difficult decisions surrounding both Renton himself and his adoptive family.

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When beautiful straight - A high school student Kanako goes missing, her mother asks ex-husband Akikazu - a drifting, irresponsible former cop - to find their daughter. He embarks on a desperate search in the hope of reuniting his 'perfect family' by any means necessary.

But as his investigation progresses, Akikazu starts to discover the darkness that lies behind his daughter's impeccable facade. Glue by clue, revelation by revelation, he starts his descent into the hellish underworld of Kanako's secret life...

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Pool Party massacre begins as Blair Winthorpe (Kristin Noel McKusick), a spoiled rotten college aged daughter of wealthy parents, is planning a pool party for a few friends at her parents mansion.

With Blair determined to have a relaxing day by the pool, and all of her self absorbed friends focusing on themselves, none of them seem to notice that there is an unknown killer in the house stalking them. One by one as party guests enter the house to make phone calls, have sex, refill drinks or even masturbate, they are brutally murdered by the mysterious killer.

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In 1972 the Shaw Brothers unleashed one of their most colourful and chaotic horror movies in 'The Bride from Hell'.

Directed by Chou Hsu-Chiang, who had earlier had a spooky success with another classic Hong Kong creeper 'The Enchanting Ghost' (1970), this slow-burning suspenser has a luckless lad hitched to the woman of his dreams... who just happens to have a few surprising links to the Netherworld. What follows is a tale of possession, demons, magic and mysticism...