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Babycall (2011)The Monitor
Anna (Noomi Rapace) is a woman on the run with her eight year old son. Fleeing from her violent ex-husband they are given a safe house in a stark apartment block. Terrified he will find them, Anna buys a baby monitor to keep her son safe while he sleeps. But strange noises start to echo from inside the building, another child is in danger and when her son makes a mysterious friend, Anna will no longer know what she can trust or what is imagined or real. - Director:
- Pål Sletaune
- Cast:
- Noomi Rapace, Kristoffer Joner, Vetle Qvenild Werring
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Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana (Gal Gadot), princess of the Amazons, raised on a sheltered island paradise and trained to be an unconquerable warrior. When an American pilot (Chris Pine) crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers...and her true destiny. - Director:
- Patty Jenkins
- Cast:
- Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright
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Goodbye, Children (1987)Au Revoir Les Enfants
With a career spanning over thirty years, Louis Malle was one of the giants of French cinema. After he burst onto the scene as one of the pioneers of the French New Wave with Lift To The Scaffold, Malle quickly achieved a reputation as a great director who was unafraid to embrace a wide array of subjects - many famously controversial. Working both in Hollywood and his native France, Malle imprinted his films with subtlety, intelligence and a sharp eye for the mores of human behaviour that set him apart from his contemporaries. This collection brings together classics from Malle's later career. Au Revoir Les Enfants, earning Malle a BAFTA for Best Director, and Lucien Lacombe are two very different tales about troubled youth set during the Second World War. Milou en Mai is a chamber comedy set against the backdrop of the 1968 Parisian uprisings and Le Souffle Au Coeur a taboo-breaking coming-of-age satire. Together with the dreamlike Black Moon, these films are proof that age did not dim Malle's humanism or commitment to experimentation. - Director:
- Louis Malle
- Cast:
- Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette
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In the near future, crime is patrolled by an oppressive mechanised police force. But now, the people are fighting back. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself. As powerful, destructive forces start to see Chappie as a danger to mankind and order, they will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo and ensure that Chappie is the last of his kind. - Director:
- Neill Blomkamp
- Cast:
- Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman
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The story of Kika (Veronica Forque), a Madrid makeup artist whose relationship with Ramon (Alex Casanovas) leads to criminal schemes involving Kika's maid Juana (Rossy De Palma), Juana's amorous, criminal brother Pablo (Santiago Lajusticia), and Ramon's youth-obsessed father Nicholas (Peter Coyote). Overseeing all, is the muckraking, reality tabloid television show presided over by the formidable Andrea Scarface (Victoria Abril). - Director:
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Cast:
- Peter Coyote, Verónica Forqué, Victoria Abril
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Manhunt (2008)Rovdyr
Summer 1974: and four friends have planned a weekend hiking and camping in the remote forests of northern Europe. At an innocuous truck stop they pick up an anxious-looking hitchhiker. Almost instantly, it's clear that she's more than simply unnerved. She's terrified of something... or someone. Without warning the group is brutally ambushed and when the survivors come too, deep in the secluded forest, miles from civilisation the first thing they hear is the sound of a hunting horn. Their nightmare is far from over. In fact it has only just begun. The game is on and they realise to their absolute horror that they are the prey. - Director:
- Patrik Syversen
- Cast:
- Henriette Bruusgaard, Jørn Bjørn Fuller Gee, Lasse Valdal
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The Untamed (2016)La región salvaje
Alejandra (Ruth Ramos) is a housewife, raising two boys with husband Angel (Jesús Meza) in a small city. Her brother Fabian (Eden Villavicencio) works as a nurse in a local hospital. Their provincial lives are upset with the arrival of the mysterious Veronica (Simone Bucio). Sex and love can be fragile in certain regions where strong family values, hypocrisy, homophobia, and male chauvinism exist. Veronica convinces them that in the nearby woods, inside an isolated cabin, dwells something not of this world that could be the answer to all of their problems. Something whose force they cannot resist and with whom they must make peace or suffer its wrath. - Director:
- Amat Escalante
- Cast:
- Kenny Johnston, Simone Bucio, Fernando Corona
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A Touch of Sin (2013)Tian Zhu Ding
Inspired by four shocking (and true) events in modern-day capitalist China, 'A Touch of Sin' focuses on four people, living in four different provinces, who are driven to violent ends. An angry miner, enraged by the corruption of his village, decides to take justice into his own hands. A rootless migrant discovers the infinite possibilities of owning a firearm; a receptionist working at a local sauna is pushed to the limit by a wealthy client; and a young factory worker goes from one discouraging job to the next, only to face increasingly degrading circumstances. - Director:
- Zhangke Jia
- Cast:
- Wu Jiang, Baoqiang Wang, Tao Zhao
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