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Power play and dirty tricks in the French police force.
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An enigmatic story of modern Russia, given the flavour of myth.
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Albert Maysles: 3 Shorts
Short documentary records interviews with Marlon Brando, Truman Capote and Mohammad Ali.
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Albert Maysles: Salesman
Following four door-to-door salesmen around the States in the late Sixties.
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Angel's Fall
A young woman tries to break free from life with her father.
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Antares
Multi-layered plotlines around the inhabitants of an apartment complex.
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Antibodies
A serial killer plays mind games
with a policeman.
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The Aristocrats
Documentary about a filthy joke, told by a succession of
professional comedians.
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The Art Of Losing
Columbian corruption, a
decomposing corpse, a
hard-drinking reporter and a
tearful tart.
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Astronauts
Acid comedy about a junkie
trying to clean up.
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Asylum
Infidelity at an institution for the criminally insane.
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Battle In Heaven
An ugly taxi driver and the prostitute daughter of a general go at it and at it and (yawn).
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The Beat That My Heart Skipped
A young heavy, following in his father's violent footsteps yearns for something more.
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Before The Flood
Documentary charting the relocation of the people of Fengjie, a city that will shortly be submerged beneath the Yangtze river.
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A Bittersweet Life
A tale of revenge, infidelity and gangland warfare in South Korea.
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The Boys Of Baraka
Disadvantaged kids from Baltimore are sent to boarding school in Kenya.
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The Business
In the mid-80s a young man falls foul of a gangster and is sent to take money to an ex-con in Spain, who invites him to join his team.
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The Cat Leaves Home
Two girls fight over men.
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The Dark
A Welsh ghost story with watery
connections.
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The Devil And Daniel Johnston
Biographical documentary about an underground singer/songwriter extraordinaire.
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The Devil's Miner
Documentary on the child miners of Bolivia.
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Dominion
Before The Exorcist came the
demon Pazuzu.
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Dumplings
Ageing star seeks out an anti-ageing recipe... just don't ask about the special ingredient.
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Fateless
Hungarian teenager discovers a
certain "happiness" in the Nazi
death camps.
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Ferpect Crime
An accidental killing leads to funny consequences of a psychotic nature.
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Fourteen Sucks
A teenage rites-of-passage that does not flinch at sexual violation.
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Frankie
A fashion model crumbles beneath the incessant pressure of an ugly industry.
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Gamblers
Card sharks on the streets of
Paris.
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George A Romero's Land Of The Dead
The creator of the zombie genre returns with an allegory of Bush's abuses in Iraq.
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Ghosts
Mystery of a lost child and two teenage girls on the run.
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Gone To Earth
A barefooted Shropshire lass
marries the vicar and is seduced
by the squire.
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The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael
The fall of an intelligent teenager into a life of ultraviolence and depravity.
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Green Street
A Yank comes to West Ham and learns how to be a hooligan.
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Grizzly Man
Werner Herzog examines the psyche of Timothy Treadwell, a man who lived and died with bears.
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Gunner Palace
The day-to-day life of young
American soldiers in Iraq.
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Guy X
Odd goings on at isolated US base in Greenland, as witnessed by a man with two names.
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Gypo
The impact of a young Czech
refugee on a British
working-class family.
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The Holyrood Files
Expose of the building of the
Scottish Parliament.
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Iron Island
A society of people live on a
derelict oil tanker in the Persian
Gulf. Are they being misled?
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Johanna
An operatic hospital saga, in which junkie nurse prescribes sex as life-saving treatment.
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Junebug
Love and understanding are tested in a Southern comedy-romance-tragedy.
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Keane
Paranoia stalks a bus depot in Jersey as the father of an abducted girl seeks retribution
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Kinky Boots
Shoemaker opts for drastic footwear design in a bid save family business.
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Letter From An Unknown Woman
A woman falls for her neighbour
and maintains her unrequited
love down the years.
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The Life I Want
Troubled romance between stars
on an Italian film set.
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L'Intrus
Plot-defying drama about a naked man, with dogs.
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Mad Hot Ballroom
Competitive ballroom dancing for the ethnically diverse pupils of Washington Heights.
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The Magician
Documentary filmmaker follows a Melbourne thug about his business.
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Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing And Charm School
A sad baker helps a dying motorist and discovers that he's not the only one who can't dance.
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A Matter Of Life And Death
A wartime aviator begs a celestial court to let him escape death so he can be with the woman he loves. Out on re-issue in cinemas.
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Mirrorball Animation
A collection of the best animated music videos that 2005 had to offer.
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Mirrorball Best Of The Best
The second selection of new
promo videos from Mirrorball.
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Mirrorball - Fresh Tracks 1
A selection of new promo videos from Mirrorball.
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Mirrorball - Fresh Tracks 2
The second selection of new promo videos from Mirrorball.
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Mirrorball KeepInTime
Turntablists meet the drummers
from the records that they spin.
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Mirrorball Made In Japan
Bizarre and brilliant creations from the Far East.
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MirrorMask
A circus girl falls into a fantasy world where darkness threatens the kingdom of light.
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Morke
Danish mystery about serial
suicides.
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Night Watch
A streetwalker roaming the streets of Buenos Aires meets long dead friends.
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On A Clear Day
A redundant shipworker from Glasgow dreams of swimming the English Channel.
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One Long Winter Without Fire
A beautifully composed tale about redemption and coping with loss.
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One Nite In Mongkok
Triad tensions in Hong Kong bring a hired assassin from the mainland.
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Thai country girl uses terror magic in Bangkok go-go bar.
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Peeping Tom
A young photographer becomes fascinated by expressions of fear, with deadly consequences.
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Police Beat
The life of a Seattle cop, who worries more about his personal life than city crime.
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Popular Music
In the Swedish backwoods rock-and-roll becomes act of rebellion for pubescent teenagers.
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Pucker Up
A competitive whistling documentary from Louisburg, North Carolina.
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The Puffy Chair
Surprisingly real road trip movie about a quest to find a piece of furniture.
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Radiant
A new vaccine creates a deadly virus.
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Rag Tale
Poisonous cynicism and manipulative scheming at the heart of a national tabloid.
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The Red Shoes
A dancer is torn between the man she loves and her obsessive commitment to her craft.
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Saltire Society Award For Short Documentary
A collection of the best of Scottish short documentaries from the last year competing for the Saltire Society Award
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Same Sex America
Investigating gay marriage.
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Saraband
Ingmar Bergman returns to Scenes From A Marriage 30 years on.
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Screaming Masterpiece
A look at the Icelandic music industry, its roots and stars.
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Serenity
Buffy's creator does battle with the Reavers in space, as earthlings move off their overcrowded planet.
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Shakespeare Behind Bars
Murderers and rapists perform Shakespeare and learn forgiveness.
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Snuff Movie
Psychodrama by horror auteur Boris Arkadin.
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Song Of Songs
The stirrings of incestuous passion against a background of deeply felt religious beliefs.
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Stoned
The last days of the fifth Rolling Stone, Brian Jones.
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Sugar
A horrific discovery in a one room apartment leads into a surreal, claustrophobic nightmare.
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The Sun
One of Emperor Hirohito last days before the Japanese surrender in 1945.
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Taimagura Grandma
Documentary examining a vanishing way of life in Japan.
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Tartan Shorts
Selection of shorts from the Ediburgh Film Festival.
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Thumbsucker
Teenager from the 'burbs attempts to quit suckin'.
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Tickets
Three international film directors take a train to Rome and tell stories of love, loss and the beautiful game.
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Tour De Force
A strong man heads for Russia to build on his 23 Guinness Book of Records titles.
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Tsotsi
An outstanding, highly moral tale of a young South African thug's redemption.
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Up And Down
Satire of racism and xenophobia in modern Prague.
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Voices Of Iraq
Iraqis film each other. Americans edit it. The invasion is given the thumbs up.
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Wah-Wah
A boy grows up in a broken family as the winds of change blow through Swaziland.
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The Wedding
A wedding reception where everyone has a secret descends into dark farce.
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Weekdays
An unknown woman goes about her daily life - clubbing, fucking and lunch with grandma.
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Les Yeux Clairs
Well-acted drama about a sheltered bipolar girl who inadvertantly goes on a road-trip.
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Movies out this week include :
A Dangerous Method
Bombay Beach
Carnage
Casablanca
Chronicle
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Man On A Ledge
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Rampart
Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace
The Muppets
Young Adult
Other Films Out Now
Latest reviews:
If Not Us, Who?
Shadow Dancer
How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire
Sergeant
Three Walls
Fini
Repressed
Possessed
Shirin
Decapoda Shock
Birth Of A Nation
Kin
We, the Masses
Twiggy
Midnight In Paris
The Cat 'O Nine Tails
Girl Model
Beauty
Position Among The Stars
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