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Blue Ruin (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Jeremy Saulnier; Writer: Jeremy Saulnier; Stars: Devin Ratray, Eve Plumb, Amy Hargreaves, David W Thompson, Bonnie Johnson)

Unexpected news transforms an easy-going vagrant into a man bent on revenge.

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The Double (Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Richard Ayoade; Writer: Richard Ayoade, Avi Korine; Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn, Rade Serbedzija, Cathy Moriarty, Gemma Chan, Noah Taylor, James Fox, Yasmin Paige, Nathalie Cox, Phyllis Somerville, Tony Rohr, Joanna Finata, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Jon Korkes) , Official Site , Trailer

Jesse Eisenberg finds his world turned upside down by the arrival of a confident and ambitious doppelganger.

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Ida (Country: Poland, Denmark; Year: 2013; Director: Pawel Pawlikowski; Writer: Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Pawel Pawlikowski; Stars: Agata Kulesza, Joanna Kulig, Dawid Ogrodnik, Adam Szyszkowski, Agata Trzebuchowska)

A novice nun comes face-to-face with her family’s past in 1960s Poland.

Full Review See: Pawel Pawlikowski in conversation on Ida

Locke (Country: US, UK; Year: 2013; Director: Steven Knight; Writer: Steven Knight; Stars: Tom Hardy, voices of Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, Tom Holland, Ben Daniels, Bill Milner, Alice Lowe, Danny Webb, Lee Ross, Silas Carson, Kirsty Dillon)

A man drives through the night, listening to mobile phone calls, as his life falls apart.

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The Lunchbox (Dabba) (Country: India; Year: 2013; Director: Ritesh Batra; Writer: Ritesh Batra; Stars: Irrfan Khan, Bharati Achrekar, Nimrat Kaur, Denzil Smith)

A mistakenly delivered lunchbox sparks romance between two lonely people.

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Only Lovers Left Alive and The Lunchbox

Only Lovers Left Alive (Country: Germany, US, UK, France, Cyprus; Year: 2013; Director: Jim Jarmusch; Writer: Jim Jarmusch; Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt, Anton Yelchin, Slimane Dazi, Wayne Brinston, Aurelie Thepaut)

A vampire couple contemplate a changing world.

Full Review See: New York Film Festival diary one: Captain Phillips, The Invisible Woman, Only Lovers Left Alive

R100 (Country: Japan; Year: 2013; Director: Hitoshi Matsumoto; Writer: Hitoshi Matsumoto, Mitsuyoshi Takasu, Tomoji Hasegawa, Kôji Ema, Mitsuru Kuramoto; Stars: Mao Daichi, Lindsay Kay Hayward, Hairi Katagiri, Gin Maeda, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Suzuki Matsuo, Michié, Haruki Nishimoto, Eriko Satô, Shinobu Terajima, Ai Tominaga, Atsurô Watabe, Naomi Watanabe, You, Nao Ômori)

A mild-mannered family man with a secret taste for S&M finds himself pursued by a gang of ruthless dominatrices - each with a unique talent.

Stranger By The Lake (L’Inconnu Du Lac) (Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Alain Guiraudie; Writer: Alain Guiraudie; Stars: Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d'Assumçao, Jérôme Chappatte, Mathieu Vervisch, Gilbert Traina, Emmanuel Daumas, Sébastien Badachaoui, Gilles Guérin, François-Renaud Labarthe, Claude Bellelle, Slawomir Cieminski, Jean-Marie Crémier, Bernard Delavaux, Bernard German)

After a shocking incident takes place at a cruising spot, a young man is caught in the throes of a dangerous passion.

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