Fear Eats The Soul
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Touching romance between a lonely widow and an immigrant worker.
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Fantastic Planet
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Trippy, Seventies animated version of the biblical story of Exodus.
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Three Extremes
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Three of Asia's premier horror directors deliver spine-tingling short tales of terror, torture and tormented twins.
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A Better Tomorrow II
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John Woo’s 80s gun-toting, triad-splattering sequel.
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Funny Games
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A family is held hostage by two polite young men who use games as a form of torture.
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The Wicker Man
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A policeman gets more than he bargained for on a remote Scottish isle.
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Odd Man Out
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An injured IRA man goes on the run in the forbidding back streets of Belfast.
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Coast Guard
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A border soldier loses grip of reality after an accidental killing.
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Viridiana
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A repressed nun desperate to maintain her Catholic ideals is tested as she takes residence on her uncles debauched estate in Luis Buñuel's controversial Palme d’Or snatcher.
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The Nameless
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A distraught mum gets a call from the daughter she thought was murdered five years ago and sets out to find her - but instead discovers indescribable evil.
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