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Portrait of the ACT UP activist group, a direct action collective aiming to impact the lives of people with AIDS.
Al Gore continues his crusade to stop climate change.
A grandmother prepares for her last journey - to be taken to the mountains to die - but her son struggles to accept her fate.
Filmmaking and real life start to blur for a director making a biopic about female singer Barbara.
A woman meets a mysterious stranger at a party and leaves with him... it's the beginning of a long night in which she will have to fight for her rights and her dignity.
The star's own words are used to tell his life story.
Narumi and her husband Shinji are going through a rocky patch when Shinji suddenly vanishes, returning several days later, utterly transformed. At the same time, a family is brutally murdered, and the town beset by strange phenomena. Journalist Sakurai begins to investigate the mystery…
Bunuel's story of a chaste housewife who gets a job in a brothel still has the power to shock after 40 years. Out now on re-release.
A fashion photographer believes he may have caught something sinister on camera.
The Burden is an animated and animal musical, enacted in a modern marketplace next to a large freeway.
Civil War drama about an injured Yankee soldier who seeks refuge in girls' boarding school.
Manga tale of an immortal warrior, who cannot be released from his torment until he has killed 10000 evil-doers.
Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.
A young woman teams up with a military veteran to try and survive when insurgents bring war to the streets of New York City.
A teenager faces choices as he comes of age.
A family struggle to raise the ransom after a kidnapping.
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When a live-in maid's path crosses that of a travelling salesman, her life will change forever.
A small business owner and part-time cab driver is pushed to the edge by corruption.
A countess sells her earrings, little realising the huge impact the move will have on her life.
The director and photgrapher travel through France as their friendship blossoms.
Documentary about the working relationship between actor Leon Vitali and Stanley Kubrick.
The story of a precocious six-year-old and her rag-tag group of close friends whose carefree lives contrast with those of their struggling parents.
Before entering a prestigious American university, Gabriel Buchmann decides to travel the world for one year... finally reaching Kenya.
Crime caper sees a bank robber try to evade capture.
Story of a bourgeois family, set against the backdrop of the Calais refugee crisis.
Three teenage punks gatecrash a party on the Queen's jubilee night in London and have an unexpected experience that feels out of this world
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A man begins an affair with one of his servants.
A filmmaker's life becomes complicated by the return of a former lover.
A young girl is accused of being a witch.
Revenge thriller set in the aftermath of a bombing.
Musical about the French heroine.
A teenage boy tries to integrate a surgeon into his broken family but his motives become increasingly sinister.
A fragile young woman falls for her psychotherapist... and his twin.
Isabelle, single mum, divorced artist with one child, is looking for love. True love at last.
A woman embarks on an affair with a colonel suspected of human rights abuses.
A couple go looking for their young son after he disappears during one of their bitter rows.
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A young peasant makes a difficult journey in the hope of creating a better life for his loved ones.
At the height of the Solidarity movement, a Polish TV journalist is assigned by the government to undermine an independent trade union leader.
Comedy drama about a family who gather in New York to celebrate the work of their dad.
A woman seeks revenge after she is raped.
Young girl Mija must risk everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
A New Jersey kid dreams of making it as a rapper.
The story of Salim Shaheen, the most prolific and popular actor-director-producer in Afghanistan.
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Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the leading filmmaker of his generation, is shooting La Chinoise with the woman he loves, Anne Wiazemsky, 20 years his junior. They are happy, attractive, in love, they marry. But the film’s reception unleashes a profound self-examination in Jean-Luc.
A writer of film versions for the visually impaired falls for a photographer who is losing his eyesight, together they learn to see the radiant world.
A young cowboy tries to carve out a new identity.
An art exhibit invites passers by to altruism, but things don't go as planned for its curator.
When a boy disappears, a young girl goes looking for him in the dark world that has swallowed him.
An insight into the society of underground Tehran.
Algeria today. Past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young woman torn between the path of reason and sentiment and a neurologist whose past catches up with him.
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Sook-hee is a trained assassin who was born to kill. Now she works as a theatre actress and secret agent of the South Korean intelligence services.
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish their lives were different. Both set out on quests.
A group of German construction workers on a job in Bulgaria begin to compete for the approval of the locals.
An exploration of group dynamics in a young people’s writing workshop.
A tormented assassin tries to rescue a girl but trouble lies ahead.
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