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The story of the first designated hospital ward for AIDS patients in the US.
A single mother living in war-torn Ukraine is tempted by the chance to attend a party where she could meet American men looking for wives.
Love and loss in Dakar are given a supernatural twist.
Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins of Leningrad after the Second World War.
A sequel, set decades later, to Un Homme Et Une Femme.
A look at the friendship between two guys that spans many years.
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The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves.
Biopic of Jim Morrison and his Sixties iconic rock band.
A teenage hitchhiker forms an unexpected bond with a stranger.
Sylvester Stallone in first Rambo movie.
A young woman's struggles with love, war and motherhood over the span of five years in Syria.
Three generations grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in Sintra, Portugal, a historic town known for its dense gardens and fairy-tale villas and palaces.
A gang boss survives an attack by a serial killer and works with a detective to try and track him down.
When a riot breaks out in Milwaukee, America's most segregated city, medical transport driver Vic is torn between his promise to get a group of elderly Russians to a funeral and his desire to help Tracy, a young black woman with ALS.
The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.
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A cut-off hand escapes from a dissection lab with one crucial goal: to get back to its body. As it scrambles through the pitfalls of Paris, it remembers its life with the young man it was once attached to… until they met Gabrielle.
A tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
In Bogota, Silvia, a single mum and a lawyer, is implicated in a corruption scandal. At the same time she is trying to cope with her sick mum.
A genetically engineered plant scatters its seeds and seems to cause uncanny changes on living creatures. The afflicted appear strange, as if they were replaced - especially for those, who are close to them. Or is it all just imagination?
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Explores the impact of movie sound through insight from cinema’s biggest directors and their go-to sonic collaborators.
An allegorical neorealist fantasy examining social dynamics in post-war Italy.
A man joins an anti-crime brigade and rapidly discovers the tensions between the various neighbourhood groups.
Faraz’s quiet life working at an isolated petrol station is turned upside down when his ageing father Malik begins to speak in a long-forgotten language and insists on returning back home.
A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered.
A migrant to Belgium loses his job and finds himself in trouble thanks to his non-citizen status.
TV star Rick Dalton and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth make their way around an industry they hardly recognise any more.
After 20 years of marriage, Maria decides to leave her husband. She moves into room 212 at the hotel across the street, with a bird’s-eye view of her apartment, her husband and the life she shared with him.
A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Mena organises a birthday party for a daughter. But after a phone call from her mother, she becomes distraught.
Emily is a patient at an experimental psychiatric facility where a brain implant prototype allows her to relive her dreams.
On an isolated island in Bretagne at the end of the 18th century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
A love story about a Midwesterner and a trans woman, set in New York's Kiki ballroom scene.
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A musical fantasy reimagining of Elton John's early success, addiction and rehab.
After discovering a disturbing video from a night she doesn’t remember, 16-year-old Mandy must try to figure out what happened and how to navigate the escalating fallout.
After moving his family to a remote hotel with a troubled past, a writer gradually loses his mind.
A teenager becomes fascinated with a new kid in class who is a haemophiliac. When tragedy strikes, she finds a new obsession.
A hard-up delivery driver and his wife struggle to get by in modern-day England.
Summer 1998 - Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
Moments before his capture by police, a thief digs a grave to hide a bag of money. Released from prison years later he returns to retrieve the bag, only to find a shrine to an Unknown Saint build directly over his loot, and a brand new village constructed all around it.
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A teenager becomes radicalised.
After Rémi's infidelity, Lila, who loved him more than anything, has a hard time dealing with their break-up. One day, he announces that he will travel alone to Bolivia to soul-search and try to understand his mistakes. There, he lets her know that their love story is not over.
Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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