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Two teenage girls in search of freedom, friendship, and belonging run away from their troubled lives with a misguided plan of traveling to Syria.
Sci-fi nightmare fusing head scrambling multiverse and a conspiracy of global proportions that might mean the end of the world as we know it.
Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.
Two estranged brothers with chequered childhoods in the care system suddenly find themselves living under the same roof.
Oddball staff, wacky clientele and ageing Hollywood idols cross paths in a small town cinema on the day of its closure.
As the first elected councilwoman of her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi aims to break long-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages. When accusations arise questioning Sara’s intentions to empower the girls, her identity is put in turmoil.
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A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love.
The super-spy is assigned to a smuggling op.
When Colleen volunteers to care for her elderly neighbor Elsie, the two quickly bond. But beneath the pleasantries, motives start to be questioned leading to a devastating series of events.
When a fellow agent is killed in Jamaica, the super-spy finds himself pitting wits against a mysterious new adversary.
James Bond tries to foil a plot involving a stolen espionage machine, and faces off against a deadly assassin. Enjoying a reissue.
A sex-drugs-and-rave-till-you-cave flick?
Documentary charting a porridge-making contest in the Highlands.
Big screen reissue offers another chance to see James Bond take on the man with the Midas touch.
A film shoot turns dark when the burning of the Quran throws the crew into turmoil.
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Tom, a tennis coach at a luxury hotel, has his life changed when a new family arrives. Matters take a dark turn when the husband disappears and both Tom and the wife become suspects.
A woman finds herself trapped in a remote hotel where the violent echoes of her past come alive, blurring the lines between her darkest nightmares and the waking world.
During a weekend of rehearsals with the school choir at a convent, an introverted teenager begins to view the world from a new perspective.
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A staff member at a seaside hotel vanishes without a trace.
A mild-mannered Iranian mortician in Canada forms an unexpected bond with a dissident singer in exile.
After the death of her husband, Janet decides to distract herself by rearing a goose... which becomes an obsession.
A ruthless estate agent finds herself in debt to some vicious gangsters.
Love story about a married mussel farmer who falls in love with a handsome newcomer.
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Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, repeatedly killing her daughter's murderer. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity hangs in the balance.
A psychological thriller from Glasgow's heart of darkness.
Two friends start holding up tour buses.
The super-spy hunts stolen nukes in the Bahamas.
A reimagining of the Eighties franchise in which a janitor is transformed by radioactive slime and becomes an unlikely hero.
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A filmmaker charts her own journey after her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
James Bond heads off to Japan in Roald Dahl's wacky adaptation.
A filmmaker describes his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary and probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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