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Gabrielle and About Time
2 Guns (Two Guns)
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Baltasar Kormákur; Writer: Blake Master; Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Edward James Olmos, James Marsden, Bill Paxton, Robert John Burke)
Mismatched buddies make a lot of enemies after problems with a heist.
About Time
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Richard Curtis; Writer: Richard Curtis; Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lydia Wilson, Lindsay Duncan, Richard Cordery, Joshua McGuire, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie, Will Merrick, Vanessa Kirby, Tom Hughes, Clemmie Dugdale, Harry Hadden-Paton, Mitchell Mullen)
A young man who discovers he can travel in time decides to use it to try and get a girlfriend.
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.
Fitzcarraldo
(Country: Germany; Year: 1982; Director: Werner Herzog; Writer: Werner Herzog; Stars: Klaus Kinksi, Claudia Cardinale,
Jose Lewgoy, Miguel Angel
Fuentes, Paul Hittscher, Grande
Otelo)
A music lover is consumed with the idea of building an opera house in the South American jungle.
Gabrielle
(Country: Canada; Year: 2013; Director: Louise Archambault; Writer: Louise Archambault; Stars: Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Alexandre Landry)
Young love comes up against prejudice.
Blue Ruin and We're The Millers
Gloria
(Country: Chile, Spain; Year: 2012; Director: Sebastián Lelio; Stars: Paulina García, Sergio Hernández, Diego Fontecilla, Fabiola Zamora)
A woman finds late romance at a dance club, but will family intrude?
The Human Factor
(Country: Italy; Year: 2013; Director: Bruno Oliveiro; Writer: Valentina Cicogna, Doriana Leondeff, Bruno Oliveiro; Stars: Silvio Orlando, Giuseppe Battiston, Sandra Ceccarelli, Alice Raffaelli)
A widowed detective is torn between his job and his duty as a father when his daughter becomes a murder suspect.
Human Georgraphy (Géographie Humaine)
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Claire Simon; Writer: Claire Simon)
Documentary about the Gare du Nord station in Paris.
The Keeper Of Lost Causes (Kvinden I Buret)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2013; Director: Mikkel Nørgaard; Writer: Nikolaj Arcel, based on the book by Jussi Adler-Olsen.; Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard)
A detective and his assistant are assigned to investigate the death of a politician that occurred five years previously.
L’Expérience Blocher
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2013; Director: Jean-Stéphane Bron)
A portrait of a controversial Swiss politician.
2 Guns and Gloria
Longwave (Les Grandes Ondes (À l’Ouest))
(Country: Switzerland, France, Portugal; Year: 2013; Director: Lionel Baier; Writer: Lionel Baier, Julien Bouissoux; Stars: Michel Vuillermoz, Valérie Donzelli, Patrick Lapp)
A comedy.
Mr Morgan’s Last Love
(Country: Germany, Belgium, USA, France; Year: 2013; Director: Sandra Nettelbeck; Writer: Sandra Nettelbeck, based on the book by Françoise Dorner.; Stars: Gillian Anderson, Michael Caine, Clémence Poésy)
A retired philosophy professor falls for a young Parisian woman.
On The Way To School (Sur le chemin de l’école)
(Country: Macedonia; Year: 2013; Director: Pascal Plisson; Writer: Marie-Claire Javoy, Pascal Plisson)
A documentary.
Rich And Famous
(Country: US; Year: 1981; Director: George Cukor; Writer: Gerald Ayres, based on the play by John Van Druten.; Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, David Selby)
A story of the evolving friendship between two very different writers.
Vijay And I (My Friend Vijay)
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2013; Director: Sam Garbarski; Writer: Philippe Blasband, Sam Garbarski; Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Patricia Arquette, Danny Pudi )
After unexpectedly surviving a car crash, a dejected actor decides to attend his own funeral in disguise to see what people really think of him.
Fitzcarraldo and Mr Morgan’s Last Love
We're The Millers
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber; Writer: Bob Fisher, Steve Faber; Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn, Will Poulter, Ed Helms, Molly Quinn, Tomer Sisley, Matthew Willig, Luis Guzman)
A drug dealer creates a fake family to provide cover while moving a large shipment of cannabis into the US.
Wrong Cops
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Quentin Dupieux; Stars: Mark Burnham, Marilyn Manson, Steve Little, Eric Wareheim)
Imagine a Los Angeles where crime is so low that a bored cop sells drugs and harasses a teenager to pass the time. Shot in standalone chapters, as it is being financed, screened and released, watch the 45 minutes of crazy.
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