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Me And Earl And The Dying Girl and Southpaw
Above And Below
(Country: Switzerland, Germany, US; Year: 2015; Director: Nicolas Steiner; Writer: Nicolas Steiner)
Existence on the fringes of society.
Amnesia
(Country: Switzerland, France; Year: 2015; Director: Barbet Schroeder; Writer: Emilie Bickerton, Barbet Schroeder; Stars: Max Riemelt, Marthe Keller, Rick Zingale, Fèlix Pons)
Drama set against a backdrop of Europe's electronic music scene.
Bombay Velvet
(Country: India; Year: 2015; Director: Anurag Kashyap; Writer: Vasan Bala, Anurag Kashyap; Stars: Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Karan Johar)
An ordinary man goes all out to make a name for himself.
The Deer Hunter
(Country: US; Year: 1978; Director: Michael Cimino; Writer: Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn; Stars: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, Meryl Streep)
Three steelworkers leave their home town to fight in the Vietnam War, never anticipating the impact it will have on their lives.
Le Dernier Passage
(Year: 2015; Director: Pascal Magontier)
A drama.
Vanity and Above And Below
Floride
(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Philippe Le Guay; Writer: Philippe Le Guay, Jérôme Tonnerre; Stars: Jean Rochefort, Sandrine Kiberlain, Anamaria Marinca)
An 80 year old man who is struggling with a failing memory decides to embark on a sudden trip to Florida, worrying the daughter who can no longer connect with him.
Guibord S’En Va-T-En Guerre
(Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Philippe Falardeau; Writer: Philippe Falardeau; Stars: Patrick Huard, Suzanne Clément, Ellen David, Micheline Lanctôt)
A comedy.
Heliopolis
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2015; Director: Sérgio Machado)
A film.
I Pugni I Tasca (Fists In the Pocket)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1965; Director: Marco Bellocchio; Writer: Marco Bellocchio; Stars: Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace, Pier Luigi Troglio)
A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.
Jack
(Country: Austria; Year: 2015; Director: Elisabeth Scharang)
A film.
Trainwreck and Ricki And The Flash
The Laundryman (Qing Tian Jie Yi Hao)
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2015; Director: Lee Chung; Stars: Hsiao-chuan Chang, Qian Wan, Tang Sui)
A contract killer who operates as part of a gang under the cover of a laundry service turns to a psychic for help in driving away the ghosts who haunt him.
Me And Earl And The Dying Girl
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon; Writer: Jesse Andrews, based on his novel; Stars: Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, Molly Shannon, Jon Bernthal, Katherine C. Hughes, Matt Bennett, Bobb'e J. Thompson)
How to be a teenager without losing your life and why helping a friend who is sick need not be an exercise in sentimental wishwash
The People Vs Fritz Bauer (Der Staat Gegen Fritz Bauer)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2015; Director: Lars Kraume; Writer: Lars Kraume, Olivier Guez; Stars: Burghart Klaußner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Sebastian Blomberg)
A portrait of Fritz Bauer, a man who defied his own government in working with Mossad to track down Adolf Eichmann.
Ricki And The Flash
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Jonathan Demme; Writer: Diablo Cody; Stars: Meryl Streep, Mamie Gummer, Sebastian Stan, Kevin Kline, Rick Springfield, Audra McDonald)
A rock star tries to make things right with the family she sacrificed for the sake of her career.
Southpaw
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Antoine Fuqua; Writer: Kurt Sutter; Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Oona Laurence, Forest Whitaker, 50 Cent, Skylan Brro, Clare Foley)
Boxer Billy Hope turns to trainer Tick Willis to help him get his life back on track after losing his wife.
Summertime and The People Vs Fritz Bauer
Summertime (La Belle Saison)
(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Catherine Corsini; Writer: Catherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss; Stars: Cécile De France, Izïa Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky)
Drama about social change in France in the early 1970s.
Trainwreck
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Judd Apatow; Writer: Amy Schumer; Stars: Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson, Colin Quinn, Tilda Swinton, LeBron James)
A woman with a fear of commitment finds herself falling for a man who wants to settle down in a monogamous relationship.
Vanity (La Vanité)
(Country: Switzerland, France; Year: 2015; Director: Lionel Baier; Writer: Lionel Baier, Julien Bouissoux; Stars: Patrick Lapp, Carmen Maura, Ivan Georgiev, Adrien Barazzone, Nina Théron)
An elderly architect heads to a motel to finish planning his assisted suicide.
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