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I, Anna and Compliance
Blood
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Nick Murphy; Writer: Bill Gallagher; Stars: Paul Bettany, Mark Strong, Brian Cox)
A police detective's disgust at the murder of a young girl leads him to make dangerous decisions.
Caesar Must Die (Cesare Deve Morire)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2012; Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani; Stars: Fabio Cavalli, Salvatore Striano)
A docudrama following drama workshops at Italy's Rebibbia prison, charting the trials and tribulations as the inmates tackle Shakespeare.
Compliance
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Craig Zobel; Writer: Craig Zobel; Stars: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp, Philip Ettinger, James McCaffrey, Matt Servitto, Ashlie Atkinson, Nikiya Mathis, Ralph Rodriguez, Stephen Payne, Amelia Fowler, John Merolla, Desmin Borges, Matt Skibiak)
A drama based on the real life case of fast food restaurant employees who abused vulnerable young people on the orders of a stranger on the phone who claimed to be investigating shoplifting.
Chakravyuh
(Country: India; Year: 2012; Director: Prakash Jha; Writer: Prakash Jha, Sagar Pandya, Anjum Rajabali; Stars: Abhay Deol, Arjun Rampal, Manoj Bajpayee, Anjali Patil)
Loyalties are tested when a double agent, falling for a beautiful but dangerous woman, comes to suspect he may be on the wrong side.
Easy Money (Snabba Cash)
(Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark; Year: 2010; Director: Daniél Espinosa; Writer: Maria Karlsson; Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Padin Varela, Dragomir Mrsic)
A poor student with an expensive elite lifestyle sells cocaine to pay for his extravagant habits.
Blood and A Fish
Easy Money II (Snabba Cash II)
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2012; Director: Babak Najafi; Writer: Maria Karlsson, Peter Birro; Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Fares Fares, Dejan Cukic)
Released from prison, our hero is drawn back into criminality by the prospect of making large amounts of money quickly.
Everybody Has A Plan (Todos Tenemos Un Plan)
(Country: Argentina, Spain, Germany; Year: 2011; Director: Ana Piterbarg; Writer: Ana Piterbarg; Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Soledad Villamil, Daniel Fanego)
Twin brothers - one a beekeeper with a criminal history, one a doctor - are drawn together into dangerous confrontations in the Argentinian swamplands.
A Fish (Mulgogi)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2011; Director: Park Hong-min; Writer: Park Hong-min; Stars: Lee Janghoon, Kim Sunbin, Choi Soeun)
When an academic discovers his missing wife has become a shaman, he fears he is beginning to lose his mind.
Helpless (Hwacha)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2012; Director: Byun Youngjoo; Writer: Byun Youngjoo, based on the book by Miyabe Miyuki.; Stars: Lee Sunkyun, Kim Minhee, Cho Seongha)
A young man searches desperately through records of old crimes after his fiancee goes missing.
I, Anna
(Country: UK, Germany, France; Year: 2012; Director: Barnaby Southcombe; Writer: Elsa Lewin, Barnaby Southcombe; Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Gabriel Byrne, Hayley Atwell, Eddie Marsan)
A detective falls for a woman who may be mixed up in a murder case.
Nameless Gangster: Rules Of The Time and Easy Money
Nameless Gangster: Rules Of The Time (Beomjoe Wa Ui Jeonjaeng: Nabyeon Nomdeul Jeonsaeng Sidae)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2012; Director: Yoon Jongbin; Writer: Yoon Jongbin; Stars: Choi Minsik, Ha Jeongwoo, Jo Jinwoong)
A corrupt customs offcer becomes involved in racketeering.
Wasteland
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Rowan Athale; Writer: Rowan Athale; Stars: Luke Treadaway, Timothy Spall, Iwan Rheon, Gerard Kearns, Matthew Lewis, Vanessa Kirkby)
In a police interrogation room, a robbery suspect tells an unexpected tale.
Wish You Were Here
(Country: Australia; Year: 2012; Director: Kieran Darcy-Smith; Writer: Kieran Darcy-Smith, Felicity Price; Stars: Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer, Felicity Price, Antony Starr)
Four friends embark on a carefree holiday, but only three return home. Who knows what happened on that fateful night?
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