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Set against the background of the government's crackdown on illegal drugs, the SWAT-led police force launches an operation to arrest a drug dealer, with a detective and his informant Elijah providing the intelligence.
The story of a real life teenage serial killer in Argentina.
True story of a reporter who took a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the civil war in Angola in the 70s.
The lives of four people cross over the course of a day in China.
Asako is a 21-year-old woman, living in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku who has a free spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and she meets Ryohei. He looks just like her ex-boyfriend Baku, but he has a completely different personality.
Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption... before everything goes to hell.
A father tries to help his son break his cycle of drug addiction.
The poverty of opportunity in post war Italy. Out on re-release in December.
Story of a family who become involved with the drugs trade.
Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter.
Real time drama about what happens when tragedy strikes a family.
A young woman working as a servant on the Isle of Skye struggles with the consequences of male attention and is caught up in a doomed love affair.
Manuel, an influential deputy secretary of an regional government who has everything going his way, finds himself fighting for survival when news of his involvement in a corruption ring leaks out.
A child rebels against the life imposed upon him.
Character study of a maid in a Mexican hotel.
A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to each other.
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With the help of her friend, a delivery boy, young Dilili from New Caledonia investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls that is plaguing the Paris of the Belle Epoque.
Rom-com love triangle with added kid.
Biopic of Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon.
A teenage trans girl dreams of becoming a ballerina.
When Chiquita is sent to prison for debt, her introverted girlfriend Chela is left to her own devices. Chela offers rich women a taxi service in her old car. As she explores the outside world she also starts to focus on her own desires.
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Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song. A story in five chapters like the five fingers of a hand.
Two stories about a cursed dress and its victims.
Documentary about the Jaén region and olive oil.
Leonor wants to leave home, but she doesn’t dare to tell her mother. Estrella doesn’t want her to leave but is unable to keep her by her side either. Mother and daughter will have to face this new stage in life in which the world they share starts to fall apart.
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A fisherman finds an injured refugee and tries to help him.
A spoiled boy has to cope with the arrival of a new baby sister - and much more.
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Violence is sparked on the eve of Argentina's dictatorship.
Chronicle of a middle-class family in the 1970s.
A bickering couple get the opportunity to revitalise their careers by starring in a reality TV show.
Two assassins set out into the wilderness on the trail of a man with a secret.
A seasoned musician discovers — and falls in love with — a struggling artist. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer… until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight.
The story of a 14-year-old who becomes the third wife of a much older man in 19th Century Vietnam.
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A Frenchwoman enters a Japanese forest in search of a herb rumoured to be able to cure emotional pain.
The true story of Carlos Acosta, a black Cuban dancer who rose from an impoverished childhood to find international acclaim as a ballet dancer with London's Royal Ballet.
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