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An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Damascus, Syria, Lina starts to report on the events around her until she is compelled to become a war reporter and, later, the unexpected narrator of her own destiny.
Two people meet at a gig and have lots of sex, while Michael Winterbottom watches.
On Chicago’s South and West sides, the scourge of guns and gangs is destroying countless lives. Taking matters into their own hands, two men dedicate their lives educating, empowering and healing young black men at high risk for being victims or perpetrators of deadly gun-violence.
The story of playwright Liza Jessie Peterson's performance of The Peculiar Patriot at Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary and its impact.
A bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson's spirit into her unborn child, but end up summoning more than they bargained for.
The adventures of a big, black, heavily armed chopper.
The continuing story of the beautiful spy and her lovable, detestable, sexy and deceitful friends.
A college grad black-ops spy, becomes a double agent to bring down corruption.
A reporter looking for a scoop gets impounded with patients at a mental institution.
Documentary about the rise and fall of presidential candidate Ralph Nader
A father immerses himself in a quest to make his daughter a spelling champion while his family slowly falls apart.
Documentary following the director as he shoots his "last" film.
Two orphans, each of whom longs to become the Wizard King, seek paths to greatness - with or without magic.
A woman's moral compass starts to slip after she is conned out of her savings by a phone scammer.
A documentary about the uncommon life and unthinkable murder of the legendary no-budget exploitation filmmaker and the communities he inhabited in Seventies California.
A chemistry teacher embraces a life of crime after being diagnosed with cancer.
Bridget continues to put her fat foot in it, ending up in a Thai prison.
Final season of the Scandi crime drama.
Examination of the life of Britain's self-titled "most dangerous criminal". Out on re-release.
The story of an affair unfolds backwards over a series of summers to reveal long-held secrets.
A Holocaust survivor with an outsized personality faces her biggest fear: retirement.
A barmaid saved by high-tech medical implants adapts to a new role as part of a shady goverment organisation.
Cinematographer Kirsten Johnson documents her career working with filmmakers.
Joseph struggles with his faith as teenage Jesus begins to rebel and experience temptation.
College student Margot meets 33-year-old Robert at the cinema where she works. After a casual flirtation at the concession stand, they carry on conversations through texts. As their perceptions of each other collide, events spiral out of control. Based on The New Yorker short story by Kristen Roupenian.
A well intentioned US congressman gets out of his depth trying to help the Afghans repel Russian invaders.
Cecilia and her children travel to her ageing father’s dairy farm after he has a heart attack. Back in her childhood home, Cecilia is met by her mother, a woman dead for many years, whose presence brings to life a painful past chorused by the natural world around them.
It's all-change in Vegas as Gil moves on.
An exceedingly French musical about a menage a trois in Paris.
An IT nerd finds himself thrust into espionage after Government secrets are accidentally downloaded into his brain.
Claymation opinions on life.
Anatomy of a murder, Iranian style.
Gothic romance in which a young American woman becomes ensnared by the machinations of a pair of British siblings.
A year in the life of Lake Natron's flamingos. Plus read our exclusive interview with filmmakers Matthew Aeberhard, Leander Ward and writer Melanie Finn.
In which Horatio Caine achieves sainthood and Calleigh Duquesne becomes more hands on.
New York gets its own grittier version of the crime scene invesigations.
Mac Taylor and his team continue to scour the streets of New York for clues.
A new season, a new team and the detection rate of serious crime in the Big Apple continues to rise.
Mac's back with the rest of the team as the writers put the emphasis on relationships.
Mac Taylor's team go up market for more bizarre murders, while Stella Bonasera has a scare in a contaminated crime scene.
Crime drama with a technical twist.
Third TV season of the popular Las Vegas crime investigation series.
Love and adultery... Who could resist!?
Schlock jock horror in the Caribbean.
Making a game out of sex, love and relationships has dire consequences in eighteenth century France.
A grieving mother sets out to contact her dead child.
The last days of Delius, as seen through the eyes of his musical assistant, Eric Fenby.
With this inventive portrait, a cameraperson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilising moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humour, she celebrates Dr Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.
A western thriller asking the question: how far would you go to protect your loved ones?
Volunteers are imprinted with new personas so they can become 'bodies for hire'.
Where crows are watching JP Davidson and Craig Russell on nature, belief, UK horror and The Cull
Truth and lies Sean Hogan on true crime documentaries, unknowable characters and The Dark Gets In
A walking contradiction Sinéad O'Shea on James 'Fergie' Chambers Jr and All About The Money
Unconventional families Milcho Manchevski on being blacklisted and making Sister Brother Manhole Cover
Expecting the unexpected Jordan Mark Windsor and Sean Wallace on Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant
Celluloid vampire Arthur Harari on Léa Seydoux, the mystery of ideas, and The Unknown
Patrick Stewart dies X-men and Star Trek actor was 86
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