One year after his brother’s death, Jack (Mark Duplass, SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED) hasn’t recovered. His best friend, Iris (Emily Blunt, THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT), prescribes solitary reflection and sends him to her father’s empty cabin. But she doesn’t realise her sister, Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED), is there for similar reasons, having just walked out on a seven-year relationship. Over tequila shots, Hannah and Jack get acquainted. When Iris drops in unexpectedly, complications arise in the form of rivalry and more than a few surprising revelations.
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Released: 2011
Runtime: 90 min
Director: Lynn Shelton
Writer: Lynn Shelton
Stars: Emily Blunt, Mark Duplass, Rosemarie DeWitt
Language: English
"A lovely example of what a surefooted filmmaker can achieve with a game and talented cast and a generous, heartfelt story - demonstrable proof that small pleasures can be the most satisfying."
MATT MUELLER, GUARDIAN UK
Laura is still waiting for Prince Charming at the age of 24. So when Sandro appears at a party, exactly like her Prince would in her dreams, she thinks she's found the right one. But then again, when she meets Maxime, Laura starts to wonder if some Princes could be more charming than others? Of course Sandro has problems of his own : his father, Pierre, just bumped into Madam Irma at his father's funeral and this reminded him of the date of his own death which Madame Irma had predicted ages ago. Now Pierre is unable to make any plans, not with his new partner Eleonore, nor with Sandro. And Maxime has his own problems, and so does Eleonore, Marianne, Jacqueline and many others. But don't worry, in the end, they'll all live happily ever after.
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Released: 2013
Runtime: 112 min
Director: Agnes Jaoui
Writer: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnes Jaoui
Stars: Agathe Bonitzer, Agnes Jaoui, Arthur Dupont
Language: French with English Subtitles
From the director of YOUR SISTER'S SISTER comes this "touching" comedy.
Abby (Rosemarie DeWitt), is a sought after massage therapist and a free spirit, while her brother Paul (Josh Pais) thrives on routine and convention, running a flagging dental practice and co-dependently enlisting the assistance of his emotionally stunted daughter Jenny (Ellen Page). Suddenly, transformation touches everyone. Abby develops an uncontrollable aversion to bodily contact, which not only makes her occupation impossible but severely hinders the passionate love life between her and her boyfriend (Scoot McNairy.) Meanwhile, rumors of Paul’s “healing touch” begin to miraculously invigorate his practice as well as his life outside the office. As Abby navigates her way through a soul-searching identity crisis, her formerly skeptical brother discovers a whole new side of himself.
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Released: 2013
Runtime: 85 min
Director: Lynn Shelton
Writer: Lynn Shelton
Stars: Rosemarie DeWitt, Ellen Page, Scoot McNairy, Josh Pais
Language: English
"Should be warmly, if not rapturously, received by her fans."
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Discover an extraordinary filmmaking collaboration in TIM WINTON'S THE TURNING. Eighteen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.
With contributions from such unique voices as Robert Connolly (BALIBO), Warwick Thornton (SAMSON & DELILAH), Tony Ayres (HOME SONG STORIES), Justin Kurzel (SNOWTOWN) and Mia Wasikowska, among many more, and starring Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto and so many other talented individuals, this watershed film reinterprets and re-imagines Winton's work for the screen.
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Released: 2013
Runtime: 180 min
Directors: Robert Connolly, Tony Ayres, Warwick Thornton, Jub Clerc, Yaron Lifschitz, Ashlee Page, Simon Stone, Marieka Walsh, Mia Wasikowska, Anthony Lucas, Rhys Graham, Claire McCarthy, Stephen Page, Shaun Gladwell, David Wenham, Jonathan auf der Heide, Justin Kurzel, Ian Meadows
Writers: Tim Winton (Short Stories), Justin Monjo, Warwick Thornton, Andrew Upton, David Wenham, Kris Mrksa, Rhys Graham, Emily Ballou, Jonathan auf der Heide, Mia Wasikowska, Claire McCarthy, Ashlee Page, Justin Kurzel, Ian Meadows, Jub Clerc, Keir Wilkins, Marieka Walsh, Marcel Dorney, Circa Contemporary Circus
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh, Hugo Weaving
Language: English
⋆⋆⋆⋆ "One of the achievements of THE TURNING is how well-crafted, cohesive and satisfying it is as a film... Connolly and his collaborators have come up with something really special. Like a good
compilation album it sticks with you as an organic whole and should reward repeat viewings, especially in home formats." - JIM POE, THE GUARDIAN
In the countryside between the regions of Tuscany and Umbria, 12-year-old Gelsi lives with her parents, Angelica and Wolfgang, and three younger sisters, in a dilapidated stone farmhouse. They are a family of bee-keepers, living off the meager profits of honey sales. But the modern world is encroaching upon their way of life, with new laws requiring changes to their outdated ‘laboratory’, whilst around them the countryside is being burnt by pesticides.
When a TV competition, Countryside Wonders, arrives from the city promising cash for ‘The Most Traditional Family’, all Gelsi wants is to enter and to meet the host, the good fairy, Milly Cantena (Monica Belushi). Gelsi’s father disallows her from entering the competition, and tension mounts further when he hires a teenage boy, Martin, to assist him in the bee-keeping. It’s an extraordinary summer when the strict rules that hold a family together begin to break…
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Released: 2014
Runtime: 110 min
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Writer: Alice Rohrwacher
Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Sam Louwyck
Language: Italian with English Subtitles
"As powerful as it is enchanting."
THE TELEGRAPH
Six brothers, known as ‘The Wolfpack’, grew up surrounded by the bustling electricity of New York City, but were trapped within the confines of their Lower East Side apartment. Living under the rule of their tyrannical father, and home schooled by their loving mother, they spent their entire lives lonely and locked away from society, rarely leaving home or interacting with people outside their immediate family. All they knew about the outside world was gleaned from their archive of over 10,000 films they watched obsessively and re-enacted meticulously, using elaborate homemade props and costumes to re-create what they experienced on screen. For years they used these films to fuel their imagination and stave off their loneliness, until one of the brothers dared to escape.
Trusted with unprecedented access, director Crystal Moselle crafts a mesmerising portrait of an extraordinary family, capturing the thrill of the Wolfpack's discoveries as they enter society and learn about the world outside their four walls. THE WOLFPACK is an incredible coming of age story and a true example of the power of movies to transform lives.
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Released: 2015
Runtime: 77 min
Director: Crystal Moselle
Language: English
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"Fascinating"
JORDAN HOFFMAN, THE GUARDIAN
Val is the kind of live-in housekeeper who takes her work seriously. She wears a crisp maid’s uniform while serving perfect canapés; she serves her wealthy São Paulo employers day in and day out while lovingly nannying their teenage son whom she’s raised since toddlerhood. Everyone and everything in the elegant house has its place until one day, Val’s ambitious, clever daughter Jessica arrives from Val’s hometown to take the college entrance exams. Jessica’s confident, youthful presence upsets the unspoken yet strict balance of power in the household; Val must decide where her allegiances lie and what she’s willing to sacrifice.
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Released: 2015
Runtime: 112 min
Director: Anna Muylaert
Writer: Anna Muylaert (Screenplay)
Stars: Regina Case, Helena Albergaria, Michel Joelsas
Language: Spanish with English Subtitles
"Regina Case delivers a stunning performance."
– THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
At Oxford University the hottest invitation is to The Riot Club, a privileged and exclusive club the members of which hold the keys to future success and power. First years Miles and Alistair are both dazzlingly clever and offspring of pillars of the Establishment, though politically and socially polar opposites. Alistair, pressured by a family legacy of social success, is ruthlessly determined to succeed; Miles, however, has been seduced by the social kudos of the invitation, but his heart isn’t in it. Nonetheless, both young men are invited by the club's leaders to a debauched night out to see if they’ve got what it takes to belong.
Over the course of the evening, the tinderbox of personal rivalries and jealousy is set alight by alcohol and hormones, until it finally and catastrophically explodes, forcing the wolf pack to turn on one of its own.
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Released: 2014
Runtime: 103 min
Director: Lone Scherfig
Writer: Laura Wade (Screenplay)
Stars: Max Irons, Sam Claflin, Douglas Booth
Language: English
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"A smart, provocative film, brimming with great performances"
MARK ADAMS, DAILY MIRROR
Directed by lauded filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield, who won the U.S. Directing Award for Documentary Film at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for this film, The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis.
With epic proportions of Shakespearean tragedy, the film follows two unique characters, whose rags-to-riches success stories reveal the innate virtues and flaws of the American Dream. The film begins with the family triumphantly constructing the biggest house in America, a 90,000 sq. ft. palace. Over the next two years, their sprawling empire, fueled by the real estate bubble and cheap money, falters due to the economic crisis. Major changes in lifestyle and character ensue within the cross-cultural household of family members and domestic staff.
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Released: 2012
Runtime: 97 min
Director: Laureen Greenfield
Language: English
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"A portrait - appalling, absorbing and improbably affecting - of how, even within a system seemingly designed to ensure that the rich get richer, sometimes the rich get poorer."
WASHINGTON POST
Patagonia, 1960. A German physician meets an Argentinean family on the long desert road to Bariloche where Eva, Enzo and their three children intend to open a lodging house. This ideal family reawakens his obsession with purity and perfection.
Unaware of his true identity, they accept him as their first guest, gradually won over by his elegant manners, his scientific knowledge, his charisma and his money — until they discover they are living with one of the biggest war criminals of our times.
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Released: 2013
Runtime: 93 min
Director: Lucia Puenzo
Writer: Lucia Puenzo (Screenplay)
Stars: Alex Brendemuhl, Diego Peretti, Guillermo Pfening
Language: Spanish and German with English Subtitles
"Presents a facet of World War II and its aftermath we don’t often get to see on film."
ROGER EBERT.COM
Sophie and Jason are strange the way all couples are strange when they’re alone. They live in a small Los Angeles apartment, have jobs they hate, and in one month they’ll adopt a stray cat named Paw Paw. Like a newborn baby, he’ll need around-the clock care – he may die in six months, or it may take five years. Despite their good intentions, Sophie and Jason are terrified of their looming loss of freedom. So with just one month left, they quit their jobs, and the internet, to pursue their dreams – Sophie wants to create a dance, Jason wants simply to be guided by fate. But as the month slips away, Sophie becomes increasingly, humiliatingly paralysed. In a moment of desperation, she calls a stranger, Marshall – a square, 50-year-old man. In his suburban world she doesn’t have to be herself; as long she stays there, she’ll never have to try (and fail) again. Living in two terrifyingly vacant and different realities, Sophie and Jason must reunite with time, space and their own souls in order to come home.
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Released: 2011
Runtime: 87 min
Director: Miranda July
Writer: Miranda July (Screenplay)
Stars: Miranda July, Hamish Linklater
Language: English
"Use your imagination. Go see this movie."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
A colourful character who was not only ahead of her time but helped to define it, Peggy Guggenheim was an American heiress who became a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th Century, she collected not only art, but artists. Her personal history included such figures as Samuel Beckett, Alexander Calder and Marcel Duchamp, and was instrumental in advancing the careers of several modern artists including Jackson Pollock and Max Ernst. While fighting personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, now enshrined in her Venetian palazzo.
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT is a compendium of the greatest 20th Century art mixed with the wild and iconoclastic life of one of the most influential and powerful art collectors in history.
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Released: 2015
Runtime: 92 min
Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Language: English
★★★★
-EMPIRE
In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters innocently celebrate the end of the school year at the beach with some boys. The supposed debauchery of their actions causes their home to progressively transform into a prison; classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages are arranged. The five sisters, driven by the same desire for freedom, fight back against the limits imposed upon them.
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, and anchored by sensational performances and a moving soundtrack by Warren Ellis, MUSTANG is a gripping portrait of female empowerment.
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Released: 2015
Runtime: 94 min
Director: Deniz Gamze Erguven
Writers: Deniz Gamze Erguven, Alice Winocour (Screenplay)
Stars: Gunes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tubga Sunguroglu, Elit Iscan, Ilayda Akdogan
Language: Turkish with English Subtitles
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"Gripping and ebullient"
- JORDAN HOFFMAN, THE GUARDIAN
In this lively, freewheeling road movie, Ben Mendelsohn plays Gerry, a talented but down-on-his-luck gambler whose fortunes begin to change when he meets Curtis (Ryan Reynolds), a younger, highly charismatic poker player. The two strike up an immediate friendship and Gerry quickly persuades his new friend to accompany him on a road trip to a legendary high stakes poker game in New Orleans. As they make their way down the Mississippi River, Gerry and Curtis manage to find themselves in just about every bar, racetrack, casino, and pool hall along the way, experiencing both incredible highs and dispiriting lows, but ultimately forging a deep and genuine bond that will stay with them long after their adventure is over.
Co-starring Sienna Miller and from the directors of Half Nelson, MISSISSIPPI GRIND is a film about friendship, family and the paths we sometimes unexpectedly find ourselves on.
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Released: 2015
Runtime: 104 min
Directors: Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden
Writers: Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden (Screenplay)
Stars: Ben Mendelsohn, Ryan Reynolds, Sienna Miller
Language: English
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"Ben Mendelsohn is absolutely superb... a compelling celebration of male friendship"
THE DAILY MAIL
Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine, Brokeback Mountain) stars alongside Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood) and Bruce Greenwood (I'm Not There, Capote) in the latest acclaimed film from award-winning filmmaker, Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Old Joy).
The year is 1845 and a wagon team of three families is setting off across the sparse terrain of the Oregon desert, in northwest USA. They are guided by mountain man Stephen Meek, who claims to know a short cut, but when they become lost in the dry rock and sage, their faith in their guide, and in each other, weakens. After days of wandering, suffering the hardships of the inhospitable landscape and unable to find water, a Native American wanderer crosses their path. The pioneers are torn between trusting their guide or a man who has always been seen as the enemy.
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Released: 2010
Runtime: 98 min
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Writer: Jonathan Raymond (Screenplay)
Stars: Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Shirley Henderson
Language: English
*The best film at the Toronto International Film Festival as selected by an overwhelming majority of film critics*
Pierce Brosnan (MAMMA MIA!) and Trine Dyrholm (A ROYAL AFFAIR) star in this sparkling romantic comedy from Academy Award® winner Susanne Bier (IN A BETTER WORLD, AFTER THE WEDDING), about two very different families brought together for a wedding in a beautiful old Italian villa.
Ida (Dyrholm) is preparing to take a trip to Sorrento with her husband Leif to attend the wedding of their daughter Astrid and her fiancé, Patrick. Arriving home early one day, Ida discovers Leif has been unfaithful and makes the decision to take the trip alone.
At the airport, Ida accidently collides with brooding widower Philip (Brosnan) whom she discovers to be Patrick’s father. Cold and business-focused, Philip is unimpressed with the happy-go-lucky Ida. Forced to travel together, the two find it hard to tolerate each other and are relieved when they arrive at the villa.
Surrounded by lemon groves, cypress trees and the romance of Italy, the perfect backdrop for Astrid and Patrick’s wedding, the young couple's future happiness is suddenly jeopardized and Ida and Philip are brought together to try to set things right.
LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED is an enchanting and delightful story about what happiness really means and discovering that it’s never too late to have a second chance at love.
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Released: 2012
Runtime: 111 min
Director: Susanne Bier
Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen (Screenplay and Story), Susanne Bier (Story)
Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Pierce Brosnan
Language: Danish and English, with English subtitles
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"One of the year's most satisfying and sophisticated entertainments... Bier's direction never falters and the story's many strands are brought together with tact and delicacy... Dyrholm is unforgettable as Ida."
EVAN WILLIAMS, WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
When Andrew shows up at his college mate Ben’s home at 2am after an absence of 10 years, Ben’s wife makes up a bed and the guys bond. Next night, at a party with Andrew’s new liberal arts pals the two guys hear of an amateur porn competition called HumpFest, and drunken machismo sees them dare each other to make a man-on-man porno.
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Released: 2009
Runtime: 94 min
Director: Lynn Shelton
Writer: Lynn Shelton (Screenplay)
Stars: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Denmore
Language: English
GAYBY BABY is a portrait of four kids – Gus, Ebony, Matt and Graham – whose parents all happen to be gay.
In this heartfelt doc, we get to know the four kids: Gus wants to be a WWE wrestler. Matt questions the teachings of his church. Graham struggles with living in ultra-conservative Fiji. Ebony dreams of stardom.
As they each wrestle with the challenges of oncoming adolescence, the outside world wrestles with the issue of marriage equality, and whether or not kids like them are at risk, but what we learn from these kids is that there's more than one way to make a family.
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Released: 2015
Runtime: 82 min
Director: Maya Newell
Language: English
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"Essential viewing for every family – same-sex, straight or otherwise."
-BENJAMIN LAW, AUTHOR.
Young, attractive and vivacious Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit in North London in 2003. With the television and heater still on, she was surrounded by half-wrapped Christmas presents.
In 2006, the British press reported on Joyce's death: she was discovered in a north London council flat some three years after she had died.
But who was Joyce? And how was it possible that no-one noticed her disappearance?
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Released: 2011
Runtime: 95 min
Director: Carol Morely
Writer: Carol Morely (Screenplay)
Stars: Zawe Ashton, Alix Luca-Cain
Language: English
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"Haunting, compassionate and inventive."
-TIME OUT
Diana Vreeland wasn't just a tastemaker; she created the whole idea of tastemaking.
She was the oracle of style, a woman who defined the way we looked at couture. Across a career that spanned half a century, she edited Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, discovered Lauren Bacall (and innumerable others) and was style consultant to Jackie Onassis.
This is her philosophy: on life, on fashion and on making it in an industry which so many desire to be part of and so few know how to crack.
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Released: 2011
Runtime: 86 min
Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Language: English
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-EMPIRE
CITIZENFOUR is a real time thriller, giving audiences an exclusive front-row seat to the moment Edward Snowden changed history with his revelations of widespread government surveillance around the world.
In June 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald met with Snowden confidentially in Hong Kong, where he handed over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA). As the story breaks, they are forced to manage the raging media storm around them, and find their personal security and that of their loved ones under threat.
CITIZENFOUR not only shows you the dangers of governmental surveillance—it makes you feel them. After seeing the film, you will never think the same way about your phone, email, credit card, web browser, or profile, ever again.
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Released: 2014
Runtime: 114 min
Director: Laura Poitras
Language: English
A- “CITIZENFOUR is less film than monumental event... remarkable”
- DAVID EHRLICH, A.V. CLUB
When CHASING ASYLUM director, Eva Orner relocated to the United States in 2004 she never anticipated The Pacific Solution and offshore processing would still be policy in 2016. CHASING ASYLUM exposes the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies and explores how 'The Lucky Country' became a country where leaders choose detention over compassion and governments deprive the desperate of their basic human rights. The film features never before seen footage from inside Australia’s offshore detention camps, revealing the personal impact of sending those in search of a safe home to languish in limbo. CHASING ASYLUM explores the mental, physical and fiscal consequences of Australia’s decision to lock away families in unsanitary conditions hidden from media scrutiny, destroying their lives under the pretext of saving them.
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Released: 2016
Runtime: 87 min
Director: Eva Orner
Language: English
"This viscerally intense expose of Australia’s asylum seeker policy will make audiences feel like a brick smashed to pieces with a sledgehammer."
- LUKE BUCKMASTER, THE GUARDIAN
Detectives and best friends Andreas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones) and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that changes when the two of them are called out to a domestic dispute involving a junkie couple caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. It all looks very routine – until Andreas finds the couple's infant son, crying in a closet. The usually collected policeman finds himself confronted with his own powerlessness and is shaken to his core. As Andreas slowly loses his grip on justice, it's left to the unruly Simon to restore the balance between right and wrong. A SECOND CHANCE is a shocking, moving and thrilling drama about real people forced into incredible circumstances.
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Released: 2014
Runtime: 1h 42min
Director: Susanne Bier
Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen (Screenplay)
Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Nicolaj Lie Kaas, Ulrich Thomsen
Language: Danish with English Subtitles
★★★★ "Hits a lot of emotional notes and never loses track of the storyline"
TREVOR HOGG, FLICKERING MYTH
A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT is set in the fictitious locale of Bad City, a stunningly crafted black-and-white world riddled with random events and flawed people that takes its visual cues from SIN CITY (2005) and the early films of Jim Jarmusch.
Sheila Vand stars as The Girl, a sassy loner who roams the streets on a skateboard she stole from a kid. The unsuspecting object of her affections is Arash, a handsome James Dean-type who is dealing with his own family issues. In the off-kilter world they inhabit, a touching and unconventional relationship develops.
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Released: 2014
Runtime: 1h 41min
Director: Ana Lily Amarpour
Writer: Ana Lily Amarpour (Screenplay)
Stars: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh
Language: Farsi with English Subtitles
"You've Never Seen a Vampire Movie Like the Beautiful, Touching A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT."
INDIEWIRE
A traveling projection-equipment mechanic works in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out film-theatres. He meets up with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel together.
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Original title: Im Lauf der Zeit
Runtime: 2hr 55mins
Release date: January 1977
Director: Wim Wenders
Writer: Wim Wenders
Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer
The legendary Catherine Deneuve reunites with director André Téchiné for their seventh collaboration, set amid the turbulent Nice casino wars of the 1970s.
Deneuve plays the real life casino heiress Renée Le Roux, whose memoir was the basis of the film’s screenplay. Renée’s daughter, Agnès Le Roux (Adèle Haenel), returns home after a failed marriage and falls under the spell of her mother’s advisor, the intriguing and ambitious lawyer, Maurice Agnelet (Guillaume Canet). After a calculated betrayal, the casino comes under the control of a mafia kingpin, Fratoni (Jean Corso), and Agnès goes missing forever.
This fascinating film tells the story of the most famous alleged murder case from this period, with a verdict only just reached in 2014. With both edge-of-the-seat thrills and beautifully shot landscapes of the French Riviera, this is a riveting and heart-wrenching true story of money, passion, family loyalty and the pursuit of justice.
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AKA 'In the Name of My Daughter' (2014) ('L'homme qu'on aimait trop' (original title))
Released: 2014
Runtime: 1hr 56mins
Director: André Téchiné
Writers: Cédric Anger (screenplay), Jean-Charles Le Roux (book)
Stars: Guillaume Canet, Catherine Deneuve, Adèle Haenel
Language: French with English subtitles
FRANK is an offbeat comedy about a wannabe musician who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the enigmatic Frank - a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head.
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Released: 2014
Runtime: 1hr 35mins
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Writers: Jon Ronson, Peter Straughan
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Language: English
Aspiring writer Wilhelm Meister goes on a long odyssey in the woods in search of truth. His companions on this journey are pragmatic Therese, bisexual Mignon, Mignon's hippielike boyfriend Laertes, and artistically bankrupt poet, Landau.
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Released: 1979
Runtime: 1hr 43mins
Director: Wim Wenders
Writers: Peter Handke (screenplay), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (novel) (as Johann Wolfgang Goethe)
Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech
Language: German
Richard Karlsen is a golden-boy athlete and undisputed alpha-male of his privileged set of South Dublin teenagers. It's summer, school is over, and the exciting promise of university beckons Richard through the parties and romantic possibilities of the seemingly endless summer.
The world is bright and everything seems possible, until in one furious, reckless moment Richard does something that destroys it all and shatters the lives of the people closest to him.
Featuring extraordinary performances from its mainly young cast, WHAT RICHARD DID is a quietly devastating study of a boy confronting the gap between who he thought he was and who he proves to be.
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Released: 2012
Runtime: 1hr 28mins
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Writers: Malcolm Campbell, Kevin Power (book)
Stars: Jack Reynor, Fionn Walton, Gavin Drea
Language: English
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can’t remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Interviewing past colleagues and acquaintances, Ari begins to uncover the horrific demons of his past, and his terrible memories slowly start to creep back...
Told using stunning animation, WALTZ WITH BASHIR is enchanting, gripping, horrific, innovative and unlike anything you've ever seen before.
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Released: 2008
Runtime: 1hr 30mins
Director: Ari Folman
Writer: Ari Folman
Stars: Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag
Languages: Hebrew | Arabic | German | English with English subtitles
Tiboonda schoolteacher John Grant is en route from the tiny outback town to Sydney for summer holidays when he stops over in the mining community of Bundanyabba.
Drawn into "the Yabba's" world of drinking and gambling, he drinks too much and loses all his money in a game of two-up. He misses his plane and the next day he is befriended by jovial Tim Hynes and his mates Dick, Joe and the inscrutable Doc. While the other men knock back the beers, John takes a stroll with Tim’s adult daughter Janette. After a failed seduction attempt, John passes out and awakens the next morning in Doc’s squalid hut.
John joins a brutal kangaroo hunt with Doc, Dick and Joe. Their car hurtles through the bush to a pub where they drink until it is dark enough to trap kangaroos in the car’s headlights. Many beers and roos later, John crashes for the night at Doc’s place. Next morning, confused and violated, John escapes and hitches a ride out of town only to find himself accidentally back in “the Yabba”. Desperate, John attempts suicide and ultimately resigns himself to returning to his isolated schoolhouse, alone but wiser for the experience.
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Released: 1972
Runtime: 1hr 48mins
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Writers: Evan Jones (screenplay), Kenneth Cook (based on the novel by)
Stars: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty
Language: English
"An undisputed masterpiece... extraordinary... Every last aspect of WAKE IN FRIGHT, from the tactfully unhinged performances of Bond (who never appeared in a film again) and his fellow players, to the icily controlled direction of Ted Kotcheff (who later went on to make Weekend at Bernie's and the first Rambo flick), is executed to perfection."
- Leigh Paatsch HERALD-SUN
A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on the early days of German cinema. The film tells the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers, the German-born duo responsible for inventing the "bioskop", an early version of the film projector.
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Original title: Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky
Released: 1995
Runtime: 1hr 19mins
Director: Wim Wenders
Writers: Sebastian Andrae, Henrick Heckmann
Stars: Stefan Barber, Wiebke Bayer, Nadine Büttner
Language: German
Akira Kurosawa reworks Shakespeare's Macbeth in Throne of Blood. Set in medieval Japan, Lord Washizu and Lord Miki are lost in a dense forest where they meet a mysterious old woman who forsees their future. After leaving the forest, good fortune comes their way and Lord Washizu, spurred on by his ambitious wife, hatches an evil plan to make the prophecy come true.
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Original title: Kumonosu-jô
Released: 1957
Runtime: 1hr 70mins
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writers: Hideo Oguni (screenplay), Shinobu Hashimoto (screenplay)
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada
Language: Japanese with English subtitles
"Genius. No, really: Genius."
- New York Times
A taxi driver is driving through the vibrant streets of Tehran. Diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his car, transforms the car into a mobile film studio, and captures the spirit and contradictions of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive. Banned from travelling and making films in 2010, Jafar Panahi has astonished audiences with his award-winning films including The White Balloon and The Circle, and now Tehran Taxi, winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
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Original title: Taxi
Released: 2015
Runtime: 1hr 22mins
Director: Jafar Panahi
Writer: Jafar Panahi
Star: Jafar Panahi
Language: Farsi with English subtitles
A+ “A Unique Cinematic Masterpiece… an essential film of the year, if not the decade. That it's a thoroughly exciting, entertaining and ingenious work of cinema elevates it to the company of alltime greats.”
– Indiewire
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's 'Day the World Ended'. The producer is nowhere to be found and director Friedrich Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.
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Original title: Der Stand der Dinge
Released: 1983
Runtime: 1hr 1min
Director: Wim Wenders
Writers: Robert Kramer (screenplay), Wim Wenders (screenplay)
Stars: Allen Garfield, Samuel Fuller, Isabelle Weingarten
Language: English and French with English subtitles
When sixteen-year-old Jamie is introduced to a charismatic man, a friendship begins. As the relationship grows so do Jamie's suspicions, until he finds his world threatened by both his loyalty for, and fear of, his newfound father-figure John Bunting, Australia's most notorious serial killer.
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AKA: The Snowtown Murders
Released: 2011
Runtime: 1hr 59min
Director: Justin Kurzel
Writers: Shaun Grant, Shaun Grant (story)
Stars: Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris
Language: English
Two teenagers find love and look for a place where they can be together in peace in this comedy drama from Australia. Samson (Rowan McNamara) is 15 years old and lives in a shabby town in the outback, where he huffs gasoline to get high, hangs out with his friends, and spends his days goofing off and getting into minor trouble. One day, Samson meets Delilah (Marissa Gibson) at the village market, a girl who follows a different path in life - she looks after her elderly grandmother (Mitjili Gibson), and helps her create paintings that they sell to tourists to support themselves. While Delilah doesn't have much to say to Samson at first, he's immediately taken with her and shows his affection with a graffiti painting. While she's not willing to admit it at first, Delilah has feelings for him as well, and when her grandmother encourages her to follow her heart, the two begin dating. But life is difficult on the outback, and when they both become victims of violence, Samson and Delilah hit the road and begin looking for a town where they can lead a better life. The first feature film from writer and director Warwick Thornton, Samson and Delilah was an official selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the "Un Certain Regard" program.
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Released: 2009
Runtime: 1hr 41min
Director: Warwick Thornton
Writer: Warwick Thornton
Stars: Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson
Language: English | Warlpiri
Based on the diaries of Kurdish-Iranian poet Sadegh Kamangar, RHINO SEASON tells the story of Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel (Behrouz Vossoughi) and his wife Mina (Monica Bellucci), a couple unjustly incarcerated during Iran's Islamic Revolution. Having survived 30 terrible years in prison, Sahel is finally released. But only to discover that Mina, believing him long dead, has left the country for Turkey, where she lives as an immigrant with her two children, still mourning the loss of her husband. A damaged ghost of his former self, Sahel sets out for Istanbul in search of the woman he loves. As he travels, his journey quickly reveals itself as an uncanny passage through the darkness of their history, and the black shadow of the man who has kept them apart all these years re-emerges...
A lyrical account of Sahel's past and present blurs all boundaries in the landscape of his experience. Woven together from his poems, the words that follow Sahel are both his curse and saviour. Will he find Mina? Will they learn to live again?
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Released: 2012
Runtime: 1hr 28mins
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Stars: Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Yilmaz Erdogan
Languages: Persian | Turkish | English with English subtitles
Starring B-movie goddess Ann Savage (Detour) and filmed in stunning black and white, Guy Maddin's dreamlike homage to his home city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is one of his finest, with a visionary aesthetic which is sure to excite the audience's imagination.
Hiring actors to play his mother, his sister and his two brothers, My Winnipeg is exactly that: Maddin's own account of the events—real or imaginary—which affected his life. While he may wish to escape his life in Canada's north, from the sleepwalking locals to the frozen, fleeing horses, My Winnipeg is testimony to the unique experiences of childhood and the way it may shape one's artistic sensibilities.
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Released: 2007
Runtime: 1hr 20mins
Director: Guy Maddin
Writers: Guy Maddin, George Toles
Stars: Darcy Fehr, Ann Savage, Louis Negin
Languages: English
"If you love movies in the very sinews of your imagination, you should experience the work of Guy Maddin... please, sir, may I have some more? "
- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
In 25 years, Michael Haneke established himself as one of the most important directors in cinema history. From his early work to through to the Oscar®-winning AMOUR, he created a unique universe, revealing like no other the dregs of our society, our existential fears and emotional outbursts.
Through the vision of his actors including Juliette Binoche and Isabelle Huppert, and previously unseen footage, MICHAEL H. PROFESSION: DIRECTOR depicts the work of a rare artist.
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Released: 2013
Runtime: 1hr 32mins
Director: Yves Montmayeur
Writer: Yves Montmayeur
Stars: Michael Haneke, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Yves Montmayeur
Languages: German | French with English subtitles
From two-time Palme d'Or winning duo Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes THE KID WITH A BIKE, a realistic and touching human drama about growing up.
After being abandoned by his father, 11 year-old Cyril has gone to live in state care. One day, in the hope of finding his wayward father, Cyril escapes, seeking refuge from the school authorities in a doctor's surgery, where he meets the kind and loving Samantha. Samantha agrees to Cyril spending the weekends at her place, and in spite of the boy's self-destructive rage, the two lonely souls slowly start to develop a special bond.
Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival 2011, THE KID WITH A BIKE is a touching realist dramas from the undisputed masters of the genre - the Dardenne Brothers.
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Original title: Le gamin au vélo
Released: 2011
Runtime: 1hr 24mins
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Writers: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Stars: Thomas Doret, Cécile De France, Jérémie Renier
Languages: French with English subtitles
"A wonderful achievement in film"
- Margaret Pomeranz, ABC1's AT THE MOVIES
Winner of the Un Certain Regard award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, Dogtooth is a macabre, surreal and inventive drama which pushes parenting extremes to the very edge.
Terrified that their children will become contaminated by the outside world, a desperate husband and wife ban their offspring from leaving their isolated country estate. The parents feed their adult children false meanings for words (zombies become "little yellow flowers", the sea is a "large leather armchair"), allow them only to watch home movies and frighten them into compliance with tales of their disobedient older brother. But when the first seeds of rebellion are sown, there is no stopping the revolution.
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Original title: Kynodontas
Released: 2009
Runtime: 1hr 34mins
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Writers: Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Stars: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Angeliki Papoulia
Languages: Greek with English subtitles
"Three indefinitely grounded siblings are stuck in an alternative universe dictated by their parents' cruel whimsies think an eternal Big Brother house as designed by Lars von Trier."
- VARIETY
Academy Award® nominee Javier Bardem is Uxbal, a man on the wrong side of the law who struggles to provide for his children on the dangerous streets of Barcelona. As fate encircles him, Uxbal learns to accept the realities of life, whether bright, bad—or biutiful—in this unforgettable Academy Award®-nominated film from director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel).
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Released: 2010
Runtime: 2hr 28mins
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Writers: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Stars: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib
Languages: Spanish | Chinese | Wolof with English subtitles
Two young hoodlums, Franz and Arthur (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur), meet and fall for wide-eyed student Odile (Anna Karina), who helps them undertake a robbery to steal a large sum of money hidden by a lodger in her house. One of the most accessible films of the French New Wave, this audacious and wildly fun caper-musical is a celebration of youth, rebellion and romance that features some of director Jean-Luc Godard's most memorable set pieces, including the aborted minute of silence, the madcap dash through the Louvre, and the 'Madison' cafe dance that was so inspirational for Hal Hartley and Quentin Tarantino.
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AKA: Band of Outsiders
Released: 1964
Runtime: 1hr 35mins
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writer: Dolores Hitchens (novel)
Stars: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Danièle Girard
Languages: French | English with English subtitles
ALOIS NEBEL tells the tale of a Czechoslovakian train dispatcher who is haunted by the events in which he played a part during the Second World War. In 1989, just as the Berlin wall falls, Alois ends up in an asylum, but when he gets out, he has no job and can't quite adjust to the new social and political realities. Just as he reaches the end of his tether, he meets a woman who might just provide the love and support he so badly needs.
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Released: 2011
Runtime: 1hr 24mins
Director: Tomás Lunák
Writers: Jaroslav Rudis (concept), Jaromír Svejdík (concept) (as Jaromír 99)
Stars: Miroslav Krobot, Marie Ludvíková, Karel Roden
Languages: Czech with English subtitles
Set in 1976, Toby Jones plays a documentary sound engineer who finds himself employed by a notorious low-budget Italian horror studio. Uneasy in his new environment and surrounded by a world he finds alien, he throws himself into his work, failing to notice how life is slowly beginning to imitate art.
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Released: 2012
Runtime: 1hr 32mins
Director: Peter Strickland
Writer: Peter Strickland
Stars: Toby Jones, Antonio Mancino, Guido Adorni
Languages: English | Italian with English subtitles
A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.
This is the first part of Wim Wenders' "Road Movie Trilogy" which also includes The Wrong Move (available on our VOD channel) (1975) and Kings of the Road (1976).
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Original title: Alice in den Städten
Released: 1974
Runtime: 1hr 50mins
Director: Wim Wenders
Writers: Wim Wenders, Veith von Fürstenberg (contributing writer)
Stars: Yella Rottländer, Rüdiger Vogler, Lisa Kreuzer
Languages: German | English | Dutch with English subtitles