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"Brimstone" is a suspenseful tale of retribution set at the end of the 19th century in the American West. Dakota Fanning plays a mute young woman Liz whose life changes dramatically when a vengeful and mysterious preacher (Guy Pearce) comes to town with sinister motives.

Forced to go on the run and pursued across unforgiving terrain, where danger lurks around every corner, Liz soon learns that she'll need to engage in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in order to turn the tables on her ruthless nemesis and come out alive.

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This poignant dramedy is a must-see from director Peter Cattaneo (Military Wives) and writer Jeff Pope (Philomena), starring Academy Award Nominees Steve Coogan and Jonathan Pryce.

Follow an Englishman's personal and political awakening after he adopts a penguin during a cataclysmic period in Argentine history.

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In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O'Brien wrote a sexually frank debut novel, 'The Country Girls'. She became a literary sensation, writing for The New Yorker, delivering provocative interviews, and authoring screenplays.

Her success enraged her writer husband and made her a pariah in her native Ireland, where her books were banned and burned. She would make her home in London, where she conducted numerous love affairs, hosted star-studded parties, and made and lost a fortune. In July 2024, Edna passed away and this film provides a final testimony from her, aged 93, as she reflects upon her extraordinary life for filmmaker Sinead O'Shea's camera. Granting the director access to her personal journals - read aloud in the film by the Oscar nominated Irish actress Jessie Buckley - and with additional perspectives offered from Gabriel Byrne, Walter Mosley and an array of renowned writers, Edna does not shy from any subject. 'Blue Road' is as candid, dark, and enchanting as O'Brien's wonderful novels.

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After 20 years away Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The King has finally returned home but much has changed since he left to fight in the Trojan war.

His beloved wife Penelope (Juliette Binoche) is now a prisoner in her own home, hounded by ambitious suitors to choose a new husband, a new king. Their son Telemachus (Charlie Plummer), is facing death at the hands of the suitors in their relendess pursuit of Penelope and the kingdom. Odysseus has changed too. Scarred by his experience of war, he is no longer the mighty warrior his people remember. But he is forced to face his past, in order to rediscover the strength needed to save his family and win back the love he has lost.

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Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth (Adrien Brody) arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes.

On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Horrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce) recognises his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost....

Washed-up revolutionary Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio) exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti). When his evil nemesis Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw (Sean Penn) resurfaces after 16 years, they must face Bob's past and run for the future.

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Debut writer-director Felipe Galvez asserts himself as a revelatory new cinematic voice with 'The Settlers', a searing and indelible take on the Western.

Blending historical specificity with vivid visual style, this Cannes Un Certain Regard Fipresci Prize winner creates a singular immersive vision, arresting in both content and form. At the turn of the 20th century, three horsemen embark on an expedition across the Tierra del Fuego archipelago at the behest of a wealthy landowner, tasked with securing his vast state-appointed property. Accompanying a reckless British lieutenant and an American mercenary is mestizo marksman Segundo (Camilo Arancibia), who comes to realize, amidst rising tensions within the group, their true mission is to murderously "remove" the indigenous population

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The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Fish Tank), 'Bird' is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about marginalised life in the fringes of contemporary society.

12-year-old Bailey (astounding newcomer Nykiya Adams) lives with her devoted but chaotic single dad Bug (Barry Keoghan) and wayward brother Hunter in a squat in Gravesend, north Kent. Approaching puberty and seeking attention and adventure, Bailey's fractured home life is transformed when she encounters Bird (Franz Rogowski), a mysterious stranger on a journey of his own. A wondrous portrait of the transition from childhood to adolescence that remains grounded in her typically empathetic social realism, Arnold's latest strides to the wildly poetic rhythm of her own drum.

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Aspiring French novelist, Agathe (Camille Rutherford), dreams of experiencing love akin to a Jane Austen novel. Instead she finds herself stuck in desperate singlehood, working in the legendary British bookshop in Paris, 'Shakespeare & Co.', rather than pursuing her own writing ambitions.

But then an unexpected invitation to the Jane Austen Writers' 'Residency in England' arrives. An eye-opening experience, in part thanks to her eccentric co-residents, Agathe is encouraged to confront her insecurities and explore her true romantic, sexual and creative nature. It's time to stop wasting her sentimental life and take control - over both her writing aspirations, and her very own love story.

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Selma (Björk) is a Czech immigrant, a single mother working in a factory in rural America. She escapes the hardships of her tough life through the films that inspired her childhood. In her imagination she sees the world as an all-singing all-dancing Hollywood musical.

But Selma harbours a secret: she is losing her eyesight and unless she can save enough money to pay for an operation her 10 year-old son will inherit her blindness. When a desperate neighbour falsely accuses Selma of stealing, her life begins to slip beyond her control and propels itself towards a tragic and numbing finale.

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In a near-future world dominated by artificial intelligence, where human emotions are perceived as a threat, Gabrielle (Lea Seydoux) embarks on a journey to purify her DNA by revisiting her past lives. During this process, she reconnects with Louis (George MacKay), her great love.

However, a sense of foreboding and fear grips her as she anticipates an impending catastrophe.

In this bold and courageous story, Iman works as an investigating judge at the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. As political protests against the authoritarian government intensify, he is surrounded by suspicion and paranoia.

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Screen legend Paul Newman heads a luminous cast in this acclaimed whodunit packed with stars and suspense. He plays Harry Ross, a burned-out private eye who's plunged into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams, schemes and cover-ups. Filmmaker Robert Benton (Kramer vs.

Kramer, Nobody's Fool), reunites with Newman in this richly layered, character-driven tale. And Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, James Garner, Stockard Channing and Reese Witherspoon are among the locals who inhabit a Tinseltown world of privilege and sleaze, sexuality and desperation, trust and double-cross. From beginning to end, 'Twilight' glows.

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Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the IMF team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity - which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe - with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Ethan's past on their trail.

Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.

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Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader's (writer of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull) The Card Counter is told with Schrader's trademark cinematic intensity. An ex-military interrogator turned gambler is haunted by the ghosts of his past decisions.

Redemption is the long game in this revenge thriller featuring riveting performances from stars Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, and Tye Sheridan.