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Ex-championship diver Viktoras whiles away his days on the Creek coast toiling away at a factory with only his dreams, medals and grandmother for company. When a phone call summons him to Germany, a simple road trip is the answer - that is until he crosses paths with the handsome Mathias - a free-spirited hitchhiker who tempts Viktoras to take the road not taken. 'The Man with the Answers' is a picture-postcard travelogue about the familial ties that bind, the boys that catch our eye, and the twists and turns that lead us home. - Director:
- Stelios Kammitsis
- Cast:
- Vasilis Magouliotis, Anton Weil, Pier Andrea Bosna
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In the 1840's, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis. The days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother. When one such tourist, Roderick Murchison (James McArdle), arrives in Lyme on the first leg of a European tour, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte (Saoirse Ronan), who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Mary, whose life is a daily struggle on the poverty line, cannot afford to turn him down but, proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, she clashes with her unwanted guest. They are two women from utterly different worlds. Yet despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably. - Director:
- Francis Lee
- Cast:
- Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)Batman versus Superman: Dawn of Justice
Two titans of justice, Batman/Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) and Superman/Clark Kent (Henry Cavill), meet in the most anticipated showdown of our time. Fearing the actions of a godlike super hero left unchecked, Gotham City's formidable vigilante takes on Metropolis' revered saviour while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. But as Batman and Superman go to war, a separate danger arises, one that may threaten all of humanity. - Director:
- Zack Snyder
- Cast:
- Ben Affleck, Carla Gugino, Henry Cavill
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"The Boys" is an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes - as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as gods - abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It's the powerless against the super-powerful as 'The Boys' embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about 'The Seven' and their formidable Vought backing. - Director:
- Dan Trachtenberg
- Cast:
- Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr
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Westworld: Series 3 (2020)Westworld: Season Three - The New World
In Season Three, The Real Gods Are Coming...and they are very angry. Westworld's android hosts were never allowed to leave the park. But now, at the end of the game, they're here: in our world. Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) escapes into the mysterious innerworkings of the technocratic elite, only to be surprised by the dark truth that ties her world and ours. Caleb (Aaron Paul), a struggling veteran trying to better himself, has a life-changing encounter, while Bernard's (Jeffrey Wright) attempts to lie low under a new identity are threatened. Maeve (Thandie Newton) is thrown into a new kind of world, where she reunites with a couple of familiar faces before crossing paths with a mysterious figure who seeks her help. Created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy and featuring Tessa Thompson, Ed Harris, Vincent Cassel, Rodrigo Santoro and more, these eight engrossing episodes, produced by Kilter Films and Bad Robot Productions, explore questions about the nature of our reality and the question of free will. - Director:
- Jonathan Nolan
- Cast:
- Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright
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Following the closure of a gypsum mine in the Nevada town she calls home, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road in this "exquisite film" (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal). Exploring an unconventional life as a modern-day nomad, Fern discovers a resilience and resourcefulness unlike any she's known before long the way, she meets other nomads who become mentors in the vast landscape of the American West. - Director:
- Chloé Zhao
- Cast:
- Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May
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War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)Planet of the Apes 3
In this thrilling, climactic chapter of the Planet of the Apes saga, Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel (Woody Harrelson). But after suffering unimaginable losses, Caesar resolves to 'avenge his kind, pitting him against the Colonel for a final showdown that will determine the future of the planet! - Director:
- Matt Reeves
- Cast:
- Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn
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Gillian Murphy, Sam Neill and Helen McCrory lead a stellar cast in the acclaimed series from the writer of 'Eastern Promises' that redefines the British gangster epic. Birmingham, 1919. The Shelby family lead the Peaky Blinders - a feared gang named for their practice of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps. Until now the Peaky Blinders have made money from illegal bookmaking, protection and the black market. But when a crate of guns goes missing from the local arms factory, Thomas Shelby (Murphy) recognises an opportunity to move up in the world.
As rival gangs, Communist revolutionaries and IRA Fenians descend on Small Heath in pursuit of the weapons, Winston Churchill dispatches a ruthless police chief from Belfast (Neill) to impose order on an increasingly lawless city and recover the guns.- Director:
- Otto Bathurst
- Cast:
- Cillian Murphy, Sam Neill, Helen McCrory
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It is 2026, and humanity has been pushed to near extinction by a deadly virus. When a group of survivors desperate to find a new source of power travels into the woods near San Francisco, they discover a highly evolved community of intelligent apes led by Caesar (Andy Serkis). The two species form a fragile peace agreement but dissention grows and the groups find themselves hurtling toward an all-out war. - Director:
- Matt Reeves
- Cast:
- Gary Oldman, Hélène Cardona, Lynnanne Zager
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Reign of Fire (2002)El reinado del fuego
When a London tunneling project uncovers an unearthly fire-breathing beast from centuries of slumber, all hell breaks loose. Twelve-year-old Quinn (Christian Bale) sees his mother, one of the workers, die trying to escape this new terror. Twenty years later as a "fire chief", he tries to keep a group of refugees alive with fierce dragons dominating the air, burning the land, and feeding on the ash. Unexpectedly, Van Zan (Mathew McConaughey), a hotshot American militia leader, shows up with a ragtag group of slayers on a perilous crusade to hunt down and destroy the beasts. Tempers flare when there is a struggle for leadership - until both men realise only one species is getting out of this alive. - Director:
- Rob Bowman
- Cast:
- Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco
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Our greatest discovery will become the world's greatest threat when a scientist on the verge of a medical breakthrough begins testing on a young chimpanzee named Caesar. But when the chimp develops human-like intelligence and emotions, an epic battle ensues to determine the dominant species on the planet! - Director:
- Rupert Wyatt
- Cast:
- James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto
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Mysterious Skin (2004)Piel misteriosa
"The summer I was 8 years old, five hours disappeared from my life. Five hours... lost... gone without a trace" Ten years later, Brian Lackey is still tormented by the black hole in his life - the five missing hours that have left him convinced he was abducted by aliens. In the same small Kansas town, another teen has no such worries. A hustler wise beyond his years, he has only one thing on his mind; sex and the path his urges are going to take. Searching for answers, both boys separately head for New York City, where a twist of fate brings them together to realize that their future happiness lies in exorcising the collective demons of their past. - Director:
- Gregg Araki
- Cast:
- Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue
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The Last Match (2013)La partida
Set in a poor, steamy Havana, 'The Last Match' centers on an intense love affair between two hitherto heterosexual young men. Reiner and Yosvani - best friends and soccer mates. In order to support his mother, wife and baby, Reiner prostitutes himself to older male foreigners while the shy Yosvani is reluctantly engaged to a girl and lives with her bombastic loan shark father. Sharing a kiss at a nightclub, the two men succumb to their desires, followed by a lusty rooftop encounter where they quickly fall hard for one another. But as their love intensifies, the challenge is not with them but with the unforgiving outside world they exist in. A brilliantly evocative and emotional film, 'The Last Match' is an unashamedly sexy and romantic tour de force. - Director:
- Antonio Hens
- Cast:
- Luis Alberto García, Ennio Trinelli, Milton García
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Two percent of the world's population has disappeared. Was it the Rapture? Aliens? Or something else? Based on Tom Perrotta's best-selling novel, 'The Leftovers' follows Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux), police chief and father of two, in Mapleton, New York, three years after the mysterious event. As Garvey struggles to grieve for his losses, rebuild his life and regain a sense of normality within the community, the world around him grows ever stranger. Don't be left behind! - Director:
- Peter Berg
- Cast:
- Justin Theroux, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Sebastian Arcelus
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The Blonde One (2019)Un Rubio
Gabriel (Gaston Re) is attracted to his roommate and co-worker, Juan (Alfonso Barón). But what chance does Gabriel have, given the number of women streaming in and out of Juan's bedroom? Overcoming his shyness, Gabriel takes a risk and makes the first move. To his surprise, he finds Juan eagerly responsive. But as their relationship intensifies, Juan wonders if he can give Gabriel what he wants to bring their relationship out into the open. Dubbed Marco Berger's (Plan B, Absent, Taekwondo) hottest film to date , 'The Blonde One' goes further than any Berger film has gone before. A steamy, heartfelt story tracking a deepening love affair between two men. - Director:
- Marco Berger
- Cast:
- Alfonso Barón, Justo Calabria, Antonia De Michelis
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