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Marcel Ophuls' four-and-a-half hour portrait of the French town of Clermont-Ferrand under German occupation from 1940-44 is one of the greatest documentaries ever made, as important as Claude Lanzmann's 'Shoah' in its value not just as a film but as an essential historical record in its own right -

not least since its interviewees are all long dead. Describing the fall of France and the rise of the Resistance, with the aid of newly-shot interviews and eye-opening archive footage including newsreels and propaganda films, Ophuls painstakingly crafts a complex, nuanced picture of what really happened in France over this period. He also demolishes numerous self-serving national myths to such an extent that, although he made the film for French television, they wouldn't show it for over a decade. But, as he demonstrates again and again, the overwhelming majority of French citizens during this period weren't heroes, villains or cowards, but simply ordinary people trying to make the best of an impossible situation. And it's Ophuls' portrayal of these people, their hopes, their fears and their appalling moral quandaries, that remains unmatched in film history.

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"Amadeus" triumphs as gripping human drama, sumptuous period epic, glorious celebration of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It's 1781 and Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) is the competent court composer to Emperor Joseph II.

When Mozart (Tom Hulce) arrives at court, Salieri is horrified to discover that the godlike musical gifts he desires for himself have been bestowed on a bawdy, impish jokester. Mad with envy, he plots to destroy Mozart by any means. Perhaps, even murder.

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"Conclave" follows one of the world's most secretive and ancient events-selecting a new pope. The Church's most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world, locked together in the Vatican halls.

Tasked with running this covert process, Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy and discovers a secret that could shake the very foundation of The Church. Also starring Stanley Tuccl, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini and directed by Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front).

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One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.

As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.

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In the dying days of Edwardian England, English aristocrat Christopher Tietjens (Benedict Cumberbatch) finds himself marrying Sylvia (Rebecca Hall), a beautiful but cruel socialite who is pregnant with a child who may or may not be his.

Christopher is determined to remain loyal to his wife, but his life is transformed the day he meets Valentine Wannop (Adelaide Clemens), a fearless young suffragette. Moving from the glittering yet shallow world of London high society to the trench-scarred battlefields of France, feature is the story of one of the defining eras of the last century; a time when old certainties are being torn down and lives are changed forever.

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In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called "green border" between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko.

In an attempt to provoke Europe, refugees are lured to the border by propaganda promising easy passage to the EU. Pawns in this hidden war, the lives of Julia (Maja Ostaszewska), a newly minted activist who has given up her comfortable life, Jan (Tomasz Wlosok), a young border guard, and a Syrian family intertwine. 30 years after 'Europa Europa', three-time Oscar Nominee Agnieszka Holland's poignant new feature 'Green Border' opens our eyes, speaks to the heart, and challenges us to reflect on the moral choices that fall to ordinary people every day.

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From Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story: reclusive gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) falls hard for Jackie (Katy O'Brian), an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream.

But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou's criminal family.

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Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life.

After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

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An unintended pregnancy leads to horrific psychological consequences for a teenage girl whose parents force her to get an abortion.

The overbearing, strict parents seek counseling for their rebellious daughter who is sent to a mental health institution that exacerbates her problems with harsh, controversial "therapist" including shock therapy…

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Robbing 36 banks was a breeze!! Watch what happens when they hit the 37th. Wonderfully directed by acclaimed director Robert Altman, 'Thieves Like Us' delves into the lives of Depression-era on-the-lam bank robbers.

In 1930s Mississippi, convicted murderer Bowie (Keith Carradine) and his two buddies make a daring escape from prison. With jobs scarce, they turn to the only thing they will know: robbing banks. Armed and dangerous, they leave a trail of empty banks and gun smoke in their wake through the Midwest, as the newspapers report their exploits to a rapt public. While holed up in a rural farmhouse, Bowie finds love with a simple young woman named Keechie (Shelley Duvall). Though they dream of a future together, Bowie knows it's only a matter of time before the authorities will move in - with their guns blazing!

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David Summer (Dustin Hoffman) is a quiet American mathematician who has moved with his wife Amy (Susan George) back to a remote Cornish farmhouse near the village where she grew up.

The couple have relocated to rural England in an attempt to flee the violence of America but their placid life is brutally interrupted when the savagery and violence they sought to escape engulfs them and threatens to destroy their lives.

Featurete is a surreal, comic vision of modern life in which the director's much-loved character, Monsieur Hulot - accompanied by a cast of tourists and well-heeled Parisians - turns unintentional anarchist when set loose in an unrecognisable Paris of steel skyscrapers, chrome-plated shopping malls and futuristic night spots.

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It's September 1939, and England has declared war on Germany. The father of 'psychoanalysis', Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins), a recent escapee with his daughter (Nina Kolomiitseva) from the Nazi regime, receives a visit from the formidable Oxford Don C.S.

Lewis (Matthew Goode), a former atheist who is now a devout Christian. Sparking a debate with the younger man about the damage that unquestioned belief may bring, Freud's mortality, and what Lewis believes comes after death, fuels their discussion, as the two men clash and question each other about science, faith, love, the human condition, and what divides - and could possibly unite - the aspirations of the mind and the needs of the soul, interweaving the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and fantasy in a story that bursts from the confines of Freud's study, and delves into the deeper realms of both men's psyche.

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In 1966 Tulsa, teenagers come two ways. If you're a "Soc", you've got money, cars, a future. But if you're a "Greaser", you're an outsider with only your friends...and a dream that someday you'll finally belong. Francis Ford Coppola's powerful film of S.E.

Hinton's classic novel captures how it feels to be caught between childhood's innocence and adulthood's disillusionment.

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Opening with a shot of an x-ray, showing the main character's stomach, 'Ikiru' tells the tale of a dedicated, downtrodden civil servant who, diagnosed with a fatal cancer, learns to change his dull, unfulfilled existence, and suddenly discovers a zest for life.

Plunging first into self-pity, then a bout of hedonistic pleasure-seeking on the frenetic streets of post-war Tokyo, Watanable (Takashi Shimura) - the film's hero - finally finds satisfaction through building a children's playground.