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Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett star in "Truth", based on a riveting true story of one of network news' biggest scandals.

As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather (Redford), Mary Mapes (Blanchett) believes she's broken the biggest story of the 2004 election: revelations of a sifting U.S. President's military service. But when allegations come pouring in, sources change their stories, document authenticity is questioned and the casualties begin to mount. This dramatic thriller goes behind the scenes to expose the intricacies of journalistic integrity and what it takes to reveal the Truth.

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Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger, forced to flee to France to escape civil war by posing as a family with a woman and young girl he has never previously met.

Finding work as a caretaker of a housing block in the Parisian suburbs, Dheepan works to build a new life and home for his 'wife' and 'daughter', but the daily violence he confronts quickly reopens the violence from his past, and he is left fighting for their livelihood, and eventually their lives. From acclaimed director Jacques Audiard, and winner of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, 'Dheepan' is a powerful tale of family, love, social integration, and the overwhelming effects of warfare.

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It's the beginning of summer in a small village in northern Turkey. Lale and her four sisters are on their way home from school, innocently playing with local boys but prying village eyes view their games with suspicion and word soon reaches their family.

Their home consequently becomes a prison at the hand of their uncompromising uncle and all the girls have to now live for is a future of arranged marriage. But these girls' rebellious streak will not be tamed so easily. Drawing vocal support from critics, festivals and audiences across the globe, this beautiful debut from director Deniz Gamze Erguven is a touching portrayal of innocent strength and resilience against modern misogyny.

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Trapped inside her house in a city under siege, a mother of three Oum Yazan (Hiam Abbass) turns her flat into a safe fortress for her family and neighbours in an attempt to protect them from the war outside.

But when bombs threaten to destroy the building, snipers turn the courtyards into death traps and burglars are scouring buildings for places to loot, maintaining the thin visage of routine inside the walls becomes a matter of life and death.

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Dr. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) feels like he's made it - he's moved into a luxury high-rise, seeking soulless anonymity.

However, the building's residents have no intention of leaving him alone and it isn't long before the veneer of civilisation begins to collapse, and darker human urges begin to surface, and Laing's good manners and sanity disintegrate along with the building.

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Michael Stone (David Thewlis), a husband, father and successful motivation speaker, is crippled by the mundanity of his life. On yet another business trip he checks into a clinically commonplace hotel once more.

But this time a chance meeting with Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh), an unassuming, small-town sales rep, throws the dullness into disarry and Michael feels he may have actually met someone who can make a change. From the mind of Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and animation master Duke Johnson comes "Anomalisa", a tender, touching and achingly funny black comedy, filmed entirely in extraordinary stop motion animation.

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Saul Auslander (Géza Röhrig) is a member of the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners forced to assist in the machinery of the Nazi concentration camps. While at work, he discovers the body of a boy he recognises as his son.

As the Sonderkommando plan a rebellion, Saul vows to carry out an impossible task: to save the child's body from the flames and to find a rabbi to offer the boy a proper burial.

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He dared to search beyond the flesh...This pseudo-biographical movie depicts 5 years from 1885 in the life of the Viennese psychologist Freud (Montgomery Clift). Disillusioned with the way his colleagues refuse to treat patients in a mental asylum, following a trip to Paris to visit Dr.

Charcot he sees how hysterical patients are treated by means of hypnosis. Experimenting with these new techniques, Freud concentrates on Cecily Koertner (Susannah York), a young woman suffering a nervous and physical breakdown upon the death of her father.

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"Sing Street" takes us back to 1980's Dublin, where an economic recession forces Conor out of his comfortable private school and into survival mode at the inner-city public school.

He finds hope in the mysterious and über-cool Raphina, and with the aim of winning her heart, invites her to star in his band's music videos - without actually having a band! After renaming calling himself "Cosmo", Conor forms a band with a few lads and they dedicate their time into writing lyrics and shooting videos. Combining John Carney's trademark warmth and humour and a brilliant soundtrack with hits from The Cure, The Police, and Genesis, 'Sing Street' will have you dancing in your seat!

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In 1905, a tsunami devastates a small mountain town. Scientists know it will happen again - it's only a matter of when. Present day - as one man prepares to move from his hometown with his family, his worst nightmare is about to come true. The siren goes off and the disaster is inevitable.

With less than 10 minutes to react, it becomes a race against time in order to save as many as possible including his own family.

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After failing to be admitted into the renowned Sao Paulo Symphonic Orchestra, talented violinist Laerte is forced to teach music in a public school in Heliopolis, the biggest and most violent slum of Brazil. There, Laerte experiences the brutal reality himself.

Little by little, he is able to gain the trust of the students and the community while he starts to give classes in a less conventional way, opening the doors to a new world.

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What happens when a college psych study goes shockingly wrong? In this tense, psychological thriller based on the notorious true story, Billy Crudup stars as Stanford University professor Dr.

Philip Zimbardo, who, in 1971, cast 24 student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behaviour in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days.

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This delightful and witty adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel has a superb cast and a location that creates a magic of its own. In grey, rainy 1920s England, Lotte and Rose, tired of their overbearing husbands, decide to rent a villa for a month in Portofino, Italy.

To share the cost they are joined by two other, very different, women ? Lady Caroline, a beautiful but bored socialite and crusty old Mrs. Fisher, who has an impeccable literary pedigree. They all want to escape from trapped lives and in this paradise, in ways they never imagined possible, that is what they all do.

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Directed, produced, and filmed by Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land), 'City of Ghosts' is a singularly powerful cinematic experience that is sure to shake audiences to their core as it elevates the canon of one of the most talented documentary

filmmakers working today. Captivating in its immediacy, 'City of Ghosts' follows the journey of "Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently" - a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With astonishing, deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.

In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter until he was blacklisted for his political beliefs. Trumbo recounts how Dalton used words and wit to expose the injustice under the blacklist, which entangled everyone from gossip columnist Hedda Hopper to John Wayne and Kirk Douglas.