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She is the ultimate director’s fantasy. Unlike her flesh and blood colleagues, she won’t get old, won’t gain an ounce, She doesn’t have an agent, manager or entourage; she doesn’t need a body double. She has not problem with nudity. She’s programmed to love any script she’s offered.

She’s not interested in money. The only power she craves comes from an electrical outlet. Viktor (Al Pacino) is a down and out director who just lost his last shot at a comeback when his temperamental flesh and blood actress (Winona Ryder) walked off his movie Sunrise, Sunset. When she left, so did Viktor’s self-respect. But then computer genius Hank (Elias Koteas) shows up… Hank is not long for his world and bequeaths the software to Viktor that will change his life forever: Simulation One. Just a few key strokes and an overnight sensation is born: Simone. Suddenly, Viktor has a taste of the success he always craved and the world’s most beloved, beautiful and sexy star under his thumb…

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Chuck and Buck charts the story of two boyhood friends who grew apart as adults. Brought together at the funeral of Buck's mother the stark differences in their lives are brought to the fore. Chuck is now a wealthy and successful record executive living in L.A.

whilst Buck seems to exist in a state of suspended childhood in their hometown of New York. After the funeral Buck decides he would like to keep up their friendship and follows Chuck back to LA. Once reunited Chuck finds that his former friend is not the person he used to be. With every attempt to get close to Chuck again, Buck seems more likely to land himself with a restraining order than get his friend back!

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Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo and Academy Award winners Jennifer Connelly and Mira Sorvino deliver riveting performances in the gripping thriller Reservation Road.

A powerful human story of anger, revenge and great courage, this film takes you on an intense journey that follows two fathers as their families and lives converge after the events of one fateful night.

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Jesse Eisenberg stars in the true story of Jewish Boy Scouts joining the French Resistance to save over 10,000 orphans from the Nazis in World War Two.

Eisenberg plays famous mime artist Marcel Marceau who, together with a group of activists, fights to rescue Jewish orphans from ruthless Nazis and take them safely across the Swiss border.

In one of the finest comedic performances of her career Marilyn plays a delicious, yet decidedly vision-impaired, young model, who, along with her two equally scheming friends, rents out a Manhattan penthouse in the hope of hooking a rich husband.

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On October 12th, 1978, Nancy Spungen was found stabbed to death in a bathroom at the Chelsea Hotel, New York. Her lover Sid Vicious, bassist for punk rock legends The Sex Pistols, was immediately arrested for her murder, and died of a drugs overdose whilst awaiting trial.

Alex Cox's seminal film takes us on a darkly humorous, visually stunning journey that begins with Sid and Nancy's initial meeting during the rise of British Punk during the late seventies and follows their decline into nightmarish, drug induced squalor in New York City. Visceral, unflinching and ultimately tragic, this is the dark side of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Love kills.

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You Know his music.You've seen his moves.Now see Michael Jackson as you've never seen him before in Moonwalker,a magical,musical,feature-length adventure that takes you to the moon and back with the most well-known entertainer on the planet!

A true collector's treasure,Moonwalker combines Michael Jackson's greatest videos with rare clips from his early days in the jackson 5 and live concert and Grammy performances.Also included is a wild adventure film written by Michael Jackson himself,allowing a rare and unique glimpse into the creative mind of this musical genius.Look for cameo appearances by Joe Pesci,Mick Jagger,Sean Lennon,Elizabeth Taylor and others!

Music Video Include:
- Man in the Mirror
- Retrospective
- Leave Me Alone
- Come Together
- The Moon is Walking
- Smooth Criminal…and More!

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Soon after architect Mark Lamphere (Michael Redgrave) marries Celia (Joan Bennett), she gradually begins to suspect that he has a past life that he's been keeping from her.

But she doesn't know the half of it, and when he leaves on a business trip, she starts to uncover the sinister secret of his purpose-designed house and its apparent surplus of rooms, the seventh of which is kept firmly locked. What lies beyond its door?

When a flood of biblical proportions washes its home away, a solitary cat must seek refuge with a motley crew of animals (including a dog, a capybara, a lemur and a secretarybird), who gradually learn to get along in this endearing, Oscar-nominated animation.

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Nicolas Cage and Michael Peña star as John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno, two New York City Port Authority policemen who were trapped in the rubble of September 11, 2001.

As McLoughlin and Jimeno bond together in a fight for survival, the events of an unimaginable day unfold through the eyes of the two policemen, their loving wives (Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaal), survivors and rescuers throughout the city.

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A Night of living terror led to a Dawn of false hope, but nothing before will prepare you for the darkest Day the world has known! Below ground in a fortified installation, scientists conduct experiments to understand the virus that has turned humanity into flesh-hungry zombies.

Isolated and deprived of natural light, the researchers begin clashing with their military protectors and it soon becomes apparent that their co-dwellers are just as dangerous and unpredictable as the zombies gathering to enter their safe haven...

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As the private eye of private eyes, Steve Martin is Rigby Reardon. He's tough, rough and ready to take on anything when Juliet Forrest appears on the scene with a case: her father, a noted scientist, philanthropist and cheesemarker has died mysteriously.

Reardon immediately smells a rat and follows a complex maze of clues that lead to the 'Carlotta Lists'. With a little help from his 'friends' Alan Ladd, Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Charles Laughton, and others, Reardon gets his man.

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As all of Ireland north and south of the border voted for peace in the Good Friday referendum, a small group of dissident republicans opposed to the peace process began planning a bombing campaign.

They called themselves the Real IRA and selected their target carefully, choosing Omagh, a small market town. Their plan was simple - to create an atrocity so devastating that it would destroy the peace process in its tracks. This BAFTA winning film examines the events and aftermath of August 15th 1998, when a Real IRA bomb claimed thirty one lives. It tells the story of the Omagh Support and Self Help Group as they strive to find the truth of what happened that day. At the heart of the film is the story of Michael Gallagher, who lost his 21-year old son Aiden in the explosion.

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Specialist Andrew Briggman (Nat Wolff) is an ambitious young soldier, whose quiet temperament and naive demeanour set him apart from his platoon. Everything changes when he meets his new squad leader, Sergeant Deeks (Alexander Skarsgård), a natural born soldier.

Andrew immediately falls under Deeks's spell, but when a young Afghan farmer is killed under questionable circumstances, Andrew's admiration for Deeks becomes increasingly tainted. Trapped between his conscience and his survival when members of his platoon carry out a murderous scheme in the desolate wasteland of Southern Afghanistan, Andrew must face off against his once friends, ultimately forced to make an impossible split-second decision that will change him forever.

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In the 1920s, political activist Jimmy Gralton built a dance hall in rural Ireland. As the hall grew in popularity its free-spirited reputation brought it to the attention of the church and politicians who forced Jimmy to flee and the hall to close.

A decade later, at the height of the Depression, Jimmy returns from the US. The hall stands abandoned but as Jimmy sees the poverty and growing oppression in the village, the leader and activist within him is stirred. He decides to reopen the hall, and so takes on the established authorities of the church and the government.