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George (Warren Beatty) is one of L.A.'s most desirable men, a Beverly Hills hairdresser who makes all his female clients look, and feel, better than ever.

Encouraged by his girlfriend Jill (Goldie Hawn) to open his own salon, George approaches conservative businessman Lester (Jack Warden) for financing. Unbeknownst to Lester, George is sleeping with his wife (Lee Grant), his mistress (Julie Christie) and his teenage daughter (Carrie Fisher). Can George resist temptation and settle down with Jill or will he get tangled up in even more scandalous affairs?

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It's graduation and Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) has only one ambition - to date Diane Court (lone Skye). She's beautiful, she's intelligent and to everyone's amazement, she actually agrees to go out with Lloyd.

At first just "friends with potential", Lloyd and Diane quickly develop into something more. But when Diane's overprotective father convinces her to end the relationship, a brokenhearted Lloyd vows to try anything, do anything and say anything to win her back.

Through a series of catastrophic misunderstandings, Robbie Turner (James McAvoy) is accused of a crime he did not commit. This accusation destroys Robbie and Cecilia's (Keira Knightley) new found love and dramatically alters the course of their lives.

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As jaded cabaret Mademoiselle Amy Jolly (Marlene Dietrich) falls for Tom Brown (Gary Cooper), a devil-may-care private in the French Foreign Legion.

In spite of the clamor of other suitors, including man-of-the-world Kennington (Adolphe Menjou), Amy arranges a rendezvous with Tom Brown when their aloof attraction turns to love. But when Tom overhears the wealthy Kennington propose to Amy, he accepts a dangerous assignment, convinced that only Kennington can give the beautiful chanteuse the life she wants. All proves fair in love and war, however, when on the eve of the engagement to Kennington, Amy steals away to find the man she truly loves.

A young woman (Lorna Heilbron) is invited to stay at the remote country mansion belonging to her girlfriend (Angela Pleasence). But the peaceful retreat is interrupted by the menacing presence of the local gamekeeper (Peter Vaughan) and events soon take a disturbing turn.

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Eduardo Coutinho's classic 'Man Marked for Death, 20 Years Later' is regarded as a landmark of filmmaking. Voted the greatest Brazilian documentary of all time in 2017 and the fourth greatest Brazilian film ever made in 2015 by the Brazilian Association of Film Critics (Abraccine).

Part fictionalised true story and part documentary, this extraordinary film sets out to tell the story of Joao Pedro Teixeira, leader of the Sapé Peasant League in northeast Brazil, murdered on orders from the landowners. Before the film could be completed, a right-wing military coup forced the closure of its production and the imprisonment of several members of the crew. Decades later, Coutinho returned to the original film location and, using surviving footage alongside interviews with members of the original cast, including Joao Pedro's wife Elizabeth, he created this compelling commentary on Brazilian history, politics and class conflict.

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Jimmy (Sean Penn / Jason Kelly). Dave (Tim Robbins / Cameron Bowen). Sean (Kevin Bacon / Connor Paolo). Friends who grew up in working-class Boston, they drift apart after a terrible tragedy. Years later, brutal events reconnect them. Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter is coldly murdered.

Dave is a suspect. And Sean, now a cop, scrambles to solve the crime before volatile Jimmy takes the law into his own hands.

Jean Arthur stars as Alice Sycamore, the stable family member of an offbeat clan of free spirits who fall for Tony Kirby (James Stewart), the down-to-earth son of a snooty, wealthy family. Amidst a backdrop of confusion, the two very different families rediscover the simple joys of life.

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When The Corellis and the Brenners come together for the joyous occasion of their children's wedding, events get off to a shaky start with the aging Bishop struggling to remember the order of service.

As the reception gets under way the wedding-planner looks set to crack, the over-zealous security staff attack one of the guests, infidelities are rife and scandalous secrets are revealed. As chaos ensues and tension rises between the opposing families, 'the big day' moves towards a dramatic conclusion.

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At his school in Madrid, ex-bullfighter Diego Montes (Nacho Martínez) teaches his students the Corridor - 'the art of the kill'. Trainee bullfighter Angelo (Antonio Banderas), sexually repressed and mother fixated, is taunted about his suspected homosexuality by Diego.

To prove his masculinity Angel attempts to assault Diego's girlfriend. Failing in his attempt and consumed by guilt he confesses to murders he did not commit - the victims are killed with bullfighting instruments at the moment of sexual climax. Angel is defended by lawyer Maria Cardenal (Assumpta Serna), the real killer, who is obsessed with Diego and uses Angel to draw the maestro Matador into one last confrontation.

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Set at the outbreak of War, De Sica's film tells the story of the Finzi Contini, an aristocratic Jewish family protected by the walls of their idyllic estate.

Whilst outside Mussolini bans Jews from tennis courts, the Finzi Contini are not worried as they rally on their own, living in their dreamland. Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio) is the middle-class Jew in love with his childhood friend, Micol (Dominique Sanda) of the Finzi Contini family, but she is in love with a gentile and wanting of experiences outlawed by the new government. With Giorgio's separation of Micol, De Sica tracks the loss of an idyllic way of life, from the tennis courts to the waiting rooms where Jews await transportation to the concentration camps.

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1940, Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), a young French girl, is orphaned in a Nazi air attack during the battle of France. She is befriended by Michel (Georges Poujouly), the son of a poor farmer whose family take her in to their home to care for her.

Together the two children forge a tight bond, attempting to come to terms with the realities of the death and destruction that surrounds them by creating their own reality, building their own small graveyard to bury dead animals they find. In this sealed universe they have created, Paulette and Michel experience their first and most wonderful love story.

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Against a dramatic nineteenth-century backdrop of radical Italian Nationalism Luchino Visconti's masterful epic, 'The Leopard', follows the Sicilian Prince of Salina (Burt Lancaster) and his family as they adjust to the social turbulence of revolutionary times.

Adapted from Tomasi di Lampedusa's esteemed novel of the same name, this is a tragicomic depiction of a class eclipsed by history. ..

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Set in 1987 Oakland, 'Freaky Tales' is a multi-track mixtape of colourful characters - an NBA star, a corrupt cop, a female rap duo, teen punks, neo-Nazis, and a debt collector - on a collision course in a fever dream of showdowns and battles.

Executive produced by hip-hop pioneer Too $hort, and featuring an all-star ensemble including Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Jack Champion, Ji-young Yoo, Angus Cloud, and Tom Hanks, this pulpy blend of explosive action, edgy humour, gory kills, and sly twists and turns makes for one wild ride.

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When young Father O'Malley (Bing Crosby) arrives to join the congregation at an old established church, things get complicated. St. Dominic's, crusty old Father Fitzgibbon (Barry Fitzgerald) doesn't think much of O'Malley or his ideas. These two priests simply can't agree.

But when O'Malley's fresh methods succeed in reaching out to the neighbourhood's toughest kids the community start to change. The neighbourhood becomes closer as the church's meaning grows dearer to their souls.