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Biologist and former soldier Lena (Natalie Portman) is shocked when her missing husband (Oscar Isaac) comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone no one has ever returned from.

Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.

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Still recovering after his throw from a bull called Sunshine, Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen) is on his way to join his family for the Frontier Days Rodeo. However, when he arrives, he finds his house abandoned and his father, Ace (Robert Preston) in hospital.

determined to prove that he still has the makings of a champion, Junior challenge Sunshine once again but this time he is determined to beat the bull so that his father's dream of building a ranch in Australia can become a reality.

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Paul Newman stars as the coach of 'The Chiefs' - a struggling minor-league ice hockey team - in this hilarious comedy about the world of professional sports.

To build up attendance at their games, management signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose ob is to demolish the opposition.

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Martin Scorsese presents Juliette Binoche in a uniquely uplifting story of two misfits who risk everything for love. A homeless artist who is losing her sight, Michele (Juliette Binoche) finds herself drawn into a passionate relationship with a troubled street performer named Alex.

Then, despite all obstacles, they together find love and shelter on the famed Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris. But, in time, their unlikely love will be tested as Michele's secret past catches up with her. With memorable performances from an outstanding cast, you'll be swept away by the stirring romance of this wonderfully inspired motion picture.

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Bamboozled centres around a black television writer, who is pressured by his television network to come up with a 'coonish' black comedy show for the current season.

With the help of his assistant the young television executive attempts to prove a point by creating the most racist, obscene show he can imagine; 'Mantan - The New Millenium Minstrel Show'. Unfortunately, he is unprepared for the fallout when the Minstrel Show, along with the show's tap dancing, blackface-clad star, Mantan and his sidekick Sleep'N Eat, become the most popular thing on television.

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Edward (James McArdle), a novelist saddled with caring for his elderly mother, now finds himself on the brink of literary success.

With pressure to go on a US book tour mounting, the last thing Edward needs is his friends jetting off to the Canary Islands for an impromptu Pride holiday, leaving their mothers on his doorstep. Over a chaotic weekend, he has to juggle his burgeoning career with the care of four eccentric, combative and wildly different ladies.

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Eben Adams (Joseph Cotten) is a struggling and mostly failing New York artist until one day, in Central Park, he meets Jennie (Jennifer Jones).

Jennie seems to possess an almost mystical quality and as Eben sketches her, his work shows more expression and emotion than anything he has ever done before. But before he knows it, Jennie has disappeared. Eben frantically searches for his mysterious model and when they meet again a few weeks later, Jennie seems to have aged several years. What then unfolds is one of the most unusual and unforgettable love stories ever told as they are both swept up in a strange love that even time cannot contain.

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When Caroline Ellis (Kate Hudson) takes a job in Louisiana's bayous, she unlocks a deadly secret involving magic, conjure and sacrifice that pulls her into a terrifying world of strange, frightening and unexplained incidents.

The key to escaping may lie in a decrepit attic, but if she dares to believe in what she discovers, everything she fears will become real!

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Shot on location in an Iraqi refugee camp on the Turkish border, director Bahamn Ghobadi's powerfully moving third feature is the first film to come out of Iraq since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime.

Set during the days leading up to the US invasion of Iraq, the story centres on the children struggling to survive in a harsh landscape where there are more landmines per square metre than anywhere else in the world. Soran aka 'Satellite' (Soran Ebrahim) is the leader of these children; however, his all-business attitude is disturbed when he meets brother and sister Henkov (Hiresh Feysal Rahman) and Agrin (Avaz Latif), whose bodies and souls have been irreparably damaged by Hussein's brutal legacy.

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Composer Stephen Sondheim and actor Anthony Perkins wrote this witty, complex thriller directed by Herbert Ross. A movie kingpin (James Coburn), whose wife, Sheila (Yvonne Romain) was killed by a hit-and-run driver a year before, hosts a cruise aboard his sleek yacht.

His guests (James Mason, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon, Richard Benjamin, Joan Hackett and Ian McShane) are all friends (and some lovers) who may know more about Sheila's death than they're letting on. An elaborate murder game with Mediterranean ports of call is the itinerary. What unfolds is a mystery so intriguing, so cleverly plotted, even the title is a clue!

"The Alto Knights" follows two of New York's most notorious organised crime bosses, Frank Costello (Robert De Niro / Luke Stanton Eddy) and Vito Genovese (also Robert De Niro / Antonio Cipriano), and how their separate paths to power place them on a deadly collision course.

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Nervous spinster Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) is stunted from growing up under the heel of her puritanical Boston Brahmin mother (Gladys Cooper), and remains convinced of her own unworthiness until a kindly psychiatrist (Claude Rains) gives her the confidence to venture out into the world on a

South American cruise. On board, she finds her footing with the help of an unhappily married man (Paul Henreid). Their thwarted love affair may help Charlotte break free of her mother's grip - but will she find fulfillment as well as independence?

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Nastassia Kinski stars as Irena, a beautiful young woman on the bridge of sexuality; she discovers love for the first time only to find that the explosive experience brings with it tragic consequences.

The tremendous passion of this girl's first romantic love is so strong, however, it by-passes the chaos around her-including her brother's (Malcom McDowell) extraordinary demands - as it pushes her on to her own bizarre destiny. With a style as timeless as myth, Cat People is an erotic fantasy of the passion and terror that surround this girl's first love. Desire... passion... blood, her lust transforms her into one of the Cat People.

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When small-time cheat Roy Dillon (John Cusack) winds up in hospital following an unsuccessful scam, it sets up a confrontation between his estranged mother Lilly (Angelica Huston) and sexy girlfriend Myra (Annette Bening). Both are ruthless con-artists playing the game in a league far above Roy....

and always looking for their next victim! This question soon becomes who's coming who as Roy finds himself caught in a complicated web of passion and mistrust.

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Following Peru's war on terrorism, Fausta's relatives believe she suffers from 'The Milk of Sorrow', a condition transmitted by her Mother, who was violated and mistreated during the country's upheaval.

The war has ended but Fausta (Magaly Solier) lives to be constantly reminded of her condition of fear. The sudden death of her mother forces Fausta to confront these fears and question the peculiar measures her mother took to protect her daughter from a similar fate. 'The Milk of Sorrow' is the story of a search for re-awakening and a journey from fear to freedom.