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When a British secret service agent is captured behind enemy lines in North Korea, his wife turns to Gabriel, an elite bounty hunter whose martial arts expertise and special ops skills make him the scourge of pedophiles and fugitives in Hong Kong's violent underworld.

Promised his freedom in exchange for one last mission, Gabriel agrees to cross the border into North Korea to track down and rescue his former partner. With only a local agent and a resourceful young woman by his side, Gabriel must draw on all his experience to infiltrate the heavily-guarded base, where a corrupt general and his evil army lie in wait. Braving brutal torture, and facing hordes of lethal soldiers, Gabriel is able to free the hostage, only to stumble upon the horrific truth behind the general's plans. With his loyalty stretched to breaking point, Gabriel finds himself in a race against time to escape a hostile country and expose an international human trafficking conspiracy. Not for the first time, he will have to cross the line to save his friend, dozens of captured women, and himself.

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'Eternal Summer' tells the story of Jonathan (Bryant Chang), a young man who finds himself in an enviable romantic predicament. On one hand, he has pretty Hong Kong university classmate Carrie (Kate Yeung) after him.

The two share an idyllic day away from academic study to and spend a day in the big city, after which they check into a love hotel. Jonathan calls it off when Carrie tries to get intimate with him. It turns out that he's in love with someone else, namely his childhood friend Shane (Joseph Chang), a roguish and handsome troublemaker who excels at basketball and seems to be headed nowhere in particular after high school.
Carrie understands Jonathan's problem, and even accepts it. However, that isn't going to solve things for these conflicted youth. The revelation of Jonathan's sexuality creates tension between Carrie and Jonathan. Shane is oblivious to his best friend's issues and begins to fall for Carrie. However, there is a conflict of emotions over their mutual friendship with Jonathan. The days and nights pass, but the big secret of Jonathan's desires hangs over the three friends continuing to create conflict. Eventually their fragile triangle of mutual affection and painful attraction is tested to the limit of their friendship when it becomes clear to Carrie that Shane has also harboured the same desire and love for Jonathan all along.

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Set at the height of 1950s glamour, this audience award-winning drama recounts the extraordinary relationship between Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (Miranda Otto) and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares (Gloria Pires).

In search of inspiration, Bishop leaves America having accepted the invitation of an old college friend to stay with her on her sprawling country estate in Brazil. But she never counted on meeting the love of her life - her friend's partner. At first, the fiery personalities of the two women collide and lead to passion-fuelled debates, but animosity quickly turns to attraction, then desire. Film is an intimate portrait of two remarkable artists as they discover the most incredible love.

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Gloria is a young at heart 50-something. Moving from one party to another on the look for love, her loneliness acting only as an incentive. This fragile happiness changes the day she meets Rodolfo (Sergio Hernandez).

Their intense passion, to which Gloria gives everything, leaves her dancing between hope and despair. Gloria is an individual story that takes place over the backdrop of a city thrown into upheaval. The leading characters quest to be loved and valued is set over the clamours of a Chilean society that wants its rights to be recognised. This sensitive and sharply humorous fourth feature from Chilean director Sebastian Lelio is exclusively and radically told from a single viewpoint. While playing a supporting role in the lives of all those around her, Gloria is at the very centre of the film - forcing us to observe events through the eyes of a woman searching for her place in a hardened world that seems to have neither time nor space for her, yet defending her individual freedom with heart and pride. Winner of multiple awards worldwide, it features an evocative, vibrant soundtrack ranging from global classics to Latin American hits. Gloria is a paean to the tenacity and courage of a generation of Chilean women who are determined to keep on feeling, dancing and living.

In this tense thriller an everyday Joe, laid off from his job, finds a freelance gig that involves nothing in the way of pay but plenty in the way of murderous pleasure! A tense and twisted tale of life and death in modern South Korea...

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Fired from her job, broke and with her judgement clouded by too many vodka shots, Julia hits rock bottom and hatches a reckless plan to kidnap the 8 year-old grandson of a wealthy businessman and hold the boy to ransom.

But she finds herself totally unprepared for life as a fugitive with a terrified child in tow, and events soon spiral wildly out of control. With both the authorities and a brutal criminal gang on her tail, a desperate Julia finds herself locked in a deadly fight for survival.

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Baptiste is a loner. He is a gifted primary teacher living in the south of France but never remains in the same job for more than a term, rejecting any offer for permanent employment.

When he is left unwittingly in charge of a pupil one weekend by the child's negligent father, the boy takes Baptiste to his mother Sandra, a dazzling but fragile woman who works on the beach near Montpellier. An erratic parent who longs to make amends, she welcomes Baptiste and her son into her bungalow. For one enchanted day, a powerful spell unites them, sparking the beginnings of a family for those who do not have one. But it won't last. Sandra owes money and her creditors are moving in. She is forced to flee again. To help her, Baptiste will have to confront his troubled past and the darkest, most painful secrets within him...

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In 2010 pharmaceutical researcher Kazuko Yoshiyama (Narumi Yasuda) is injured in a car accident. Her daughter Akari (Riisa Naka) uses Kazuko's newly completed time-travel potion to leap back in search of a mystery man from her mother's past...

but misjudges the date and arrives two years late, in the year 1974. There, she enlists the help of reluctant student filmmaker Ryota (Akiyoshi Nakao), in a race against time to find a man that nobody remembers.

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Summer in Berlin. Jonas is planning a trip through the little know area of the Uckermark In preparation for a photography project. He invites his best friend, Phillip, to come along. They've only seen each other a few times since their time together in London.

So they pack up their Mercedes camper and take off across uncharted territory, stopping when they see something nice, taking pictures and generally enjoying a laid-back road trip. That Phillip's gay is not an issue for either of them. When they pick up a hitchhiker named Boris who shows Jonas interesting spots and starts to make moves on Phillip. The friendship of the two starts to fray. Maybe three's a crowd after all? By the end of the summer, things between Jonas and Phillip will never be the same. "You and I" is a road movie across an unknown area of Germany, a romantic comedy about friendship, with little baggage, but spontaneous humor and wit. In short: images of a summer you're not likely to forget.

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A sailor, Farrel, leaves his ship and begins a lengthy journey to wintry Tierra del Fuego's interior, to an isolated village and family that he hasn't seen in years. The route seems familiar to him, and we gradually piece together his relationship with the people and community he finds there.

From the opening sequences on Farrel's ship, to the spectacular harshness of his destination, Alonso is meticulous in mapping the sights and sounds of the landscape and Farrel's personal journey into the past.

A border post on the Macedonian-Albanian is thrown into disarray when it's commander discovers he has syphilis, creating chaos in his bid to avoid his wife and admitting his infidelity.

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Set in an alternate 1999 it presents a world living under the threat of quiet annihilation as a nuclear satellite spirals out of its orbit and back to Earth.

As human beings seem to put their lives on hold, a young woman is chased across the globe with a mysterious fugitive who has absconded with a secret government project that might perhaps alter the fate of mankind itself.

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In this terrifying apocalyptic horror, a mysterious epidemic like no other has swept across the globe, leaving chaos in its wake. With the world's population unable to go outside for fear of an inexplicable and painful death, the population is now forced to live like savages in the darkness.

Terror and famine take hold and, despite gruesome reports of cannibalism, survivors Marc and Enrique embark upon a treacherous journey to be reunited with their loved ones in the hope they too are still alive. Battling unimaginable horror at every turn, the two men soon become caught in a conflict far worse than they could ever have imagined...

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Extinction tells the story of a disparate group of people who must struggle to survive in a suddenly hostile environment after a retrovirus has plunged the world into an undead apocalypse. Within a week of the retrovirus being released, 90% of the world's population has been infected.

Soon the survivors realise that their nightmare has only just begun, as the people they once knew are now the monsters they must fight.

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Long distance lorry driver Ruben (German de Silva) agrees to drive'Jacinta (Hebe Duarte) and her 5 month old child en route from Paraguay to-Buenos Aires.

As the miles slowly melt the two damaged souls, LAS ACACIAS grows into a heart rending tale about a passing encounter between two strangers and the unlikely bond that grows between them.