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Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) and her sister Sole (Lola Duenas) are visited by the apparition of their Mother (Carmen Maura), who has returned to reconcile with her daughters and resolve an issue that has haunted the family since her death.

In Pedro Almodovar's latest critically-acclaimed film, the living and deceased co-exist without discord, creating a filmic experience which is at once hilarious and yet filled with a deep, genuine emotion. VOLVER is a film about life in Almodovar's native La Mancha; a film about the way the presence of the dead continues to add richness and humanity to the lives of those they leave behind.

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Someone, Somewhere is made for you...'Dil To Pagal Hai' (The Heart is Crazy) is the story that makes this belief come true. It is the story of Rahul (Shahrukh Khan), who does not believe in love. Rahul fails to understand how two people can spend their entire lives together.

It is the story of Pooja (Madhuri Dixit), who believes that there is someone who is made for her and that she is destined to meet that person. It is also the story of Nisha (Karisma Kapoor) who believes that love is friendship and one day her dream will come true. 'Dil To Pagal Hai' is a grand musical about passionate people with dreams. Will their dreams come true? Will they find their true love? 'Dil To Pagal Hai' makes us believe that - Someone, Somewhere...is made for us.

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As the Union Jack finally descended on former colonies all over the world after the Second World War, communist, nationalist and religious guerrilla forces saw their chance. The British Empire was leaving - and creating a dangerous power vacuum in its place. The war to succeed the British had begun.

.. "Empire Warriors" focuses on four key wars fought at the end of Empire. It features original archive and news footage together with dramatic reconstructions of key events, while former soldiers, terrorists, politicians and intelligence specialists offer vivid, first hand accounts of the last wars of Empire...

1. Kenya: The Hunt for Kimathi
Fuelled by drugs and bound to service by grotesque black magic ceremonies, the Land and Freedom Army - or the Mau Mau, as they came to be called - slaughtered blacks and whites alike in a bloody revolt that shook post-war Kenya. For the British authorities, hunting down their charismatic religious leader Dedan Kimathi was the top priority...
2. Aden: Mad Mitch and His Tribal Law
Although the British had already agreed to leave Aden within two years, Arab nationalist groups wanted to be seen to actively drive them out. In June 1967, 22 British soldiers were killed - betrayed by Arabs they'd considered friends. Despite the timidity of the then Labour government, Lt. Colonel Colin 'Mad Mitch' Mitchell and his Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders smashed the local revolt with an iron fist...
3. Malaya: The Intelligence War
In 1948, Communist groups from within Malaya's Chinese immigrant population unleashed a campaign of terror in Britain's richest colony. The fight went on for 12 years - long after Malaya had achieved independence - with Special Branch waging a uniquely effective intelligence war against the Communist Guerrillas.
4. Palestine: The Jewish War
As boatloads of Holocaust survivors fled Europe looking for a homeland in Palestine, the British authority there tried to keep an uneasy peace between Jews and Arabs. They found themselves the targets of Irgun and the Stern Gang - two Jewish terrorist cells intent on driving the British out - and capable of some of the most audacious acts of terrorism the world had yet seen...

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Set in 1971, when the winds of war were blowing between India and Pakistan, Raazi - an adaptation of Harinder Sikka's novel "Calling Sehmat"- is a true-life story involving a 20 year old Kashmiri girl.

Sehmat (Alia Bhatt), a Delhi University student, is suddenly nailed bank home to Kashmir by her parents. Her father Hidayat Khan (Rajit Kapoor), an influential businessman, has close ties with the Pakistani army. He has fixed Sehmat's marriage with a Pakistani Brigadier's son. Hidayat Khan is also an asset for the Indian Intelligence and the real reason for Sehmat's marriage is a covert mission: Sehmat is to be sent as a spy into a Pakistani military family and source out all the information that she can get on Pakistan's strategy in the impending war. Sehmat accepts her fate and is ready to do anything that is required for the country. Sehmat enters the new family and a new country on a mission for her motherland.

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From director Damian Szifron and producer Pedro Almodovar comes six stories, each exploring a different facet of revenge and the various brilliant, mad, toe-curling and hilarious flavours in which it can be dished out.

Whether it's taking out a belligerent crime lord, getting even with officious parking enforcement, retribution for infidelity, or good old fashioned road rage, 'Wild Tales' takes acts of vengeance for infuriating, often all too familiar situations and blows them out to a bitter and hysterical end in this outrageous, tense and ferociously funny dark comedy.

Paul Hogan a retired actor who is constantly overshadowed by his character Crocodile Dundee, is reluctantly thrust back into the spotlight as he desperately attempts to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being awarded a knighthood by the Queen of England.

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A question by 3-year-old Bodhi Palmer sets a real family on an imaginative adventure that explores how we cope with dying and the love, laughter, and pain we can find within it.

Bodhi starring alongside his actual mother and father (Mark Webber and Teresa Palmer), give rare tour-de-force performances. Told through both the eyes of a father and his young son the story moves between the authentic real world and a fantasy realm filled with mythical creatures and remarkable circumstances.

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When socially awkward home-schooled kid Liam (Daniel Doheny) spots one-legged beauty Anastasia at the local school, he's instantly hooked.

Determined to get closer to her, and fed up with his sheltered existence, Liam persuades the principal and his suffocating but loving mum, Claire (Judy Greer), to let him try out high school life for himself. As her beloved son navigates a new and unfamiliar world of sex, drugs and social studies, and struggles to impress a girl who doesn't even know he exists, Claire realises there may still be one lesson left to teach - the art of teenage rebellion.

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Starring Rebecca Romijn (X-Men) and Jerry O'Connell (Showtime's "Billions") this gripping adventure tale unfolds beneath a brutal African sun. Jack Halsey takes his wife (Romijn), their adult kids, and a friend for a dream vacation in Kenya.

But as they venture off alone into a wilderness park, their safari van is flipped over by an angry rhino, leaving them injured and desperate. Then, as two of them go in search of rescue, a bloody, vicious encounter with a leopard and a clan of hyenas incites a desperate fight for survival.

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Grizzled veteran detective Mark Simmons (Lou Diamond Phillips) can't seem to catch the "Badge Bandit" - the city's serial prankster who's causing mischief and embarrassing the police. Karina Murphy (Lulu Wilson) is a spunky 12-year-old who dreams of being a cop.

She stumbles on Simmons' stakeout where she proves she's got serious detective skills and tech-savvy smarts. While Simmons wants to ignore Karina, the police captain does the unthinkable and teams them up. While on their mission to stop the "Badge Bandit", the unlikely duo goes on a hilarious, action-filled adventure!

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Gerard Depardieu plays Serge Piladosse, a recently retired meat factory worker, who must retrieve former employment records in order to claim his full pension. He takes to the road on his classic 'Mammuth' motorcycle and embarks on a haphazard trip down memory lane.

With visitations from his 'lost love' (Isabelle Adjani) and egged on by his eccentric yet suspicious wife Catherine (Yolande Moreau), Serge faces some difficult truths about his past lives that force him to take a new perspective on life.

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In a small village in rural France, Garbrielle (Marion Cotillard) dreams of a more passionate life, much to her family's chagrin. With the intent of making her into a respectable woman, they marry her off to honest farmer Jose (Alex Brendemühl).

Once married Gabrielle develops an illness and is sent to the Alps for treatment. There she meets a dashing injured veteran of the Indochina War (Louis Garrel). The affair rekindles the passion buried deep inside her. With this newfound love, she is determined to run away and free herself from the marriage that imprisons her. This time she's determined to follow her dream.

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Headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon (Emily Blunt) has her heart set on winning her neighbour Anthony Reilly's love. The problem is Anthony (Jamie Dornan) seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer.

Stung by his father Tony's (Christopher Walken) plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew (Jon Hamm), Anthony is jolted into pursuing his dreams in this comedic, moving and wildly romantic tale.

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It's Senior year! Annie (Madison Pettis), Kayla (Piper Curda), Michelle (Natasha Behnam), and Stephanie (Lizze Broadway) decide to finally harness their girl power and band together to get what they want. The boys won't know what hit them when these sassy sweethearts are calling the shots.

Wild parties, sexy adventures and a Stifler bring the heat in this hot new slice of American Pie!

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Billy Crystal and Alan King will keep you in stitches in director Henry Winkler's heartwarming comedy about a feuding father and son who discover that love is a family trait. With a script by Crystal and Oscar Winner Eric Roth, 'Memories of Me' is well written, well directed, smart and tender.

They say, like father, like son, but for Abe (King) and Abbie (Crystal) Polin, nothing could be further from the truth. Abe is King of the Hollywood extras. As an actor he's an expert at being a face in the crowd. His son Abbie is a respected New York heart surgeon who's always felt like a bit player in his father's life. When Abbie suffers a mild heart attack, he decides it's time to mend family ties...or break them altogether. So he heads out to Hollywood, where his efforts at reconciliation lead to hilarious consequences.