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Casey (Haley Lu Richardson) lives with her mother, a recovering addict, in a little-known Midwestern town haunted by the promise of modernism. Jin (John Cho), a visitor from the other side of the world, attends to his estranged, dying father. Burdened by the future, they find respite in one another and the architecture that surrounds them. - Director:
- Kogonada
- Cast:
- John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey
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Returning home after spending two years in therapy for burning down his family home, rebellious teenager, Neal is disturbed to discover that the same evil he fought years earlier, still lurks in the house and is now terrorising his younger brother. Hell-bent on ridding his family home of the demonic presence, Neal must put his fears aside and confront the demon before it is too late. - Director:
- Steven C. Miller
- Cast:
- Jonny Weston, Gattlin Griffith, Peter Holden
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Lauren Greenfield's postcard from the edge of the American Empire captures a portrait of a materialistic, image-obsessed culture. Simultaneously photographic journey, memoir, and historical essay, the film bears witness to the global boom-bust economy, the corrupted American Dream and the human costs of late stage capitalism, narcissism and greed. - Director:
- Lauren Greenfield
- Cast:
- Limo Bob, George W. Bush, Paris Cronin
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Oscar (Harry Michell) thinks he's special. He isn't. He thinks it's everyone else's fault. It's not. Moving to London, he gives himself a year to make it but ends up waylaid by the same old problems: friendships, f**king, and finding ultimate fulfillment. Say what you like, but it's tough being Chubby Funny. - Director:
- Harry Michell
- Cast:
- Harry Michell, Augustus Prew, Isabella Laughland
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Orphaned at a young age, a former officer with Goa Police, Arjun (Emraan Hashmi), now lives alone, though he has a sweetheart in a gorgeous model, Priya (Jacqueline Fernandez). Amidst reports of police extending their search for missing prostitutes, specifically the Caucasian daughter of a high-profile Russian Diplomat, Arjun is hired by a gangster, Sameer, and for a fee, must not only locate missing call-girls but also their abductor. Unable to get any clues, he then enlists the assistance of Sameer to recruit a bait, Reshma, who comes from an impoverished family, for the killer. Shortly thereafter Reshma goes missing, and Arjun loses contact with her. Guilt-ridden, he decides to use all possible resources to try and locate her before she disappears. - Director:
- Mohit Suri
- Cast:
- Jacqueline Fernandez, Yana Gupta, Emraan Hashmi
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In a tiny corner of a giant country, a poor farmer stands to lose everything when he is unable to repay a loan. The only way to save his family from poverty is a government scheme that will wipe out all his debts, but which calls for a drastic course of action. When word gets out, it sparks a media frenzy in this riotously entertaining satire of modern-day India, produced by Bollywood megastar Aamir Khan. - Director:
- Anusha Rizvi
- Cast:
- Omkar Das Manikpuri, Raghuvir Yadav, Shalini Vatsa
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Charged with murder and likely going to jail, crime boss Reg Bellavance (Ray Wise) is out on bail and wants to skip town with his son. The only problem is that the money he had stashed away for just such an occasion has gone missing. Bellevance gives his right hand man Lloyd (Dana Ashbrook) a simple order: Find his money, kill everyone who had a hand in stealing it and make it messy. Lloyd and his crew tear out into the city and begin carrying out the order in brutal fashion... They have no idea just how dangerous their job is about to get. - Director:
- Steven C. Miller
- Cast:
- Ryan Hartwig, Fabianne Therese, Ray Wise
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At Patiala House lives the Kahlon family ruled by Bauji. They follow his diktats as he tries to hold onto his 'Indian values' in the land of the 'goras'. The younger generations at the Patiala house want to asserts themselves and follow their dreams but are held back by their respect and love for Bauji and the shining example of Bauji's eldest son, Parghat Singh Kahlon aka Gattu. Gattu gave up his dream at the altar of Bauji's biases. His reward: For the last seventeen years he has been working in a corner shop. Will Bauji loosen his hold and let the youngsters find their own dreams instead of following his? Will Gattu get a second chance to live his life? What's more important: family or dreams? And why must we choose one or the other? - Director:
- Nikkhil Advani
- Cast:
- Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Akshay Kumar
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Maquia (2018)Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms / Sayonara no asa ni yakusoku no hana o kazarô
For young Maquia, a member of the long-lived and practically immortal lorph race, this warning from the tribe's elder seems both confusing and irrelevant. When the lorph are attacked by those who wish to take their powers of longevity for themselves, Maquia finds herself fleeing her home and venturing into the outside world for the first time. As a result of her escape, Maquia comes across an orphaned baby and, taking pity on him, decides to raise him. So begins a journey of discovery through the ages which gives weight to the elder's words, as time moves on and Maquia's world is changed irreversibly by the many meetings and partings which cross her path. 'Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms' is a heartfelt and touching story of connections, motherhood, and the rich tapestry of life. - Director:
- Mari Okada
- Cast:
- Manaka Iwami, Miyu Irino, Yôko Hikasa
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In a cheap Parisian hotel room Oscar Wilde lies on his death bed and the past floods back. Under the microscope of demise he reviews the flailed attempt to reconcile with his wife Constance, the ensuing reprisal of his fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas and the warmth and devotion of Robbie Ross who tried and foiled to save him from himself. From Dieppe to Naples to Paris, freedom is elusive and Oscar is a penniless vagabond, always moving on, shunned by his old acquaintances, but revered by a strange group of outlaws and urchins to whom he tells the old stories - his incomparable wit still sharp. - Director:
- Rupert Everett
- Cast:
- Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson
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Tashi (Imran Khan) is having doubts about his upcoming nuptials, Arup (Vir Das) is struggling to deal with his annoying boss and recent split from his girlfriend, and Nitin (Kunaal Roy Kapur) becomes ill after eating bad tandoori chicken. They soon realise how trivial their problems are, however, when they become targets of the city's most ruthless criminals... - Director:
- Abhinay Deo
- Cast:
- Imran Khan, Vir Das, Kunaal Roy Kapur
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Sicario 2: Soldado (2018)Sicario: Day of the Soldado
In the drug war, there are no rules - and when the U.S. government begins to suspect that cartels have started trafficking terrorists across the US border, federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) calls on the mysterious Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro), whose family was murdered by a cartel kingpin, to escalate the war in nefarious ways. Alejandro kidnaps the kingpin's daughter to inflame the conflict - but when the girl is seen as collateral damage, her fate will come between the two men as they question everything they are fighting for. - Director:
- Stefano Sollima
- Cast:
- Abigail Marlowe, Isabela Moner, Benicio Del Toro
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Cold War (2018)Zimna Wojna
In the ruins of post-war Poland, Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and Zula (Joanna Kulig) fall deeply, obsessively and destructively in love. As performing musicians forced to play into the Soviet propaganda machine, they dream of escaping to the creative freedom of the West. But one day, as they spot their chance to make a break for Paris, both make a split decision that will mark their lives forever. Pawel Pawlikowski follows his Oscar-winning 'Ida' with the stunning 'Cold War', an epic romance set against the backdrop of Europe after World War II. Sumptuously shot in luminous black and white, it spans decades and nations to tell a love story that is as tragic as it is moving, and as transportive as it is honest. - Director:
- Pawel Pawlikowski
- Cast:
- Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc
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In the Fade (2017)Aus dem Nichts
Katja's (Diane Kruger), life is torn apart when her husband and young son are suddenly killed in a bomb attack. A police investigation point to a pair of young neo-Nazis as the key suspects, but a lack of evidence fails to fully incriminate them, Katja is forced to take matters into her own hands and her hunt for justice begins to take increasingly dangerous and unexpected turns. - Director:
- Fatih Akin
- Cast:
- Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Numan Açar
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Burning (2018)Beoning
Based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, this critically acclaimed South Korean film tells the story of Jongsu (Ah-in Yoo), a part-time worker who bumps into old neighbour Haemi (Jong-seo Jun). She asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Kenya, but when she returns, Haemi introduces Ben (Steven Yeun) to Jongsu. One day, Ben visits Jongsu with Haemi and confesses his own secret hobby. - Director:
- Chang-dong Lee
- Cast:
- Ah In Yoo, Steven Yeun, Jong-seo Jeon
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