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In the Watergate Building, lights go on and four burglars are caught in the act. That night triggered revelations that drove a U.S. President from office.

Washington reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) grabbed the story and stayed with it through doubts, denials, and discouragement. The entire 'All the President's Men' is their story. The film also explores a working newspaper, where the mission is to get the story - and to get it right.

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Martin Scorsese’s Gangs Of New York introduces today’s world to the Five Points, a dark corner of the city known to New Yorkers of long ago as the centre of vice and chaos. Into this frontier of extreme lawlessness arrives the young Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Amsterdam is the orphaned son of the slain Priest Vallon (Liam Neeson) – once chief warrior of the Dead Rabbits gang that rallied the Irish immigrants of the Five Points. Amsterdam has returned to the Five Points to hunt down his father’s killer. His target is William cutting AKA "Bill the Butcher" (Daniel Day-Lewis), who has since become the merciless new leader of the neighbourhood, a Nativist who detests the newly arrived immigrants and is determined to fend off all so-called "foreign invaders." Amsterdam works his way deep into the Butcher’s inner circle, a world of alternating honour and cruelty from which he can only hope to escape.

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The latest from cult filmmaker Bruce LaBruce (Hustler White) follows Dominic (Félix-Antoine Duval), a young man with a fetish…for himself: nothing turns him on more than his reflection.

After discovering he has a secret twin - raised as a captive to a depraved priest in a remote monastery - the power of destiny brings together the two beautiful, identical brothers, who are soon embroiled in a blasphemous web of sex, revenge and redemption. A love letter to the psychosexual thrillers of the 1970s, LaBruce's anarchic comedy is full of his trademark punk provocations.

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In this wild and incredible tale, young Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) is brought back to live by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist.

Eager to learn and hungry for the worldliness she lacks, Bella runs off on an adventure that inspires in her a fantastical evolution leading to a fierce dedication to equality and liberation.

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When a group of heavily armed and meticulously trained extremists launch a daring daylight ambush on the White House, the President (Aaron Eckhart) and his staff are taken hostage inside an impenetrable underground bunker. Only former U.S.

Secret Service agent, Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), is left in the besieged building to do the job he has trained for all his life: to protect the President - at all costs. Acting President (Morgan Freeman) must rely on Banning to rescue the President before the terrorists can unleash their ultimate terrifying plan.

Hail, Caesar! follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.

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In 2013 there are no highways and no dreams of a better tomorrowonly scattered survivors across what was once the United States.Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare and something yet undiscovered: the power to inspire hope.

Kevin Costner directs and plays a wayfarer in a world where might makes rightbut destined to lead a heroic rebellion where right makes might.

Hapless family man Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom...

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The world's greatest detectives have been invited to dinner. But when murder is on the menu, who will make it to dessert? The isolated mansion of eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) is the setting for the twisted puzzler.

Twain informs his guests that one of them will be murdered at the stroke of midnight. The pay-off: $1 million to whoever lives through the night.

"Wonka" tells the wondrous story of how a young dreamer named Willy Wonka (Timothée Chalamet) becomes the world's greatest inventor, magician and chocolate maker.

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Bing Crosby plays Jim Hardy, a song and dance man who leaves showbiz to open a Connecticut Inn. Fred Astaire plays Ted Hanover, Hardy's former partner and rival in love.

And, of course there are girls (Marjorie Reynolds and Virginia Dale), an agent (Walter Abel) and plenty of lavish song and dance routines with spectacular production numbers.

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Four old school villains, Waldorf (Terry Stone), Prozac (Sam Gittins), Fisherman (Ricky London), and Slips (Michael Head) plan one 'Last Heist' to liberate the key to the stashed fortune of the (recently passed away) head of South London crime family, Mick (Perry Benson).

Unfortunately, in carrying out the heist, the gang encounters significant obstacles, and violence is the inevitable outcome. Is there really honour amongst thieves, and how far will they go to protect each other, especially as the main threat seems to come from within the gang.

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The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go.

Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (Dominic Sessa) — and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da'Vine Joy Randolph).

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For high school senior Jake (Cardi Wong), life is already complicated when the hot and openly gay Aleks (Chris Carson) moves in across the street.

Struggling with the pressures of his father's demand that he makes the school basketball team, and his girlfriend's desire to take their relationship to the next level, Jake's confusion deepens with the arrival of his handsome new neighbour, and he is forced to think about what - and who - he really wants. Jason Karman's accomplished, sweet and sexy rites-of-passage drama deftly explores the challenges of juggling familial expectations with the search for identity in the social media age.

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In 2032 arch-criminal Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) awakens from a 35-year deep freeze in CryoPrison to find a serene, non-violent Los Angeles ready for the taking. Unable to deal with Phoenix's brutal 1990s style, officials seek an old-fashioned cop to fight old-fashion crime. They revive Sgt.

John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), unjustly serving a CryoPrison sentence because of his last encounter with Phoenix.