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Among the most exciting voices in genre cinema to emerge in recent years, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead return with their third feature, 'The Endless'. Benson and Moorhead play brothers, former members of a "crazy UFO death cult", who receive a mysterious video cassette in the mail. The tape contains an eerie calling card from their past, inviting them to attend an event called the Ascension. Despite their apprehension, the pair agree to return for one day. At first their old friends in the cult seem warm and welcoming, but things soon turn strange as the brothers find themselves drawn into a vortex of bizarre rituals, strange messages, unseen forces and sinister supernatural secrets that threaten to tear apart the very fabric of reality. - Director:
- Justin Benson
- Cast:
- Callie Hernandez, James Jordan, Emily Montague
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Tatie Danielle (1990)Tante Danielle
Tatie Danielle (Tsilla Chelton) is a malicious, mischievous old lady, who mistreats her (older) housekeeper to death. So she moves in with her nephew (Eric Prat) and his wife Catherine (Catherine Jacob) and the fun really starts. Their life becomes a living hell as Auntie takes control and drives the family to despair and II close to insanity. They take off on holiday without the wicked one, leaving her in the care of Sandrine (Isabelle Nanty), an au pair who is as equally bitter as Tatie herself. - Director:
- Étienne Chatiliez
- Cast:
- Tsilla Chelton, Catherine Jacob, Isabelle Nanty
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Mary Magdalene (2018)Untitled Mary Magdalene Project
Directed by Garth Davis ('Lion' and 'Top of the Lake') and set in the Holy Land in the first century C.E., a young woman (Rooney Mara) leaves her small fishing village and traditional family behind to join a radical new social movement. At its head is a charismatic leader, Jesus of Nazareth (Joaquin Phoenix), who promises that the world is changing. Mary is searching for a new way of living, and an authenticity that is denied her by the rigid hierarchies of the day. As the notoriety of the group spreads and more are drawn to follow Jesus' inspirational message, Mary's spiritual journey places her at the heart of a story that will lead to the capital city of Jerusalem, where she must confront the reality of Jesus' destiny and her own place within it. - Director:
- Garth Davis
- Cast:
- Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Adapted from the gothic romance novel by Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca is a classic tale of love and hate. Maxim De Winter (Charles Dance) marries a woman half his age (Emilia Fox) only a year after his first wife, the beautiful and accomplished Rebecca dies. Maxim's shy bride finds herself in an aristocratic social world her middle class upbringing did not prepare her for and housekeeper Mrs Danvers (Diana Rigg) despises her for taking her darling Rebecca's place. These are not the only problems to face, behind the beautiful gates of Manderley there is a darkness of the pas that taints the present and threatens the future. - Director:
- Jim O'Brien
- Cast:
- Charles Dance, Diana Rigg, Geraldine James
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84 Charing Cross Road (1986)Zwischen den Zeilen
Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft), a feisty New York writer, mails a letter to a small London bookshop requesting some rare English classics. Frank Doel (Anthony Hopkins), the reserved English bookseller, answers her request, beginning a touching and humorous correspondence that spans two continents and two decades. Hanff's acerbic wit starkly contrasts Doel's aloof British demeanor, but their mutual love of books forms a bond that deepens with each passing year. Their intimate, richly detailed letters draw us into their lives as Helene and Frank share their dreams, hopes, sorrows and joys — and in doing so, develop a lasting and extraordinary friendship. - Director:
- David Hugh Jones
- Cast:
- Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench
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A family must navigate their lives in silence to avoid mysterious creatures that hunt by sound. Knowing that even the slightest whisper or footstep can bring death, Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and Lee (John Krasinski) are determined to find a way to protect their children at all costs while they desperately search for a way to fight back. - Director:
- John Krasinski
- Cast:
- Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds
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Gaspar Noe, director of the hugely controversial 'Irreversible', 'Enter the Void' and 'Love', makes a triumphant return with 'Climax' - a visually dazzling feast of music and mayhem, and perhaps his most critically acclaimed work to date. Following a successful rehearsal, a dance troupe set about celebrating with a party. But when it becomes apparent that someone has spiked the sangria, the joyous atmosphere soon transforms into a nightmarish hellscape of violence and twisted carnality as the dancers begin to turn on each other in an orgiastic frenzy. Inspired equally by the worlds of modern dance and esoteric arthouse-horror (chief among them, Dario Argento's Suspiria and Andrzej Zutawski's Possession), 'Climax' - which pulses towards its astonishing conclusion with a thumping score by the likes of Daft Punk, Aphex Twin and Gary Numan - illustrates a director at the height of his hallucinatory filmmaking powers. - Director:
- Gaspar Noé
- Cast:
- Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub
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Maxine Peake stars as the Funny Cow, a female comedian who rises to stardom on the male-dominated stand-up comedy circuit of the North of England in the 1970's and 80's. From her troubled childhood to her turbulent adult relationships, the Funny Cow uses the raw material of her life experiences to bring her unique style of comedy to the stage. - Director:
- Adrian Shergold
- Cast:
- Maxine Peake, Paddy Considine, Stephen Graham
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Award-winning director Paul Wright (For Those in Peril) explores our complex connection to the land we live in with an archival remix drawn from more than 100 years of Britain on film. With a new score by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp), 'Arcadia' embarks on a visceral sensory journey through the seasons, exploring the beauty, brutality, magic and madness of our changing relationship with both the land and each other. This fresh new work crafted from the past is a folk horror wrapped in an archive film; get ready for a very strange trip indeed... - Director:
- Paul Wright
- Cast:
- Laura Rennie, Ian Sexon
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The story of the fragile sentimentalism of a former prostitute who visits her sister only to be taunted mercilessly by her childish brother-in-law. A Streetcar Named Desire: The Original Director's Version is the Elia Kazan/ Tennessee Williams film moviegoers would have seen had not Legion of Decency censorship occurred at the last time. It features three minutes of previously unseen footage underscoring, among other things, the sexual tension between Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), and Stella Kowalski's (Kim Hunter) passion for husband Stanley. - Director:
- Elia Kazan
- Cast:
- Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter
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One of the most original and entertaining of the revenge-of-nature films that characterised mid-1970s American horror, 'Squirm' begins with a pylon being downed by a thunderstorm, sending millions of volts into the wet, conductive mud, which naturally gives hundreds of thousands of its wriggly inhabitants an insatiable hunger for human flesh. And since the accident has also inconveniently cut off the electricity to Fly Creek, Georgia, its population could hardly be more vulnerable when the sun goes down. Houses can be barricaded against most intruders, but what happens when they're small enough to get into the water supply? - Director:
- Jeff Lieberman
- Cast:
- Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy, R.A. Dow
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When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter Annie (Toni Colette) and her husband (Gabriel Byrne) and their two children begin to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. - Director:
- Ari Aster
- Cast:
- Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Toni Collette
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Applause (2009)Applaus / Ensom
When the critically acclaimed, tough and coming of age actress Thea Barfoed (Paprika Steen) ends her rehab, she confronts a hard choice. During her heavy drinking period she divorced and lost custody of her two boys. Now she wants them to be a part of her life again. Christian (Michael Falch), her ex husband is quickly softened by her tough manipulative but charming figure and agrees. She has to prove to her self and to him, that she is worth the try. But the hard life on stage, and the ghosts of the past slowly comes knocking on her door. Thea is forced to face her inner voices. She is bound to give in to her faith, and make the choice. - Director:
- Martin Zandvliet
- Cast:
- Paprika Steen, Michael Falch, Sara-Marie Maltha
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Based on Peter Rock's novel 'My Abandonment', 'Leave No Trace' revolves around a teenage girl (Thomasin McKenzie) and her father (Ben Foster) who have lived undetected for years in Forest Park, a vast wood on the edge of Portland, Oregon. A chance encounter leads to their discovery and removal from the park and into the charge of a social service agency. They try to adapt to their new surroundings until a sudden decision sets them on a perilous journey into the wilderness seeking complete independence and forcing them to confront their conflicting desire to be part of a community or a fierce need to live apart. - Director:
- Debra Granik
- Cast:
- Thomasin McKenzie-Harcourt, Ben Foster, Jeffery Rifflard
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The latest from the unique imagination of Peter Strickland, 'In Fabric' is a delirious retail nightmare that blends Euro-infused horror with absurdist dark humour, to ghostly effect. Set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period at a mysterious Thames Valley department store, the film follows the journey of a cursed artery-red dress as it passes from person to person with devastating consequences. - Director:
- Peter Strickland
- Cast:
- Gwendoline Christie, Sidse babett Knudsen, Caroline Catz
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