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Police detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is drawn into Manhattan high society as he investigates the death of stunning ad exec Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), apparently shotgunned in her own apartment.

The slithery suspects are numerous, led by effete, snobbish columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb), and Laura's philandering fiancee Shelby (Vincent Price), who's also been cavorting with Laura's wealthy aunt (Judith Anderson). McPherson begins to fall in love with Laura through a portrait in her home and the memories relayed by those who knew her...just as it becomes apparent that even the basic facts of the case might not be what they seemed.

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Four children shocked by the death of their mother conspire to hide her body in the basement to avoid being sent to an orphanage. Eldest daughter Julie takes on the maternal role, as life in their concrete wilderness of a home drifts on.

Jack shows little interest in younger brother Tom, who is retreating into his own fantasy world. And seems equally non-plussed that younger sister Sue seems to spend most of her time in the basement writing her diary with her dead mother. Absorbed in himself and his growing attraction to Julie, Jack excludes himself from family life. The arrival of Julie's boyfriend Derek jolts Jack to reality. There is now the chance that the children may be discovered, although, this is nowhere near as startling as what Julie and Jack are discovering about themselves.

When Jane (Sally Hawkins) is dumped at the altar, she has a breakdown and spirals into a chaotic world where love (both real and imagined) and family relationships collide with both touching and humorous consequences.

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Russell Crowe stars in Unhinged, a timely psychological thriller that explores the fragile balance of a society pushed to the edge, taking something we've all experienced - road rage - to an unpredictable and terrifying conclusion.

Rachel (Caren Pistorius) is running late to work when she has an altercation at a traffic light with a stranger (Crowe) whose life has left him feeling powerless and invisible. What follows is a dangerous game of cat and mouse that proves you never know just how close you are to someone who is about to become unhinged.

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In Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. A meagre audience, the remaining few staff, and perhaps even a ghost or two, watch King Hu's wuxia classic Dragon Inn - each haunted by memories and desires evoked by cinema itself.

An exquisite, wryly funny and tender tribute to the experience of movie-going, Tsai Ming-Liang's poignant love letter to cinema is one of the most beguiling and beloved dramas of modern times and is now widely regarded as a classic.

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Catherine (Elisabeth Moss) has entered a particularly dark phase in her life: her father, a famous artist whose affairs she managed, has recently died, and she's been dumped by her boyfriend James (Kentucker Audley).

Needing a fresh location to relax and regroup, Catherine heads to her friend Virginia's (Katherine Waterston) lake house for some much needed rest. However, once Catherine arrives, relaxation proves impossible to find, as she is overcome with memories of time spent at the same house with James the year before. As cracks in the relationship between the two women begin to appear, Catherine soon starts descending into a downward spiral of delusion and madness.

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Eva Green gives a career-best performance in this epic and emotionally charged new drama from acclaimed director Alice Winocour. Green plays Sarah, a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne.

The only woman in the arduous programme she has been chosen to be part of the crew of a year-long space mission called 'Proxima'. Putting enormous strain on her relationship with her daughter (played by outstanding newcomer Zelie Boulant-Lemesle), the training begins to take its toll on both as Sarah's training progresses and the launch looms ever closer. Featuring stunning performances from the entire cast which includes Matt Dillon, Lars Eidinger and Sandra Huller, 'Proxima' is an unmissable cinematic experience which will take you on a gripping, emotional and life-affirming journey.

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Etienne Chatliez's hilarious satire of bourgeois morals tells the story of two families - The Catholic, middle class, respectable but slightly smug Quesnoys and the poor, uneducated and filthy Groseilles.

They have nothing in common until the revelation that an unscrupulous nurse swapped their newborn children years previously. Horrified, the Quesnoys take in their lost son Momo (Benoît Magimel), although the Groseilles are less bothered about reclaiming their daughter Bernadette (Valérie Lalande). But the Quesnoys find that Momo's old habits die hard and the youngster sets in motion a wickedly comic chain of anarchic events that turn their ordered lives upside down.

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The film follows the journey of a boy Joska (Petr Kotlár), entrusted by his Jewish parents to an elderly foster mother in an effort to escape persecution. Following a tragedy, the boy is on his own.

Wandering through the desecrated countryside, the boy encounters villagers and soldiers whose own lives have been brutally altered, and who are intent on revisiting this brutality on the boy. When the war ends, the boy has been changed, forever.

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A emotionally disturbed young woman, Claire is the heir to a great fortune. She is kept prisoner in a château by her aunt who wants her money. The game keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she manages to escape. In her flight she meets Louis who is also running away from two killers.

He becomes her lover. In a world of grotesque characters, bizarre incidents, brutal murders and incessant driving rain, this dark and erotic thriller is compelling thanks to the incredible performance of Charlotte Rampling. Will Claire be able to make sense of her own identity?

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Long ago abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield (Katharine Hepburn) dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son Tom (Sam Waterston) is now the family's breadwinner but longs to be free from the shackles of his family.

Her disabled daughter Laura (Joanna Miles) is painfully shy and withdraws into a dream world to escape her feelings of inadequacy. Amanda decides the only future for Laura is to find a husband for her. The arrival of Tom's friend Jim O'Connor (Michael Moriarty) as a potential suitor leads the family situation to crisis point.

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A pair of siblings from London (Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey) purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price - and soon they're caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave.

A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night-this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.

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"I'm not living with you", Maggie snaps at Brick. "We occupy the same cage, that's all".

The raw emotions and crackling dialogue of Tennessee Williams' 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning play rumble like a thunderstorm in this film version, whose fiery performances and grown-up theme made it a box-office hit. Paul Newman earned his first Oscar nomination for his nuanced portrayal of troubled former sports hero Brick. Capturing her second, Elizabeth Taylor makes Maggie the cat, digging her claws in and holding on to life, not as it is, but as she hopes it someday will be, a vivid portrait of passionate loyalty.

Deep in the woods, an all-female cult is presided over by a single man...Selah (Raffey Cassidy), a devoted young believer on the brink of maturity, finds her faith tested when dark visions begin to reveal the fates awaiting the women as they age.

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A towering achievement of world cinema, Sergei Parajanov's modernist landmark fuses folkloric traditions, animistic mysticism, and hallucinatory visual invention.

Adapted from a 1911 novella by Ukrainian writer Mykhailo A towering achievement of world cinema, Sergei Parajanov's modernist landmark fuses folkloric traditions, animistic mysticism, and hallucinatory visual invention. Adapted from a 1911 novella by Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi, 'Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors' follows Ivanko (Ivan Mykolaichuk), a young Hutsul peasant who experiences both the depths of grief and glimmers of hope as he attempts to move beyond his first love, Marichka (an ethereal Larysa Kadochnykova). Steeped in the earthy atmosphere of the Carpathian Mountains, and featuring kinetic, radiantly colourful cinematography by Yuri Illienko and a collagelike experimental soundtrack, Parajanov's film is a singularly mythopoeic work of art.