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Ingrid can see in her dreams. The way the world around her looks, her husbands office, their favourite restaurant... memories. Its when Ingrid wakes each morning and opens her eyes that she suddenly remembers she is blind.

With her life dramatically changed, Ingrid has retreated to the safety of her apartment where she can feel in control once again. Her imagination becomes her reality - her deepest fantasies, desires and fears provide a constant internal monologue. But how can Ingrid make sense of all that is happening to her and who can she trust now?

'Tokyo Twilight' is film focused on family disintegration; it is also darkest masterpiece. Two adult sisters return to the family home and discover their long missing mother living with another man, leading to a destructive path of despair and isolation.

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Rick Grimes and his group of survivors know how brutal their world can be. After feeling powerless under Negan's rules and demands, Rick rallied his allies to fight back against the Saviours.

Together with the Hilltop and the Kingdom, Rick and the Alexandrians bring "All Out War" to Negan and his forces. The Saviours are larger, better equipped, and ruthless, but Rick and the unified communities are fighting for the promise of a brighter future. The battle lines are drawn as they launch into a kinetic, action-packed offensive.

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A worldwide epidemic has killed most of the planet's population. The few survivors struggle to find food and shelter. But they are not alone...On her way back to base camp from a scavenging mission, Juliette (Brittany Ashworth) has a terrible accident.

Stuck in her car, with a broken leg, in the middle of an unforgiving desert, she must survive the perils of the post-apocalypse, white a strange creature prowls around...

A murdered girl's defiant mother (Frances McDormand) boldly paints three local billboards, each with a controversial message, igniting a furious battle with a volatile cop (Sam Rockwell) and the town's revered chief of police (Woody Harrelson).

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In a tour de force of fearless vulnerability, Katharine Hepburn portrays the conflicting emotions that stir the heart of a lonely, middle-aged American tourist who is forced to confront her insecurities when she is drawn into a seemingly impossible affair with a charming Italian shopkeeper (Rossano

Brazzi) amid the ancient city's canals and piazzas. Lean's personal favorite among his own films, 'Summertime' is an exquisitely tender evocation of the magic and melancholy of a fleeting, not-quite-fairy-tale romance.

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Henry is a shy mechanic living in a slum who loves Beverly, his best friend's sister, and also baby-sits for his neighbour Rosie, a prostitute. Freddy, a driver for the gangster Mr. Paris, is slick and self-confident, married to the materialistic Sharon.

One day, Sonya, who works in a morgue, comes across a letter indicating that the twins are actually the offspring of European nobility and owed a large sum of inheritance money. She decides to track them down and as their two worlds collide, the twins lives will never be the same again.

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"Lee and Dean" (Miles Chapman and Mark O'Sullivan) are best mates who do everything together, but when Lee accidently gets engaged to Nikki (Camille Ucan) can their friendship survive? Throw in a client that Lee is getting 'builders perks' from, Dean's artistic awakening and colliding stag/hen do's

and Lee and Dean will keep you laughing and crying in equal measure.

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Christian (Claes Bang), a respected curator of a contemporary art museum in Stockholm, is gearing up to launch a new show, 'The Square', a daring installation examining altruism and our duty to help others.

However, Christian's own views on social responsibility are put to the test when he becomes the victim of scam, forcing him to question the world around him and his place in it.

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Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) is an unhinged social media stalker with a history of confusing 'likes' for meaningful relationships. Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen) is an Instagram-famous 'influencer' whose perfectly curated boho-chic lifestyle becomes Ingrid's latest obsession.

When Ingrid moves to LA and manages to insinuate herself into the social media star's life, their relationship quickly goes from #BFF to #WTF. 'Ingrid Goes West' is a savagely hilarious dark comedy that satirizes the modern world of social media and proves that being #perfect isn't all it's cracked up to be.

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Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson bring to life the untold true story about the origins of one of the most treasured Disney classics of all time. John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) directs this acclaimed film, which reveals the surprising backstory behind the making of Mary Poppins.

Determined to fulfill a promise to his daughters, Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) tries for twenty years to obtain the rights to author P. L. Travers' (Emma Thompson) beloved book. Armed with his iconic creative vision, Walt pulls out all the stops, but the uncompromising Travers won't budge. Only when he reaches into his own complicated childhood does Walt discover the truth about the ghosts that haunt Travers, and together, they set Mary Poppins free!

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"The Dinner", starring Richard Gere, Steve Coogan, Laura Linney and Rebecca Hall, is a dark psychological thriller about a fierce showdown between two couples during the course of an ornately prepared meal at a fancy restaurant.

When Stan Lohman (Gere), a popular congressman, invites his troubled younger brother Paul (Coogan) and his wife Claire (Linney) to join him and his wife Katelyn (Hall) for dinner at a fashionable restaurant, the stage is set for a tense night. Stan and Paul's teenage sons are friends, and the two of them have committed a crime that has shocked the country. While their sons' identities have not yet been discovered, their parents must now decide what action to take. A riveting story filled with many shocking twists and turns, 'The Dinner' is a chilling parable about the savage reality hidden beneath the surface of middle class lives.

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An unforgettable trip for everyone, 'Summer Things' is a hilarious blend of small-town snobbery, insatiable lust and fidelity.

When Elizabeth's wayward husband Bertrand (Jacques Dutronc) finds every excuse to stay at home in Paris with his mistress, Elizabeth (Charlotte Rampling) invites friend Julie (Clotilde Courau) on holiday instead; a single mother desperate for holiday romance, but with a screaming baby in tow! On the other side of town their hard-up neighbours, Vero (Karin Viard), Jerome (Denis Podalydès) and son Loic (Gaspard Ulliel), are roughing it at a nearby caravan park and hating every minute. Meanwhile enjoying life stateside Elizabeth and Bertrand's nymphomaniac daughter, Emilie (Lou Doillon), is partying with boyfriend Kevin (Sami Bouajila), unaware that he's embezzled the money from her father's firm to pay for the trip...The scene is set for a farce of outrageous proportions, involving bed swapping, mistaken identity, suicide bids, passionate affairs and rampant testosterone...but whatever difficulties the holidaymakers get into, they make sure it never gets in the way of their constant pursuit of pleasure.

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When an argument between two young schoolboys results in one of the boys losing his teeth, the parents of both children decide to meet to discuss the matter.

Nancy Cowan, a neurotic investment broker, and her husband Alan, an ignorant high-flying corporate lawyer, join Penelope Longstreet, a politically correct campaigner and her husband Michael, a goofy wholesaler of sanitary goods, at their plush Brooklyn apartment. But what begins as a civilised chat soon spirals into a hilarious, alcohol induced night of violence, vomiting and verbal warfare as each couple sinks to the level of bickering children.

Emmi (Brigitte Mira), a widowed cleaning lady in her sixties, meets Ali (El Hedi ben Salem), a Moroccan immigrant in his thirties. Seeking companionship, the pair marry to the outrage Emmi's family (including Fassbinder himself as her aggressive son-in-law), herfriends and her colleagues.