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In a small German town in 1919, Anna (Paula Beer) repeatedly visits the grave of her fiance, Frantz (Anton von Lucke), who was killed in battle during World War I. One day she spies a mysterious young Frenchman Adrien (Pierre Niney), also laying flowers at the grave. She enquires about his business there and he explains he was a friend of Frantz. The pair become increasingly close and Anna becomes more and more intrigued by Adrien's history with her fiance. Long buried secrets are revealed that will illuminate unknown areas of their past lives and impact their future ones in a wearied and battle-scarred Europe. At once graceful and gripping, 'Frantz' is an intimate and timely exploration of healing and forgiveness across European borders. - Director:
- François Ozon
- Cast:
- Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner
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Irma Vep (1996)Vampire
Maggie Cheung (playing herself) has been cast by a once revered but now out of touch director as the latex-clad cat-burglar in his ill-fated remake of the French classic 'Les Vampires'. From the moment she arrives in Paris chaos ensues until the director finally has a breakdown and is replaced by another who doesn't know why she was cast in the first place. Amidst all the confusion Cheung becomes drawn to her character and is soon pulling on latex and prowling her hotel corridors at night. - Director:
- Olivier Assayas
- Cast:
- Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard
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Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series (2017)Twin Peaks: Series 3 / Twin Peaks: The Return
A quarter century after revolutionizing television, 'Twin Peaks' returns. Expanding the world you thought you knew, this limited event series takes you places wonderful, strange and farther out. This collection includes all 18 parts of the Showtime series, plus a wealth of exclusive, behind-the-scenes special features that will show you what's behind the "red curtain" and the making of this extraordinary television event. - Director:
- David Lynch
- Cast:
- Kyle MacLachlan, Kimmy Robertson, Sheryl Lee
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Baby Driver (2017)Drive Baby Drive
Baby (Ansel Elgort) - a talented, young getaway driver - relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. When he meets the girl of his dreams (Lily James), Baby sees a chance to ditch his criminal life and make a clean getaway. But after being coerced into working for a crime boss (Kevin Spacey), he must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love and freedom. - Director:
- Edgar Wright
- Cast:
- Walter Hill, Ansel Elgort, Jon Bernthal
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Raw (2016)Grave / Freaking
Everyone in Justine's (Garance Marillier) family is a vet, and a vegetarian. At 16, she's a brilliant and promising student. When she starts at veterinary school, she enters a decadent, merciless and dangerously seductive world. During the first week of hazing rituals, desperate to fit in whatever the cost, she strays from her family principles when she eats raw meat for the first time. Justine will soon face the terrible and unexpected consequences of her actions as her true self begins to emerge. - Director:
- Julia Ducournau
- Cast:
- Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella
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Mother! (2017)Day 6
Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem deliver unforgettable performances in oscar nominated Darren Aronofsky's praised opus, the film shattered audiences and critics around the world, it's been called "gorgeous, distressing and utterly confounding" and "Darren Aronofsky eclipses even his own darkest work", experience the visually arresting psychological thriller that will leave your heart pounding and your mind blown! - Director:
- Darren Aronofsky
- Cast:
- Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris
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Dr. Faust is a restless scholar, bored and disgusted by the filthy, mundane and money-driven society he inhabits. But after meeting a mysterious moneylender and a beautiful young girl his fate is irrevocably altered, sending him on a spiralling path of lust, greed and the will to power. Through intense, dreamlike camerawork Sokurov tackles the existential dilemmas of a chaotically surreal world. - Director:
- Aleksandr Sokurov
- Cast:
- Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk
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I Remember You (2017)Ég man þig
In the remote Westfjords of Iceland, a lady hangs herself inside a church. Her strange death leads to an investigation into a number of similar cases in the region. To his horror Freyr (Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson), the new psychiatrist in town, discovers that the deceased woman was obsessed with the disappearance of his 7-year-old son who went missing without a trace three years before. Across the bay in an abandoned village, three city dwellers are restoring an old house when supernatural and inexplicable events start to occur. It becomes clear that the answer to both of these mysteries lie with the mysterious disappearance of a boy 60 years earlier. - Director:
- Óskar Thór Axelsson
- Cast:
- Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Thor Kristjansson, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir
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Chris (Tom Meeten) is a homicide detective called to London to investigate a strange double murder. Both victims appear to have continued moving towards their assailant despite multiple gunshots to the face and chest. On a hunch, and with the help of an old colleague - and former girlfriend - Chris decides to go undercover as a patient to investigate the suspect's psychotherapist, the mysterious Alexander Morland (Geoffrey McGivern), who has a taste for the occult... - Director:
- Gareth Tunley
- Cast:
- Tom Meeten, Alice Lowe, Rufus Jones
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Touko Laaksonen (Pekka Strang), a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds postwar Helsinki rampant with persecution, and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhabitations. His work - made famous by his signature 'Tom of Finland' - became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution. - Director:
- Dome Karukoski
- Cast:
- Jakob Oftebro, Jessica Grabowsky, Werner Daehn
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Alien: Covenant (2017)Alien: Paradise Lost
Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created, with 'Alien: Covenant', a new chapter in the groundbreaking Alien franchise. The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape. - Director:
- Ridley Scott
- Cast:
- Michael Fassbender, Lorelei King, Katherine Waterston
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Your Name. (2016)Kimi no na wa.
Mitsuha and Taki have never met, but when the frustrated country girl wishes of a life in the big city, they will forge a connection both unexplainable and unforgettable. In their dreams, the two swap lives, cultures and genders as they learn more about, and grow closer to, each other. What was once a shock becomes a joy-filled double life, but what will happen when they discover the red string of fate tying them together? - Director:
- Makoto Shinkai
- Cast:
- Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryô Narita
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Kate Mercer (Charlotte Rampling) is planning a party to celebrate her 45th wedding anniversary. One week before the celebration, however, a letter arrives for her husband, Geoff (Tom Courtenay), containing news that reawakens troubling and long-hidden memories. Though Kate continues to prepare for the anniversary, she becomes increasingly concerned by Geoff's preoccupation with the letter and the ensuing revelations about his past. By the time the party comes round, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate. - Director:
- Andrew Haigh
- Cast:
- Charlotte Rampling, Dolly Wells, Tom Courtenay
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Yesterday she was chosen, at midnight she was sacrificed, this morning she was buried. And tonight she comes. After a young woman goes missing, two of her closest friends and a mysterious set of strangers find themselves drawn to the isolated cabin in the woods where she disappeared. As the sun sets, they drink, laugh and flirt, enjoying the privacy of the empty woods. However, as midnight approaches, little do they realise that death is not far away... - Director:
- Matt Stuertz
- Cast:
- Larissa White, Jenna McDonald, Frankie Ray
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Hex (1980)Xie
Asian horror cinema was already hitting strikes by the time the 1980s dawned and nowhere was more ahead of the curve than the then-British colony of Hong Kong. The city of neon lights and vibrant street life was no stranger to scary movies and Hex was perhaps the island's crowning achievement. Released in 1980, and emerging from the legendary Shaw Bros Studios, whose knack for colourful landscapes and misty atmosphere remains legendary, 'Hex' tells a weird and wonderful story of witchcraft and wanton revenge! Directed by the late, great Kuei Chih-Hung, whose output also includes the frequently censored "nasty" 'The Killer Snakes' (1974), this formidable Eastern frightener has an abused woman caught in a strange mystery of manslaughter and macabre happenings. To say anything else would be to spoil one of the Orient's most influential terror titles, but rest assured that Hex has a few spooky surprises up its sleeve. Now gaining its worldwide, "Hex" may just be the greatest ghost story you have never seen! - Director:
- Chih-Hung Kuei
- Cast:
- Ni Tien, Yung Wang, Szu-Chia Chen
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