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Andy, a frustrated, drug-using New York accountant with a failing marriage to Gina, is in desperate need of some money. He persuades his timid younger brother, to rob their parents' jewellery store and solve all of their monetary problems.

But the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends the brothers and their father hurtling towards a shattering climax...

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3 generations of women share a name and an aversion to marriage. 3 husbands have reason to be afraid of water. Add to the equation 1 amorous coroner and 1 inventive little boy and so begins the game.

'Drowning by Number' is a sharp and witty tale of female camaraderie with Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson and Joely Richardson giving first-class performances. Peter Greenaway's charming pastoral setting overflows with metaphors and mathematical riddles in a film that will continue to amuse for countless viewings.

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When a space shuttle crew finds a mysterious spacecraft containing three human-looking creatures in a state of suspended animation, they bring them back to Earth for further investigation.

It's only then that scientists discover that they are in fact a race of space vampires that feed off people's life-force rather than their blood. So when they escape and run amok in London, the consequences are apocalyptic - and the shuttle crew's only survivor (Steve Railsback) seems to be the only man who can stop them.

Based on the outrageous true story, 'Charlie Wilson's War' shows how one congressman who loved a good time, one Houston socialite who loved a good cause and one renegade CIA agent who loved a good fight conspired to bring about the largest covert operation in history.

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Respected cultural critic and author David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) is a middle-aged college professor who, for years, has lived in a state of "emancipated manhood." His romantic conquests are many; his lasting commitments few.

But when a stunning young student named Consuela Castillo (Penelope Cruz) enters his life, her otherworldly beauty captivates him to the point of obsession. Soon, their erotic relationship evolves into an undying and passionate love in this gripping drama that explores the power of love to blind, reveal and transform.

From director Richard Attenborough comes Closing the Ring, a deeply moving love story of an American woman who honours a wartime promise of love with a lifetime of heartache until the discovery of a gold ring reawakens her.

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On the surface, Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) has it all: a happy marriage, two healthy children and a successful career as a commercial director.

Until one night while on a trip to New York City, a chance encounter leads to a passionate and uncharacteristic affair with a beautiful, seductive and very married woman named Karen (Nastassja Kinski). Each vows to forget the affair, but when Max returns home, he slowly begins to withdraw from the people closest to him. One year later, Max's best friend, Charlie (Robert Downey Jr.) is hospitalised. Max returns to New York to comfort his friend and finds himself face-to-face with Karen, who is married to Vernon (Kyle MacLachlan), Charlie's brother. Thrown together by fate, Max and Karen try to resist their feelings, but they are forced to confront the undeniable truth...

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Ada (Holly Hunter) - mute since birth - her nine year old daughter and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand. Of all her belongings her husband refuses to transport the piano and it is left behind on the beach.

Unable to bear its certain destruction, Ada strikes a bargain with an illiterate tattooed neighbour (Harvey Keitel). She may earn her piano back if she allows him to do certain things while she plays; one black key for every lesson.

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When hit-men Dosmo Pizzo (Danny Aiello) and Lee Woods (James Spader) execute a killing in sleepy Fernando Valley, L.A., it sets off an explosive chain reaction of consequences, One by one, a diverse cast of characters are drawn into the whirlwind of death and destruction.

Eager detectives, Taylor and Strayer, (Eric Stoltz and Jeff Daniels) are always just one step behind, but one twisting double cross after another eludes them. Only the lucky ones will survive the fight to the finish.

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Robert (Ewan McGregor) is one of life's losers. He works as a janitor in a giant corporation, but dreams of something ... less ordinary.

Sharp-tongued Celine (Cameron Diaz) on the other hand, has never wanted for anything in her short and pampered life as the daughter of Robert's boss, Naville (Ian Holm). But like Robert she's bored. In a normal life these two souls would never even meet - but who said this story was normal? Two celestial cops (Holly Hunter and Delroy Lindo) are given the assignment of making Celine and Robert fall in love. When two such different lives collide, sparks fly. Rather than falling in love, Robert and Celine seem to be falling apart. What more can go wrong?

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A brilliantly crafted debut feature by Alison Maclean, filmed and produced in her native New Zealand, Crush features themes which have been consistent in her previous work; of the 'dark' side of sexual identity and the shifting power of relationships.

A book critic, who is on her way to interview a novelist, finds herself accompanied by her friend Lane. After being involved in a car crash, Christina is left in a coma whilst Lane, assuming her friend's identity travels to conduct the interview herself. Finding herself drawn to the novelist and his young daughter, emotions quickly begin to run high.

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Keys To Tulsa is a murderously irreverent tale of sex, intrigue and humour in the deep, dark South.

Eric Stoltz heads an all-star cast as Richter Boudreau, the 'black sheep son of a black sheep' manoeuvring through a wonderfully bizarre coterie of characters as he finds himself pushed back into the world of wealth and privilege that spawned him. As he becomes the inadvertent pawn in a dangerous scheme of blackmail, Richter must at last face the hypocritical values and petty jealous of small town America - what emerges is a dramatic and potentially deadly journey through his past, present and future.

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One crisp Thanksgiving morning Eliza finds a letter - a love poem - to her husband from a mysterious "Sandy". Unable to digest its implications alone, she drives out to Long Island to discuss it with her family.

There, her overbearing mother, her laconic father, her sardonic sister Jo and Jo's Kafka-reading boyfriend, Carl, pile into the family station wagon and to drive to Manhattan to confront the possibly philandering Louis (Stanley Tucci).

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After being dumped by his girlfriend (Michelle Ryan), art student Ben Willis (Sean Biggerstaff) develops chronic insomnia. Finding himself with too much time on his hands, Ben begins working the night shift at the local supermarket.

There Ben begins to imagine he can freeze time and uses his "ability" to undress and sketch the female customers in the nude. Ben is occasionally distracted from his fantasy by his unconventional yet hilarious co-workers, who introduce him to their inventive antics of losing time to survive the boredom of the graveyard shift, but it is quiet check-out girl Sharon (Emilia Fox) who catches his attention and she soon becomes the object of his fantasies. Written and directed by Sean Ellis, 'Cashback' unveils a world where reality and fantasy blur and love and beauty are realised in the most unusual places.

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When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter (Willem Dafoe) busts contract killer Jesse Weiland (Matt Dillon), he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.

So when the syndicate orders Carter's death and Weiland's ID'd as a snitch, the two team up to take down the mob and the crime boss (Tom Berenger) who ordered the hit.