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HBO Films presents Queen Latifah in a heartbreaking story of one woman's journey to the brink of self-destruction and despair, and her inspirational fight to regain her dignity and her family.

Ana is an HIV-positive former drug addict from Brooklyn desperately struggling with her past and passionately trying to make things right with her involvement in an AIDS outreach group, Life Support. Inspired by a true story,, it's a touching, poignant tale of loving, losing and letting go.

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When a ruthless terrorist group kidnaps retired spy, Leonard Turner (Bruce Willis), and threatens to unleash a global catastrophe if its demands are not met, the CIA sends one of its best agents, 'Victoria' (Gina Carano), to hunt them down, rescue Turner, and save the free world.

But also on the case is Leonard's son, Harry Turner (Kellan Lutz). Inevitably Victoria's and Harry's paths cross, and they must set aside a troubled history in order to meet their common goal. Together they must evade highly skilled operatives, deadly assassins, and international fugitives to bring Leonard home and save the world from an uncertain fate.

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After the brutal and mysterious killing of a farmer in an isolated cornfield in the wilds of Nebraska, fate casts two young brothers, Eli and Joshua, into the heart of Chicago.

They are welcomed with open arms by foster parents who are unaware of the dark and menacing force that lurks within one of the boys. For Eli is the emissary of evil - a demonic disciple with the power to capture the minds and souls of other children. He knows the city streets and school yards are the perfect place to sow the seeds of his bloody ancestry. Leading an army of followers who obey his every command, the time has come for him to fulfil his chilling birthright and unleash a terrifying retribution on the unsuspecting adult population. Let the harvest begin...

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A cryptic message from the past sends James Bond (Daniel Craig) on a rogue mission to Mexico City and eventually Rome, where he meets Lucia Sciarra (Monica Bellucci), the beautiful and forbidden widow of an infamous criminal.

Bond infiltrates a secret meeting and uncovers the existence of the sinister organisation known as Spectre. Meanwhile back in London, Max Denbigh (Andrew Scott), the new head of the Centre for National Security, questions Bond's actions and challenges the relevance of MI6, led by M (Ralph Fiennes). Bond covertly enlists Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) and Q (Ben Whishaw) to help him seek out Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux), the daughter of his old nemesis Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), who may hold the clue to untangling the web of Spectre. As the daughter of an assassin, she understands Bond in a way most others cannot. As Bond ventures towards the heart of Spectre, he learns of a chilling connection between himself and the enemy he seeks, played by Christoph Waltz.

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Tripp (Thomas Ian Nicholas) is an average, frustrated guy who suddenly comes up with a golden business idea. When he teams up with a Wall Street wheeler dealer and an accomplished ladies man, he soon discovers that attracting women and closing business deals have a lot in common.

What will he do with his new found knowledge and how far can he succeed? Let the game begin!

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Ten years after the critically acclaimed 'Happiness', Todd Solondz revisits the tangled personal lives of three sisters in this savagely funny satire of middle class mores.

Joy (Shirley Henderson) is married to a man with an unresolved 'affliction' and haunted by a former lover; Trish (Allison Janney) meets an unlikely new suitor while her ex-con ex-husband attempts to reconnect with their young son; meanwhile Helen (Ally Sheedy) feels pressured by her family and her Hollywood success. Featuring an all-star cast, this emotionally resonant portrait of flawed but fascinating characters struggling to find love and meaning in an unsympathetic world is poignant, sometimes shocking and often hilarious.

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In a bleak dingy interrogation room, prime suspect John Walter Wayland undergoes a lie detector test.

Detectives Braxton and Kennesaw are sure he's guilty - they found his phone number in the dead prostitute's pocket - it had to be him! But with hypnotic cool, Wayland manipulates his interrogators and soon has them trapped in a claustrophobic haze of disturbing mind games. As each of the players' darkest secrets unfold, will anyone be able to identify the truth?

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Based on Victor Hugo's classic novel, this two part adaptation is an epic tale of love, honour and obsession against the dramatic background of the French Revolution. Jean Valjean (Gerard Depardieu) lives a life on the run after a prison sentence for stealing a loaf of bread.

Settling in a remote town, Valjean becomes a wealthy and respected businessman. He devotes himself to the care of the poor, including the beautiful, young, and poverty stricken Fantine (Charlotte Gainsbourg). When Fantine dies, she leaves behind a daughter, Cosette (Virginie Ledoyen), who has been left with another family while Fantine works in Valjean's factory. Valjean buys Cosette back from them and raises her like his own daughter. But they are haunted by Javert (John Malkovich), a policeman whose lifelong search for Valjean has become an obsession. A hunt begins that will come to a final confrontation on the revolution torn streets of Paris.

Two aimless drifters spend their days wandering the French countryside looking for trouble and women. Their hedonistic spree of petty crime and debauchery usually results in them fighting or running their way out of trouble.

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Alain (Laurent Lucas) seems to have it all - a beautiful wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a perfect home and a prestigious new engineering job.

But the unexpected sexual attentions of his boss's disconcertingly glacial wife (Charlotte Rampling) and the discovery of a rodent, unaccountably stuck in the waste pipe of his kitchen sink, spark the beginning of a strange, unsettling and sometimes shocking chain of events that disrupts Alain's orderly life and leaves him questioning his own sanity.

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Suzanne (Kristin Scott Thomas) and her husband Samuel (Yvan Attal) enjoy a pleasant, middle-class life with their two children.

When she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist, Suzanne is brought into contact with a builder called Ivan (Sergi Lopez), a tough yet down-to-earth odd-job man who has recently been released from prison. Their mutual attraction is sudden and violent, sending them on a whirlwind affair of the senses. As Suzanne's life spirals out of control, she must decide between her family and living this all-engulfing passion to the full.

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Academy Award winning writer Bill Condon creates a funny and moving portrait of Alfred Kinsey, a visionary driven to uncover the most private sexual secrets of a nation.

Featuring Academy Award Nominees Laura Linney and Liam Neeson, Kinsey follows the journey of a man who irrevocably changed American culture and created a media sensation with his book "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male". His work sparked one of the most intense cultural debates of the past century - a debate that rages on today.

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Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) built a ranch in the remote foothills of the Montana Rockies, raising his three sons away from the carnage of the Indian wars.

Alfred (Aidan Quinn), the eldest, is dutiful and reserved, Samuel (Henry Thomas), the beloved youngest, is compassionate and idealistic, and the middle brother Tristan (Brad Pitt) has a wild and untamable spirit. Into this masculine world enters Susannah Finncannon (Julia Ormond), a beautiful, intelligent woman who stirs passions and rivalry in all three brothers - changing the course of their lives and shaping their destinies forever...

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Sex, class and race collide at an exclusive French private school in this powerful and moving adaptation of Jean-Marie Besset's stage-play it takes us into the world of the "Grande Ecole", where students, particularly those from privileged backgrounds, are groomed to become the country's future

leaders. Paul is embarking on his first term at the school and he's finding it hard to fit in with his bourgeois classmates. To complicate matters he is also having difficulty suppressing his sexual attraction to his handsome roommate, Louis-Arnault. Understandably, his long-term girlfriend Agnes becomes jealous but proposes a bet: whoever beds Louis-Arnault first wins. If she emerges victorious, Paul will cease all contact with Louis-Arnault, but if Paul succeeds she will walk away. Meanwhile, Paul has also met Mecir, a young Arabic handyman, who teaches the naive student the intimate pleasures of the male body.

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Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) is a perennial playboy with a libido much younger than his years. During what was to have been a romantic weekend with his latest infatuation, Marin (Amanda Peet), at her mother's Hampton's beach house, Harry develops chest pains.

He winds up being reluctantly nursed by Marin's reluctant mother Erica Barry (Diane Keaton), a successful, divorced New York playwright. In the process, Harry develops more heart pangs - but this time the romantic kind - for Erica! However, some habits die hard. When Harry hesitates, his charming thirty-something doctor (Keanu Reeves) starts pursuing Erica and it is Harry who must undergo a true change of heart if he is to win her back.