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Academy Award winner Ang Lee brings his extraordinary vision to 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk', based on the widely-acclaimed, bestselling novel.

The story is told from the point of view of 19-year-old private Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn) who, along with his fellow soldiers in Bravo Squad, becomes a hero after a harrowing battle in Iraq and is brought home temporarily for a victory tour. Through a sequence of flashbacks the truth about what really a happened is revealed - contrasting the realities of the war with America's distorted perceptions of heroism.

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When young, ambitious Sarah Moss (Brit Marling) is hired by an elite private intelligence firm, she is immediately sent on a dangerous undercover assignment.

Infiltrating an anarchistic activist group called "The East", Sarah must take part as the group terrorises corporate leaders who seem to get away with crimes against humanity. But the more the group's activities escalate, the more Sarah's life is in danger.

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When Adam (Danny Dyer) is invited by Alice (Gillian Anderson), a woman he has just met, to accompany her to a lavish party in the country he knows he is going to have the best night of his life.

Following mind-blowing sex, the pair speed away from the party down a wooded and desolate road in Alice's car. In a moment of distraction a fateful collision occurs leading to a vicious and brutal attack that results in a consequent vendetta where Adam and Alice must fight violence with violence. A dark and disturbing sexual thriller, 'Straightheads' is a brutal and uncompromising tale of lust, violence and self-preservation.

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When a group of truckers led by Martin Penwald, AKA "Rubber Duck" (Kris Kristofferson) are targeted by corrupt police officers they take action into their own hands. Blazing through several road blocks and speed traps the Convoy are pursued through several states.

As news of the convoy spreads, unexpected allies join the line, and the now-gigantic illegal protest becomes the subject of national news reports.

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"Black Sunday" was such a huge hit that a follow-up was swiftly demanded, and horror maestro Mario Bava duly devised this three-part horror anthology blending modern and period stories.

In the giallo-style 'The Telephone', a woman is terrorised by her former pimp after his escape from prison, and tries to escape him with the help of her lesbian lover, who has a dark secret of her own. In the Victorian-era 'The Drop of Water', a nurse steals a ring from the corpse of a dead spiritualist, which naturally tries to get it back. But it's the 19th-century Russian story 'The Wurdalak' that comes closest to Bava's earlier classic, with the great Boris Karloff as a much-loved paterfamilias who might not be entirely what he seems.

Take a rare glimpse at the controversial lives of some of the most sexualised women on the planet. Sixteen of the adult industry's hottest porn stars pose for renowned celebrity photographer Deborah Anderson, revealing more than just their naked skin in this eye-opening documentary.

Greta Gerwig gives a glowing performance as Frances, a twenty-something woman living in New York, who dreams of being a dancer and, despite the obstacles that stand in her way, lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness.

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"The Hunt" unfolds in a small provincial town in the days leading up to Christmas. Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen), a forty year old divorcee, is finally getting his life under control.

He's got himself a new girlfriend, a new job and is in the process of re-building his relationship with his teenage son, Marcus. But things soon start to unravel. Nothing significant, just a slight comment here, a random lie there. And as the snow falls and the Christmas lights are lit, the lie spreads like an invisible virus. The shock and mistrust gets out of hand, and the small community suddenly finds itself in a collective state of hysteria, while Lucas fights a lonely fight for his life and dignity. "The Hunt" is a disturbing depiction of how a lie can quickly become truth - a modern tale of a witch-hunt, injustice, guilt and, ultimately, forgiveness. A fable on how fragile a community can become when gossip, doubt and malice are allowed to flourish. It is a stirring portrait of a man struggling to exonerate himself, and a father and a son reaching out for one another as their world crumbles.

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Fascinating and imaginative. "The Company of Wolves" directed by Neil Jordan brings together the timeless Little Red Riding Hood and werewolf fables with a haunting, compelling, eerie and erotic difference.

This movie is a magical bag of symbolic folklore about werewolves or rather their sexual connotation. Grandmother Angela Lansbury tells her granddaughter Sarah Patterson, disturbing tales about innocent maidens falling in love with handsome, heavily eyebrowed strangers that have a smouldering look in their eyes. She also tells of her sudden disappearances of spouses when the moon is round and the wolves are howling in the woods.

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When petty thief Olivier (played by a youthful Gerard Depardieu) breaks into an unassuming Parisian apartment, he inadvertently enters the world of leather-clad dominatrix Ariane (Bulle Ogier), who entertains clients in her black marble dungeon.

Olivier's fascination with Ariane soon turns to love, forcing him to question his own assumptions about sex, perversion and power.

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Family is the most important thing in the world to Kaja, an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys than take her to bed.

Whatever, that's life, but when the perfect couple moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check, suddenly finding herself with a whole new set of problems when she grows a little too friendly with married neighbour Sigve.

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Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have the same motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog.

The two stories begin to merge and Cameron finds himself inextricably and inexplicably implicated by the brutal killer.
The arms dealer that Cameron plans to expose is found literally "disarmed" before he can put pen to paper. The brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold up at the expense of his workers, finds himself permanently unemployable. The police are convinced of Cameron's guilt and so are half his friends and colleagues. Cameron is forced to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.

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When famous author Elena Wdig commits suicide, her twin daughters, librarians Nan and Ana (Catrin Stewart), are lost without her. Elena's final words suggest that her biographer, Eben, murdered her.

One night, the twins set off to avenge their mother's death at the National Library of Wales, but are disrupted by night porter Dan, who is unwillingly caught up in the saga.

A filmmaker (Christopher Denham) and his girlfriend (Nicole Vicius) set out to expose the beautiful leader of a cult (Brit Marling), who claims to be from the future. But the more they explore, the more danger they face...

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Harry Deane (Colin Firth) is a man with a plan. Art curator for media tycoon Lord Lionel Shahbandar (Alan Rickman), Harry devises an elaborate plot to con Shahbandar into purchasing a fake Monet painting.

With the help of beautiful rodeo queen PJ Puznowski (Cameron Diaz), the pair hatch a scheme to fool Shahbandar into believing that Harry's expert forgery is the real deal pocketing a hefty sum in the process. But with the con proving harder to pull off than he had first intended, Harry and PJ find themselves in increasingly hilarious situations in order to see the job through to the end.