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Filmmaker Thomas (Daniel Bruhl) is in Siena, Italy, to make a movie about the crime, with American journalist Simone (Kate Beckinsale) bringing him up to speed on the facts behind the salacious headlines.

Seeking a guide into the drug-fuelled University nightlife, he enlists the help of British student Melanie (Cara Delevingne). As Thomas becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth, the disturbing details of the crime scene cause him to question the motives of everyone around him, as well as his own. What dark secrets are held by the picturesque streets of this town where an innocent woman lost her life?

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BAFTA-nominated "Kajaki" tells the true story of a small army unit stationed at Kajaki Dam in Afghanistan in 2006. One morning a three-man patrol sets out to disable a Taliban roadblock.

When one of the patrol detonates a land mine, his fellow soldiers rush to his aid, only to find themselves trapped in an unmarked minefield, a relic of the Russian invasion of the 1980s. With no way out, any movement risks certain injury and possible death. Out of this terrifying day came extraordinary tales of bravery, selflessness and heroism, for comrades who risked their own lives to help each other.

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The sun is beaming and the ski slopes are spectacular for Tomas, his wife Ebba and their two children. However, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant an avalanche suddenly bears down upon the happy diners.

As the wall of snow gets ever closer, Tomas makes a split-second decision in a moment of panic that will engulf and shake his relationship with his wife and children and leave him struggling to reclaim his role as the family patriarch.

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Chris Hemsworth stars as Nick Hathaway, a gifted hacker currently serving a lengthy prison sentence.

When a Hong Kong nuclear plant goes into meltdown after its security is penetrated, Chinese army cybersecurity captain Chen Dawai (Leehom Wang) offers his old college roommate a deal: help identify and apprehend the culprit in exchange for his own freedom. What follows is a frenetic, globe-trotting race against time to avert disaster, fraught with hidden agendas and ever-shifting loyalties.

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When their father passes away, four grown siblings are forced to share a house again, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens.

Ultimately they reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humour, heartache and redemption that only families can provide.

When estranged twins Maggie (Kristen Wiig) and Milo (Bill Hader) feel that they're at the end of their ropes, an unexpected reunion forces them to confront why their lives went so wrong. As the twins reconnect, they realise the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.

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When a teen girl is discovered brutally murdered in Cape Town's botanical gardens, Chief of Police Ali Sokhela (Forest Whitaker) and cop Brian Epkeen (Orlando Bloom) are tasked with solving the crime.

However upon investigating the murder they uncover a sinister synthetic drug ring with a worldwide network, releasing a new illegal substance into the market, which is spiralling out of control. Sokhela and Epkeen are soon placing their own lives in danger in an attempt to end further devastating and disturbing consequences

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Celebrating 25 years of a good marriage, Darcy feels her life is complete with a loving husband and wonderful children. Outside their lives a serial killer hunts his victims, killing young females, whilst a suspicious stranger stalks Darcy's family.

Thinking bad things only happen to others, Darcy soon finds out the truth as she uncovers a gruesome reality about her husband that suddenly makes the outside world frighteningly real. Realising that her husband is not who she thought he was, his sinister secret threatening not only their marriage but also her life, will Darcy survive the dark truth that is so horrific it can't be real?

A Super-Secret Organisation recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training programme just as a dire global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

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In a post-apocalyptic eternal drought, people kill for water. Where it is scarce and desperately needed, a farmer (Michael Shannon) defends his land from threat, and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soil in the hope of a better life for his family.

However, his daughter's boyfriend (Nicholas Hoult) wants the land for himself, and will go to any length to get it.

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On the run from the law after a bar-room brawl, troubled Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci) flees the US to Italy. Arriving completely alone and without a plan, he soon meets the mysterious Louise (Nadia Hilker), and quickly falls in love.

But upon discovering that there's more to her than meets the eye, he must decide just how far he'll go for love.

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Nicolas Cage delivers a blistering, unforgettable performance as Evan Lake, a desk-bound Langley CIA agent forced into retirement by signs of early onset dementia.

At the same time he discovers that his former tormentor, Jihadist Muhhamed Banir (Alexander Karim), is not dead as assumed for two decades but is alive and receiving experimental medical treatment. Banir's exact location is unknown but with the help of a disgraced young agent (Anton Yelchin), Evan sets out to track down and confront him before it is too late for both of them.

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From Paul Thomas Anderson and Thomas Pynchon, it's the tail end of the psychedelic '60s and paranoia is running the day from the desert to the sea of sunny Southern California.

With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, the FBI, LAPD detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, a group of Beverly Hills dentists and a mysterious entity called The Golden Fang, everything's gone from "groovy" to "where you at, man?" in what seems like a matter of moments. So when private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady Shasta Fay shows up at his door with a story about her current billionaire land-developer boyfriend and his wife and her boyfriend...well it all starts to get a little peculiar after that. Maybe you'll just want to see the movie?

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From writer/director J.C. Chandor comes "A Most Violent Year", a riveting crime thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, the most dangerous year in the city's history.

Starring Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain, this gripping story shows one man's determined battle to build his business in the midst of corruption and mob rule whilst protecting his family, without resorting to the violence that surrounds them.