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Fleeing from a battle in the English Civil War a small group of deserters are captured by an Alchemist and forced to aid him in his search for treasure he believes is buried in a nearby field.

Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descends into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia. As it becomes clear that the treasure may be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.

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David and Paige Walling (Hugh Laurie, Catherine Keener) and Terry and Cathy Ostroff (Oliver Piatt, Allison Janney) are best friends and neighbours living on Orange Drive in suburban New Jersey.

Their comfortable existence goes awry when prodigal daughter Nina Ostroff (Leighton Meester), newly broken up with her fiancée, returns home for Thanksgiving after a five-year absence. Rather than developing an interest in the successful son of her neighbours, Toby Walling (Adam Brody), which would please both families, it's her parents' best friend David who captures Nina's attention. When the connection between Nina and David becomes undeniable, everyone's lives are thrown into upheaval, particularly Vanessa Waiting's (Alia Shawkat), Nina's childhood best friend. It's not long before the ramifications of the affair begin to work on all of the family members in unexpected and hilarious ways, leading everyone to reawaken to their lives and reassess what it means to be happy.

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Helen Hunt joins John Hawkes and William H. Macy in this triumphant true story about love, sex, desire... and making every breath count. Paralysed and confined to an iron lung since childhood, poet-journalist Mark O'Brien (Hawkes) has overcome adversity time and time again.

But now, at age 38, he faces his toughest challenge yet: losing his virginity. With the help of a beautiful therapist (Hunt), a sympathetic priest (Macy), and his own unbridled sense of optimism and humour, Mark embarks on an extraordinary personal journey to discover the wondrous pleasures that make life worth living.

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It's 1985; Thatcher's in power, The Cure are In Between Days and Marty McFly's trying to get Back To The Future. James McAvoy is Brian Jackson, a wide-eyed working class kid whose exhaustive grasp of general knowledge leaves him wanting when it comes to women.

On his way to achieving his long held ambition to appear on University Challenge, he falls in love with fellow student and team-mate Alice; has his conscience pricked (as well as other things) by rights activist Rebecca; all whilst trying not to become the student w*** er that his hometown mates think he'll turn into!

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Set in the near future, Frank, a retired cat burglar, has two grown children who are concerned he can no longer live alone. Against the old man's wishes his son buys Frank a walking, talking humanoid robot programmed to improve his physical and mental health.

Slowly, and with a fair bit of reluctance, Frank begins to accept his new digital companion, seeing an opportunity to use Robot's unique skills to try their luck as a heist team.

Runaway lovers Clarence and Alabama (Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette) play a dangerous game when they come to possess a suitcase of mob contraband. They head for Los Angeles, where they plan to sell the goods and begin a new life. But both sides of the law have other ideas.

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'Jack the Giant Slayer' relates the brave exploits of Jack (Nicholas Hoult), a poor young farmhand who unwittingly reopens a gateway between the human world and a fearsome race of giants.

Centuries ago, the giants were defeated in a fierce battle with humans, then banished to their remote sky kingdom. But when Jack accidentally causes an enormous beanstalk to take root, his beloved Princess Isabelle is delivered into the clutches of the bloodthirsty giants. Now, with the help of the king's military commander (Ewan McGregor), this unlikely hero gets a chance to become a legend in this thrill-packed epic filled with high-flying action and pulse-pounding adventure.

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Marly (Colin Farrell) is a struggling writer who dreams of finishing his screenplay, 'Seven Psychopaths'. All he needs is a little focus and inspiration.

Charlie (Woody Harrelson) is the psychotic gangster who has just had his beloved dog stolen by Marty's oddball friends (Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken). Unpredictable and extremely violent, Charlie is prepared to kill anyone associated with the theft, giving Marty all the focus and inspiration he needs to finish his script. Just as long as he lives to tell the tale...

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Haunted by his past, WWII veteran and drifter Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) crosses paths with a mysterious movement called The Cause, led by Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) aka The Master and his wife Peggy (Amy Adams). Their twisted relationship is the core of this film.

Will Freddie be able to outrun his past? Will The Cause help or hurt him? Can this tortured, violent creature be civilized? Or is man, after all, just a dirty animal?

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A funny new twist on a classic love story, 'Warm Bodies' is a poignant tale about the power of human connection. After a zombie epidemic, R (a highly unusual zombie) encounters Julie (a human survivor), and rescues her from a zombie attack.

Julie (Teresa Palmer) sees that R (Nicholas Hoult) is different from the other zombies, and as the two form a special relationship in their struggle for survival, R becomes increasingly more human - setting off an exciting, romantic, and often comical chain of events that begins to transform the other zombies and maybe even the whole lifeless world.

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Feature shows the spiritual journey of Celine (Julie Sokolowski), a novice nun who has taken the name of Hadewijch, a 13th century Flemish mystic. She is expelled from her convent because of her over-zealous faith, and sent back into the world.

Here she meets Yassine, who introduces her to the immigrant housing projects outside Paris. Celine's passionate love of God, her rage, her unease with her parents, and her encounter with Yassine's brother Nassir, a devout Muslim, leads her along a dangerous and extreme path to a possible salvation.

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As the Iranian Revolution takes over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, six Americans escape. Now only one man can get them out from behind enemy lines. Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) is a brilliant CIA agent who specialises in impossible escapes, but his new plan is as daring as it is desperate.

Disguised as a film crew, Tony and the fugitives must hide in plain sight, where the slightest slip up could end in instant death.

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Shut Up and Shoot Me, a wickedly entertaining dark comedy about a romantic weekend gone wrong. After a life-changing accident takes his wife's life on holiday in Prague, nerdy Englishman, Colin (Andy Nyman) decides to end it all.

Searching for a quick, painless way to kill himself, and lacking the nerve and skill to do it properly, Colin enlists Pavel (Karel Roden), a long suffering Czech loser who works odd jobs to keep his beautiful, ill-tempered wife Liba (Anna Geislerova) in designer shoes, with the promise of a big payoff. A series of comically botched suicide attempts result in the wrong deaths, but ironically, as plans for Colin's death spin out of control, their unlikely friendship develops, and Colin re-discovers his desire to live when he must risk his own life to save the lives of his new friends. However, the body count rises even higher as they involve a local gangster known as the 'Butcher', his girlfriend and his evil dog, to the point where finally only Pavel and Colin seem to be left alive.

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Retired maths teacher Michel (Jean-Claude Brisseau) lives alone following the death of his wife, and spends his time writing an essay on human illusions.

One day, Michel comes across Dora (Virginie Legeay), a young homeless woman who shows up injured on his doorstep, and puts her up until she recovers. Her presence brings something new into Michel's life, but gradually the apartment becomes the site of a series of mysterious events.