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When Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) is sent on a mission to the Solaris Space Station, he is confronted with a skeleton crew who are psychologically unstable due to the presence of what they call "visitors". Kris soon begins to encounter his own visitor - his late wife.

Taunting him with illusory compassion, Kris must choose whether to cling to reality or submit to the planet's gift of a lost love regained.

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The Winners are a struggling band desperate to make it to the top and strike a record deal. After another mediocre gig Jennifer, the sexy female bassist (Jessica Pare) disappears with a hip young vampire called Queeny. Jennifer returns the next morning sprouting fangs and a taste for blood.

One by one each member succumbs to the dark side and finds themselves with a cool new image. Leaving a trail of lifeless groupies in their wake, they soon reach heights of success they could only have dreamed of when they were mere mortals. If you wanna rock - you have to suck!

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Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) is an ordinary World War II soldier with one major exception: he has mysteriously become unstuck in time.

Billy goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.

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Gerard Depardieu is the self-abasing curate tortured by questions about his role in God's plan — before an encounter with a material Satan touches off a powerful revelation.

At the crux of his vision is Sandrine Bonnaire, the madly profligate sylph whose fate ruptures in a blast of gunpowder and the slash of a razor. As events unfurl, Maurice Pialat himself provides witness as the seasoned cleric who pronounces the words: "God wears us down"

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At the National Institute for the Deaf and Dumb in Paris, a barely clothed and dirty young boy is admitted. Found in a forest, the child is unable to speak, communicate or function in society.

Christened Victor (Jean-Pierre Cargol) by the hospital staff, his case is taken up by Doctor Itard (François Truffaut), a lone physician who has an unyielding dedication to re-integrating the lad into society. But the road to tame the beast is a rocky one and Itard will have to work tirelessly to teach Victor how to reclaim his place in the world...even if it means staking his reputation on it!

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In 1993, Tony Blair was a rising young star in British politics. Three years later he ran for Prime Minister - and began a "special relationship" with U.S. President Bill Clinton that endured through triumph, conflict and personal scandal.

HBO Films presents Michael Sheen, Dennis Quaid, Hope Davis, and Helen McCrory in the behind-the-scenes story of two world leaders who forged a loyal, if tempestuous, friendship out of the crucible of political necessity: The Special Relationship.

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A quartet of talented but naive singers are discovered and transformed by Dave, a kind-hearted talent scout with very little rhythm but a passion for soul music. Plucked from obscurity, The Sapphires' career takes off, but their friendship are threatened as their success grows.

Based on a true story, The Sapphires is an uplifting and hilarious journey of discovery, love and music.

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This explosive action thriller, starring Eric Cantona, has a sting in its tail. When Sophie Malaterre is introduced to SWITCH.COM by a new friend, she thinks the holiday-home swapping website will be the perfect way to liven up a dull summer.

But soon after she arrives at her new apartment, she realises she made the biggest mistake of her life. A murdered man is found in the guest bedroom, and when Detective Forgeat takes Sophie in for questioning - she finds out she hasn't just swapped houses, she's switched identities. In an attempt to prove her innocence, she goes on the run and it's up to Detective Forgeat to find Sophie before she too turns up dead. But things don't go to plan and, when the body count starts piling up, Forgeat finds himself getting in over his head and operating outside of the law in a bid to save Sophie and hunt down the real killer.

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Nick Wells (Robert De Niro) is ready to retire from crime. He'll settle down with his girlfriend, Diane (Angela Bassett), and focus on running his legitimate business: a Montreal Jazz club. But Max (Marlon Brando), his fence, friend and financial partner, has other plans for him.

Persuading Nick to violate two of his most important rules - always work alone and never operate in the city where you live - Max teams him up with Jack Teller (Edward Norton). A young, aggressive, talented thief, Jack needs Nick's safe-cracking talents to make his first big score: a prize worth millions locked behind the walls of Montreal's Customs House. It's a volatile combination in which egos clash and sparks fly, but the thrill of the heist has a grip on all three men, who won't give up no matter what the risk.

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America's Cold War fears are rekindled after the President of Russia dies and is succeeded by a man with a cryptic past. But East-West tensions erupt when the CIA suspects that renegade Russian scientists are developing more nuclear weapons.

Mobilised into action by CIA Director William Cabot (Morgan Freeman), Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) follows a danger-ridden trail to a shocking conclusion: terrorists plan to provoke a war between the U.S. and Russia – by detonating a nuclear bomb at a championship football game!

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Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a lone wolf in chic clothing. He's a Boston tycoon, who masterminds a daring bank job, even though he doesn't need the money. What he needs is the thrill of the heist, the adrenaline rush of not getting caught.

Catching crooks is where insurance investigator Vicky Anderson (Faye Dunaway) comes in. She always gets her man. But this time she may be too much in love to give him up.

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Danny Glover and Ray Liotta deliver 8,000 lbs.

of fun and laughs in Disney's jumbo-sized hit comedy! A seasoned army captain (Glover) is teamed with a hard-nosed officer (Liotta) to conduct the "biggest" military manoeuvre ever - to secretly transport a full-grown elephant to a remote and virtually inaccessible jungle village. By land, sea and air, calamity and chaos prevail upon their hilariously mismatched team of would-be heroes. But with a little luck - and tons of hard work - they learn that no mission is impossible. A triumphantly funny crowd pleaser based on a true story, 'Operation Dumbo Drop' weighs in as a terrific family entertainment.

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After being convicted of killing a cop, street-tough Nikita (Anne Parillaud) must choose between her own execution or training with a top-secret government agency to become an assassin.

Given a new identity, new skills, and a new life by her mentor Bob (Tcheky Karyo), Nikita becomes "Josephine", a seductive, sophisticated knockout who's also a brutally efficient killing machine.

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When she witnesses a gang of three crooks brutally murdering her father in the course of a robbery, beautiful young Jean Talbot (Elizabeth Sellars) vows to avenge him and to bring the perpetrators to justice.

In the case of two of the three, fate beats her to it when they perish in a car crash fleeing the scene but the third survives and invents an alibi the cops just can't break. Desperate to lead the killer to incriminate himself, she finds herself playing a deadly game of seduction, using sex as the bait to entrap him, gaining his trust and that of his underworld cohorts by playing Bonnie to his Clyde while feeding back Information to the cops.

Tom Hanks and filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen team up for the crime of the century in the quirky, laugh-out-loud, smash hit 'The Ladykillers'. Featuring a hilarious supporting cast and packed with non-stop laughs and outrageous high jinks, 'The Ladykillers' is nothing less than drop-dead funny.