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The Wailing (2016)Goksung
In this critically acclaimed and incredibly tense supernatural thriller, a foreigner's mysterious appearance in a quiet village causes suspicion among the locals - suspicion which quickly turns to hysteria, as the residents begin killing each other in brutal outbursts, seemingly without motive. As the hopelessly out-of-depth investigating officer watches his daughter fall under the same savage spell, he agrees to consult a shaman for answers - unknowingly escalating the situation. - Director:
- Hong-jin Na
- Cast:
- Jun Kunimura, Jung-min Hwang, Do Won Kwak
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The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (Dominic Sessa) — and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da'Vine Joy Randolph). - Director:
- Alexander Payne
- Cast:
- Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
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In this wild and incredible tale, young Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) is brought back to live by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist. Eager to learn and hungry for the worldliness she lacks, Bella runs off on an adventure that inspires in her a fantastical evolution leading to a fierce dedication to equality and liberation. - Director:
- Yorgos Lanthimos
- Cast:
- Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe
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Jack Dodds (Michael Caine) was a regular guy, so why the strange last order to have his ashes thrown off the pier at Margate? And why did his wife Amy (Helen Mirren) refuse to do it? As their Mercedes speeds towards the sea, an emotional mystery unfolds, where the men try to understand Jack's death by reliving their life through him...the war, the children, the good times and the bad. The journey becomes a pub crawl full of drink-ups and punch-ups and the men discover that through it all, it's your friends who break your heart...and your friends who mend it. - Director:
- Fred Schepisi
- Cast:
- Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay
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When Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and fellow residents of 1920s Littlehampton begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose (Jessie Buckley) is charged with the crime. However, as the town's women begin to investigate the crime, they suspect that something is amiss, and Rose may not be the culprit after all. - Director:
- Thea Sharrock
- Cast:
- Jessie Buckley, Olivia Colman, Timothy Spall
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L'immensità (2022)The Immensity
This personal drama from Emanuele Crialese stars Penélope Cruz as a vivacious mother to a teenager who starts to question her identity. A vivacious presence, her world buckles under the strain of protecting her children from their abusive father. Radiant fantasy sequences punctuate this thoughtful and psychologically honest meditation on childhood trauma and shifting identity. - Director:
- Emanuele Crialese
- Cast:
- Penélope Cruz, Vincenzo Amato, Luana Giuliani
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Anatomy of a Fall (2023)Anatomie d'une chute
When her husband Samuel (Samuel Theis) is mysteriously found dead in the snow below their secluded chalet, Sandra (Sandra Hüller) becomes the main suspect when the police begin to question whether he fell or was pushed. The trial soon becomes not just an investigation, but a gripping psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel's complicated marriage. With conflicting evidence and inconsistent testimony, words are wielded like weapons and shocking truths come to light... - Director:
- Justine Triet
- Cast:
- Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner
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"The Old Oak" is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, but it's also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline. TJ Ballantyne (Dave Turner) the landlord hangs on to 'The Old Oak' by his fingertips, and his predicament is endangered even more when the pub becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees who are placed in the village without any notice. In an unlikely friendship TJ meets a curious young Syrian Yara (Ebla Mari) with her camera. Can they find a way for the two communities to understand each other? So unfolds a deeply moving drama about their fragilities and hopes. - Director:
- Ken Loach
- Cast:
- Dave Turner, Ebla Mari, Claire Rodgerson
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Ride the High Country (1962)Guns in the Afternoon
In this brilliant, moving film directed by Sam Peckinpah, cowboy icons Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea find roles to match their leathery Western personas, playing aging lawmen hired to guard a gold shipment. They don't have much: a horse each, a couple of dollars. And they have everything: their independence. But the frontier is disappearing - and so is space wide open enough for independent men. With luck, the two will find space enough for this ride and one last payday. They will also find adventure, including the dramatic rescue of a mistreated bride (Mariette Hartley), gun-blazing shootouts and a life-changing betrayal. - Director:
- Sam Peckinpah
- Cast:
- Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley
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Set in Glasgow in the 1970s, 'Ratcatcher' is seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old James Gillespie (William Eadie), a young boy haunted by a secret. Feeling increasingly distant from his family, his only escape comes with the discovery of a new housing development on the outskirts of town where he has the freedom to lose himself in his own world. Enticed by a gang of older boys, James is thrown together with vulnerable fourteen-year-old Margaret Anne (Leanne Mullen) and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship which becomes their hesitant but touching experience of first love... - Director:
- Lynne Ramsay
- Cast:
- Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, William Eadie
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My Name is Nobody (1973)Il mio nome è Nessuno
The film stars the legendary Henry Fonda as Beauregard, an aging, but still the fastest, gunslinger in the west, and Terence Hill as Nobody, no slouch himself in the fast draw department and who has been hired to kill Beauregard. There is, however, a complication. Beauregard was Nobody's childhood hero and Nobody wants to ensure the great man gets his rightful place in the history of a wild west which is fast disappearing. - Director:
- Tonino Valerii
- Cast:
- Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin
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Death in Venice (1971)Morte a Venezia
Based on the classic novella by Thomas Mann, this late-career masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde, in an exquisitely nuanced performance) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Bjorn Andrcscn), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Setting Mann's story of queer desire and bodily decay against the sublime music of Gustav Mahler, 'Death in Venice' is one of cinemas most exalted literary adaptations, as sensually rich as it is allegorically resonant. - Director:
- Luchino Visconti
- Cast:
- Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns
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Directed by Jonathan Demme, Talking Heads concert film 'Stop Making Sense' film has been re-mixed and re-mastered allowing the brilliance of the music and visuals to take full advantage of state-of-the-art technology.
Tracklisting:
1. Psycho Killer
2. Heaven3. Thank You for Sending Me An Angel
4. Found a Job
5. Slippery People
6. Burning Down the House
7. Life During Wartime
8. Making Flippy Floppy
9. Swamp
10. What a Day That Was
11. Nave Melody (This Must Be the Place)
12. Once In a Lifetime
13. Genius of Love
14. Girlfriend is Better
15. Take Me To the River
16. Cross-Eyed and Painless
Bonus Tracks:
17. Cities
18. Big Business / I Zimbra- Director:
- Jonathan Demme
- Cast:
- David Byrne, Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir
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Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster portray Benjamin Trane and Joe Erin, two daredevil mercenaries who journey to Mexico in search of adventure - and cold hard cash - during die 1866 revolution. But they get more than they bargained for when the wealthy and beautiful Countess Duvarre (Denise Dared) hires them to escort her (and a fortune in gold!) to Emperor Maximilian's fighting forces in Vera Cruz. The trail is fraught with danger, betrayal and murder... and when Ben is swept up in the revolutionaries, fervour, he and Joe find themselves at odds with the Mexican Army - and each other! - Director:
- Robert Aldrich
- Cast:
- Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel
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A close-knit community in the south-west of Sicily has been unchanged for centuries. Here, husbands go to sea and wives work packing fish while their children play amongst the cliffs. It's a way of life that is ingrained and which does not allow for change. Grazia, the wife of one of the local fishermen, and mother to his three children, is easy going, affectionate and free-spirited. But her unconventional attitude to life causes consternation amongst her elders, and brings scorn from her peers. Soon the community decides that she is in need of expert medical attention and they attempt to send her away to the city.... - Director:
- Emanuele Crialese
- Cast:
- Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa
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