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Based on Peter Rock's novel 'My Abandonment', 'Leave No Trace' revolves around a teenage girl (Thomasin McKenzie) and her father (Ben Foster) who have lived undetected for years in Forest Park, a vast wood on the edge of Portland, Oregon.

A chance encounter leads to their discovery and removal from the park and into the charge of a social service agency. They try to adapt to their new surroundings until a sudden decision sets them on a perilous journey into the wilderness seeking complete independence and forcing them to confront their conflicting desire to be part of a community or a fierce need to live apart.

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When 16 year old Mary Wollstonecraft (Elle Fanning) runs away with poet Percy Shelley, her family are horrified. Your and passionately in love, at first she relishes life amongst the radical Romantics, but as time goes on, Percy's indiscretions begin to test their relationship.

One day, on a trip to Lord Byron's mansion in Geneva, Mary is challenged to write a ghost story. Drawing on her experience of heartbreak and the dark side of humanity, she creates Frankenstein, a work that will shape the literary world for centuries. The tempestuous romance that inspired on of Gothic literature's most influential works is brought to life in 'Mary Shelley', a luscious and moving period drama lead by a powerful performance by Elle Fanning and strong support from Douglas Booth, Maisie Williams and Bel Powley.

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Five years, eight months, 12 days. That's how long Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) has been concocting the greatest heist of her storied career. It will require the best in the field, including her former partner in crime, Lou (Cate Blanchett), and a crew of specialists.

Their target: $150 million in diamonds that will adorn the neck of a world-famous actress (Anne Hathaway) at the event of the year, the Met Gala. The plan appears rock-solid, but it needs to be flawless for them to get in and get away - all in plain sight.

Tully tells the story of Marlo (Charlize Theron), a mother of three who is gifted a night nanny by her brother (Mark Duplass). Hesitant to the extravagance at first, she forms a unique bond with the thoughtful, unpredictable young nanny, Tully (Mackenzie Davis).

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It's been three years since theme parkland luxury resort, Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment. Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.

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Florence Green (Emily Mortimer), is a free-spirited widow in 1950's England. Moving on from the death of her husband, she puts grief behind her and risks everything to open up a bookshop - the first in a sleepy seaside town.

Facing considerable local opposition, most notably from wannabe doyenne of the arts scene Mrs. Gamart (Patricia Clarkson), Florence finds a kindred spirit in Mr. Brundish (Bill Nighy), himself sick of the town's stale atmosphere. When Florence refuses to bend to Gamart's will, they begin a struggle not just for the bookshop but for the very heart and soul of the town.

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Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho), an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer to a better place. His situation is delicate.

He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives. When Zama notices everything is lost, he joins a party of soldiers that go after a dangerous bandit.

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The latest from director Pat Collins, 'Song of Granite' is a critically acclaimed, lyrical and unconventional profile of the life of the complex and enigmatic Joe Heaney - one of the greats of traditional Irish singing (sean nos), and the country that made him.

Shaped by die myths, fables and songs of his upbringing in the west of Ireland in the early 1900s, the film charts Heaney's emergence as a gifted artist and how his career success came at a personal cost as he journeyed from rural Connemara dirough Glasgow and eventually to New York City.

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Albert Serra's new film is an adaptation of the Due de Saint-Simon's memoirs, starring Jean-Pierre as the Sun King in his last days. The dying king can barely move from his bed in Versailles. His relatives and his closest counsellors come in turns at his bedside, but he can barely rule his kingdom.

His secret wife Madame de Maintenon, and his doctor Fagon dread his last breath and try to hide it from the public, to preserve the future of France. Jean-Pierre Leaud, in his costume, hair and poses, fully embodies the last few days of the longest serving king of France, who, with his seventy-two years reign, changed the face of the monarchy and of France.

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In a cheap Parisian hotel room Oscar Wilde lies on his death bed and the past floods back.

Under the microscope of demise he reviews the flailed attempt to reconcile with his wife Constance, the ensuing reprisal of his fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas and the warmth and devotion of Robbie Ross who tried and foiled to save him from himself. From Dieppe to Naples to Paris, freedom is elusive and Oscar is a penniless vagabond, always moving on, shunned by his old acquaintances, but revered by a strange group of outlaws and urchins to whom he tells the old stories - his incomparable wit still sharp.

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In the drug war, there are no rules - and when the U.S.

government begins to suspect that cartels have started trafficking terrorists across the US border, federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) calls on the mysterious Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro), whose family was murdered by a cartel kingpin, to escalate the war in nefarious ways. Alejandro kidnaps the kingpin's daughter to inflame the conflict - but when the girl is seen as collateral damage, her fate will come between the two men as they question everything they are fighting for.

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France 1915. The impact of the First World War is being felt across Europe as conscription forces the men to leave their homes for the battlefield. Hortense (Nathalie Baye), realising she has to hold up her family's farm with less than half the labour force hires a helping hand, Francine (Iris Bry).

The young woman works hard and, with the arrival of Hortense's son Georges (Cyril Descours), finally feels she has a place she can call home. As the battle rages on, these women unite to keep both their family and society from collapsing.

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In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a group of journalists working for Knight Ridder and covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are sceptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein was hiding "weapons of mass destruction".

Journalists Jonathan Landay (Woody Harrelson) and Warren Strobel (James Marsden) decide to play on very dangerous territory by challenging the White House. 'Shock and Awe' depicts their race against time to unveil the truth and their attempt to change the course of history.

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Insurance salesman Michael (Liam Neeson) is on his daily commute home when he is contacted by a mysterious stranger (Vera Farmiga), and forced to uncover the identity of a hidden passenger on his train before the last stop.

As he works against the clock to solve the puzzle, he realises a deadly plan is unfolding and is unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy. One that carries life and death stakes, for himself and his fellow passengers.

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An award-winning historical drama based on a true story about three dramatic days in 1940, when the King of Norway was presented with an unimaginable ultimatum from the German armed forces: surrender or die.

With the German Air force and soldiers hunting them, the Royal Family is forced to flee from the capital - parting ways without knowing if they'll ever see each other again. The Crown Princess Martha (Tuva Novotny) leaves Norway with the children to seek refuge in Sweden, whilst King Haakon (Jesper Christensen) and the Crown Prince Olav (Anders Baasmo Christiansen) stay to fight. After three days of desperately trying to evade the Germans, Haakon makes his final decision; he refuses to capitulate, even if it may cost him, his family and many Norwegians their lives.