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This poignant dramedy is a must-see from director Peter Cattaneo (Military Wives) and writer Jeff Pope (Philomena), starring Academy Award Nominees Steve Coogan and Jonathan Pryce.

Follow an Englishman's personal and political awakening after he adopts a penguin during a cataclysmic period in Argentine history.

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"The Ballad of Wallis Island" follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan), back together.

His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.

Robert Egger's 'Nosferatu' is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. Starring Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin and Willem Dafoe.

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Soured by civilisation, Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford) sets out in the mid-1800's to be a mountain man, seeking solitude in a wilderness whose purity he never questioned. His first Rocky Mountain winter almost kills him.

Starving and nearly frozen, he finds refuge with a wily old trapper (Will Geer) whose survival teaching includes going eyeball to eyeball with a grizzly.

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Yonosuke is a typical Japanese on-screen hero: socially awkward, childish and naive, but always cheerful and charming. We meet him when he moves from Nagasaki to Tokyo in the late eighties at the height of the city's economic boom.

Despite his odd character he manages to make new friends at university, joins a samba class and falls in love with an older woman. Sixteen years later his friends are all reminiscing over their college days, thinking back on how Yonosuke changed their lives. A heart-warming, crowd-pleasing comedy that takes a sudden dramatic turn.

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In Warsaw at the beginning of WWII, Maria Tura (Carole Lombard) and husband Joseph (Jack Benny) perform anti-Nazi plays with their theater troupe until they are forced to switch to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Lt.

Stanislav Sobinski (Robert Stack) falls for Maria and meets up with her during Joseph's famous "To Be or Not to Be" speech as Hamlet. When Stanislav is eventually dispatched for war, he implicates Maria with Professor Siletsky (Stanley Ridges), who has a secret plan to destroy the Warsaw resistance. The Polish theater troupe is then forced to use their theatrical skills to ensure their survival. Eventually, they turn to impersonating Nazi officers - and even Hitler himself - in order to outwit the enemy and keep the resistance safe from spies.

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In a radical reworking of the H.G.

Wells classic, 'War of the Worlds: Next Century', tells the story of Iron Idem (celebrated Polish actor Roman Wilhelmi), a television host, who finds himself contending with a Martian invasion, whose takeover involves collaborating with the state and manipulating the populace through a media apparatus made up entirely of fake news...Drawing as much on George Orwell and 1984 as on Wells' novel, Piotr Szulkin's prescient allegory of state and media control is a dark sci-fi that uses classic noir tropes to tell its sinister story.

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Seeking a fresh start, Blake (Christopher Abbott) moves his wife Charlotte (Julia Garner) and daughter Ginger (Matilda Firth) to his childhood home in rural Oregon.

Upon arrival, they encounter a brutal animal attack, forcing the family to barricade themselves inside the house as an unseen creature prowls the perimeter. As the night wears on, Blake's injuries worsen, and his bizarre behavior turns monstrous. To protect her daughter, Charlotte must decide whether to confront the danger outside or the growing horror within.

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When her estranged father passes, twenty-something Nyla (Yaayaa Adams) is tasked with the thing she hates the most - cleaning up his mess.

Left behind are a collection of VHS tapes, and with them, the burden of returning them to 'Blaster Video' a time capsule to an era in which cover art and a catchy movie title were king, run by Kevin (Kevin Martin), a human encyclopaedia of VHS history and a friend of her father. Amongst the returns is an unknown tape, a movie not even Kevin has heard of. Was this the last movie Nyla's father watched before he died? The mystery is too much to resist. But when Kevin and Nyla press play, they unwittingly activate a long-dormant curse and a series of classic cinematic villains are plucked from B-movie heaven and hell to be unleashed into the store itself!

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Richard Fleischer directs this sci-fi thriller starring Charlton Heston and Leigh Taylor-Young. In a dystopian, futuristic New York in the year 2022, almost 20 million citizens, half of the city's population, are out of work.

Voluntary death is encouraged by government clinics and people live on rations of a green food called Soylent produced by the Soylent Corporation. The film follows NYPD Detective Frank Thorn (Heston) as he investigates the murder of a wealthy business magnate in the dictatorial Soylent research camp.

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In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts.

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. An elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville, 'Le Samourai' is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940's American gangster cinema and 1960's French pop culture - with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology.

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When Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland) takes his family on a fishing trip, their holiday is brutally interrupted as a catastrophic atomic war breaks out, destroying their suburban Los Angeles home.

What remains of the United Nations announces on the radio that society has broken down, and the Baldwins realise that they must quickly learn how to navigate this new 'year zero', and do whatever it takes in order to survive. Milland stars alongside teen idol Frankie Avalon as well as directing this bleak and visceral apocalypse thriller, described as 'the most expressive on-the-ground nightmare of the cold-war era'.

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A woman arrives in a sleepy seaside town after receiving unsettling letters from her father, only to discover the town is under the influence of a strange cult that weeps tears of blood and hunger for human flesh.

From Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, the writers of 'American Graffiti', 'Indiana Jones' and the 'Temple of Doom' and 'Howard the Duck', this dreamy and atmospheric film transposes the post - 'Night of the Living Dead' zombie movie to a surreal small-town American setting, presented through gorgeous Techniscope visuals that echo the stylish European horror of Mario Bava and Hammer. A true cult film, 'Messiah of Evil', which was also released as 'Dead People', has overcome distribution challenges to enjoy growing awareness and high acclaim after decades of word-of-mouth enthusiasm among horror cinema fans and critics around the world.

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In a far-off future, mankind is in a state of decay. But a group of scientists believe they have found the means to move humanity on to its next level in the creation of an ideal, self-replicating - and thus immortal - human being.

Jerry Cornelius (Jon Finch), Nobel Prize-winning physicist and playboy adventurer, is vital to the project's success: his recently deceased father devised the formula of this 'final programme'. However, the formula is captured on a microfilm hidden in the vaults of the family's mansion, and jealously guarded by Jerry's drug-addicted, psychopathic brother, Frank (Derrick O'Connor)...

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Tripp (Patrick Dempsey) ambles into a bank, just as two different gangs try to rob it. A shoot-out erupts, and Tripp has to protect the smart, pretty teller Kaitlin (Ashley Judd).

The gangs - one clearly made up of pros and the other a couple of idiots - have deadlocked themselves in a Mexican standoff. The security system starts the end-of-day lockdown and seals everyone into the building.