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Xiaoshuai Wang
Wang Han, 11 year old boy in the province of Ghizhou is confronted with a runaway murderer. Hiding in the woods, the wounded man takes Wang Han … 
CastYan Ni, Kimi Qiao, Wang Jingchun, Mo Shini, …
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina
SP$PG

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Fernando Meirelles
A look at what happens when partners from different social backgrounds engage in in physical relationships. Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's cla… 
CastRachel Weisz, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Ben…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$18A

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Mathieu Demy
The death of his mother draws a young Frenchman back to his childhood in Los Angeles as he prepares to wrap up her estate. However, things becom… 
CastMathieu Demy, Salma Hayek, Geraldine Chaplin…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$18A

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Roland Emmerich
Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays? In this vivid drama from Roland Emmerich, mystery swirls around the authorship of classic plays, as the ba… 
CastRhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richards…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$14A

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Michel Hazanavicius
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks… 
CastJean Dujardin, Malcolm MacDowell, John Goodm…
LanguageEnglish | French   CountryFrance
SP$14A

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Cédric Kahn
Yann (Guillaume Canet) trained as a chef and walks with a chef’s swagger. It’s as easy for him to boast about his future plans as it is to pick … 
CastGuillaume Canet, Leila Bekhti
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$14A

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Jonathan Teplitzky
Why is Tom behaving so badly? Six women and an eight-year-old boy are fighting, in very different ways, to help. But for Tom, it seems, there ar… 
CastMatthew Goode, Bojana Novakovic, Essie Davis…
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
SP$18A

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Jim Field Smith
A comedy set in the Midwest U.S., where an adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious lo… 
CastOlivia Wilde, Ashley Greene, Hugh Jackman, J…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$14A

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Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane S…
Nasser-Ali, a talented musician, meets his beloved, Irane, in the streets. But she doesn't recognize him. Following this encounter we find that … 
CastIsabella Rossellini, Mathieu Amalric, Edoua…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance/Germany/Belgi…
SP$14A

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Ralph Fiennes
The citizens of Rome are hungry. Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, a great soldier and a man of inflexible self-belief despises the people. His extr… 
CastRalph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, Van…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$14A

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Huh Jong-ho
Jeon Do-youn plays a beautiful ex-con who, after being released from prison, tries to make some quick cash by manipulating a heartless debt coll… 
CastDo-yeon Jeon and Jung Jae-Young
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
SP$14A

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Terence Davies
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot. Hester Collyer (Academy Award-winner Ra… 
CastRachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russe…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$14A

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Alexander Payne
With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King (Clooney), takes his daughters on a trip from Oa… 
CastGeorge Clooney, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Nicolas Winding Refn
A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong. Ryan Gosling… 
CastRyan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Malgorzata Szumowska
Anne (Juliette Binoche), a well-off, Paris-based mother of two and investigative journalist for ELLE, is writing an article about student prosti… 
CastJuliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier and Joann…
LanguageFrench | Polish   CountryFrance | Poland
SP$R

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Fred Schepisi
Elizabeth Hunter controls all in her life - society, her staff, her children; but the once great beauty will now determine her most defiant act … 
CastGeoffrey Rush, Dustin Clare and Charlotte Ra…
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
SP$$18A

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Davis Guggenheim
Twenty years after the release of 'Achtung Baby', director Davis Guggenheim's documentary 'From The Sky Down' will open the Toronto Internationa… 
CastBono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen J…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$PG

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Nanni Moretti
The great Italian comic filmmaker, Nanni Moretti turns his satirical eye on the nomination of a new Pope. When the man is chosen he freezes at t… 
CastMichel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Jerzy Stuhr, …
LanguageItalian | German | L…   CountryItaly / France
SP$14A

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Rémi Bezancon
Celebrated French director Rémi Bezançon’s incisive, yet tender and humorous, third feature follows a young couple whose carefree lifestyle is i… 
CastLouise Bourgoin, Pio Marmaï and Josiane Bala…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
GALA$$14A

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Morten Tyldum
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary. Roger (Aksel Hennie) is a successful H… 
CastNikolaj Coster-Waldau, Aksel Hennie and Juli…
LanguageNorwegian   CountryNorway
SP$14A

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Derick Martini
A Nebraska teen gets more than she bargained for when she sets out for the bright lights of Las Vegas. Tired of fending for herself and her m… 
CastChloe Moretz, Blake Lively and Juliette Lewi…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18A

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Daniel Nettheim
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger. … 
CastWillem Dafoe, Sam Neill and Frances O'Connor
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
SP$14A

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Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
When he leaves his house on a seemingly banal errand for his disgruntled mother, Jeff discovers that the universe might be sending him signals a… 
CastJason Segel, Ed Helms and Judy Greer, Susan …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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William Friedkin
When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance. When 22-ye… 
CastMatthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Thomas Ha…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$R

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Luc Besson
The story of pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi and the academic and writer Michael Aris; a true story of love set against political turmoi… 
CastDavid Thewlis, Michelle Yeoh and William Hop…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom / Fra…
GALA$$14A

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Drake Doremus
A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her vis… 
CastFelicity Jones, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawr…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Marc Forster
The story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've be… 
CastGerard Butler, Michael Shannon, Michelle Mon…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
GALA$$14A

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Sean Durkin
Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult. … 
CastElizabeth Olsen, Christopher Abbott, Brady …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18A

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Lars von Trier
Two sisters find their relationship challenged as a nearby planet threatens to collide into the Earth. In this beautiful movie about the end … 
CastKirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer …
LanguageEnglish   CountryDenmark | Sweden | F…
SP$$14A

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Bennett Miller
The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-gene… 
CastBrad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Philip …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$14A

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Julian Farino
A guy falls for the daughter of a good friend, resulting in a massive upheaval for all the families involved. The Ostroff and Walling familie… 
CastHugh Laurie, Leighton Meester, Catherine Kee…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Bruce Beresford
An uptight NYC lawyer takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse upstate for a family vacation. What was meant to be a weekend get… 
CastJane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Olse…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$14A

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Cameron Crowe
A documentary on the band Pearl Jam that marks their 20th anniversary in the year 2011. Pearl Jam Twenty chronicles the years leading up to t… 
CastEddie Vedder, Chris Cornell, Kurt Cobain, Ne…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Oren Moverman
Follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own sur… 
CastWoody Harrelson, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wri…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Lasse Hallström
Ewan McGregor stars as a fisheries scientist who finds himself saddled with the task of introducing salmon fishing to the Highlands of Yemen. Di… 
CastEwan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Th…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$14A

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Ann Hui
Inspired by a true story, the film tells about a heartwarming relationship between a young master a big family, Roger (Lau) and the servant of t… 
CastAndy L, Deanie Ip, Wang Fuli, Anthony Wong,…
LanguageCantonese   CountryHong Kong
SP$14A

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Pedro Almodóvar
A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a m… 
CastAntonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Parede…
LanguageSpanish   CountrySpain
SP$$18A

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Jeff Nichols
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from hims… 
CastMichael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whig…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Jamie Linden
A group of friends reunite ten years after their high-school graduation. Ten Year focuses on a group of friends – married and unmarried, succ… 
CastChanning Tatum, Rosario Dawson, Justin Long,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Michael Winterbottom
Self-effacing British auteur Michael Winterbottom sets his unique spin on Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles against a contemporary Indian… 
CastFreida Pinto, Riz Ahmed
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$18A

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Francis Ford Coppola
A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl.… 
CastVal Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning, Ben Ch…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Paddy Considine
The story of Joseph a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance… 
CastPeter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, P…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$18A

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Madonna
A two-tiered romantic drama focusing on the affair between King Edward VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson and a contemporary romance betw… 
CastAbbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough, James D'A…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
GALA$$14A

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Lynne Ramsay
The mother of a teenage boy who went on a high-school killing spree tries to deal with her grief -- and feelings of responsibility for her child… 
CastJohn C. Reilly, Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Nadine Labaki
A group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village. Set against the backdrop of a war-t… 
CastKevin Abboud, Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Julian …
LanguageArabic, Russian   CountryLebanon/Egypt
SP$14A

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Pawel Pawlikowski
A college lecturer flees to Paris after a scandal costs him his job. In the City of Lights, he meets a widow who might be involved in a series o… 
CastKristin Scott Thomas, Ethan Hawke, Joanna Ku…
LanguageFrench, English   CountryUnited Kingdom, Fran…
SP$$14A