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Pelin Esmer
An Istanbul curmudgeon whose apartment has been completely taken over by his collections and the building's doorman find themselves forced to re… 
CastNejat Isler, Mithat Esmer, Laçin Ceylan, Tay…
LanguageTurkish   CountryTurkey
CTC$PG

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Danny Boyle
A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to surviv… 
CastJames Franco, Lizzy Caplan, Kate Mara, Amber…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$14A

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Douglas Gordon
A dual-channel video installation which consists of two side-by-side projections of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), film # 68 on The Essential… 
CastAnthony Perkins, Janet Leigh
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
FUTFreePG

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Sam Mendes
Wednesday, September 15 at 5:30 pm Lester and Carolyn Burnham are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect … 
CastKevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Peter Gallaghe…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
FREEFree14A

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Janus Metz Pedersen
When operations get hairy, adrenaline addiction and cynicism set in for the young soldiers at the front line in Afghanistan. This contributes to… 
CastUnknown
LanguageDanish   CountryDenmark
RTR$18A

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Sarah Polley
Saturday, September 18 at 7pm Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. Now, in the oncoming twilight of t… 
CastGordon Pinsent, Julie Christie, Olympia Duka…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
FREEFreePG

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Alejandro González Iñárritu
A man involved in illegal dealing is confronted by his childhood friend, who is now a policeman. 
CastJavier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Boucha…
LanguageSpanish   CountrySpain | Mexico
SP$$14A

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Derek Cianfrance
The film centers on a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods. 
CastRyan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Rodrigo Cortés
Paul is a U.S. contractor working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a… 
CastRyan Reynolds, Robert Paterson, José Luis Ga…
LanguageEnglish   CountrySpain, USA
SP$14A

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Wu Ershan
The story is about a butcher in a brothel who is in love with a courtesan. When he suffers a humiliation rejection, he decides to become a sword… 
CastMasanobu Ando, You Benchang, Kitty Zhang Yuq…
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina
MM$18A

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Pablo Trapero
Sosa (Ricardo Darin) is a lawyer who haunts hospital waiting rooms hoping to represent the victims of traffic accidents in insurance claims. Whe… 
CastRicardo Darín, Martina Gusman, Carlos Weber,…
LanguageSpanish   CountryArgentina, Chile
CWC$14A

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Tetsuya Nakashima
Tetsuya Nakashima's Confessions is one of Japan's most important films of the year. A stylized mixture of cruelty and compassion, the film spins… 
CastTakako Matsu, Masaki Okada, Yoshino Kimura, …
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
VAN$14A

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Michelangelo Frammartino
An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herd… 
CastGiuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpa…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
VIS$PG

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Michael Dowse
In Calgary, Terry (David Lawrence) and Dean (Paul Spence) are tired of barely scraping by. Their old buddy and "party leader", Troy (better know… 
CastDavid Lawrence, Paul Spence
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
MM$14A

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Gabriel Range
From the award winning team behind Death of a President and The Last King of Scotland, and inspired by real life events, I Am Slave is a controv… 
CastIsaach De Bankolé, Yigal Naor, Nonso Anozie,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
CWC$PG

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Sylvain Chomet
The Illusionist is one of a dying breed of stage entertainers. With emerging rock stars stealing his thunder, he is forced to accept increasingl… 
CastJean-Claude Donda, Edith Rankin, Jil Aigrot,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$PG

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Charles Ferguson
'Inside Job' is the first film to provide a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, ca… 
CastMatt Damon
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
RTR$PG

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Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward. 
CastEmma Roberts, Zach Galifianakis, Lauren Grah…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$PG

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Patrick Demers
A quarreling and mutually suspicious couple (Maxime Denommee, Sophie Cadieux) look forward to some time in the country to sort out their issues,… 
CastSophie Cadieux, Maxime Denommée, Benoît Goui…
LanguageFrench   CountryCanada
CF$14A

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Massy Tadjedin
The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he'… 
CastSam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Eva Mendes…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$14A

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Jerome Sable
This musical horror comedy follows an unlikely hero – nerdy Danny Zigwitz – at a summer camp listening to fireside stories. Have you heard of S… 
CastL.J. Benet, Sean Cullen, Rick Miller, Kailey…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
SCC$14A

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Mark Hartley
From cult cinema documentary director Mark Hartley (Not Quite Hollywood) comes this account of the wild and unruly world of genre filmmaking in … 
CastJoe Dante, John Landis, Colleen Camp, Steve …
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
RTR$PG

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J. Clay Tweel
Every year in Las Vegas, aspiring young magicians travel from around the globe to compete for the title of Teen World Champion at the World Magi… 
CastEd Alonzo, Albert M. Belmont Jr., Joan Caes…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
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Gareth Edwards
Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in… 
CastWhitney Able, Scoot McNairy
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
VAN$18A

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Reha Erdem
Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosph… 
CastÖnder K. Açikbas, Erdal Besikçioglu, Halim E…
LanguageTurkish, English   CountryTurkey
CTC$14A

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Mark Romanek
As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy, spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they f… 
CastCharlotte Rampling, Keira Knightley, Carey M…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom | USA…
SP$$14A

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Rob Reiner
Sunday, September 19 at 10pm When a young boy falls ill, his grandfather pops round to visit him. To cheer his grandson up, Grandpa has brought… 
CastBilly Crystal, Christopher Guest, Fred Savag…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
FREEFreePG

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Dervis Zaim
Mahsun Supertitiz is an unemployed homeless man who steals cars at night so that he can sleep in a heated place during the winter. Mahsun lives … 
CastAhmet Ugurlu, Tuncel Kurtiz, Aysen Aydemir, …
LanguageTurkish   CountryTurkey
CTC$14A

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Jeanne Labrune
A high-class prostitute and a pre-eminent psychoanalyst discover that they share many things in common. They are both unhappy with their profes… 
CastIsabelle Huppert, Sabila Moussadek, Richard …
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance, Luxembourg, …
SP$18

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Manoel de Oliveira
Set in the 1950s, a photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter. Manoel de Oliveira, a 101-year… 
CastPilar López de Ayala, Filipe Vargas, Ricardo…
LanguagePortuguese   CountryPortugal
MAST$14A

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Anurag Kashyap
That Girl in Yellow Boots is a thriller tracing Ruth’s (Kalki Koechlin) search for her father – a man she hardly knew but cannot forget. Despera… 
CastKalki Koechlin, Naseeruddin Shah, Gulshan De…
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
SP$18A

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Ben Affleck
As he plans his next job, a longtime thief tries to balance his feelings for a bank manager connected to one of his earlier heists, as well as t… 
CastBlake Lively, Pete Postlethwaite, Jon Hamm, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$14A

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Bruce McDonald
Trigger is the story of two rock n' roll women who once shared a friendship, a band and a whole lot of chaos. Now a dozen years later they meet … 
CastSarah Polley, Molly Parker, Callum Keith Ren…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
SP$$14A

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James Benning
Exchanging his 16mm Bolex for a high-definition video camera, and straying from his native soil, James Benning heads to Germany with Ruhr (Germ… 
CastUnknown
LanguageUnknown   CountryGermany
WL$PG