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Pierre Thoretton
Yves Saint Laurent built one of fashion's most celebrated empires. This moving documentary chronicles his rise, his lifelong partnership with Pi… 
CastYves Saint-Laurent, Pierre Bergé
LanguageFrench   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$14A

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Mike Leigh
A deeply moving drama starring Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen as a married couple in their 60s whose highs and lows are charted over the course of… 
CastJim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$14A

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Steven Silver
A drama based on the true-life experiences of four combat photographers capturing the final days of apartheid in South Africa. 
CastMalin Åkerman, Taylor Kitsch, Ryan Phillippe…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada | South Afric…
GALA$$14A

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Mike Mills
When his 71-year-old father (Christopher Plummer) comes out of the closet, Oliver (Ewan McGregor) must explore the honesty of his own relationsh… 
CastChristopher Plummer, Ewan McGregor, Mélanie …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$PG

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Eric Lartigau
Paul Exben is a success story - partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight … 
CastCatherine Deneuve, Branka Katic, Romain Duri…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$14A

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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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Darren Aronofsky
A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet, Black Swan stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself… 
CastNatalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$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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George Hickenlooper
A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder. 
CastRachelle Lefevre, Kevin Spacey, Kelly Presto…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
GALA$$14A

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Danis Tanovic
Circus Columbia is a romantic saga set in the late age of a century which tragically announced the arrival of the new age to the Balkans. With c… 
CastMiki Manojlovic, Boris Ler, Mira Furlan, Jel…
LanguageSerbian, Croatian   CountryBosnia and Herzegovi…
SP$14A

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Robert Redford
In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice-Pre… 
CastRobin Wright, James McAvoy, Justin Long, Eva…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$PG

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Tony Goldwyn
Conviction is the inspirational true story of a sister's unwavering devotion to her brother. When Betty Anne Waters' (two-time Academy Award win… 
CastSam Rockwell, Hilary Swank, Juliette Lewis, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$PG

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Will Gluck
A clean-cut high school student relies on the school's rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing. 
CastEmma Stone, Amanda Bynes, Cam Gigandet, Stan…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Dante Lam
Two cops investigating separate cases involving a murdered prostitute and gun smugglers uncover an explosive web of corruption, malice and disgr… 
CastLeon Lai, Richie Ren, Baoqiang Wang, Vivian …
LanguageCantonese   CountryHong Kong, China
MM$18A

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Malcolm Venville
After serving three years in prison for a bank robbery he did not commit, an amiable but aimless man decides to rob the bank for real. His plan … 
CastKeanu Reeves, Vera Farmiga, Judy Greer, Jame…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$PG

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Sang-soo Im
In this erotic thriller, the housemaid of an upper-class family becomes entangled in a dangerous tryst. A satirical look at class structure, rem… 
CastDo-yeon Jeon, Jung-Jae Lee, Seo Woo, Yeo-jeo…
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
GALA$$14A

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Kim Jee-woon
UPDATE: The film now released is 80 to 90 seconds shorter. (Images of body parts being eaten have been removed.) There is no indication yet whic… 
CastByung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
SP$14A

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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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Susanne Bier
A drama about a Holocaust survivor who meets his twin sister he thought died in the in the concentration camps. 
CastUlrich Thomsen, Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyr…
LanguageDanish   CountryDenmark, Sweden
SP$14A

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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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Philip Seymour Hoffman
A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship, and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples. 'Phi… 
CastPhilip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, Lola Glaud…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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David M. Rosenthal
A young girl who has been abandoned by her former-groupie mother informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter. 
CastElisabeth Shue, Abigail Breslin, Brittany Sn…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$PG

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Andrew Lau
Seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen, who was shot after discovering who was responsible for his teacher's death (Huo Yuanjia) in J… 
CastDonnie Yen, Qi Shu, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, …
LanguageMandarin   CountryHong Kong
SP$14A

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Guillaume Canet
Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decides to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of g… 
CastFrançois Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoît Ma…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
GALA$$14A

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Andrucha Waddington
Andrucha Waddington brings famed Spanish playwright Lope de Vega’s passionate life to the screen. The young poet returns to Madrid from war and… 
CastAlberto Ammann, Sonia Braga, Leonor Watling,…
LanguageSpanish   CountryBrazil, Spain
SP$14A

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Alain Corneau
Dangerous Liaisons meets Working Girl in this deliciously caustic tale of office politics. Starring Kristin Scott-Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier as… 
CastKristin Scott Thomas, Ludivine Sagnier, Patr…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$14A

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Nigel Cole
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination. 
CastRosamund Pike, Miranda Richardson, Bob Hoski…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$PG

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Raoul Ruiz
From one of the masters of cinema of our time comes a suptuous adaptation of Camilo Castelo Branco's classic Portuguese romantic novel. An epi… 
CastLéa Seydoux, Melvil Poupaud, José Afonso Pim…
LanguagePortuguese   CountryPortugal, Brazil
MAST$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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Anh Hung Tran
The melancholy tune and sentiment of this classic Beatles song seems to have taken the life of Toru Watanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama), who is similar… 
CastRinko Kikuchi, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kiko Mizu…
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
SP$14A

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Rachid Bouchareb
After losing their family home in Algeria, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighti… 
CastJamel Debbouze, Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem, …
LanguageFrench, Arabic   CountryFrance, Algeria, Bel…
SP$14A

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Barry W. Blaustein
On the day of their Father's 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication of a novel written by the youngest sibling, t… 
CastKate Mara, Michael C. Hall, Judy Greer, Rain…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$14A

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François Ozon
A bourgeois housewife (Catherine Deneuve) takes on a rough union leader (Gerard Depardieu) in François Ozon's sparkling comic war between the se… 
CastCatherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Sinead …
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
GALA$$18

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John Cameron Mitchell
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident. A family navigates the deepest form of loss in John Ca… 
CastNicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Sandra Oh, Dia…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Present-day Chad. Adam, sixty something, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N'Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken ove… 
CastEmile Abossolo M'bo, Youssouf Djaoro, Diouco…
LanguageFrench, Arabic   CountryFrance, Belgium, Cha…
SP$PG

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John Curran
A convicted arsonist looks to manipulate a parole officer into a plan to secure his parole by placing his beautiful wife in the lawman's path. … 
CastRobert De Niro, Edward Norton, Milla Jovovic…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

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Richard Ayoade
A comedy which follows a 15-year-old boy with two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to stop his mother from leavin… 
CastSally Hawkins, Paddy Considine, Noah Taylor,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$14A

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Stephen Frears
A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale. 
CastGemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Luke Evans, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$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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Michael Winterbottom
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon play two friends ("loose versions of ourselves," according to Brydon) who embark on a restaurant tour of the Lake Di… 
CastSteve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Claire Keelan, Pau…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$14A

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Emilio Estevez
An American father travels to France to recover the body of his estranged son who died while traveling the Route Napoleon. 
CastEmilio Estevez, Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara U…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$PG

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Andy DeEmmony
Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for s… 
CastOm Puri, Vanessa Hehir, Jimi Mistry, Linda B…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
GALA$$PG

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Woody Allen
After Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) leaves Helena (Gemma Jones) to pursue his lost youth and a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine (Lucy Punch), H… 
CastAntonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopki…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$18A