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1) Kids in Love
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Drifting through his gap year, Jack has always suspected there was more to life than the professional life his family expects him to lead. A chance encounter with the beautiful and ethereal Evelyn swerves his life radically off course. He quickly becomes caught up in a whirlwind of all-day parties and wild nights in London's hidden dives with his free-spirited new friends, all the while falling deeper and deeper in love with Evelyn.
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Carla and Marco are poets whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they go off their meds, they end up in the same psychiatric hospital. As the chemistry between them stirs up their emotions, it intensifies their conditions. Despite doctors' and parents' attempts to separate them, they pursue their beautiful but destructive romance which swings them from fantastical highs to depressive lows until they have to choose between sanity and...
4) Miss Julie
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A baron's frustrated daughter (Jessica Chastain) courts scandal and more when she tries to seduce her father's valet (Colin Farrell).
5) 100 Streets
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A powerful ensemble drama follows three contrasting and interwoven stories as they play out in one square mile of modern day London.
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Porter Wren (Adrien Brody) is a New York City tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy and anything that passes for the truth. At home he is a model family man, devoted to his loving wife (Jennifer Beals). But when a seductive stranger (Yvonne Strahovski) asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon (Campbell Scott), he can't resist. In this modern version of a classic film noir,...
10) Madame Bovary
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Bored in her marriage to a country doctor and stifled by life in a small town, the restless Emma Bovary pursues her dreams of passion and excitement, whatever they may cost. Based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert.
11) Bel Canto
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A world-renowned opera singer becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform for a wealthy industrialist in South America.
12) King Lear
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An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
13) A Second Chance
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Andreas and Simon are both police officers and best friends. They both lead very different lives. Andreas is in a loving marriage with his beautiful wife and their newborn. Simon is divorced and often spends his free nights getting drunk in seedy city bars. One morning they respond to a call from a neighbor to a violent domestic dispute. Arriving at the home of a couple of junkies, Andreas discovers a baby abandoned in a closet. A young father himself,...
14) Sound of Metal
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A heavy-metal drummer's life is thrown into freefall when he begins to lose his hearing.
16) Finding Altamira
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Life and events of the man who realized one of the most important discoveries of the 19th century: Altamira's caves.
17) Mogul Mowgli
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A British Pakistani rapper is on the cusp of his first world tour, but is struck down by an illness that threatens to derail his big break.
18) 10,000 Saints
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Set in the 1980s, teenage Jude (Asa Butterfield) moves from Vermont to New York City to live with his father (Ethan Hawke) in the punk-fueled East Village. Caught in the chaos of city life, Jude and his friends, Eliza and Teddy (Hailee Steinfeld and Emile Hirsch) embark on a journey of self-realization in a neighborhood on the verge of riots.
20) Breath
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Based on Tim Winton's award-winning and international bestselling novel set in mid-70s coastal Australia. Two teenage boys, hungry for discovery, form an unlikely friendship with a mysterious older adventurer who pushes them to take risks that will have a lasting and profound impact on their lives.
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