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541) Bent
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In 1930s Berlin, Max (Clive Owen) sleeps with German officer (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), only to see him killed by his fellow Nazis the next morning. Refusing an offer of new papers from his Uncle Freddie (Ian McKellan) for fear of leaving his boyfriend Rudy behind, Max and Rudy are found by the Gestapo, to whom Max lies about his homosexuality and his relationship with Rudy. Bound for the Dachau concentration camp, Max will have to reckon with his identity,...
542) Fair Haven
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After a long stay in anti-gay conversion therapy, James, a young piano prodigy, returns home to his family farm and his emotionally distant father, Richard. After Richard pressures James to give up his music career and take over the farm, James agrees as a way to make up for his past. Soon, however, James finds himself face-to-face with a former lover, Charlie, who wants to help him turn away from his new beliefs and family expectations, and follow...
543) Unsane
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A young woman (Claire Foy) is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear - but is it real or is it a product of her delusion? Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"Foy owns this intimate, claustrophobic film, which at its heart is about the universal fear...of telling your story and not being believed." - Sara Stewart, **The New York Post***
544) Woodshock
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Kirsten Dunst (*Melancholia*) stars as a haunted young woman spiraling into confusion and chaos after she falls under the spell of a potent reality-altering drug. Official Selection at the **Venice International Film Festival** and the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
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At their annual tea party reunion, an Indian princess (Madhur Jaffrey), long divorced and living in self-exile in London, and her father’s ex-tutor, Cyril Sahib (James Mason) view home-movie footage of their former life in India. While the recollections of the Princess are selective and hazily nostalgic, Cyril’s memories about their common past and her father, the Maharaja, have left him disillusioned and appalled. Official Selection at the **New...
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Times are hard for Toxie. What’s a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength to do after he’s eliminated crime from his hometown? Desperate to raise money for the experimental surgery that could restore his blind fiancée’s eyesight, Toxie accepts a lucrative job with the evil multinational conglomerate Apocalypse Inc. Now, Toxie’s transforming into an even more monstrous creature: a yuppie. And all of Tromaville is paying...
547) Storm Boy
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Michael Kingley (Geoffrey Rush), a successful retired businessman and grandfather recounts to his grand-daughter the story of how, as a boy, he rescued and raised an extraordinary orphaned pelican, Mr Percival. Based on the beloved book, STORM BOY is a timeless story of an unusual and unconditional friendship. "*Themes of loss, grief and separation are pitched at just the right level to resonate with children and adults alike.*"- Richard Kuipers,...
548) Chalet Girl
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Pretty tomboy Kim (Felicity Jones) used to be a champion skateboarder, but now she flips burgers to support herself and her dad. When she takes a winter-long catering job in one of the plushest ski chalets in the Alps, she discovers a natural talent for snowboarding with a chance to win major prize money. But before she can become a champion again, Kim needs to overcome her deepest fears and figure out what's going on with Jonny (Ed Westwick), her...
549) Wren Boys
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In his sermon on St Stephen’s Day, a priest from County Cork recalls the now-outdated wren hunting tradition. Boys on the cusp of manhood would be sent out to kill a wren, and later the parish would gather for the burial of the bird. The tradition symbolized the burial of the past, promising a fresh start in the new year. But it was cruel, and tradition, Father Conor concludes, does not legitimize cruelty. Later that day, Conor drives his nephew...
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Based on the celebrated novel by Emily M. Danforth, *The Miseducation of Cameron Post* follows the titular character (Chloë Grace Moretz) as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night. Winner of a Grand Jury Prize at the **Sundance Film Festival**. *"Generously peppered with biting humor and warmed by a generous spirit..."* - Leslie Felperin, ***The Hollywood Reporter***...
551) Jim Henson Shorts
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While Jim Henson is best known as an innovator who created some of the most widely beloved television series and films of all time including The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal, he also made a string of experimental films that pushed the boundaries of what the wider public associated with his name and the film medium in general. This collection features a number of these short films, bringing the visionary’s early experimental...
552) The Falls
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Standing at a pivotal point in his filmography, poised between his earlier, witty shorts and the unique pleasures of his post-DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT oeuvre, THE FALLS is arguably the most significant film of Peter Greenaway’s prolific career. Shot as a pseudo-documentary, this magnum opus dazzlingly details 92 case histories of people who have been affected by the VUE (Violent Unknown Event)—a mysterious, apocalyptic phenomenon related to birds,...
553) Eye in the Sky
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Helen Mirren stars as Colonel Katherine Powell, a UK-based military officer in command of a top-secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” But as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international...
554) Alexander the Grape
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Reconstructed from film, audio, and storyboard elements, this unfinished 1965 cut-paper animated short from Jim Henson relates the fable of a young grape with big ambitions.
555) The Browning Version
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Albert Finney plays a brilliant but stern classics instructor at a posh prep school who is forced out of his job and into the realization that he is despised in the classroom...and at home. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards.** Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"Finney is a master of letting us glimpse the bruised heart of a man like Andrew Crocker-Harris, who has used his devotion to the classics to bury...
556) The Watermelon Woman
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The wry, incisive debut feature by Cheryl Dunye gave cinema something bracingly new and groundbreaking: a vibrant representation of Black lesbian identity by a Black lesbian filmmaker. Dunye stars as Cheryl, a video-store clerk and aspiring director whose interest in forgotten Black actresses leads her to investigate an obscure 1930s performer known as the Watermelon Woman, whose story proves to have surprising resonances with Cheryl’s own life...
557) Tucked
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A raw & tender drama about an aging drag queen who forms an unlikely friendship with a younger queen. As they discover more about each other, they realize how to truly be themselves. A slice of life film about love, loss and friendship. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding International Narrative Feature at **L.A. Outfest**. *"[A] touching, unexpectedly funny end-of-life drama set in Brighton, with a terrific performance by 83-year-old Derren...
558) The Strange Ones
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A man and a boy, traveling to an unknown destination, find respite in a motel swimming pool. On the surface all seems normal, but nothing is quite what it seems to be. Short Filmmaking Award nominee at the **Sundance Film Festival**. **SXSW Film Festival** Narrative Short nominee.
559) The Man from Earth
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An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine.
560) Capsule
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The year is 1959. It is the height of the Cold War. An experienced fighter pilot finds himself in command of Britain's first manned mission to space, when his capsule malfunctions and he begins suffering from hypoxia. With limited radio contact to the UK, some unusual messages from the US, and unorthodox communication with Soviet Russia, he must fight to survive and make it back home to Earth. Nominated for Best Narrative at the **Venice Film Week**....
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