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62) Diva
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Eighteen year-old Jules, an opera buff and post office worker, makes a pirate tape of the celebrated DIVA Cynthia Hawkins who flatly refuses to be recorded. The next day, just before being murdered, a prostitute slips a cassette revealing a scandalous illicit business into the bag on his moped. From this point on, these priceless recordings turn Jules's life upside down, as he is hunted by the police, killers and strange Asian men. Only the enigmatic...
63) T.I.M
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Prosthetics engineer ABI (Georgina Campbell) begins work on her company’s latest product, the A.I. humanoid T.I.M. (Eamon Farren). Programmed to serve only her, it leads to a dangerous obsession.
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From the creators of The League of Gentlemen and Psychoville comes a second anthology of deliciously unexpected tales, full of surprises both dark and laugh-out-loud funny. Written by and starring Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, each story invites you into a different No. 9, each set in a new location with completely new characters. From a sleeping compartment on a French train to a séance in a grand Victorian villa, and from a 17th century...
65) The Depths
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Desperate for a measure of success, aspiring screenwriters Mickey Hansen and Ray Ferguson decide to fully explore the depths of murder and crime within their story only to discover their obsession with their work has made it all too real. Winner of Best Feature Film at the **Manhattan Film Festival** and the **Los Angeles Film Awards**.
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Exploding a seemingly simple premise – a nameless “cowboy” courier arrives in pre-Handover Hong Kong to deliver a mysterious briefcase to a mercurial Mob boss whilst becoming entangled with his femme fatale mistress. Independent filmmaking legend Wayne Wang’s LIFE IS CHEAP…BUT TOILET PAPER IS EXPENSIVE barrels through inspired genre deconstruction, guerrilla docu-fiction and fierce political jeremiad, all with a keen sense of humor...
67) The Royal Hotel
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Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, they take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called 'The Royal Hotel' in a remote Outback mining town. Soon, Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
69) The Crush
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Romantic obsession has harrowing consequences in THE CRUSH, a suspense thriller starring Cary Elwes (Saw, The Princess Bride), Jennifer Rubin (Bad Dreams, Screamers) and Alicia Silverstone (Clueless, The Babysitter) in her breakthrough role. Elwes plays Nick, at first flattered by Adrian's flirtation, then gripped with outright fear… because what Adrian wants, Adrian gets. If she can't have her Mr. Right, no one can.
70) Kakegurui
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Run by a corrupt and sadistic school council, the “system” at Hyakkaou is based on gambling, with losers who cannot cover their debts being demeaned by their peers and forced to serve their debtholders. And if that’s not terrifying enough, some games can result in losing an eye, one’s fingernails, or even their life! But the system is shocked when transfer student Yumeko Jabami arrives. Dark, mysterious and attractive, she’s a wildcard who...
71) Swallow
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Newly pregnant housewife Hunter seems content to spend her time tending to an immaculate home and doting on her husband, Richie. However, as the pressure to meet her controlling in-laws and husband's rigid expectations mounts, cracks begin to appear in her carefully created facade. Hunter develops a dangerous habit, and a dark secret from her past seeps out in the form of a disorder called pica - a condition that has her compulsively swallowing inedible,...
72) Him
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Lacking inspiration, a composer isolates himself at a desolate house, on a small island, in Brittany. There he finds an old piano and receives visits from people who won't let him rest.
73) Baskin
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A five-man unit of cops on night patrol get more than they bargain for when they arrive at a creepy backwater town in the middle of nowhere. Entering a derelict building, the seasoned tough guys and their rookie junior, do the one thing you should never do in this kind of movie: they split up. They soon realize they've stumbled into a monstrous charnel house and descend into an ever-more nightmarish netherworld where grotesque, mind-wrenching horrors...
74) Margin Call
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Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, MARGIN CALL is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When an entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both financial and moral catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of disaster....
75) Kakegurui: S2
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In a bold effort to rebalance the social scales at Hyakkao Private Academy, student council president Kirari Momobami intends to place her bet on the election for the council’s next president. Everyone starts with a single chip, and at the end of 30 days, the whoever holds the most becomes the president of the Momobami Clan. But chips aren’t the only things students can wager, and Yumeko Jabami intends to clean house no matter the prizes she must...
76) The Jokesters
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The Internet sensation “Prankmasters” decide to take it to the extreme for their series finale. When leader of the group, Ethan, announces that he is getting married and leaving the group and the pranks behind, the rest of the founding members decide to pull off one final stunt: a “Cabin in the Woods” nightmare on their friend’s honeymoon. What happens is a spiral descent into terror.
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Thomas is fourteen and perhaps because not much happens in his remote village in southwestern France, he likes to tell tales. But then one day, something really does happen to him, something that upsets his life and the lives of everyone around him. The lives of his grandparents. The life of his father Maurice. The life of Martin, a stranger and fugitive he meets one day.
79) The Escapist
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Fourteen years into a life sentence, convict Frank Perry (Brian Cox) plans to escape from prison after learning his daughter nearly overdosed from heroin. With the help of fellow prisoners, Frank begins digging tunnels that will lead to the outside world. As Frank and his friends dig, he fends off Rizza (Damian Lewis), a fearsome gangster who runs the inside of the prison, and his brother, Tony (Steven Mackintosh), a junkie with designs on Frank's...
80) Face To Face
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Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece about a female psychiatrist who is a helpless witness to the degeneration of her family, marriage, and career. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards including Best Director.
