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[Rec]
Spanish horror film about an ambitious young television reporter who covers the night shift in one of Barcelona's local fire stations. When Angela (Manuela Velasco) and her cameraman Pablo follow the fire crew to a distress call from an elderly woman locked in her apartment, they're not expecting much in the way of excitement. With the cops already on the scene, all the firemen have to do is break down the door and make sure the woman is okay. If only it were that simple. Before too long, Angela and Pablo are trapped inside the building - the only witnesses to the unimaginable horror contained within...
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[Rec] 2
Spanish horror sequel. Picking up the action 15 minutes after the point where the original 2007 film left off, the plot follows a medical officer and a SWAT team armed with video cameras as they enter the quarantined apartment building in an attempt to neutralise the situation. They are at first relieved to find that the mysterious and deadly virus appears to be carried in the blood and not in the air - but in order to 'cure' the infected blood they must first locate those who have become possessed...
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[Rec] 3: Genesis-Diego Martín
Spanish horror sequel in which another outbreak of a deadly infectious virus strikes an unsuspecting group of civilians. It is Koldo (Diego Martin) and Clara (Leticia Dolera)'s wedding day. Everything goes well, with the happy couple revelling in their special day, until an elderly guest who had complained of being bitten by a dog earlier in the day keels over and appears to be dead. However, subsequent events reveal that a fate far worse than death has struck the guest when he awakes and savagely bites his wife, triggering a further outbreak of the rabies-like infection among the wedding party. Amidst the chaos that ensues, Clara and Koldo become separated from one another. Can they find each other and make their escape before one of them becomes infected with the horrifying virus spreading like wildfire through the group?
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[Rec] 4 - Apocalypse-Javier Botet
Spanish horror sequel. The film follows on from the end of the second instalment, '[Rec] 2' (2009), with a swat team sent in to the building to recover the now possessed Angela (Manuela Velasco). They take her to a ship offshore that has been specially equipped to deal with the outbreak, but as her blood tests come back negative, those on board have no idea that Angela recently possessed the demonic virus. The crew think they have the situation under control, but after analysing Angela's tapes, they find themselves trapped on the boat with another outbreak imminent, their communications severed and a storm heading their way.
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[Rec] Trilogy-Manuela Velasco
Triple bill of Spanish horror. In '[Rec]' (2007) when Angela (Manuela Velasco) and her cameraman Pablo follow the fire crew to a distress call from an elderly woman locked in her apartment, they're not expecting much in the way of excitement. With the cops already on the scene, all the firemen have to do is break down the door and make sure the woman is okay. If only it were that simple. '[Rec] 2' (2009) pick up the action 15 minutes after the point where the original 2007 film left off, the plot follows a medical officer and a SWAT team armed with video cameras as they enter the quarantined apartment building in an attempt to neutralise the situation. Finally, in '[Rec] 3: Genesis' (2012) another outbreak of a deadly infectious virus strikes an unsuspecting group of civilians. It is Koldo (Diego Martin) and Clara (Leticia Dolera)'s wedding day. Everything goes well, with the happy couple revelling in their special day, until an elderly guest who had complained of being bitten by a dog earlier in the day keels over and appears to be dead. However, subsequent events reveal that a fate far worse than death has struck the guest when he awakes and savagely bites his wife...
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101 Reykjavik
An offbeat comedy set against the backdrop of Iceland's capital city nightclub scene. Hlynur (Hilmir Snaer Gudnason), whose girlfriend Hofi is exasperated by his lack of ambition, spends his days asleep and his evenings cruising the Reykjavik club and bar scene. This is all changed over the Christmas holidays when he begins to spend most of his time with Lola (Victoria Abril), a Spanish flemenco teacher and lesbian, who Hlynur finally persuades to sleep with him on New Year's Eve. When his mother Berglind returns from her holidays she also begins a relationship with Lola and then announces that Lola is pregnant. Hlynur's life is now much more complicated when he realises that he is probably the father, the baby will be brought up as his sibling and he begins to experience all sorts of feelings including suicidal ones.
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13 Minutes-Christian Friedel
Oliver Hirschbiegel directs this German drama based on a true story. Georg Elser (Christian Friedel) is an apolitical man who becomes determined to put a stop to the Nazis and attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler (Udo Schenk) in November 1939. When his attempt fails he is captured and questioned by the authorities. It is revealed through his confession how he was driven to perform such an act and how the people he cares for, including his lover Elsa (Katharina Schüttler), have suffered because of his resistance to Nazism.
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14 Blades
Donnie Yen stars in this Kung Fu action thriller set during the Ming Dynasty. Qing Long (Yen) is chief bodyguard to a Ming Dynasty emperor. When he and the emperor are betrayed by the evil plotting of their corrupt fellow courtiers, Qing Long is forced to take on the deadliest assassins in the land as he sets out on a one-man mission to restore his beloved emperor to power. £5.99 -
1612
Russian historical action-adventure. Towards the end of the 16th century, trouble is brewing following the death of the Czar. Heiress Czarina Kseniya Godunova (Violetta Davydovskaya) has married a power-hungry Polish warlord (Michal Zebrowski) with pretensions to claim the Russian throne in her name. As the Poles move in on Moscow in an attempt to install the Czarina on the throne, Andrei (Pyotr Kislov), a handsome young serf with a life-long infatuation with the Czarina, attempts to save his country and the woman he loves.
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1864: The Battle for Europe-Pilou Asbæk
Danish war drama written and directed by Ole Bornedal which follows the plight of two brothers, Peter and Laust Jensen (Jens Sætter-Lassen and Jakob Oftebro), as they volunteer to fight for the Danish army against the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire during the Second Schleswig War of 1864.
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1939: Battle of Westerplatte-Michal Zebrowski
Director Pawel Chochlew's film charts the conflict between two Polish officers in charge at the Battle of Westerplatte, the first clash between Polish and German forces in WWII. At the outbreak of war in 1939, the small garrison of soldiers defending the Polish Military Transit Depot on the Westerplatte peninsula, find themselves outnumbered when the German Army mount a surprise attack. Resisting heroically for 12 days against overwhelming odds, Major Henryk Sucharski (Michal Zebrowski) soon finds himself facing a dilemma: follow the romantic wishes of his superior officer Captain Francis Dabrowski (Robert Zoledziewski) and vow to fight on, thereby condemning his badly wounded men to die for their country; or commit the unthinkable act of surrendering themselves with honour to their German oppressors.
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2046
Offbeat and sumptuously filmed sci-fi romance directed by Kar Wai Wong. A struggling pulp fiction writer, Chow (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai), gets so caught up in the Kubrick-style sci-fi novel he is writing that fantasy and reality start to merge. Meanwhile, Chow indulges his passion with a series of beautiful women including Bai (Zhang Ziyi) and Wang (Faye Wong) in the seedy hotel room where he is staying - but he can't get his real love, Su Lizhen (Gong Li) out of his mind. The film premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
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21 Days - The Heineken Kidnapping-Rutger Hauer
Dutch kidnapping thriller based on true events and directed by Maarten Treurniet. It is 1983 and the head of the successful brewing company, Heineken, Alfred Heineken (Rutger Hauer), is kidnapped and held captive for 21 days until he pays his kidnappers a huge ransom for his release. Upon his release, he sets out to find those responsible and make them pay for the horrible ordeal they put him through.
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22 Bullets
Jean Reno stars in this taut French gangster thriller set in Marseille. Charly Mattei (Reno), a once-feared mobster, has lived a peaceful life with his family for the past three years since retiring from his criminal career and handing over his businesses to childhood friend Tony Zacchia (Kad Merad). When Mattei is shot at point blank range in an underground car park and left for dead with no fewer than 22 bullets in his body, he miraculously survives the attack and sets out on a bloody quest for revenge against those who tried to kill him.
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24 City
Zhangke Jia directs this part-drama, part-documentary based on the closure of a factory in the Chinese city of Chengdu. Scenes of the factory in operation and subsequently being dismantled and demolished are intercut with interviews with its workers: some real, some played by actors. The result is an intimate and emotional portrait of ordinary Chinese people - young, middle-aged and old - living in an evolving economy and rapidly changing society.
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36
French police drama. In Paris, within the space of a year, a gang of vicious armed robbers has committed seven violent robberies. Detectives Klein (Gerard Depardieu) and Vrinks (Daniel Auteuil), once close friends but now bitter professional rivals, are each heading up different departments and are charged with bringing the gang to justice. Whoever does so will become the new Chief of Police, but the competition forces the two men to gradually abandon their sense of duty, professionalism, and even morality, as they ruthlessly compete for the ultimate prize.
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3-Iron
Korean romantic drama. Tae-suk (Hyun-kyoon Lee) is a young drifter who breaks into people's houses while they're away, repaying the owner's unwitting hospitality by doing their laundry or small repairs. Tae-suk's life changes though when he meets a beautiful woman in an affluent mansion who is desperate to escape her unhappy, abusive marriage.
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Highly acclaimed drama from Romanian director, Cristian Mungiu. The story takes place over the course of one day in 1987. When college student Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) falls pregnant, her kind-hearted friend, Otilia (Anamaria Marinca), helps her to get an abortion from the shady Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov). In Ceaucescu's totalitarian Romania, at this time, abortion and contraception are both illegal. The film follows Otilia's attempts to help her friend, despite the terrible obstacles in her path and the fact that Gabita hasn't been totally honest with her. It is an unflinching portrait of hard times in a harsh regime, yet Otilia's compassion and humanity shine through.
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5 X 2
Drama from French directer François Ozon. The film shows five scenes from a modern marriage in reverse order from its disintegration to its genesis. It provides an insight into an ordinary middle-class relationship: that of Marion (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) and Gilles (Stéphane Freiss). First, the divorce proceedings, then an unhappy dinner party, the birth of the couple's only son, the wedding and finally the first meeting.
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5150 Elm's Way
French-Canadian psychological thriller. Film student Yannick (Marc-Andre Grondin) makes the biggest mistake of his life when he falls off his bike outside 5150 Elm's Way and knocks on the door of the house to ask for assistance. No sooner has he crossed the threshold than he becomes caught up in a grisly game of life and death devised by serial killer and chess master Jacques Beaulieu (Normand D'Amour).
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